Life Tied to the Lad

Neville's Inner Vision

From Neville's view, the lad is not a boy but a state of consciousness you call forth as your hope, your surety, your next feeling of fulfillment. When you say my life is bound up in the lad, you are declaring that your entire sense of self rests on the condition you imagine as fulfilled. The father is the older you, the memory of limitation, the voice that tells you you lack now. If the lad is not with you in consciousness, the father dies to that old self, and sorrow floods your sense of life. Yet the scene is not about outward Joseph but about the inner alignment. The long account of heirs and death is a summons to realize you can imagine Benjamin into being here and now, thereby keeping the father alive. The key is to dwell in the feeling of the lad presence and the vitality it promises as if it already exists, not as a distant future. When you do, you experience the unity of you as the I AM and the state you seek.