Shepherds Before Pharaoh

Neville's Inner Vision

Imagine the scene as an inner drama, not a history outside you. Pharaoh stands as the outer mind, the regulator who questions your identity, your occupation. The five brothers are aspects of your consciousness—channels through which you allow attention: hope, memory, desire, conviction, and purpose. When they answer 'shepherds,' they reveal a mode of relationship with your inner world, a function of tending, guiding, feeding, and guarding the inner flock of thoughts and feelings. In Neville's terms, the cause precedes the scene: your assumption about yourself as a shepherd of your inner realm creates the appearance of dialogue with Pharaoh, as the outer world recognizes the state you have chosen. The father's trade becomes inherited habit of attention, a pattern you repeat until you revise it. By declaring you are shepherds, you align with a state of consciousness that tends and nourishes life. So the moment you identify as shepherd of your inner realm, you write the form your world will wear.