Blessing of the Younger Power

Neville's Inner Vision

Jacob’s gesture—placing the patriarch’s right hand on Ephraim—speaks to a reversal long held in the unconscious: power follows belief, not birth. In Neville’s psychology, the two brothers symbolize inner states: Ephraim the younger, dynamic imagination; Manasseh the elder, established habit. The blessing is not a genealogical accident; it is a statement of your life as an I AM that can reverse apparent order. When you accept that the right hand of power rests on your inner head, you activate the reality that your consciousness creates form. The prophecy—'he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great'—is your inner assurance that your imaginative life, properly directed, multiplies into nations of experience. The phrase 'but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he' becomes a principle: the newer, freer state of awareness can outgrow the old. So you do not seek power from others; you invite it from within, through the certainty that you are that mystery which blesses and rearranges the world by your present assumption.