Pharaoh’s Consent to Sacred Oath

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 50:6 places Joseph under a sovereign directive: Pharaoh says to go up and bury thy father as he made thee swear. In the Neville view, this outer command mirrors an inner governor—the I AM, the sovereign consciousness—granting permission to honor a sacred vow. The act of burying the father is not a physical journey alone but a symbolic release of the past that no longer constrains your present sense of self. When you know within that you swore to fulfill a truth, the inner Pharaoh consents to align your outer world with that vow. Obedience here is not compliance to a person but alignment of the inner state with the sacred promise you have imagined as already fulfilled. The memory of the past is honored by keeping faith with the vow, transforming anxiety into loyalty, limitation into divine order. When you feel with certainty that you have kept your word, the inner kingdom rises to meet the situation, and the scene of ‘go up and bury’ becomes a manifest sign that your consciousness has remained faithful to the I AM within.