Genesis 39:2 Meaning Yahweh Was with Joseph

A mind can dwell inside the very structure of the ego, a household not its own, and still remain untouched because love is present with it. Prosperity here is not gain in the world but the quiet certainty that fear has no power over a mind that has not left the side of love. The strange land does not corrupt the one who knows he only seems to live there.

So a mind kept by love flourishes wherever it appears to be, because what sustains it was never the house it stands in.

Joseph: the part of the mind that remains joined to love even inside the ego's territory Master the Egyptian: the ego's rule, the appearance of an owner over a mind that in truth belongs to love House: the structure of separation the mind seems to inhabit yet is not bound by

The divine spark stays with the higher awareness even when it is sold down into the body and made to serve the flesh. Joseph is that awakened faculty in a person, and his name opens toward increase, the self that keeps adding to itself. He thrives inside the house of the Egyptian because the Lord is with him, meaning the inner light does not dim merely because it labors in the lower nature. Egypt is the body and its bondage, the dense material house where the soul is held and put to work. To prosper there is the sign that the spirit within a person can grow even while enclosed in matter, drawing its increase from the very ground that seems to imprison it.

Joseph: the awakened higher faculty in a person, the self whose name opens toward increase and adds to itself Egypt (the Egyptian's house): the body and its bondage, the dense material dwelling where the soul is held and set to labor