6562. 'Thus you are to say to Joseph' means perception from the internal about what was to be done. This is clear from 'saying' in the historical narratives of the Word as perception, dealt with in 1791, 1815, 1819, 1822, 1898, 1919, 2080, 2619, 2862, 3509, 5687, 5743; and from the representation of 'Joseph' as the internal, dealt with in 6177, 6124, 6560. Perception about what was to be done is meant by 'thus you are to say'.

1822. That 'He said to him' means perception is clear from what has been stated above at verses 2 and 7. Perception itself is nothing else than a certain form of conversing that takes place inwardly, but which makes itself known whenever the spoken word is grasped perceptively. Every form of inward dictate, even conscience, is nothing else; but perception is a higher or more interior degree of it.