The vision Neville gives as the way Israel is found, since there is nothing a man can do to find him - it is revealed, it just happens, and this is how it happened to me. One night he saw two creatures. Esau is exactly as scripture describes him, covered from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet with red hair, like a huge big ape: a monster thriving on violence and on everything that is evil in this world, living on it. Jacob, instead of being a man, is the most glorious female imaginable, an angel beyond angels. He took them at first for beings independent of his perception, not knowing that the umbilical cord had never been severed - they are his children, and he is the one scripture calls Rebecca, who gave birth to both. Every unlovely thought he had ever entertained, every violent act and reaction, had fed and energised Esau, who whispered in his ear through the twenty-four-hour day and even in his dreams. Looking at the monster he pledged, without turning to anyone for help and without pledging himself in anyone's presence, that he would redeem it though it took him eternity - and at that moment he discovered it was not an entity at all but an embodied force. The creature melted and left no trace of ever having been present, and as it melted all the energy it embodied returned to him who gave it; he says he has never felt such power in his life, while the glorious one glowed. He closes with the practical form: both are present now, wherever you go, and every loving self-persuasion feeds one and starves the other. It isn't his fault; we gave him birth. The attach lane confirms a second telling at 1828, where the hairy creature calls the glorious one Mother (PM 5997). Kept as a child of the Esau and Jacob motif, which carries the doctrine of the two nations in the womb; this one carries the encounter.
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Goethe, Faust | Alas, two souls are housed within thy breast, one to heaven does aspire; the other to earth doth cling
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Jacob is the most glorious female you could ever imagine
I did not know I had never severed the umbilical cord, that they are my children
he was nothing more than an embodied force
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you will meet both of them. They are present now. You can’t see them at the moment but they are present wherever you go
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Israel is on the highest level, a man after God’s own heart. How do you find him? There is not a thing in this world you can do to find him; it is revealed. It just happens, and this is how it happened to me.
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Two are housed in the breast of every being and that is part of the structure of this world. Everyone is bringing into the world these two and they are invisible
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Here is an angel beyond angels, and here is Esau, this monster-thing thriving on violence, thriving on everything that is evil in this world, living on it.
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At that very moment that I said I would redeem him if it took me eternity, I discovered he was not an entity as you are; he was nothing more than an embodied force.
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