So, you close your eyes, and you are Isaac; you cannot see. Isaac is blind.

So, tonight you try it. Close your eyes to the obvious. That’s Esau; send him hunting.

These are the eternal states of consciousness personified in Scripture as two little boys.

And I say to myself . . knowing who God really is, He can’t take back His blessing.

He said, “You know, your voice sounds like my son Jacob, but you feel like my son Esau,” and then he gave him the blessing.

Isaac, the father, who was blind, said, “Come close that I may touch you. Come closer.”

“Have you no blessing for me, Father? You asked me to bring you venison and now I discover my brother has deceived you.”

You are told in the story that as Isaac pronounced the blessing and Jacob had scarcely gone out from his presence, that his brother Esau came in from his hunting.

What you would like in place of what you have or are is your smooth skinned state or Jacob, the supplanter.

Isaac is called a blind man. You are blind because you do not see your objective with your bodily organs.

You no sooner gave the blessing — felt the imaginary state to be real — than the objective world, which seemingly was unreal, returns.

You can this night re-enact the drama of Isaac blessing his second son and see what happens in the immediate future in your world.

Our third interpretation is the story of Isaac and his two sons: Esau and Jacob.

This room in which you are seated is your present Esau.

I gave him your blessing and I cannot retract.

is to take that subjective state personified as my second son Jacob and bring it so close that I can feel it

He came close and the father said to him, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Jesus must supplant Barabbas as Jacob must supplant and take the place of Esau.

Here we find Pilate is playing the same part as Isaac. There are two sons.

So Jacob clothed himself in the skins of Esau to deceive his father into believing that he, Jacob, was Esau.

you will so clothe your Israel with the skins of Esau that you can actually bring it as an objective fact to your Father

You thought he was a man who was a smooth-skinned lad. That is the way the mystic has of telling you this is a subjective state

Jacob is the smooth-skinned lad. He is not like his brother Esau, who has hair, which means something external.