Читать книгу Edgar Cayce's Story of the Bible - Robert W. Krajenke - Страница 60

Jacob labored seven years to wed Rachel, and was deceived by her father, Laban, who married him to his eldest daughter, Leah. Jacob contracted for another seven years and married Rachel. While Leah and his two concubines delivered ten sons, Rachel was barren. The long delay strengthened their love. When Rachel finally conceived, their first child was Joseph, the first physical incarnation of the soul who had been Adam, Enoch, and Melchizedek.

. . . the same soul-entity who in those periods of the strength and yet the weakness of Jacob in his love for Rachel was their first-born Joseph.

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A child of Love! A child of love—the most hopeful of all experiences of any that may come into a material existence; and to some in the earth that most dreaded, that most feared.

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The following discusses Joseph, and is a continuation of the discourse on the effects of the attitudes of parents on their unborn child. Apparently the superior attitude Joseph evidenced toward his brothers (Genesis 37) stemmed from the dominant mood of Rachel throughout her pregnancy.

Then, with Jacob and Rachel we have the material love, and those natures in which the characteristics of material love were thwarted. Yet in the very conception of same—though under stress (for there is held here by the mother the desire to outshine, as it might be poorly said)—we find a goodly child, one with all the attributes of the spiritual-minded individual; partaking of both the father and the mother in the seeking for a channel through which God might be manifested in the earth. And yet the entity had those physical attributes that brought into the experience of individuals those things that were reflected in the mind, in the movements and activities of the mother throughout the periods of gestation—when the entity had grown to manhood.

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The reading also describes the variation between Joseph and his younger brother Benjamin, and supplies the additional note that Benjamin was later Saul, first King of Israel. Reading 5148-2 indicates the same soul had also been Seth, the third child of Adam and Eve.

Also from the same attitude taken by those parents when the second son, Benjamin, was conceived—what were the varying characteristics here? The material love was just as great, the satisfying of material desire was completely fulfilled; yet it lacked that desire to bring such as was wholly a channel through which the spiritual was to be made manifest. But it was a channel that eventually brought the material made manifest in Saul, an incarnation of Benjamin.

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