CONSCIOUSNESS
Redeeming Esau / Nothing is Lost
Esau, the 'monster-thing,' is the embodiment of all unlovely thoughts, violent reactions, and misused imaginative energy. To 'redeem' Esau is to transform…
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Esau Jacob Israel
I am the being spoken of as Rebecca, who gave birth to both of them, one, the embodiment of any unlovely thought I have ever entertained. Every time I have ever exercised my imagination unlovingly on behalf of another, it simply energized this unlovely creature. Every time I acted or reacted violently, I fed and energized Esau. And looking at Esau, I had a desire without turning to anyone to ask their help or to pledge myself in their presence, and I pledged myself that I would redeem this monster if it took me to eternity. Such a creature should not live in this world and I, in my ignorance, gave him birth - this monstrous thing that fed and lived on violence. ... 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. Here was all my misused, misspent energy throughout eternity, for this monstrous thing before my eyes melted and left no trace of ever having been present; but as it melted, all the energy that it embodied came to me, it returned to me who gave it. I have never felt such power in my life. ... And you know the words: “Nothing is lost in all my holy mountain.” In all my wanderings I thought it was lost, and yet nothing is lost - it was embodied in a monstrous thing. But then it came back; all that I had accused as enemy wasn’t gone or lost, it returned.
Esau, the 'monster-thing,' is the embodiment of all unlovely thoughts, violent reactions, and misused imaginative energy. To 'redeem' Esau is to transform this misspent energy. Upon pledging to redeem him, Esau melts, and all the embodied energy returns to the individual as immense power. This illustrates that 'nothing is lost'; all negative expressions are simply misdirected energy that can be reclaimed and transformed.