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Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
Genesis 25:5 · World English Bible

What does Abraham mean in the Bible?

Abraham: the deciding part of the mind that releases an old belief, doing what it thinks is required though it feels like loss.

Christian Psychology lens · Genesis 21:14

Where Abraham appears in the Bible

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

1 Chronicles 1:27

Abram (also called Abraham).

1 Peter 3:6

So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

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Christian Psychology · Genesis 25:5

Christian Psychology

The whole of what the awakened mind holds is handed to the one true heir, not divided and not portioned out. What is real cannot be split among many claimants. It passes entire to the single self that was always meant to carry it.

This is the shape of the inheritance love intends. A mind does not receive a fragment of the truth and lose the rest. When it is ready, everything that belongs to it is given at once and kept whole.

  • Abraham: the mind that has awakened and now bestows what it holds, the source that gives from fullness
  • Isaac: the one true heir within, the single self meant to receive the whole inheritance undivided
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Esoteric · John 8:58

Esoteric

Abraham is the mind of faith reaching toward a promise still to come, a self that lives in time and waits on a future. Beneath that reaching self sits a stiller ground that never began and never ends, the pure sense of being that says only "am" without a past or a name attached to it. This awareness in a person is older than every memory and every hope, present before the thinking self assembled itself out of years.

The eternal in a person is not something achieved by long striving; it is what was already there beneath the one who strives. To touch it is to feel the part of oneself that time cannot age.

  • Abraham: the mind of faith that lives in time, reaching toward a promise not yet arrived

What Abraham means in each story

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  • ManifestationAbraham (the man Yahweh calls): a state of mind everyone passes through, not a real person.Genesis 12:1-9
  • PsychoanalysisAbram → Abraham ('father of many'): Adding the letter 'h' changes his identity. In myth a new name marks rebirth: the ego transformed.Genesis 17:1-8
  • Clinical PsychologyThe new name Abraham (verse 5): a change so deep it works like a rebirth.Genesis 17:1-8
  • EsotericAbraham, the new name (verse 5): the divine part of your soul, able to become God's son.Genesis 17:1-8
  • ManifestationA hundred years old (Abraham's age): the back of the skull, where the son is born.Genesis 17:9-27
  • ManifestationAbraham (the one given the covenant): a state of faith everyone enters, not a man in history.Genesis 17:9-27

Commentaries on Abraham

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Abraham

father of a great multitude

Fillmore, Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (1931) · Abraham

father ( source , founder) of a multitude

Swedenborg (1887) · Abraham

ABRAHAM rep. the divine celestial, or divine good. Also the celestial church, and the celestial man. A. C. 1965. ‘The angels by A. perceive a saving faith rep. thereby. A.C. 64. A. rep. both the essential divine, which is called father, and the divine human, which is called son; thus the Lord as to both, but the divine human which is from eternity, from which existed, and to which be reduced the human born in time, when he glorified this. A. C. 3251.

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