Genesis 27:27 · World English Bible
Genesis 27:27 Meaning He Came Near
He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.
What does Genesis 27:27 mean?
Isaac is the blind self that knows only through the senses, and Jacob is the desired state slipped on like a garment until it feels solid enough to fool them. Isaac cannot see, so he judges by touch and smell, by the feeling of the raiment; and the feeling is what settles the blessing.
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Isaac is the blind self that knows only through the senses, and Jacob is the desired state slipped on like a garment until it feels solid enough to fool them. Isaac cannot see, so he judges by touch and smell, by the feeling of the raiment; and the feeling is what settles the blessing. Jacob wears the clothing of the wish already fulfilled, and because it is felt as present and solid, the blessing given cannot be taken back.
The field whose scent the LORD has blessed is the imagination flowering with what a person has assumed. Esau arrives too late. The rough outer world of plain fact comes after the inner state was clothed and felt, and so the felt state wins. A person who wraps his desire in the feeling of its fulfillment, and holds it against the senses, secures a blessing the outer facts must serve.
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Live Genesis 27:27 today
- Before you get out of bed, wear the day you want for a minute. Not the plan for it, the feel of it, as if you were already walking home from it.
- Treat one person today as the version of them you hope is there, warm, capable, on your side. Let your tone come from that and watch what meets you.
- When the facts arrive loudly, the delay, the bad news in the group chat, the email you did not want, let your settled feeling arrive first and the news second. Read it from inside the calm, not before it.
What feeling am I wearing right now, and did I choose it?
The same truth in other traditions
Yoga Sutras
A state held long enough and warmly enough takes on its own weight and starts to hold itself. The mind stops needing to be convinced.
Buddhism · Dhammapada 1
Mind comes before everything a person later meets. Dwell in a state and you speak and act from it, and what follows comes after you like a shadow.
Tao Te Ching 8
Water takes the low place and gets its way without forcing anything. The soft, settled thing wins against the hard one.
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