Genesis 29:30 Meaning He Went in Also to Rachel

A mind can hold both the loved and the unwanted, and still know which is which. Even after being deceived it does not abandon what it truly wants but serves on, willing to labor again because the love has not been dimmed by the disappointment.

This is the persistence love asks of the mind. Fear would have it quit at the first betrayal, calling the whole journey a loss. Love keeps it steady through a second stretch of waiting, because the thing it values is worth the cost, and no deception can make the beloved less than it is.

Rachel: the truly loved thought the mind holds fast to, valued above the substitute it was forced to accept Leah: the lesser thing received against one's wish, the substitute the mind tolerates without mistaking it for what it loves Seven years: the renewed span of patient labor, the willingness to wait again for what love deems worth the whole cost

The 2 sisters are 2 levels of the inner nature the awakening self weds, and the greater love goes to the higher. Leah, whose name touches weariness and the weak-eyed, is the outward practical soul bound to the near and visible, married first because a person must live in the body before rising past it. Rachel means ewe, the tender receptive soul, loved more because she is the higher intuitive nature the self truly longs for. The number 7 symbolizes a completed cycle of inner development, the full round of disciplined work by which a faculty is earned, so to serve 7 years again is to labor through another whole cycle to win union with that higher soul.

Leah: the weary weak-eyed sister, the outward practical soul bound to the near and visible. Rachel: the ewe, the tender receptive and intuitive soul the awakening self most deeply longs for. 7 years: the number 7, a completed cycle of inner development, the full disciplined round by which a higher faculty is earned.