Matthew 1:2 Meaning Abraham Became the Father of Isaac

These are not four men and a family line. They are stages of one person waking up, each name a settled condition of consciousness that gives birth to the next. Abraham is faith, the first assumption a person makes about himself. Isaac is the joy that follows once the assumption is felt as true. Jacob is the self that supplants an old identity and takes hold of the new. To beget is simply for one inner state to pass a person into the state that comes after it.

Judah, whom the Greek names Judas, is praise, and his brethren are the twelve powers of the mind that gather around it. The whole descent runs toward one figure, David, who is all of humanity fused into a single son. A person moves down this line inside himself until the awareness he lives from becomes the Father who fathered him.