On the Progression of Jacob as Prayer to Salvation

I recently presented my view that the Antediluvian Patriarchs were originally meant as a progression from our ignorant religious state to an effective mental state for causative prayer (http://imagicworldview.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-antediluvian-patriarchs-as.html). That is that they, the genealogy of Adam in Genesis 5, are entirely psychological and occur as mental states or attitudes to the proper frame of mind for prayer: the resting in faith in God. They are a mechanism!

There is, of course, another progression of the same nature, that of Jacob in Genesis 29 and 30. As I previously stated, Adam is each of us, and we become Cain and Abel--flesh and spirit. Abel is invisible and forgotten but still active, and we erect religion as its substitute in our lives. So Seth is actually Abel--God's spirit in us--drawing us toward him. To the state of Noah, the rest wherein we find relief and salvation.

The progression of Jacob is much the same. Esau is our flesh like Cain, and Jacob is our inner spirit-man like Abel. Jacob is us ignorant of being God's spirit--we're sneaky rats--but like Seth, we have a religious hunger for the birth-right and blessing. Sent to Laban (Levin), which is an affliction-filled study in righteousness, Jacob becomes psychologically developed and practiced in prayer. The goats and stakes are causative imaginings. There is a flood in one progression, and a wrestling in the other. Noah finds a new world, and Jacob becomes Israel: God-Ruling-As-Man.


Similarities? I think so. Because the Book of Genesis is a Prayer Manual, a Success Manual. It is to teach us how to effectively, causatively PRAY.