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Jacob's Evil Twin?

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Announcements › Forums › Soul and Body – May 21st, 2017 › Jacob's Evil Twin?

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  • May 17, 2017 at 7:41 pm #4171
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    Thanks for this lesson!

    As with so many terms in her Glossary, Mrs. Eddy describes “Jacob” as having 2 opposite meanings, one derived from sense and the other from Soul..

    With his estranged twin brother pursuing him to avenge a wrong done to him years before, it was Jacob’s darkest hour; yet it was as though Jacob knew better than to regard an external twin as the problem; instead, it was time to immolate his own mortal, sense-derived selfhood, insisting on its own reality. badgering him like an evil twin at his side, holding tireless watch, bent on gaining supremacy over Jacob’s true, spiritual identity.

    On a practical level, this story is a wake-up call for me to allow neither whisper nor roar derived from the 5 tricksters, the corporeal senses to deter my footsteps up the mount of spiritual attainment, but rather to wrestle down and overthrow the mortal self that Jesus called out as a liar and the father of lies.

    “Be of good cheer; the warfare with one’s self is grand; it gives one plenty of employment, and the divine Principle worketh with you, — and obedience crowns persistent effort with everlasting victory” (Mis. 118:24-28 ).

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