The Bible is not a religious rulebook. It is a psychological and spiritual document — a manual of consciousness. Beneath the surface narrative, it reveals one powerful principle: the Law of Assumption.
This law teaches that what you assume to be true — what you accept in imagination as reality — will externalise itself in your world. The Bible is not concerned with religious duties or moral codes. It speaks instead to the inner drama of man, the movement of awareness, and the transformation of self through assumption.
Created in the Image of Consciousness
We begin in Genesis 1:26:
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”
This doesn’t describe a physical form. “Image” and “likeness” refer to states of consciousness — man was created to reflect the creative nature of God, which is Imagination itself.
The “us” is not a group of divine beings, but the inner faculties — the judges, rulers, and thought-forms that together make up man’s identity. These inner components — belief, memory, desire, and feeling — gather in agreement to form what one accepts as true.
Paul confirms this principle in Ephesians 4:22–24:
“Put off the old man… and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and put on the new man, which after God is created…”
And again in Colossians 3:9–10:
“You have put off the old self… and put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator.”
This is not poetry. It is psychological instruction: Let go of the self you believe yourself to be, and assume the state of the one you desire to become.
Jacob and Esau: Two States Within One Man
This principle is dramatised in Genesis 27, when Jacob receives the blessing meant for Esau.
Esau represents the outer man — the physical self, the reactive identity shaped by the past.
Jacob represents the inner self — the imaginative, spiritual identity that dares to assume.
To receive the blessing, Jacob puts on Esau’s garments and covers himself with hair. But this is not mere disguise — it is the outer enactment of inner assumption. Jacob doesn't wait to change; he dresses as the version of himself who is already blessed.
Isaac: The Law of Assumption in Action
Here, Isaac plays a vital and often misunderstood role.
According to Paul, Isaac is the child of promise — the result of faith, not flesh (Galatians 4:23). He is the Law of Assumption embodied — the principle that blesses belief over appearance.
Within Isaac dwell two sons — two inner states. Esau is the natural self, and Jacob is the new identity claimed in imagination. When Jacob approaches, Isaac declares:
“The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” — Genesis 27:22
This is the moment of inner contradiction: the external still looks like the old man, but the inner speech has changed. Isaac chooses not by lineage or fact, but by what is presented in faith — Jacob’s assumption.
Paul expands this truth in Romans 9:10–13, saying that God chose Jacob before either had done good or evil — to show that it is not by works, but by election — by the state chosen within.
Isaac, as the Law in motion, responds to the inner conviction. Once the assumption is accepted, he cannot reverse it:
“I have blessed him — and he shall be blessed.” — Genesis 27:33
From Natural to Spiritual: The Inner Journey
Paul outlines the deeper structure of this transformation in 1 Corinthians 15:44–47:
“It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body... The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.”
The natural body is Esau — the default self, defined by reaction and habit.
The spiritual body is Jacob — the self assumed, which gives life through imagination.
The progression is always the same: from outer to inner, from flesh to spirit, from fact to faith.
The Bible’s message is not “Obey God out there.” It is: Recognise yourself as a creative being, and put on the state you desire — inwardly — until it becomes your world.
Conclusion: The Bible Is a Record of Assumption
When read through the lens of consciousness, the Bible becomes a guide for internal transformation. It is the story of identity moving between forms — the “old man” being replaced by the “new,” the Esau by the Jacob, the natural by the spiritual.
Over and over, characters assume new names, new garments, and new realities — and are blessed not for what they were, but for what they believed themselves to be.
Whether it’s Jacob stepping into Esau’s role, Paul urging us to “put on Christ,” or Adam giving way to the life-giving man of heaven — the message is one:
What you assume, you become. What you wear inwardly, the world confirms outwardly.
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