Esau bartered his birthright for a mess of pottage. For a temporary gratification of sense he sacrificed what? His rights as the son of his father. How true a picture (in sense) is this of the position of the misguided and sense controlled mortal, not only of the time of Esau but of all time; for through the pleasures and beliefs of personal sense is the spiritual sonship of man lost sight of, and in this way only; for as the unreality of these claims are revealed by Christian Science, we see the birthright restored.
How petty and pitiful to us appears the equivalent that was received by the unwise Esau; no less so than that which sense is ever offering to supplant Spirit.
To Eve the first disobedience appeared slight, but it sank a world in woe, from which only Divine agency, or interposition could release it. As the surrendering of the Spiritual to the material has brought these woes and burdens, the reversal of that position must be taken in order to lift this weight.
