3504.'So that my soul may bless you' means allying it to its own life, consequently life that corresponds to the rational. This is clear from the meaning of 'being blessed' as being endowed with celestial and spiritual good, dealt with in 981, 1731, 2846, 3017, 3406. For the good of early childhood and consequently the good of life, which is the same as the good of the natural, and which is represented by 'Esau', is not spiritual good, for the good of early childhood is devoid of knowledge and intelligence, and so of wisdom. The good of early childhood becomes spiritual good through the implantation of truth, and so through regeneration, see 1616, 1802, 2280, 2290, 2291, 2299, 2304, 2305, 2307, 3494 (end). This is how the correspondence between rational things and natural is effected, and so how the allying of the natural man to the life of the rational is effected. This allying to its own life is what is meant by 'my soul may bless you'.

The Lord is love itself, and his love for us never wavers and never changes. What does waver and change is the degree to which we accept and respond to the Lord's love. So the Lord does not curse us; we curse ourselves by turning away from Him. So when the Bible talks of a "curse" or something being "cursed," it is talking about people turning away from the Lord and creating a separation. Among the most famous curses is that pronounced on the serpent after it beguiled Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden. The serpent represents our tendency to rely on our own senses for knowledge instead of the Lord. That tendency caused the people of the Lord's first, most innocent church to turn away from His guidance, cursing themselves.