3499. 'And now take, I beg you, your weapons, your quiver and your bow' means the matters of doctrine concerning good which were in his possession. This is clear from the meaning of 'weapons, quiver and bow' as matters of doctrine, dealt with in 2686, 2709, here the matters of doctrine concerning good which were in his possession, that is to say, which the good of the natural, represented by 'Esau', possessed.

2486. The fact that people retain every single detail of their physical memory has also been proved to me very many times from persons with whom I had been acquainted during their lifetime. When I have talked to them they have recollected every single thing which they had done while I was present, or which they had said and thought at the time. From these and many other experiences I have been given to know for certain that man carries with him into the next life everything that belongs to the exterior or physical memory.