3536. 'And his mother made savoury food such as his father loved' means things that are delightful, yet not desirable. This is clear from the representation of Rebekah, to whom 'mother' refers here, as the Divine Rational as regards truth, and from the meaning of 'savoury food' as the forms of pleasantness that belong to truth, dealt with above in 3502. The reason why here they are delightful but not desirable is that they were not the product of 'Esau's venison', that is, of truth acquired from genuine good, 3501, but the product of 'the kids of the she-goats of the flock', that is, of truth that is born from homeborn good, 3518, 3519. What is implied in all this becomes clear from what has been stated above in 3502, 3512, 3518, 3519.

3512. 'And make me savoury food' means the desire and pleasure gained from the pleasantness received from that truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'savoury food' as forms of pleasantness, dealt with above in 3502, and so the desire and pleasure gained from the pleasantness received from this, that is to say, from truth. For as stated in the paragraph just referred to, truths are brought into man's natural by means of forms of pleasantness in keeping with it, and those that are not brought in by means of such forms do not attach themselves there and so are not joined to the rational by means of correspondence. Furthermore truths, like all other matters of knowledge, find their place in the memory belonging to the natural man according to all the pleasantness and delight that has brought them in. This is evident from the fact that when that pleasantness and delight reappears so do the things brought in by means of it; and conversely, when those things are recalled, so at the same time all the delight and pleasantness associated with them is aroused.