“The greatest value of the allegory may be that it serves to make one conscious of the efforts of the Lord to draw him by ‘the enticings of the Holy Spirit’ (Mosiah 3:19) into a working relationship with a powerful benefactor. This approach to the allegory enlarges one’s confidence in the Lord’s unceasing labors in his behalf and prompts him to search within to find the evidences of divine instruction and nurturing. The allegory teaches that the structure of oneness, of at-one-ment, is already in place. One need only to discover and embrace the relationship” (Thomas, “Jacob’s Allegory,” 19–20).