Noah's Ark- Part 6

"These are the results of Noah: Noah was a righteous and perfect in his generation, and Noah walked with Elohim.  And Noah begat three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth."  Genesis 6:9-10

The three sons of Noah are symbolic of the three parts of the fully developed soul.  In spite of the degeneration that has corrupted us all, "Noah" must survive if the soul is to be developed.  This aspect of developing the soul was edited out of Christianity's teaching.  The developed soul is represented by the wedding garment mentioned by Jesus.

The soul can only be made through a "second birth" taught by Jesus as resulting from the Holy Spirit (fire) and a secret living water, both which are hidden symbolically throughout the scriptures.

"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."  John 3

Birth is sexual, whether relating to physical birth or spiritual birth.  The soul has to be made, born.  We do not have a true soul until we make one.  We have the seed of the soul, the potential to be born, but we are not "born again" until the soul is born.

No one is born again by saying words or believing something.  Birth is a sexual matter.  Noah is the seed of the soul, and the spark that starts the fire.

Reference~ gnosticteachings.org

Noah's Ark- Part 5

"But Noah found grace in the eyes of Iod-Chavah." Genesis 6:8

The Hebrew name Noah has two letters.  The first letter, Nun, represents a fish.  The second letter, Chet, is the root of the word Chai, "life".  The name Noah hides these elements: the fish and life itself.  

The fish represents the life forces in the water.  The source of our lives is the sexual energy.  The sperm and ovum are "fish" in the waters of sexuality.  When combined life emerges. The fish is the core symbol in all religions.  Thus "Noah" is a seed hidden inside us.  Noah is the seed of the soul.

Noah represents the true nature of our psyche (the consciousness, the soul, the buddha nature)- a pure, radiant spark of the divine, which through a specific science can be grown into an angel, buddha, master, etc.
 
"So Elohim created Adam in their image." Genesis 1:27
The Hebrew word Elohim is plural: it means gods and goddesses.

Reference~ gnosticteachings.org

Noah's Ark- Part 4

The earth represents that which houses our psyche; the "earth" is our body.  We live in our "earth", the body, yet that body is not just physical.  It is also the body we inhabit when we dream, imagine, daydream, or fantasize.

"And Iod-Chavah (our inner divinity) saw that the impurity (pollution) of our mind was great in the body, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only impurity continually.

"And it repented Iod-Chavah that he had made the mind that is in the body, and it grieved him at his heart."

"And Iod-Chavah said, I will destroy that corrupted mind whom I have created from the image of the body; both the mind and the animal ego, and the creeping thing (perverted elements in our mind), and the fowls of the heavens (distracting thoughts that fly in fantasy...")  Genesis 6

Our minds are deeply corrupted with pride, lust, anger, envy, greed, etc.  All of that exists because of the choices we have made tempted by desire, we grow those elements in our psyche.

Reference~ gnosticteachings.org

Noah's Ark- Part 3

Cain and Abel represent the conflicts in us between the innate purity of the psyche (Abel) and the ever dissatisfied desires we have (Cain).  Our desires "kill" the purity of the psyche (Cain kills Abel).  Abel, that part of us, does not cease to exist, by "dying" is represented how it has become almost completely powerless, trapped, overwhelmed, by the spread of desire.  When desire rules us psychologically, Abel is rendered "dead".

Reference~ gnosticteachings.org

Noah's Ark- Part 2

(Genesis 1-4)

Adam and Eve lived in a state of bliss and knew divinity personally.  They chose to eat the "forbidden fruit" of the Tree of Knowledge.  In Hebrew, the words are written tobve rah, which means "goodness and impurity."  They imply the Tree of Knowledge is dual: it can be used for benefit through purity, or harm through pollution or impurity.  Adam and Eve broke the commandment given to them by divinity, thus they became polluted by rah: impurity.  That is how they lost the ability to walk and talk with Elohim.

Reference~gnosticteachings.org

Noah's Ark- Part 1

In the original Hebrew scripture there is no reference to a boat, Genesis/Bereshit 6:14 "Make thee a tebah of gopher wood..." Tebah means "chest, box, case, or hull, body."  Tebah indicates a container.  The word "ark" appears in the Latin translation as "arca."  It translates into a chest, both as a box and the trunk of the human body and also as a coffin.

In the Bible, there are several types of "arks."  In each case, the "ark" is a container that protects something sacred.  It is like the "hull" of a seed: it protects the life-giving elements inside.  The word "ark" is related to "arcane, arcanum" which means something hidden, a secret, known only to those specially informed.  The arcane knowledge has always been reserved for those who were prepared beforehand to use it.

Reference~ gnosticteachings.org

My Dream of Noah's Ark

From Journal Entry 9/2013

I am standing in front of the Ark.  Noah is there with the animals. Noah is like a giant. The air is vibrating with God's consciousness. It penetrates my being. I feel alive and am in awe of Noah's greatness. Everything from the animals, the landscape, the sky is beautiful.

The story of Noah would take on a personal spiritual meaning for me. As I dug deeper into the mystical meaning of Noah and the Ark, I would find it's value that spoke to my core answering my questions, "Why am I really here, why is the world the way it is, and who am I ?" It's value extends to all of humanity, speaks to our divinity, sheds light on our suffering, and how to begin the journey back to the Godhead.

To understand the story of Noah, one must begin in the Garden of Eden where man and woman walked and talked with God before their fall from grace. When Cain and Abel come along, your introduced to the divinity within us and the ego that corrupts our divinity.  Noah represents the true nature of our soul, which when cultivated like a seed can be enlightened.  The ark represents stages of developing our heavenly body and preparing it for the union with God. It is only then that one is "born again" through a process of purging and purifying, liberating us from human suffering.

My resource for the blog entries that will follow this post are from gnosticteachings.org. The website is a treasure of knowledge.

Love's Annihilation

If in heaven there is no you, then it is not heaven.  If in hell I am cast, it's flames will not burn like the burn of separation from you.  

Oh Beloved, I have tasted the wine of union and neither heaven or hell has a hold on me.  Your love illuminates my heart, and even it's light pierces the veil of heaven that the angels become jealous and the demons in the pit of hell hide in terror.  

My eyes are tired and sore from all my tears of longing for you.  The ocean that separates us hinders my soul.  Cast me not into Heaven or Hell!  Like a moth drawn to a flame, I only desire love's annihilation. 

Chief Seattle's Letter to US Government 1852

Chief Seattle was the last spokesmen of the Paleolithic moral order.  The US Government inquired about buying the tribal lands for the arriving people of the US in 1852. The following is the letter Chief Seattle wrote in reply:

"The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land.  But how can you buy or sell the sky? The land?  The idea is strange to us.  If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
"Every part of this earth is sacred to my people.  Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect.  All are holy in the memory and experience of my people.
"We know the sap which courses through the trees as we know the blood that courses through our veins.  We are part of the earth and it is part of us.  The perfumed flowers are our sisters.  The bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers.  The rocky crests, the juices in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man, all belong to the same family.
"The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors.  If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred.  Each ghostly reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people.  The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
"The rivers are our brothers.  They quench our thirst.  They carry our canoes and feed our children.  So you must give to the rivers the kindness you would give any brother.
"If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.  The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sigh.  The wind also gives our children the spirit of life.  So if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow flowers.
"Will you teach your children what we have taught our children?  That the earth is our mother?  What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.  All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.  Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.  Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
"One thing we know: our god is also your god.  The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
"Your destiny is a mystery to us.  What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered?  The wild horses tamed?  What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires?  Where will the thicket be?  Gone! Where will the eagle be? Gone!  And what is it to say goodbye to the swift pony and the hunt?  The end of living and the beginning of survival.
"When the last Red Man has vanished with his wilderness and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here?  Will there be any of the spirit of my people left?
"We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother's heartbeat.  So, if we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it.  Care for it as we have cared for it.  Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it.  Preserve the land for all children and love it, as God loves us all.
"As we are part of the land, you too are part of the land.  This earth is precious to us.  It is also precious to you.  One thing we know: there is only one God.  No man, be he Red Man or White Man, can be apart.  We are brothers after all."

Reference~ The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell