Thursday, October 11, 2007

Notes from Noah: How to Live Forever

Selections from B’re-sheet/In the Beginning, Genesis 6.9-9.1

These are the generations of Noah
A man righteous and wholehearted; Noah walks with God

When the earth becomes corrupt and full of violence
Body ages, begins breaking down, readies to dissolve
God says to Noah The Noah part of us hears the inner guidance

Make a wooden ark with compartments
300 long, 50 wide, 30 high
Each numeral is a power symbol
Create light at the top in your ark "Let there be light"
With an entrance on its side and with three decks (levels)
Visualize this ark in your heart and mind

I’m bringing the flood. Except for you
The breath of life from under heaven is perishing
What happens when we leave our physical bodies

But I’m establishing my covenant with you
And your companion and your children. Enter the ark

Noah is a name for our soul. The ark is our covenant with God
A pact made between us and our maker. Even as we agreed
While still undifferentiated, to play the game of separate identities, we will never forget who we really are

This is the covenant

Take also into the ark every living thing of all flesh
Both male and female who come unto you to keep them alive. Take food for yourselves and for them.

These body cells contain all species of life. The parts of us
Made of elements of earth return to their elementary nature

Meanwhile, Noah, our soul, continues to be safe and sound
Even in the presence of the angel of death to all flesh

In the 2nd month
(Iyar/Apr-May/Taurus)
The fountains of the great deep burst apart
The windows of heaven break open
Waters of the flood are on the earth

Rain falls forty days and forty nights
Forty-forty repeats the letter symbol M, mayim

The element of water. The mother’s waters break --
The flood. We’re about to enter a new world: rebirth

Blotted out from earth is every living substance above ground. Only Noah and those with him remain

There are three decks in the ark, three levels of faith
Standing on the top deck everything in the world disappears
Pure consciousness alone remains

A wind passes over the earth. The waters assuage
In the 7th month
(Tishri/Sept-Oct/Libra)

The ark comes to rest on Mt Ararat

The 10th month (Tevet/Dec-Jan/Capricorn) mountaintops
Can be seen. Noah sends out a raven and a dove
Which toward evening returns with a plucked olive leaf

On the first day of the new year
(Nisan/Mar-Apr/Aries)
Noah removes the covering from the ark

In the second month
(Iyar/Apr-May/Taurus) the earth is dry
God says to Noah: you and your family go forth from the ark. Bring every living thing. Be fruitful and multiply
Replenish the earth


Go forth from the ark
Be fruitful and multiply
Replenish the earth

As we pass on what we’re given, we increase a thousand-fold

Noah builds an altar unto God (and so can we)
In all generations you may re-establish your covenant
With me. The sign of our pact is my rainbow in the clouds

When we see it, you and I, remember the pact between us
See a rainbow and remember this covenant with your divinity