Ancients Worship Venus And Mars

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Events Subsequent To The Fall Of Man

Submersion Of Lemuria And Atlantis

Uranda   March 27, 1953

We have been going through the process of becoming oriented in relationship to some the obscurities of the past, the basic patterns which were involved in relationship to the fall of man, and we carried the pattern forward so that you could see that the period covered by Old Testament history was under a Water — Fire — Fire pattern.

You will recall that in days gone by there was a period when Mars, the planet, was worshipped as a god. And there was another period when the planet Venus was worshipped as a god. If you go out and look up at the sky at a time when either Venus or Mars are visible in the sky, do you see anything that should be so outstandingly different from the other planets, that the ancients would particularly pick out such planets as objects of worship? The simple answer is, you do not. There is not enough difference in relationship to the appearance in the sky, not enough obvious relationship to warrant any such adoration or concern or fear as was once shown toward these planets. We have, right on the face of it, obvious evidence that these planets were not always functioning in the orbits where they now are. We have obvious evidence that they were in some other position than they are in relationship to our own planet. Now we will not attempt to go into that extensively. We have some text material on this point, in relationship to what has been gathered on a very scientific basis as evidence, and in a general sense the outline as it is given is very good. Some of the conclusions drawn from the scientific evidence we cannot agree with, but the scientific evidence itself stands and is worthy of a good deal of consideration.

Perhaps we will have time to go into it somewhat later on, but going back for the moment to some of the things that worked out in relationship to the processes of the fall. Up to the time when the fall took place there was no disturbance in the patterns of polarity, the cycles were working normally, but it was through Man, the Focalization of Creation, that these currents were working in relationship to creation. When man was in right polarity the planet itself and the various levels of creation were held in polarity in relationship to the cosmic scheme of things. But when the fall had taken place, from the divine standpoint there were certain problems which were posed.

Those who did not fall, those who maintained the right pattern, were keeping the earth in right polarity and maintaining conditions where it made it seem that those who were functioning wrongly were not reaping any ill results of their wrong action, because the right pattern was maintained for them and all around them. And consequently they took the attitude, “See, we are doing as we please and the ill results which were suggested simply have not appeared.” Therefore they felt justified and were utterly unrepentant. Everything within that scope of the pattern was done to give them ample opportunity to return to the Divine Design, and it was not at all necessary that all these thousands of years of suffering and misery and sorrow and death should have followed.

To say that man turned away and that God could not do anything about it, that man then had to go through all this long cycle, and Jesus Christ had to come into the world, and all the rest of it, just because man originally fell, is utterly wrong. There was plenty of opportunity at that tine for those who had turned into the wrong path to repent. But the violent results did not immediately appear, not in the sense that would carry conviction. One of the points that we notice with respect to the outworking, as it is given in the blueprint which we call the Book of Revelation, is that there should come a point when there would be a basic recognition that “just and righteous altogether are Thy judgments, O Lord.” And as long as there was a pattern where it would appear that God's judgments were not just and righteous, the thing had to be proven out. In other words, merely because God could foresee such-and-such a result, merely because from the divine standpoint there was a definite recognition of what would take place, and that it would be justified to take such-and-such an action, those who were not functioning in relationship to that level of consciousness and who simply could not see that there was any justification in taking the attitude toward them that was taken, they felt self-righteous and took the attitude that God was not being fair, that His judgments were not right. I have had that same attitude displayed toward me many a time. Then what was to be done? The thing had to prove itself out.

It was not God's purpose or intention that death should appear on the earth, and all the miseries that produce death. There are those who believe that God created man and intended that man should fall; He did not intend that man should remain in some kind of a perfect state — that God was not fair to man; man at that time was just like a little child; he did not know right from evil and he made this mistake and then he did this, he did that, and so on. And God either condemned everybody just because one who was comparable to a child made a mistake, which would be unjust, or else God intended that man should fall. So man's rationalizations, attempting to work out an idea that would not make it appear that God was too unjust, have brought about a conclusion that God simply intended man to fall and that death is a part of the Divine Plan, a part of the school, or a part of an opportunity to grow or something.

So the concept that death is absolutely essential to life is widely held and the inevitability of death, etc., is greatly emphasized. As the pattern now stands certain substances of the body or certain parts of the body, or some body is going to die, as we say — but death is not at all what it seems to be to human beings, and that which is in the divine scope of things is not death. We have recognized that the Divine Design was birth and ascension, not birth and death. Once we begin to actually realize that, we can see that God did not intend that man should fall. All of this misery and suffering and sorrow has not been a part of the Divine Plan. It has all been contrary to God’s will, contrary to God’s Plan, and when I say contrary to God's will, again we come up against one of the popular religious concepts, because there are millions of people who believe that everything that happens is God's will. God is all powerful, therefore nothing can happen without God's will, and if something happens to you, it is God's will. If there is a tragedy, a death, a suffering, a sickness, an illness, or anything else, it is God's will. And they take the attitude that it would be somehow blasphemous to suggest that anything on the face of the earth happened without it being God's will.

Carried out to its logical conclusion, you have to admit that everybody that lies, everybody that murders, everybody that steals, everybody that does anything evil, is doing God's will. You cannot be logical in that kind of a pattern without carrying it right on and recognizing that it includes everything. Very well, if everyone who does something wrong is doing God's will, then God is not properly going to punish the person that does His will, is He? He should reward. It gets back to the same point I made with respect to Judas, because if it were God's will that Jesus Christ should die on the cross in order to save people from their sins, then we must admit that Judas of all men, outside of the Master Himself, rendered the greatest service to each and every one. We cannot agree to that. No, it was not God's will. Judas was not predestined to do that. He was not acting on Divine Impulse. So we begin to realize, wherever we turn, there is evidence of the fact that it was not God's intention that all of this misery and suffering and sorrow should come into the world. We have had over twenty thousand years of a pattern on earth that was not necessary, that God did not intend, and that is not in any sense a fulfilment of His Plan; and until we get out of it, we are not in position to continue on in the outworking of His Plan.

So the immediate goal is to get man out of the situation. That is merely an incidental plan to the situation. Man has come to act as if he believed that God's whole purpose and plan was to save man, and after that was done, there is nothing else. But God's plan did not include the fall of man. That was not the purpose or intent, and until we get back into that pattern that God did design, we will not be functioning according to our true purpose. So this work of bringing about the restoration is simply an interim plan and purpose in order to reinstate man in a position where he can function according to the Divine Plan. Once we begin to see that, we can begin to take the right attitude toward the basic facts of life as they relate to man's present situation.

Well then, we see, going back again to that original point, that those who had fallen were not producing the condition which their acts would naturally produce. Why? Because there were other people in the world who were not functioning in that manner, who were maintaining the polarity as far as the earth itself was concerned, who were maintaining a condition that let evil people — people that were rebellious and following their own fancies — have all the blessings, practically speaking, in an outer sense, of right function. Well, after a reasonable period of time given to those people to repent and return, God had to make a change. Now God is not a destroyer. He is a creator. So it would have looked unjust — the surface appearance, the evidence, would not have been present to have simply annihilated those people, to have said, “Well now here, we will just annihilate you and the rest of the folks will be all right, so we will go right on.” But that is not God’s way. And the evidence was not manifest.

The judgment would have been in the appearance of an assumption, because the outworking of the cycle was not manifest. God could foresee what the outworking would be, but to judge on that basis without the cycle actually having worked out would have made it appear that God was perhaps unjust. So the only thing to do, after a reasonable period of time, was to have all of those who were functioning correctly — except a few, very few, who were to remain as leaders and teachers [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/lord-of-spirits.html] to give an opportunity to man — to have everybody else ascend — a mass ascension of millions of people away from the earth's surface, leaving only a few to be leaders and teachers to whatever degree those who remained would listen, after they began to see the actual evidence of their wrong doing, the results in manifestation. There had been, to make it a little more exact, group ascensions quite a while before the final one, which allowed some evidence to appear, but it was not enough to convince the self-active minds of men. They took the attitude, “Well, you folks go on. We do not care. We do not need you. Look, we are getting along all right. This threat that you are all going to ascend and leave us, what difference does that make to us? Go on. We would like to have the earth all to ourselves.” They took that basic attitude. So the day came when there was a mass ascension of those who remained, and the earth was left to them with the few exceptions I have mentioned.

And so, what happened? Those who remained were out of polarity. The cosmic currents working in relationship to the earth had been moving through Man, Divine Man, in polarity. That body of control was removed and the control factors were consequently gone. So the cosmic currents which function in relationship to the earth, the solar system, and so on, had to be without any means of manifestation, or work through man who was out of polarity. Immediately then, the earth itself was thrown out of polarity. The polarity of the earth depends upon the polarity of man as a human family. Not just one or two human beings, no, but the whole human family. The polarity of the earth itself depends upon the polarity of Man — meaning mankind. So immediately the earth itself was thrown out of polarity. It was wrenched suddenly off of its axis, the subterranean supports under the earth crumbled, fountains of waters gushed out, flames of fire appeared in violent volcanic eruptions, and over a period of about seven thousand years after this real process of submersion began the Motherland or Lemuria was in the process of submersion — terrific earthquakes and all kinds of things. The earth was reeling to and fro on its axis much more than it is today, and it was thrown out of its orbit in relationship to the sun.

Now, when we have a solar system, a sun with various planets around it, and one planet is suddenly thrown out of its orbit and out of its polarity, are all the other planets going to be unmoved by it? No, because they have an inter-relationship. Their particularized positions depend not just upon the individual planet’s relationship to the sun. Our particularized position in the planetary system depends not just on the sun and our planet as such, but upon the influences, gravitational and otherwise, of the other planets of the solar system. Do you see that? It could not be any other way, because no group of bodies in what would be called space, functioning in relationship to each other, can have no influence upon each other. They do have an influence, according to their mass and density and make-up, etc. There are variations of gravitational influence, just to name one thing, and there are many other vibrational factors involved. So when the earth was thrown out of its polarity and out of its orbit, it likewise threw other planets out of their orbits, and the pattern worked out so that the … well, there was a gravitational mess, shall we say. There were certain of the planets which, due to these factors … and they worked out in relationship to some comets. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/perspective-vision-54.html] I am going to have to bring in the pattern of comets here, to make this clear.

The comets of which we are aware, the comets which come within the range of our vision so that we can see them and know about them and chart them and so on, are a part of our solar system. I do not know whether you knew that or not, but you can study into it if you wish, from the standpoint of astronomy. They have the sun as their point of orientation — our sun. And these comets which are a part of our solar system are likewise a part of the basic material factors of our relationship with the rest of the universe. A rather limited but suggestive illustration would be the fact that there are red blood corpuscles. Suppose you figure the heart as the center of the physical organism and we have various organs at certain distances from the heart, and certain members of the body, like hands and feet, which revolve in a sense around the heart, or function in relationship to it; but there is likewise something that goes to the heart and out to the extremities and back again, the circulation of blood, or the red blood corpuscles, etc.

Now, of course the application of the principle is different in relationship to you as a human being, but just exactly as that is true in you as a human being, the relationship of this planetary system with the rest of the universe had to be established on a basis that was not just purely spiritual, shall we say. There had to be physical factors. And the comets, of which there are many, are a part of this pattern. Now when things were thrown out of polarity and the comets were functioning as they did — they had a part in maintaining particularized balance and rhythm in the movement of the planets themselves —  there were certain planets which were thrown into a comet pattern. I might mention that there is one of the planets which belongs in the solar system as a planet which is still to this day functioning as a comet.

Now, we talk about physical changes in the solar system, physical changes in relationship to the earth. These things do not come about all just because of what we might call spiritual means — the idea of changing the pattern in relationship to the earth. How is it that the earth itself is going to be caused to move in the future yet on a basis which makes it seem that the heavens are rolled together as a scroll? Suppose you are standing here on the earth's surface and looking up at the sky and suddenly, because of variations in gravitational pattern, the earth is thrown suddenly on its axis and rolled over the other way. You are used to it rolling one way. How about having it roll the other way on its axis, or north to south, we will say? If you are looking up at the sky under that circumstance, aside from a lot of other things that will be happening, it would appear that the sky was rolling together as a scroll. And if the earth is thrown into a serious wobble on its axis, as has been the case in the past and as will be the case in the future, we have some very interesting results.

Now the earth will ultimately, in the outworking of the Divine Pattern, one way or another be restored to its normal balance in the axis pattern. This excessive wobble that we have today will be eliminated, and we will be restored to our proper distance from the sun. We are not out very much from that distance or human beings could not live. You see, if the variations were too much the conditions necessary for the life of man would be gone. So this is one of the factors which makes it impossible for man, under the present time, to live more than a hundred years or so, generally speaking. Because the earth itself is out of key, the vibrational factors of the solar system have to be changed — and just you and I, or a few human beings, this group for instance, even if we begin to function on a reasonably good basis, just that alone is not going to produce the conditions necessary to the perfect fulfilment of the Plan. We have to carry on under these conditions until we become powerful enough in relationship to centering, in relationship to control patterns, to allow the vibratory factors to move through us as a means of establishing right polarity for the earth.

But it will be more than that, just as it was more than that at the time of the fall. For at the time this works out, our sister planet which is at the present time functioning as a comet — and because of that we have been able to maintain conditions in the solar system which would let man live even as long as he does now — is going to be restored to her position as a planet, and the vibratory balance will have to be worked out again. When that planet which is now acting as a comet comes back into the solar system, we need to be ready for it. We will not try to restore the earth to its right polarity until the right vibrational conditions have been reached in the sense of the creative processes.

Even if we were ready today,

and it would take at least one hundred and forty-four thousand people

who were perfectly centered and coordinated as a control pattern

to even begin to think about it.

But suppose we were ready today, which we are not, we would still have to wait until the cycles of time worked out, the right vibratory patterns were developed, and the time had come in these patterns of movement for our sister planet to return to the solar system. But when that time comes, we had better be ready. Now we do not have too much time. In other words, you cannot say, “Well, if that is the case, it does not make any difference what we do.” It does! And we had better be getting ready or we will have trouble. But that means that a whole new vibrational pattern will be re-established in the solar system and so in the earth, a vibrational pattern which would make it possible for man to actually do what he was created to do, equipped to do. We cannot expect now, under this vibrational pattern, to live for say five thousand years. That was what man was created to do — any length of time necessary, as I have pointed out before. But until we reestablish the right conditions, we are not going to do that. So we had better do our part toward re-establishing the right conditions. That is part of our job now.

And from the standpoint of what the Master did, we talk about the salvation of man. What is the salvation of man? It is the outworking of this Whole Plan, so that the solar system and our planet can be restored to the Divine Estate, and until they are man is certainly not going to have the opportunity to live according to the full pattern of that Divine Estate. We can reach a certain degree of development and accomplishment under conditions as they are, far more than has been. There is no block ahead of you; do not worry about it. But that is as much a part of the salvation of man as anything that anyone can do. That is what was part of the program when our Master came into the world. The idea that it was all worked out when He died on the cross, as people put it, is so utterly infantile when one begins to see the truth of the matter. We see that the salvation of man requires the restoration of the earth itself to its proper point and pattern of function in the cosmic scheme of things. So just as the earth was thrown out of polarity, so will the earth be brought back into polarity, and the comets will have a part to play, other planets will have a part to play.

And there was a period during Old Testament history even when certain of the planets, Mars and Venus in the different cycles, were actually so close to the earth that they had the appearance of being much larger than our moon — and there was fire, the gravitational pulls involved between the two, electrical discharges manifesting between the two, and it is no wonder that the people then looked up in the sky and saw this great fiery monster as it appeared to them, and worshipped it. It was not in its present place in the solar system. Now if you have never heard anything like that before, it may sound a little fantastic to begin with, but we can look into it, we can examine it, because what I am talking about is a scientific fact — and there is a physical factor in relationship to all of these things.

For instance, you go back and consider some of the things that are spoken of in the Old Testament, and people will say, “Well, that is just a physical impossibility, the earth standing still, or this happening or that happening.” What was it that produced the peculiar conditions during the time when the Children of Israel were wandering in the wilderness? What was the manna from heaven? All right. The manna from heaven was something that was peculiar to that particular time and period when there had been a near collision between our earth and another planet, and there was a period of about forty years when they did not see the sun — the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. Is this just something fantastic that someone dreamed up, or is it something supernatural? No, there are sound, scientific, physical facts in relationship to every one of these incidents, and they are not just something imaginary or something achieved by some peculiar mystic means. When we begin to realize that there is a basic, scientific, physical fact back of every one of these outworkings, we will begin to see that we are not trying to do something that cannot be done; because whatever we do here, we are working on the basis of those scientific facts — not to try to achieve the impossible — out to set up vibratory conditions which will make it possible for us to utilize certain physical facts which are yet in the future. And if we are not ready when they come, it will be just too bad. So we intend to be ready. And all of these things are basic, and once you begin to see them — I think maybe I will have to take a little time, from the nature of the vibratory pattern here this morning, I think maybe I am going to have to take a little time to really study some of these things with you, just enough at least to let you see what I am talking about. But all of these things were working out during the period of the time of the Children of Israel; that is, certain of these things were, and some of them back beyond that.

But now I want to bring into focus one other point for you, to see what happened, because as I indicated the other day with respect to the graph of life, man went through a process of devolution or descending before he began to come back up to the level where he now is. He did not come out of oblivion, developing out of an amoeba or something. Man as a Divine Being was. Man fell. The graph of life went down very rapidly after the submersion of Atlantis, the continent that was on the earth's surface where the Atlantic Ocean now is. I might mention that the story of driving man out of the Garden of Eden, as it is touched on so briefly in the Bible, is the story of the submersion of Lemuria. And about a thousand years later there was the submersion of Atlantis, and that story is the same as the story of the flood in the Bible —  the same story as the submersion of Atlantis. Driving man, as it is pictured here, out of the Garden of Eden — the submersion of Lemuria or the Motherland. And about a thousand years later, Atlantis went down.

We have recognized that at that time, or during those periods, there were vast portions of this continent under water. Plenty of geological evidence of it. You can find something that belonged at the bottom of the sea on top of our highest mountains. How did it happen? Well, I can tell you how it happened. Because until you begin to see how this old earth has been pushed and pulled and jammed and shoved around, you cannot understand it. And it did not take millions of years as some have thought, because those who developed those fantastic concepts — that is what they are actually — did not have any idea of what the physical factors back of all of this were, and so we will take a little look at it.

When the submersion of Atlantis took place — during that thousand years there was quite a development. Atlantis became the centering of world government after it was lost from Lemuria, and civilization began to pick up again — a thousand years. How long have we been on this continent? When was it that Columbus sailed the ocean blue? 1492. About five hundred years, would you say? And all of this, all of our great cities, all of the things we have done, our railroads, everything — in five hundred years we have accomplished all of this. Now, of course they were in much better position to accomplish things in the days of Atlantis, and they had a thousand years. Stop and look at it that way and you will begin to see something. Because in five hundred years, look what we have done in this day and age. Handicapped as we were, using ox-carts and all the rest of it, and look what we have done in this period of time. They had a thousand years in Atlantis. So when I say there was a considerable period of development, you should begin to understand that there was something really far superior to anything that we have today, even under that regime. But it was not what it should have been; and various factors worked out, and Atlantis went down. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/sethenochnoah.html]

Then there were so many changes in the earth's surface at that time, so many changes in climate, in atmospheric conditions. There were just a few people comparatively speaking, scattered, isolated. The sudden changes produced what we have called the Ice Age, because that water froze suddenly. We have plenty of scientific proof of that, have we not? — that that water became frozen very suddenly. How did it happen? Because of the fact that the earth was reeling to-and-fro like a drunken man, the wobble was terrific, the climatic conditions changed, and what was a comparatively lovely climate became extremely severe, much more severe than we have at the present time, in fact. And these people were isolated.

Suppose you — it is not a very nice thing to imagine — but suppose there were enough atomic bombs fell right here on the earth, on our country, to absolutely wipe out our cities, wreck our communication systems, and have just two or three people here, maybe three or four over there, hiding in the mountains, living in caves, no resources as we think of them today, no cars, no airplanes, nothing; just civilization wiped out and a few scattered, actually maybe over the whole earth, maybe a few thousand people. Of course, it is pictured here in the story of the flood, just as Noah and his family. Well, allegorically that is true, but there were several thousand people in different parts of the earth who were saved.

Noah is the story given allegorically with respect to one family, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/build-ye-ark.html] but there were other families who were saved. The point is that these people did not know whether anyone else lived on the face of the earth or not. They had no means of communication. The second and third generation — and generations would become very short there, would they not? — you would have to be using clubs to kill some animals to get some food. The earth itself was covered with a density of clouds and dust and so on until you could not see the sun. You could not tell what the directions were. For a long time they did not know what was north or south, they could not see the stars, they could not see the sun or the moon, and it was cold, bitter cold. They were living in caves, trying to find some wild animals, get their skins to clothe themselves and so on. Oh, there was a cave-man age sure enough, but it came on so suddenly.

And how rapidly under those conditions, when every resource had to be given to the preservation of physical life, how rapidly would the consciousness of things gone by disappear. A grandparent talking to his grandson, trying to tell him something of what was before, he would have nothing to go by; the child could not see it, it would sound like, “Grandpa is a little nutty, you know. He is a little cracked. He talks about such things as that. Why, we all know that such a thing could not be.” Grandpa saw it and grandson did not, and how quickly it is all turned legend and myth. Do you see what I mean? And in a few years, fifty years even, suppose our civilization was wiped out and there were only three or four hundred people left, scattered all over, they did not know that anyone else was left; perhaps they were the only survivors, each one thinking that, how long would it take? And, if going through the woods, Grandpa and grandson stumbled on something peculiar, grandson does not know what it is. “What is that Grandfather?” “That is what we used to call a railroad track. Here is a little part that did not get covered up, some old rusty rails shining through the weeds and the undergrowth. I will try to tell you what a railroad was like. Now let us see, how can I tell you what a railroad was like?” — a railroad engine, no way of telling; a railroad train, no way of telling. “Pieces of metal there,” and Grandpa gets dreamy and he tries to tell grandson about it, and grandson shakes his head. “Grandpa is sure just about gone.” Can you see the picture?

Well, that is what happened then after the submersion of Atlantis, and the earth was plunged into that particular state and man forgot all about everything except trying to survive in a few very widely scattered points, and he was living in caves. How quickly does he revert to primarily an animal pattern under those circumstances. He has no means but his own wit and strength and a club to kill wild animals to get something to eat, and skins to clothe himself. And so when I say in five hundred years — remember we accomplished all this building up in five hundred years — does it sound so fantastic then when I say five hundred years from the time of the submersion of Atlantis there were just a few scattered tribes, a few cave-men here, a few nomads there, and civilization as it had been known was gone; those tribes were in most cases enemies to each other; they did not trust each other, and so on. And there you see the picture of the low point to which man went down. And gradually he began to come up out of that, and finally in the early dawn of history we see Egypt appearing on the horizon. We begin to see the Near East. We begin to see something of that development working out in the Oriental pattern, and going back we can see something with respect to what was the fact down here in Central America, what we call Mexico now, and on down into South America, the Aztecs, etc — and all that you can do is go back five or six thousand B. C. in history.

So man was emerging for several thousand years to get up to the point where he reached a state of civilization that allowed him to begin to make a record of his doings. Is that not what we call civilization? — man reaching a point where he starts making a record of what he does, so you have history. He begins to have an organized society. And that was the dawn of history as we know it. But I have given you just a tiny glimpse of the history that went before it so that you can begin to see something of the influences, and we have not been on a long journey up from the state of an amoeba. We have the background of Divine Man, the fall of man, this plunge into the cave-man stage and the Ice Age, and so on.

Why did the great layers of ice come plowing down across the earth’s surface as they did? If I take you up I can show you territory right out here on our plains where you can see the edge of where a great glacier came plowing along, pushing earth in front of it, and then it got that far and melted. The edge of it is right out here. I have flown over it many, many times. Oh yes, glacial action and all the rest of it, things that geology has not been able to comprehend except to know that there had to be an Ice Age — and because they did not know about this sudden shifting on the earth's axis and all of these other things, they imagine it had to creep down there and take millions of years. “Glaciers travel so fast, do they not? Why it would take so many million years for that glacier to reach from the North Pole to right out there.” Presto-change-o, you have the millions of years of evolution. But that is not the case at all. You begin to see how and why these things happened. And you begin to understand the sound, scientific facts back of them. And remember that only as we are scientific and fundamental in relationship to these things, can we cause spiritual understanding to have any real value in living.

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Build Ye An Ark

Build  Ye  An  Ark

Martin Cecil   May 24, 1961

I would like to talk to you about the Ark. There are three specific references to an Ark in the Bible, although there are many, many references to that which is signified by the Ark, utilizing other terms. The three references of course relate to Noah's Ark, the Ark in which Moses was placed as a babe, and the Ark which occupied the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle and in the Temple. These three particular things that were designated by the word Ark—at least it is so translated—are apparently on the surface very different, and yet they all signify the same thing. The Ark which Noah built, and subsequently occupied with his family and a number of creatures, according to the story, was designed to preserve life. Life of course is a primary evidence of the Presence of God. Afterwards, when the Tabernacle was built and the Ark was in it, the statement was made a number of times with respect to the Glory of the Lord filling the Tabernacle and shining round about. This Cloud of Glory relates to Life and is the aspect of the Shekinah Pattern of Being of which man is first aware. Wherever life manifests there is evidence of the Presence of God. And so if Noah's Ark was built to preserve life it was therefore built to preserve the evidence of the Presence of God on earth.

Human beings, tending toward self-centeredness, usually consider that the Ark was built just simply to save a few human beings and a few animals. The fact of the matter is that it was designed to maintain the Presence of God on earth, and we find that this is true in relationship to the other Arks—the Ark in which Moses was placed as a baby, and the Ark in the Tabernacle. In Moses' subsequent experience it is quite evident that through him the Lord had a most definite hand in the outworking affairs of the children of Israel, and of others, so the fact that Moses was preserved, preserved a Focalization of Being which gave evidence in season, particularly later, of the Presence of God on earth. Again, the Ark in the Tabernacle was used to portray this same principle. In the Book of Revelation, in the 21st Chapter, it is indicated that "the tabernacle of God is with men." The Tabernacle houses the Ark, and the Ark is that which preserves life, or the evidence of the Presence of God on earth.

We have seen that there has been a very inadequate evidence in this regard in the world, even when the special opportunities were provided by God in relationship to the children of men. The one we recognize most specifically in this regard of course relates to the Presence of the LORD Himself on earth, and yet what a very inadequate manifestation even that was. Certainly the fulness of the presence of the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings was not revealed to the children of men. Just as much as response would permit was revealed, and the response was very limited, so the revelation in fact, no matter how marvelous it may appear in the eyes of men, was a very small thing relative to the potentiality. And when our Master came He said, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head"—there was no Ark on earth

the Ark which makes possible the preservation of the Presence of God in safety on earth.

Now of course human beings cannot destroy God or hurt God, make God any different than He is, but they can prevent the manifestation of God in this realm of things, and for the most part we have to acknowledge that human beings have done a very thorough job in this regard. By preventing the revelation of the Presence of God they have not hurt God, they have simply hurt themselves. This fact does not seem to have yet penetrated very deeply into the consciousness of mankind. Usually the human attitude seems to be that somehow or other God is trying to put something over on human beings, and they play hard to get. How foolish. They simply hurt themselves and do not change God or the attitude of God one iota.

So when our Master came He found no place of safety, where His presence might be preserved on earth. In fact it was not preserved for more than thirty-three years in toto, and three and a half years insofar as His public ministry was concerned, when His Presence began to become more keenly felt. So it can be seen that His statement with respect to the fact that the Son of man had not where to lay his head on earth was very true—there was no Ark, in any adequate sense at least. He proceeded to build one while He was on earth, but it evidently did not amount to very much.

What is it that provides a place of safety for the Presence of God in this realm of things? We could not build a boat that would be satisfactory for this purpose. We could not build a house which would be satisfactory. But there is of course provision, if human beings were willing to let it be used. There is a Temple, or a Tabernacle, in which the Ark may be: "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" The forms of human beings, properly speaking, compose the Tabernacle on earth and provide within the Tabernacle the essential facilities, including the Holy of Holies in which the Ark may rest, providing thereby a place of safety for God in this realm of things. If God is not evident in this realm of things it is simply because there has not been an Ark for Him.

We have the first evidence of His closeness by reason of the fact that there is life in the world, and by reason of the fact that there is life in our own physical bodies. But is God safe in us? Is God safe in the bodies of human beings? Do the bodies of human beings preserve the Life of God on earth? Or do they rather rapidly squeeze it out? Most human beings want more life. They feel life slipping away from them and they feel their bodies becoming sick or old, and there is less life appearing and so they want life and they try to get more life in various ways. This of course is the reason that many people seek the ministrations of a server, because they feel life slipping away from them and they want to get it back. There is no immediate recognition, of course, that they are slipping away from life; it is not life slipping away from them. They are slipping away from God.

Life is an evidence of the Presence of God. God and His life do not find a place of safety in fallen human beings. Fallen human beings are not dedicated to preserving a place where God can be at this level of things. If they want life, and more life, and life restored to them, it is not with the idea, generally speaking, to increase the manifestation of God on earth. It is to maintain the manifestation of the human ego, and so the very attitude gives no consideration to a place of safety for God. And if there is no place of safety for God on earth there is no place of safety for life on earth, and consequently, insofar as human beings are concerned, life seems to vanish away, simply because they provided no place of safety for it—no Ark, just an empty temple. It is not even really a temple, is it? A broken-down sort of a place.

Human beings are inclined to be interested in archeological discoveries of various sorts. They unearth old temples and are very much interested in their findings. I think that rather indicates the direction of interest which is held by people in general. They are interested in empty temples, old, broken-down temples—of course they like to have them restored if possible. But the Temple is supposed to be a place of safety for God, a place where God may be preserved on earth. If God is not on earth, God's action is not on earth, and the lack of God's action on earth produces the turmoil and the chaos that we find, all because the Son of man hath not where to lay his head—no Ark.

We are concerned with this matter of building an Ark—not a boat, not a basket, not a wooden box. What are we concerned with building? What would the Ark signify? What is it that makes possible the Presence of God in the world of men? We recognize that God is in His heaven. We recognize that God is not on His earth. We also recognize that there is that which, rightly speaking, connects heaven and earth, which connects God and man. We call it pneumaplasm. If the spirit of God is to reach man, to come into this world and have a place of safety from which the Divine expression may shine forth in the world, there must be the connecting substance which we call pneumaplasm. And there are certain forms which take shape in it, revealing the Divine Design.

We recognize responsibility in this matter of the generation of pneumaplasm, the substance for the building of the Ark. The Ark itself has form, very specific form. When Noah received instruction as to the building of the Ark at that time, the dimensions were given and the nature of the structure that was to be made. The same was true with respect to the Ark at the time of the children of Israel, the Ark which was placed in the Tabernacle; it had very definite dimensions and form. So is it true with the Pneumaplasmic Ark which is our specific responsibility, a place of safety for God on earth.

When I say, "Is God safe with you?" I am not referring to anything which might be taken to mean that you would be capable of damaging God. But does He have a place of safety where His Presence is preserved on earth, in you? Or does your action, your attitude, at any time expel God from yourself?—not entirely, of course, or you would not be anymore, but in the sense of refusing to permit a constant dwelling place to be provided for Him. In other words, in you is the atmosphere constantly heavenly? Are you playing a part in preserving life on earth, preserving the evidence of the Presence of God? Or by what you do, what you say, how you think and feel, do you make it so, insofar as you are concerned, that the Son of man has nowhere to lay His head?

Obviously there is a great need in the world for an Ark, for a place where God is safe, so that He may be here on earth and act in relationship to the affairs of men. The affairs of men have come to a desperate pass. There is only one thing that will be able to handle that which is transpiring—namely, God's action. But God cannot act on earth unless He is safe on earth, unless His Presence is preserved on earth and protected on earth so that He may be here. If He is not here, in the sense of having the facilities for His action, He cannot act. Recognizing these things in relationship to ourselves, we see our responsibility for the building of an Ark, the generation of pneumaplasm, which is offered to the Lord so that the correct design may be established in it.

The Tabernacle of God is with men. The Ark has been missing. A long time ago that Ark which the children of Israel had was lost; it vanished away. Of course there are those who have been interested in trying to locate it again, but to what end? That which is portrayed had vanished away, so there was no more purpose to the Ark in its outer form. When our Master came He did not start a search for the old Ark which had been lost. There would have been no sense to it. But He did proceed to build an Ark of the material which was available to Him, of such a nature as would make the essential provision at that time. But again the Ark was lost. We share the privilege of letting it be found in its essential form today, and that essential form is composed of the material which we call pneumaplasm, that which connects God and His world.

It is our responsibility to share in the generation of this pneumaplasm, that it may come forth pure and perfect as God created it to be, a fitting substance for the manifest form of the Ark of God, that which will preserve the Life of God on earth in a manner that permits the Power of God to work on earth, the Glory of the Lord to shine round about. If the Glory is present, if the Life is present, as God designed it to be, Truth is present and Love is present, because there is no true Life without the parents of life, Love and Truth. If love, truth and life are present, God is present, because these compose the evidence of the Presence of God. If God is present He is capable of acting, and the action of God may appear with respect to the affairs of men. No other kind of action will be adequate to the situation, as should finally be dawning upon the consciousness of humanity.

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Seth—Enoch—Noah

Seth — Enoch — Noah

Grace Van Duzen   October 29, 1980

100 Mile House, B.C.

“And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden … And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.”  [Genesis Chapter Four]

Now this is showing that in this fallen state, really quite different from the original, there was something still of the seed of Abel, as it is put, which could call upon the name of the Lord; something identified with the Lord and beginning to have a conscious awareness of it. And that wording, “another seed instead of Abel” — in other words, something wherein there was the possibility of response, of coming close to the Lord. “Instead of Abel” — not Abel, not that first, pure thing that was created but, nevertheless, the seed of Abel, the response pattern present in whatever the state happened to be. We could say the same thing today.

And in the Fifth Chapter we have the line coming down from an indefinite life span—whatever was needed on earth, spoken of as before death appeared in the picture—to a very lengthy life span compared with today, but probably as nothing compared with the original creation. And we'll find it coming clear down to a mere hundred and twenty-five years, which today would be quite good. That will be after the next cataclysm, but the life span gets less and less throughout here. “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them.” So here you have Adam referred to as “them”—the body of mankind, in the image and likeness of God. “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness”—and called his name Seth—“And Seth lived an hundred and five years.” And then the life span goes on down. “And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”

This is as concise a record of ascension, I think, as is possible—of right function, and of being taken to the Lord. In other words, there was complete identification with the Lord so that it was one thing. It also indicates that this state was present at one time on earth. In Enoch we have an individual, but also he represented many; and always we have this, with an individual, the representation, indicating that many others would have been experiencing that state.

Then: “And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed”—or which man cursed by his function. And always, after the fall, there is this reference to the ground being cursed. Man had to labor, really work hard to get anything out of the ground; whereas before, there is inferred the fact that it was an easy, beautiful giving of the earth. It “brought forth abundantly,” as it is put in the story of the days of creation—the right and natural way, rather than all the tilling of the ground, and digging, and messing it all up. It's hard work in this fallen state. “And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” That was a life span of five hundred years!

We find the conditions on the earth changing drastically after this next episode coming up in the Sixth Chapter. “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” Here is brief reference to a positive expression, referred to as “sons of God” and a negative aspect, the “daughters of men.” Here is the union of this positive expression with something which rightly was negative. Now to speculate is ridiculous, but there was a union of that which should have remained in identity with the Lord, with that which was below it. That which was below it had a place, but they were not meant to be functioning blended together. We can say this is simply a statement of the fall, whether the original fall or any subsequent fall—union with what is rightly below rather than that which is above. Something actually did happen which produced a lower state of consciousness. “And they took them wives of all which they chose”—in other words, “What I want.” Here is the element again, isn't it, in whatever aspect of the fall we're talking about: “This is what I want, this is what I'm going to do,” and the results are rebelled against.

“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” A little obscure, but we can read much here. It isn't God saying, “My spirit shall not always strive with man”—but there comes a time where it is not possible for the spirit to work through the fallen state as it worked in the original creation. “For that he also is flesh,” and that doesn't mean that he was not flesh to begin with, but here is a much denser condition appearing in man’s flesh and consciousness.

“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” Here in the Bible we have this valuable reference to giants; because in any ancient history, referring to that which went before history as man knows it, there is reference to giants of some kind, whether it be stone giants such as in the Easter Islands, or man himself as being of a very great stature. Also, the animals; all the “sauruses” kids like to talk about. There was definitely a time when these things were in the picture—gigantic described something that was happening—and then there was the sudden demise of these creatures, which happened at the time of what is called the Flood.

And I briefly referred to the fact yesterday that at the close of the Sixth Day, God saw that everything was very good, so the distortions which came into the picture later were the result of man's interference—eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil—whereas if he had simply been the instrument for the working of the spirit through him, the reason for his creation, it would have continued a beautiful thing, paradise. But all of these distortions came about because the power of Creation still moved through him in a very specific way for quite a long time. Eventually it was taken away from him, in the sense that he could no longer create monsters, or whatever. But there was a terrible time of union with animals, where there was a bringing forth of a mixture. And eventually, as I say, this power left him because it isn't always there—man has eliminated the working of the power through him in that sense of Creation. We can be grateful. But that was not the way he was meant to be; in the beginning he shared the power of Creation with the Lord, as we saw in the Second Chapter of Genesis.

But it continued in a destructive way for many years after the fall: “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” That describes man in any generation, doesn't it? It's very observable today. “Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” The fact that it was imagination makes it evil, regardless of how filthy it might be or what it brings forth, using the powers of his mind and heart self-actively, is what it is saying here. “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Well, we could say this is attributing human characteristics to God, but you couldn't blame Him very much, to look at this mess and be “grieved at his heart.”

“And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” Now it looks like creation could have been completely eliminated—the possibility was there. This is what is being said, that God said, “There isn't any chance.” “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD”—one of the most beautiful verses anywhere. Here it was—grace—something on earth responding to the Lord, in position to let the Lord do something on earth, without which there would not have been anything left.

And as we know, it does start with one individual, either way—the fall or the return. And then there are those who come with him, and the body of the Archangel begins to be in evidence on earth again. And the very wording we find at the time of Jesus, where He spoke of “My grace I leave with you.” And the very last words in the Bible: “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.” In other words, the working of the power of God is in evidence. Here it is. And Noah, clear back here, allowed a channel to be used: “These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” The only other reference of someone walking with God back this far was Enoch, who ascended if you remember. “Perfect in his generations.” I'm sure that doesn't refer to his three sons. His generations are the generation of substance—perfect in this which was generated through him.

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.” And that has been the condition since man fell. Everyone who is born into the earth inherits the corruption of His way upon the earth. However the presence of the Lord is here. He created it and He certainly can do something about it, if He has the opportunity. “And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.” And then we have the measurements of the Ark. “A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side … with lower, second, and third stories.” Whatever else the Ark was—it's not called a boat in the Bible, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't be a boat. Anyway, it is an Ark, which is the name for a place where life is allowed to continue because of the sacred nature of it—a place where the Lord is, and it is beautiful symbolism—it's obvious. There was a window above, and it had three stories—here you have the three outer planes of being and the connection with all that is above, individually and collectively.

“And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.” And this is a beautiful picture of the fact that because man was in place—Noah, and those who responded with him—all the kingdoms of the earth were allowed to continue. They were safe in the Ark, because there was an Ark, and because man was in position. Otherwise there isn't any hope for any of the kingdoms of this world, animal or anything else. They are all contained in man, in essence, and he has dominion over all this, rightly, and the positive and negative aspects are here. “Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.” So if we see it as a boat on dry land, he had to trust the Lord. It's a good symbol, isn't it? And he did; he trusted the Lord, and he did—“Thus did Noah.” He didn't just listen to it and ponder, he simply obeyed the Word of the Lord, regardless of how it might look, and it often doesn't look that sensible to the stupid human mind. All that He commanded him, according to what He commanded him—he didn't leave anything out—“so did he.” And so there was the condition for something to continue on the face of this earth.

In the Seventh Chapter we go on with the flood: “For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.” After seven days here, “For yet seven days,” then, the flood. One man, Immanuel Velikovsky, questioned those seven days. What seven days? You don't mark it on a calendar, maybe Monday, and then say, “next Monday the waters will start.” After seven days of what? Velikovsky found a clue in Isaiah with reference to this, so that—well, I’ll read a little bit about that in a minute. “And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives ... into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.” And you have the correct procession of the forces here—first the water, which is happening. “There went in two and two unto Noah”—male and female. And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day ... the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”

Something happened, and it isn't just a big rain. Someone figured that if it rained all over the face of the earth forty days and forty nights we would hardly notice it. It wasn’t rain as we know it. Here was something that was a whole different condition upon the face of the earth after this catastrophe, and water was the primary element in it. We have a brief reference to fire during the submersion of Lemuria, fire and water. There was a flaming sword, remember, in all this. And there is a Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean right now, and along all the coasts of the Pacific Ocean you'll find volcanoes—latent fire—some of them not too active presently. But here in this verse a great deal is inferred, “all the fountains of the great deep”—and this isn't talking about the great deep of an ocean somewhere; in fact, there weren't oceans before this time. But “the fountains of the great deep.” And the great deep is what? Space? All of the cosmos? We don't know that much about it to say specifically, but in the beginning there was “darkness upon the face of the deep”—the deep of whatever—and the earth came into being. So there was something broken up, something terribly disturbed in all of this; and it did include other planets, very specifically Saturn, which is known as an ice-planet today, it is associated with ice, but in ancient times it was a water planet. “And the windows of heaven were opened”—something happened with regard to the envelope of the earth which changed everything. “And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”

“In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah... [and their wives] went into the ark. And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.” The Ark was lifted up. It's when it's lifted up, it's when it's in the water that it's free and can function. Here we find that the very same force which obliterated what was below lifted up that which was attuned with what was above. So the very same force, but it's where we are that determines what happens; it's not the force that determines it, but where are we, and with what are we identified? “And it was lift up above the earth”.

“And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered… And all flesh died that moved upon the earth… fowl, and cattle and beast and creeping things and every man” that was in the earth. “All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground... and the fowl of the heaven... And they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained... and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.” So Noah and “they that were with him”—there was a remnant which survived this amazing catastrophe. The wonder is that there was anything left, really, after these things that occurred. When there is an italicized word as there is here: “Noah only remained alive”—alive is italicized—it's not for emphasis as we would use italics. It's because the word was missing and it was put in by translators. Sometimes it's just as well or better without the word inserted, such as, “Noah only remained.” I think I like that better.

“And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged”—the second force is air, and you have the wind. “The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.” The literal translation of Ararat is holy ground, or new heaven and new earth. Here was an opportunity for man to start over, in a very different situation but the Lord is present in His creation through man. “And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month.”

Now we have the story here of Noah opening the window of the Ark. He sent forth a raven first, “which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.” The raven didn't come back. It fed on carrion, or dead flesh; it fed on death. “Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and... returned... for the waters were on the face of the... earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her... into the ark. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.” Here is the beautiful white bird, to this very day a symbol of love and peace. “And the dove came in to him in the evening; and... in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.” Then he knew the waters were dried up, and he removed the covering of the Ark and “behold, the face of the ground was dry. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and... sons, and sons' wives... Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee... that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply... And Noah went forth, and his sons...” and so on. And all the beasts and creeping things—there must have been a lot of creeping things!

“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” We can always see something here. The Lord promising that He wouldn't do this again is, of course, a way of speaking; however, later there is a clue in the Epistle of Peter, where he says that the earth is reserved unto fire: it would not be destroyed by water anymore. That last verse there is interesting, if we see something in it: “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” This isn't saying necessarily that what was would continue—it could be indicating the new state. And that is exactly what is being said here. It's overlooked completely because there hasn't been the understanding of what did occur.

I briefly referred to the canopy before this, where there was a different state of affairs. Now you have the direct effect of the sun, and seasons, and all this. So, it's very strange for the mind to contemplate but there was a very drastic change in the earth after this. And I'm going to read just a little bit from something written by Immanuel Velikovsky about Saturn and the Flood. It will be in a future book; it hasn't been published yet.

“While the actual beginning of the drama [meaning all of these catastrophes] is shrouded in the mists of grey antiquity, there is a point at which a clearer picture emerges. This is the time when the two giant planets, Saturn and Jupiter, approached each other closely.” Very little is known of this—how long they were in close proximity, for instance. But he points out that—and others are accepting this very much now, are coming to their own conclusions: “Cosmological thought of ancient peoples conceived of the history of the earth as divided into periods of time, each ruled by a different planet. Of these, the epoch of Saturn, or Kronos, another name for it, was remembered as a time of bliss, and it was made to precede the period during which Jupiter was the dominant deity.”

So you had Jupiter and Saturn before the Flood, and they were doing something at the time of Lemuria too, but here was a very close proximity and something happened where there was a disturbance, and an imbalance created in Saturn because of something being thrown off from Jupiter, possibly including the origin of Venus, but that is speculation; the time element is not known here. We only know that these things happened at some point, so we don't want to try to pin it down, but there was a disturbance in which both Jupiter and Saturn participated—this we know. “Various peoples witnessed the events and described them as a celestial human drama in different forms. The Greeks have Jupiter—the son of Saturn, Kronos, dethrone his father and banish him, and take his place to become the supreme deity.” So, in ancient mythology Jupiter did away with his father, Saturn, dethroned him—emasculated him, in one legend—and took over. And the beginning of the history of the Old Testament has Jupiter in that position—the great king Baal, he'll be called.

“A nova is thought to result from an instability in a star, generated by a sudden influx of matter usually derived from its companion. If what today we call Jupiter and Saturn are the products of such a sequence of events, their appearance and respective masses must formerly have been quite different.” They were much larger. “At some point during a close approach to Jupiter, Saturn became unstable and as a result of the influx of extraneous material, it exploded, flaring as a nova which, after subsiding, left a remnant that the ancients still recognized as Saturn even though it was but a fraction of the size of the celestial body of earlier days.” It dominated the heavens before this happening, and some of the legends say that Jupiter bound his father with rings, and you have the rings around Saturn. Jupiter was stripped of its outer envelope, so here you have a great change as well.

“My conclusion that, as a result of its interplay with Jupiter, Saturn became a nova, I found confirmed in many ancient sources in which Saturn is regularly associated with brilliant light. But I was led to this idea first of all by a certain clue contained in the Biblical account of the Deluge. The story, as found in Genesis, starts: ‘And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.’ After seven days of what?” It's a good question. “Some words seem to be missing. It is clear, however, that Isaiah refers to the same seven days in his description of the age to come when ‘the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.’ This memory of the seven days of light preceding the Deluge is a most important indication of the physical cause of the catastrophe.

“The intense light filling the sky points to a source in a nova within the solar system. If, as all evidence indicates, the nova was in fact Saturn, we may obtain an estimate of the earth's distance from the source of the illumination in the following way: the light from Saturn's explosion probably reached the earth in a matter of minutes, practically simultaneously with the beginning of its nova phase, but the waters followed seven days later. Though ejected in the same catastrophic destruction, the gases or filaments took a week to reach the earth.” Velikovsky estimates how close the earth was to Saturn because of all this.

“With the end of the seven days of light, the earth became enveloped in waters of cosmic origin, whether coming directly from Saturn—and Saturn is known to contain water—or formed from clouds of hydrogen gas ejected by the nova, which combined by means of powerful electrical discharges with the earth's own free oxygen. There are definite indications of a drastic drop in the atmospheric oxygen at the time of the Deluge.” So great changes occurred, which have continued. “The Midrashim and other ancient sources describe the waters of the flood as being warm; in addition, rich in chlorine.”

That’s interesting, isn't it? There was great fear in ancient peoples because of what had occurred, really quite recently in their times, and they dreaded the gods—that this could happen again unless they appeased the gods with mostly human sacrifice; animal sacrifice later. But here you have the origin of human sacrifice.

What I'm emphasizing here is the great difference, changes that have happened on the face of this planet; whereas the old idea was that this is the way it was created—it's always been this way. Man has brought about many changes on the face of the earth. But the Lord has always been able to do something about it, or with it, no matter what man has done. And we see the power of the Lord's Creation in bringing all this about, and the absolute insistence in nature, as we call it, nature—of bringing forth beauty. And as Martin's beautiful service says, “For God did make the earth a womb, where beauty might be born.” Nothing else can be born out of the womb of God—nature won't produce anything but that; it will make it right if it possibly can. It's only man who persists and wastes all his time and energy and dies in the process, to make it ugly. But with God, given a chance, it's very simple.

There’s a very dark feeling in this Ninth Chapter, of the state of affairs after all of this. Remember it took many, many years for even vegetation to begin to take hold. It was covered with ash and all the rest of it, and a lot of this they have found on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, by the way. In other words, at one point the bed of the ocean had to be above water because of the substance left there. It could not have gotten there when it was under water. “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.”

This is put as a commandment, but it's really the result of what's happened. The commandment in the beginning was to have dominion over all of this, to protect and love it, and all the rest. But here, this is what has happened now—the fear of the animal kingdom, all the kingdoms, of man himself. Why would that be? Aside from the vibrational influence, it is all man had to eat for awhile: “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.” It's the condition that was present. So you have now at this point reference to what has been called the caveman state. That wasn't his original condition. He lowered himself to that state. It's right here in sequence. So the fear of man came upon the animal kingdom; a natural result, to say nothing of the state of man's consciousness anyway.

And then: “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.” A rainbow, and again, here is a condition on the face of the earth where now a rainbow was possible; it wouldn't have been possible before. Here is a new state, here is another condition present.

“And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.” Here is a symbol of something—in the outer form of a rainbow you have conditions where life could continue on earth; not the way it was created in the first place perhaps, but here it is. The Lord can do wonderful things, and He’ll do anything, if He’s allowed. “And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.”

Now the Tenth Chapter is unique; it is a remarkable record of names; a succession of names. But this is a remarkable Chapter to have come down to us, so ancient a document in such accuracy, coming from Noah and his sons: Gomer, and Magog, these are of Japheth, Madai, and Javan. And it's interesting when you trace back some of these names: Gomer, here, is a progenitor of the ancient Sumerians from whom are descended the Celtic family, because all of these, remember, typify some element or aspect or segment of humanity. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-twelve-segments-of-mankind.html] From Magog are descended the Cythians or Tartars, whose descendants predominate in modern Russia. And then you have the Medes and the Greeks and all the rest coming—so it's interesting.

There are a few names worth looking at: “the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim.” That name, Mizraim, is the first word for Egypt—that's the most original name for Egypt. And in the middle of it you'll find ra, which is the Egyptian name for God. Ra. And you have Eber in there. “Unto Shem… the father of all the children of Eber”—which could possibly be the origin of Hebrew, who was descended from Shem. And “unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.” The earth was divided, and there are many ways of looking at this. The earth was almost divided literally—the monstrous crack, fissure, during one of these catastrophes—there is a ring right around its middle, a very deep fissure. There is another one right through the Jordan River, and comes down into Egypt, a monstrous cleft.

“And their dwelling was from Mesha,” and so on. “These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.” It's easy to remember in the geneology that the line of man comes down through—not Cain or Abel, but Seth, from Adam. It is Seth, remember, and from Noah, it's Shem. This is all you need to know, that this is the way the story comes down through the Bible. Of course there were others through the other sons but the story in the Bible comes through this branch.

The Eleventh Chapter now. “…the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.” The land of Shinar—the Biblical name for Sumeria, or Sumer. And even though Egypt is very ancient, and actually it continues the history from Atlantis in symbolic form, here is where the history of man as we know it really begins. And here we have it in the Bible, beginning after the Flood. And after, however many millenia—it's vague; they keep finding more remnants, and make it go back a little farther; but there was a period of four or five thousand years, variable—between the Flood and the time history begins as we know it, called the caveman stage. Man came up out of that and now we find quite an advanced civilization here, at the time of Abraham. But here we're talking about the tower of Babel, which is showing that man built a civilization along the lines that he had before the Flood—not much different—the same old thing.

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