overcomes
thoughts and tendencies leading to dissolution.
The vital life principle constantly inspires
us from within to keep on living. This
thought of youth was in Lamech, the father
of Noah, and it found expression in Noah.
The strength and youth symbolized by the
Lamech descended from Adam through Cain
is carnal and physical. The Lamech descended
from Adam through Seth, which God sent
to replace Abel, represents a higher,
a more spiritual understanding.
Lamech
signifies the principle of life, which
not only tends to keep one alive in the
body but also brings about the building
of a new body and re-entrance into manifest
existence for each one who lets go of
his consciousness of life in the body
for a time.
The
name Noah means "rest," "calm,"
"peace." Noah was the son of
Lamech, the "strong young man."
It is in the strength of our youth that
we idealize the material and attach our
spiritual enthusiasm to the things of
sense. But the law of reaction sets in:
Noah (rest) finds "favor in the eyes
of Jehovah." If in the strength of
your youth you have indulged in the things
of sense, the law of spiritual equilibrium
(the Lord, Jehovah) is now working itself
out in a "rest" and you may
have bodily ills. Thus your race of wicked
thoughts is drowned and your earth cleansed.
Noah can also denote the obedience through
which seed for a new state of consciousness
is saved. Again Noah represents the consciousness
at rest in God (Gen. 6:9). In Genesis
6:10 the sons of Noah represent typical
states of mind. Shem ("renowned")
represents the spiritual; Ham ("warm")
represents the physical mind, and Japheth
("extended") represents the
intellect or reason.
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