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     :    of years – “forty days” – the physiognomy and mentality of people changed: their breathing changed from inner to outward breathing, their voice became openly vocal, hearing changed with all sounds now entering the outer ear and the tympanum, relegating inner hearing through the Eustachian tube. (Arcana Coelestia 1118-1120) The diaphragm could now control the lungs in a new motion for the lungs to speak out loud; and the forebrain, or cerebrum, expanded, together with their higher Cro-Magnon-looking skulls, to incorporate a “new will” or conscience – the “window” in the ark, (Ibid. 652) as well as new facial control. This growth took place by instruction through the Word of Enoch: a document consisting of “the internal sense itself…the Word.” (Ibid. 3432:2) The window in the ark means their resulting conscience and a new mode of perception. All “clean animals and birds” mean how their useful affections and thoughts were formed in an orderly manner. The unclean animals below the tarred deck were all their perished or perverted loves and desires of the old will, now sealed off as it is even with us today – the final death of the former kind of perception. The door opening wide on the side, is external hearing (Ibid. 651), through the eardrum. Although it caused so much change, it was of relatively little use to Noah himself, but was mainly “furnished for the churches yet to come” (Apocalypse Explained 728), i.e. when Noah and his family came out of the ark. But during the flood, they fluctuated mightily between falsities of the former state – the raven flying around, and the innocence of their new will, the dove. Finally, the change was complete: the dove found dry ground. (Arcana Coelestia 866-870) Success at last. It could have taken from 35,000 B.C. down to 13,000 B.C. to complete the transition. That’s when “Noah came out of the ark” (Genesis 8.18) “...and died.” (Ibid. 9.29). The remnant of the Most Ancient Church came to an end. What of Shem, Ha