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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