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and Spain to the Holy Land, turning from nomadic life to settlement, from
19,000 to 11,000 B.C., the dawn of the chalcolithic era. “Noah began to be a
farmer.” (Genesis 9:20) Perhaps the recently found fantastic megaliths, Gobekli
Tepe6 in Turkey, near Ararat meaning “light” (Arcana Coelestia 850), looking
a lot like a much more refined Stonehenge (Britain, ca. 2,000 B.C.), but dating
all the way back to 13,000 B.C., could signal where Noah finally “came out of
the Ark.”
I take this monument to be the First Ancient Church announcing its
arrival, commemorating all
those animals in the “ark” – the
structure and all the contents
of the modern mind – by many
finely carved animals all over
that megalith structure. Cave art
had come home to roost.
The Codex of Enoch, the
Word during the flood, had done
its work. Now the next grand
Word began to be composed:
The Ancient Word.7 The main
objective was first to recapture everything that had just happened, from
creation down to that point in time. The first 11 chapters of Genesis constitute
that recapture.
The composition of the Ancient Word, dating somewhere from 11,000 to
7,000 B.C., weaves an intricately detailed account of everything that happened
since creation: the first humans with a human soul and body, i.e. “heaven
and earth in the beginning,” their progress to fully mature spiritual, human
beings, day one through six, nay heavenly humans; day seven capped by the
“new or second creation” of Adam, and his intelligence, Eden. Then of the
decline, turning aside God to each other, a Divine concession – Chaya or Eve.
The further turning away from God, eating of the forbidden tree. And further
down, Cain slaying Abel, down to the flood itself.
Also, post-deluge, they included the first problem encountered after
the flood, over the issue of outer worship replacing inner, by reasoning and
persuasions: the tower of Babel, and Nimrod who built it. (Arcana Coelestia
1283-1299) We still have to watch out for powerful persuasions and idolatry.
A copy of that Ancient Word was perhaps in Moses’ baggage when they
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See New Philosophy, From Enoch’s Codex to the Ancient Word, 1976, April, p. 385-398.
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