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it not seem more probable that the "light" that could be read "roof" may mean establish a vibration by which the light of God may pour, sheltering the people from harm? A light and a shelter. A door there was; that is, there was communication between the two forces for awhile, but the day came when the Lord Jehovah sealed them up, and pitched the door; that is, put a stop to all communication between the two peoples. Those in the care of Noah were informed that there was danger for them in the low-lying lands, and they kept inside their ark, or their place of refuge, their highland home.

If we read the account literally, we must take it that Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives cruelly left their children to drown, but if it means that Noah was to take the three classes of people that had listened to him and their schools of wisdom, or their religious work, to another land, then the difficulty clears up.

He is to take the three classes of people who are represented as sons, and also seven or the perfect number of all clean animals, or some of each species, so they may not become extinct, and two, the creative dual, of the unclean animals. All sorts of living things must he take the pains to hold up in his northern region, for some of them being native to the low-lying lands would not stay unless forcibly detained. So Noah, the Great Manu whose duty it is to care for the physical well being of the race, took all these people, all these animals and creeping things into his ark, or his high-lying land under the Pole Star, and there he kept them while the great continent of Atlantis sank, and the ark, the land at the north, rose upon the face of the waters. As the continent went down the other land rose still higher. Ararat means highlying land, or Holy ground, and the first thing Noah does is to build an altar, or establish a religion. The raven, the bird of illomen, is set loose and does not return, but the dove of peace returns and upon her second arrival carries an olive leaf, another symbol of the peace that is now established by the great cataclysm that has made all men brothers because of their common danger, and the great object lesson they have received of the danger that lies in rebellion against the powers of good.

Noah began his work of segregation in the fifth sub-race and is six hundred years old when the flood comes, or it is in the sixth sub-race that it comes.

Noah, upon establishing his religion, offers up burnt, or spiritual, offerings of all the things of the earth. He did not kill to do this; killing animals came long afterward, when men forgot the symbolic language and began to read these things literally.

God, in return, blesses Noah and tells him that man shall subdue all things, that every moving thing shall be meat, or shall supply your necessities, not to eat, because in the next clause of the same sentence we read, "the green herb have I given you all. But flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof shall ye not eat. Gen. IX, 3 and 4.

Then the covenant is entered into by God (symbolically, of course) that the race shall not be again destroyed by water. The Occultists tell us that water and fire take turns in bringing about the great race clean-ups and that the next will be by fire.

With the descendants of the three sons we are told the whole earth overspread, Shem, in one sense the Christ of the race, in another sense the most spiritual of the people, and his wife, or their inner school of Mysteries; Japheth, the normal, welldeveloped people of the race, the Material Plane, intellectual class of people who also had a wife or Mystery work that was not so advanced as that of Shem, for the latter seem to have started the priesthood of the race. Ham also had a wife or something that represents to the lower class of humanity an inner or esoteric work. All of the ancient religions had this as a part of the regular work, although it was according to the plane of the people how advanced the work would be. Ham means hot, or lustful, and the Hindoo scriptures say that man turned black because of sin. Evidently Ham was the remnant of the ancient races of different kinds that were not as evolved as the race called Japheth. They have no spiritual understanding, to speak of, for they laugh at Noah when he is presented to their eyes in spiritual ecstasy (or drunkenness).

Chapter IX, 20 of Genesis begins an allegory that brings another conception of Noah, a deeper and more mysterious meaning. Here it is not the man Noah that is represented in one sense of the allegory, and in another sense it is. Noah began to raise grapes, the fruit of the Spirit, and became drunken in his tabernacle, and was uncovered, or naked. Ham saw and told his brothers, looked unabashed by the sight because of lack of finer feelings.

In one sense the Great Hierophant, intent on spiritual things, in spiritual ecstasy, naked of possessions, is supplied by Shem the priesthood, and Japheth the people, walking backward, or unostentatiously, while the lower class people deride; but the other meaning shows another conception.

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In the light of H. P. B., who defines Noah in one sense as the "seed of the fifth root race, the seed Manu, or man; Webster says: "The seed is the embryo and its envelope, or envelopes, that from which the plant grows. So Noah, the Great Guardian of the race, is cultivating spirituality in the race (growing vineyards), and the seed Manu is naked in its tabernacle, the germ of the new race is not yet clothed about with the vehicles that it is to use, but Shem cultivates the Soul, or mental body, and Japheth furnishes the astral and physical body without seeing what they are doing (going backward). The physical is God's back. Ham has no conception of what is going on. The symbolic curse is simply a prophecy:

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66 Cursed, "or tied by the karma of his lack of development, will he be. "A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren, while "Blessed be IHVH the God of Shem" (the God within. which is building up the soul of Shem).

"Canaan" (or Ham) "shall be their servant."

"God enlarge Japheth and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,' that is, come into the spiritual consciousness of Shem.

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And let Canaan, in one sense the lower nature, be servant of both of the higher planes of development.

And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years, or he kept in physical touch with the race three and one-half sub-races. The flood took place in the sixth sub-race and he stayed with them through the sixth, seventh, and the first of the fifth root race, until half of the second sub-race had passed, when he withdraws for a time from their physical sight.

Let us quote from "The Pedigree of Man," page 138: "About a million years ago Vaivasvata Manu chose out of the fifth Atlantean sub-race the Semitic, the seeds of the fifth race, and led them to the Imperishable Sacred Land. For ages he labors shaping the nucleus of future humanity. There the fifth sense is added and man is shaped as we know him. Thither he guides for rebirth the Asuras, to nobler ends. Thither he calls the

brightest intelligences, the purest characters, to take birth in the forms he is evolving. When he had established the type of his race, he led them southward to Central Asia, and there another age-long halt was made 'from which in the course of ages several Of these emigrations we will speak in another

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CHAPTER VII.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TWO COVENANTS
OF ABRAHAM.

Let us look at the two covenants of Abram and see what we find in the symbolic reading. Remember we do not for one moment assume that Abram was not a real personage, for we know that he was, and believe that in him we identify the Master Moro that to the Theosophist means so much. But the allegories have spiritual meanings that bring out definite stages in the development of the race as well as the development of the individual of whom it was primarily written.

Noah (if we are right), being the great seed Manu of the fifth root race, and Abraham the coming Manu of the sixth root race, serving under his great leader, then the stories of Abram stand out with startling clearness.

The reader will remember that Abram has just returned from rescuing Lot from his captivity in the mountain. Undoubtedly from the meaning of the names used, this was a great religious struggle, and Lot had gone into retirement upon spiritual heights. The word is brought to Abram as he is dwelling with the "oaks,' or strong teachers of "Mamre.” Now note, he takes 318 men of his household,-318 is the number of Jesus, and indicates purification, he takes as his allies Mamre (manly), Eschol (courage), Aner (youth). So he takes purity (318), manliness, courage and youth, and he divides his forces at night, or leaves his physical body and goes out in his astral body to Lot to plead for his return to the lower plane people. All through the ages we see the Manu in his love for the common people pleading for the great spiritual leaders not to hide themselves in monasteries, but to stay among the people for teachers. He prevails and brings Lot back to the cities. When the king of Sodom, or the Physical Plane, tries to reward him he uses a figure of speech that Roberts tells us is still

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