The KJV Bible

 

Genesis Chapter Seven

 

1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.

16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.

17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

 

 

Esoteric Interpretation & Commentary

 

The Hermetic Blueprint of Genesis: The Great Dissolution and the Hermetic Seal

"In Spiritual Alchemy, Genesis Chapter Seven represents the critical, transformative phase of Solutio (Dissolution). The great Flood is not a literal historical destruction, but a profound Esoteric Allegory for the necessary Psychic and Cosmic Purification of the Soul. When the material ego and lower intellect become too rigid, dense, and crystallized, they must be submerged and dissolved in the Universal Solvent. This ensures that the Pure Spiritual Essence—safely contained within the alchemical vessel of the Ark—can be Preserved, Purified, and eventually Reborn at a much Higher Vibrational Frequency."

 

 

Verses 1-4: The Balance of Natures and the Cycle of Transmutation - "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two..." 

Before the dissolution begins, the Internal Vessel must be Perfectly Balanced. The bringing of the animals into the Ark represents the Conscious Integration and Mastery of the Seeker’s own lower animalistic drives and elemental Forces. The distinction between "clean" (Higher, Refined Instincts) and "unclean" (base, unrefined instincts) shows that all aspects of the human psyche are preserved, but they are brought into strict numerical harmony. The introduction of the Forty-Day Cycle—Forty Days and Forty Nights of rain—is a Universally recognized Esoteric measurement representing a complete period of Spiritual Testing, Isolation, and Alchemical Transmutation.

 

 

Verses 5-16: The Descent into the Unconscious and the Hermetic Seal - "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life... the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up... and the Lord shut him in." 

The breaking open of the "fountains of the great deep" and the "windows of heaven" symbolizes a massive Influx of Spiritual and Subconscious Energy washing over the hardened physical plane. As the waters of dissolution begin to rise, a vital alchemical action occurs in verse 16: "and the Lord shut him in." This is the literal application of the Hermetic Seal. In Alchemy, the crucible or retort must be hermetically sealed so that no outside contaminants can enter, and none of the Volatile Internal Energies can escape during the intense phase of Transmutation. The Spiritual Mind (Noah) is completely isolated from the dying material world, secured by Divine Will.

 

 

Verses 17-24: Solutio and the Elevation of the Spiritual Consciousness - "And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth." 

As the chaotic waters of Solutio flood the earth, all "flesh that moved upon the earth" is destroyed. Esoterically, this is the total dissolution of the false, material ego and the washing away of all rigid earthly attachments. However, notice the action of the Ark: as the waters rise, the Ark is lifted up. The very Forces that destroy the lower, earth-bound nature serve to elevate the Protected Spiritual Consciousness. By the time the waters cover the "High Hills" and the "Mountains," the Spiritual Mind has Ascended completely above the highest peaks of material intellect and earthly pride, floating Peacefully in the void, waiting for the Active Principle of Creation to begin a new cycle.