Science Rendition

The equilibrating power of Nature is guided to prepare a shelter, a refuge for the creative, generative power of Nature fashioned out of the ethereal, dynamic preservative, sustentive power of Nature by compressing it and making room for the generative power to unfold and proliferate.

KJV: Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Key Words: THBH^⁠ ETZ GPHR THBH BKPHR BKPHR

TH-B-H -- ‘shelter, refuge; incubator, womb for creative desire’

While the various translations see only the material form of the concept of thebah, that of a vessel, in terms of a physical or even figurative ‘boat’ or ‘ship’, the term is a more complex one, with various and subtle meanings. It has most generally and significantly the meaning of a vessel in the sense of a refuge or shelter for life or Creation itself.

It appears to be the Samaritan translator who, rendering this word by, … a vessel, was the first to give rise to all the absurd ideas that this error has brought forth. Never has the Hebrew word תבה signified a vessel, in the sense of a ship, as it has since been understood; but a vessel in the sense of a thing destined to contain and to preserve another. This word, which is found in all the ancient mythologies, merits particular attention. It has so many significations that it is difficult to assign a definite one. It is, on the one hand, the symbolic name given by the Egyptians to their sacred city, Theba, considered as the shelter, the refuge, the abode of the gods; that famous city whose name transported into Greece to a straggling village of Beotia, [Thebes] has sufficed to immortalize it. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 191)

The various roots that make up the word have the sense of the generative power, of fructification, of will forces, of love and desire forces that propel us forward.

It is first its analogue אב, developing the general idea of fructification, of generation, of paternity; then, it is that of the will, in אנה ; that of love, in אהב…(The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 191-192)

In essence, the ark is that power of creation operating via desire, the very essence of Creation and of the Creator.

..finally, without seeking to link with this root any other signs than the one which enters into the composition of the word תבח, it is the action of being moved in oneself, of returning, of retiring into, of withdrawing to oneself through desire, in the three verbs תוב, תובב, and תאוב : it is even the name of the Universe, in the compound תבל. One cannot see in all this, either the coffer of the Hellenists, or the chest of the Latin translator, “arca.” (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 192).

Thus, the refuge, or ‘ark’, is a critical aspect of the ‘equilibrium of nature’, NCH (Noah), being a capacity for the extraction of all the life principles contained within nature, and their liberation according to the profound desire of the Divine Mind, a desire to bring about a transformation within Creation for the greater unfolding and evolution of that unit of human consciousness, containing within the very power of emergent evolution, named ADM.

E-TZ G-PH-R – ‘etheric, dynamic sustentive power’

If the ‘ark’ is not a boat, but a vessel of the Divine Mind to preserve the creative power of ADM as it has emanated, in this case NCH (‘Noah’) or the state of equilibrium of natural forces, then it was not to be made of ‘gopher wood’ or any other kind of wood. Then of what was it (and is it) constituted?

First, the dual term here involves the letter-symbol complex previously translated as ‘tree’ in Genesis (ETZ), and the letter-symbol complex not understood (GPHR) and simply transliterated as ‘gopher’. There are many instances where the translators have ignored or transliterated words they could not comprehend, as their materialistic state of mind veiled the deeper meaning from them. Their failure to comprehend and the resulting obfuscation become our confusion and obscurity.

ETZ has the general meaning of substance, and then of a plant-like, that is, ethereal nature, involving dynamic, living functions, not any kind of materiality. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 42 and also p. 192-193)

As for the type of substance, it is one that serves to conserve and protect, in this case the forces of nature, of life.

GPHR contains the root GPH, which develops all ideas of conservation, protection, and AR, which has the meaning of power and motion, which combined provide the symbol of the elementary principle of existence, of nature in its strong, generative sense. From this root comes the term for light, fluid, heat. It is also the root for the term ‘earth’ – ARTZ (eretz). (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 290)

AR is in polarity with ASH, which has the sense of every centre unfolding, giving us the dynamic polarity behind life of the radiating (centrifugal) and forming (centripetal) forces, represented by the symbol of the circle and straight line in geometry, or the idea of the core and the periphery.

B-K-PH-R – ‘densification of ethereal space’

This is the same term as the mysterious GPHR above, but with the organic sign G substituted by the assimilative sign K, giving to it a meaning of greater density. The sense here is of taking the ethereal or fluid-like substance (not matter) and compressing it to make room through densification, analogous to compressing a computer file by removing empty bytes/spaces.