Bible Study, Part 5

Creation of Light (אוֹר)
By Gustave Doré

Genesis, Chapter 5 |
Sunday – July 19, 2026

The Bible constitutes in and of itself a revealed source, in accordance with the views of most scholars, and in the Western world in particular, this source is believed to be paramount in the course of the development of the history of that part of the world, and this is surely the case, although I should add that many of the Pagan traditions have certainly served an important role both as sources of revelation and as inhibitors of the deviation. Whatever your relationship to the Bible and more specifically Christianity is, you would be remiss if you failed to at least give this document some consideration, even if you are a self-proclaimed Pagan and/or spiritualist, because more likely than not your exoteric relationship with your faith—or perhaps more accurately (?) your supposed "faith"—has been more decided and affected by the Bible than by whatever anchor you believe your totemism to be in your life; and besides, the sources of Paganism have been lost to you and to the modern world at large, which means that you are now hopefully encouraged to reconsider your stance, read "Sorcery & Mysticism". It is not enlightened, truly enlightened, to walk around weary and in continual stride with the world and with the course of humanity, unless you are capable of holding on to real principles anchored in true knowledge; your wayward trailing back and forth will only result in you losing yourself in the confusion of the deviation, which is really the point that I am trying to make here: your so-called "alternative belief" system—based entirely in personal preferences—is really tantamount with the pseudoscience of psychoanalysis.

    This is the 5th post in this "Bible Study series", and as usual I need to remind you that you should read each preceding part before you read this part. You can find each part of this series by clicking on their numbers following this sentence (the colon): 1, 2, 3, and 4, again in chronological order. If you have read each part of this series already then you may continue with this part; you may also read this part without having read any of the previous parts, but in that case I must warn you again that doing so will be quite inadequate as this is a series and each part constitutes a chain that rests upon the coöperation of each link; if you are only privy to one link in this chain, then you will not be able to engage with the whole chain in a meaningful way. I also encourage you to read each chapter of the Bible before you read this series.

    The Bible that I am relying on in this series is still the Catholic New Revised Standard (NRSV-CE), as I have mentioned in each post so far, and if you are relying on a different publication of the Bible, you must be aware of the subtle differences between your version and the NRSV-CE, and this means that it is also your responsibility to follow along each verse of each chapter of the Bible that pertains to this post, chapter 6. I am, as I have also mentioned in previous posts, relying on several other publications of the Bible, but they are auxiliaries rather than my main source, and there are, again, some important differences between these different publications of the Bible. Now, I have provided a link to the NRSV-CE version of the Bible in order that you should be enabled to follow along more accurately; again you may or may not choose to follow that version of the Bible. I should also, in light of all this, make a very quick comment about the Protestantism: the reason why I seldom rely on Protestant publications of the Bible is because most Protestant denominations are much too liberal and blasé about each verse, each syllable, and even each word that they put into the Bible, read "Notes on Reading"; I also find that most Protestant denominations are much too inconsistent when it comes to doctrine derived from the Bible, precisely because they tend to be so liberal about both their interpretations of the Bible and about what they actually put into the Bible; you must understand that it is not my meaning to commit blasphemy with this series, read "The Hubris of the Modern Man".

    From time to time I am going to quote certain important passages from Chapter 5 and when doing so I may find it necessary to either exclude certain verses and passages in the interest of saving time and space and this will be indicated by three dots inside two brackets ([...]), again indicating that there are more verses in some passage being quoted but those particular verses are being excluded, either before or after the quotation, that is the verses that I am quoting may be preceded by or continued by verses that have not been included in the quotation; again these are rules that I have mentioned in each of these posts so far. Since this is the Old Testament, known as the Tanakh (תָּנָ״ךְ) in Hebrew, I have a rule of substituting the title of God (English) in each quotation with the name of Yahweh (יַהְוֶה), read "Proof of the Name of Yahweh", in order to keep true to the heavenly covenant between Yahweh and the nation of Israel, again something that I keep reiterating in each of these posts, but I find it important to keep mentioning this, since I keep receiving complaint on the email address attached to this page. Now, I should also mention that I indicate the substitution of God to Yahweh with the name Yahweh inside two brackets, [text]. My rule for the New Testament on the other hand is generally to refer to God or the Lord as simply God or the Lord, as God in the New Testament, in full accordance with Christian theology, is addressing all of humanity (universalism); now, you may still prefer to refer to God as Yahweh when considering the New Testament and that would indeed be your choice to make, but I find these distinctions important for theological reasons, and you should read my posts about that if you wish to find out more details, read as well "Yahweh-Elohim".

    Again, before we can proceed with the study at hand: if you have complaints about anything that I have written and asserted, then you are free to post them in the comment section below this post. I have received a few complaints so far on the official email attached to this page (etherealinsight@protonmail.com), but my policy is to only handle complaints in the comment section, as I have largely reserved other channels of communication for discussions of a more private nature, such as readers sending forward letters containing privileged information, etc. What this means is that I am unlikely to respond to an email complaint as I simply do not have time to handle them, nor do I have time to connect each complaint to each relevant post; simply using the comment section is the best and most straightforward option. This is not a hard rule, but it is a recommendation if you actually want me to respond; I also call on you to refrain from using offensive words in your comments. I should also mention that it is my intention of creating a separate page that will take care of all of the possible confusions and other important information to be considered in this study; that page is still not finished, and when it is finished I will simply link each post to that page in order that can skip having to reiterate all of this information in each of these posts.

Adam’s Descendants to Noah and His Sons
Genesis 5:1 – 33:

This is the list of the descendants of Adam. When [Yahweh] created [man]kind,* he made them in the likeness of [Yahweh]. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them '[man]kind' when they were created.

Chapter 5 of Genesis provides a list of the descendants of Adam (אָדָם), describing how long they lived and that Adman as well as each of his descendants had at least one son with a certain name; the other children and descendants of Adam shall remain nameless for good reasons. That is to say: this chapter provides only one named descendant of Adam per verse. Now, you may question the, by modern standards, extremely long lifespans of Adam and all of his descendants: "Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years; and he died" — Verse 2; but this is indeed no strange thing as this long lifespans must be understood from the point of view of the pre-flood world, something that I will cover at a later time in this series. But apart from the pre-flood world, one must understand the extreme lifespan of Adam and his immediate descendants as a sign that they were simply less diseases: indeed, Adam and his children were closer to perfection, closer to the primordial body, and thus they could live longer because they where closer to perfection and to God (Yahweh), really Adam was indeed created in the image of God, read part 1, and his children were created in the image of Adam and there children were created in the image of their named father etc,. You see, the Bible makes it perfectly clear to us as well, that the world and the prodigy of God and of man tends in a downward and step-wise manner and that for each subsequent generation following Adam and Eve, more and more disease and conflict, schism, was introduced, and thus the original sin was and is indeed still festering within all of us, and as a result of our ever diminished connection with God, we must suffer and we must die earlier and earlier.

    This is a Biblical proof of the assertion that things tend,† as stated just above, in a downward manner, and a good analogy would be how a cancer tumor grows out of the primordial cell before it is allowed and enabled to ravage the body. But the human body should be enough when we consider the words of Yahweh, for the human body grows weaker and older by the passing of time; how can any man manage to convince himself of the lie that there is somehow such a thing as progress? Is the Bible not proof enough of the history of deceit and of schism? Also, it becomes clearer yet when we consider why this is, why it is that modern humans live much shorter lifespans, because in accordance with theology, Yahweh extends his protection, Genesis 4:15, to those men who are wandering the Earth without aim and in sin, but Yahweh may also revoke that protection as seen later in the book of Genesis with the example of Sodom and Gomorrah (סְדוֹם עֲמוֹרָה), and perhaps more so seen today in the example of global warming and climate change.‡ Of course, the hand of Yahweh (the hand of God) is something that is demonstrated throughout the Bible but underscored in verses 22 — 24: "Enoch walked with [Yahweh] after the birth of Methuselah three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years. Enoch walked with [Yahweh]; then he was no more, because [Yahweh] took him.", this is therefore to say that indeed you may walk with God, but God may still decided your faith to be cut short in the corporeal realm, and further this goes both ways: it is the case that many men are walking with God yet their lifespan is cut short, while many men are walking in opposition with God yet their lifespans remain long, but let Cains' mark stand as a testimony to the human condition, and the uncertainty of this condition, for you may choose to lead a life of sin, deceit, and envy, or you may choose to lead a life of unyielding deference to the judgment of Yahweh, but in the end you are destined to fall in this domain, and this regardless of your days spend in this world, for the sin has infected you and every facet of this world, and even in purity your mind will remain fundamentally disoriented in the world as the  great crack in the wall continues to grow.

    Now, allow me to turn our attention away from the genealogy of deceit to that of Noah:

When Lamech had lived one hundred eighty-two years, he became the father of a son; he named him Noah, saying, 'Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands.' Lamech lived after the birth of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years; and he died.

Noah is going to become more relevant later in this study and I do not want to carry us too far afield, but I should mention that Noah is one of the most important patriarchs in the Bible,§ truly representing the junction between the old world and the new world, the pre-flood world and the emerging world. Really, one would be prudent in thinking of Noah as a kind of bridge between the old generation and the new generation, the old day and the new day, the first Sunday and the new Monday, a recurring theme in the Bible and something that also points us towards the cyclical nature of the world and of the world as described in the Bible and in the story of the creation (Genesis) more specifically, which is why it is the case that the Bible is a revealed source. Again, the story of Noah will become more apparent later in this study, but you should take note of Noah already. I should also add that the theme of the old day and the new day in the Bible makes it so that it must be necessary for some principles to proceed from the old, which is why each subsequent generation from Adam and onward lost some of the light; some part of the vitality and the strength inherent in the primordial body must be replaced by its negative introduced by the serpent in the original sin, and so, as Yahweh ordained, death became an inescapable part of life – the shadow became and ever present duality with light, even if these principles are inferior to their primordial principles, for everything must proceed from the one, and the one is the all, potential: "but [Yahweh] said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.'" — Genesis 3:3.

    You have reached the end of this part of the Bible, or rather my examination of the Bible. For more on this series, follow the label "Bible Study series". If you are interested in me, read my "About me page" and my "Who Am I" post.

 

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – July 19, 2026.

Footnote(s):

* Note that I have substituted the word human- in "humankind" with man-, and that I have indicated this by using two brackets, something that I did not mention above.

† Understand that Biblical proof is something quite different from proof in the sense of the "reasoned" modality, and here in order for you to actually see the proof you must ascend the corporeal world.

‡ Climate change happens as well throughout the Bible and this fact is actually interesting because of how little most moderns care to take it into account when they lament the challenges of an ever adversely changing climate.

§ Now, some scholars may argue that indeed Noah must be seen as a prophet, but Noah's status as a prophet or not is disputed and would also carry this study too far afield, which is why I prefer to refer to him (Noah) as a patriarch.