Bible Study, Part 8
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| Creation of Light (אוֹר) By Gustave Doré |
Genesis, Chapter 8 |
Sunday – August 16, 2026
I am still in Türkiye while writing parts of this post, and if you are more interested in my journey in Türkiye, click this link. Because I am still stuck at my hotel awaiting my transfer to the airport and because I am bored, I have reached the conclusion that I may as well start writing this post. Now, this will be my 8th part of this series, which means that there are 7 previous parts that you should be reading before you read this part. I will list them and link to them in chronological order: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, and part 7. If you decide to not read the previous parts of this series, then you should know that you run the risk of some confusion, as each part in this series constitutes a link in a great chain, a great Biblical chain, and without having read each part you are missing out and you may end up becoming confused and even lead astray by your own confusions; this means that you are responsible for not reading each part in this series covering thus far Genesis (בְּרֵאשִׁית). Of course, the Bible is a work of many great authors, and it would be wrong of me to assume on any authors behalf some kind of special privilege, but it is also true, at least in accordance with the views of most Biblical scholars, that the first book of the Bible was not necessarily the first book ever written,* but this is a point for a different post and a different discussion entirety but still within the purview of the present study. Now, I should also say that most scholars agree that the Bible is a truly revealed source, but that a distinction between the Old Testament, the Tanakh (תָּנָ״ךְ) and the New Testament is called for, and this is why I still and why I will continue to refer to God and the Lord strictly as Yahweh (יהוה) whenever I refer to the Old Testament, but I will refer to God namely as God whenever I refer to the New Testament; for it must be made clear at the outset of this study that I the Old Testament refers mainly to the special covenant between Yahweh and the Jewish people, the Hebrews, and it would simply be incorrect from a doctrinal standpoint to refer to God as anything else than his name Yahweh whenever we should have occasion to study and write about the Old Testament,† and this is a covenant that should be respected, but I have referred to this fact multiple times prior in this study, but it appears that it must be repeated, until I have created a special page dedicated to these facts that must be declared.
Now, one could argue that it is unnecessary to keep repeating this and the many other things that I keep repeating in this study, but again since I have yet created a dedicated page where these matters can be discussed in greater detail, I have decided that it indeed is necessary to keep repeating these things. Another point that I should make is that indeed these posts have run rather long winded as of late, or really as of about two, three, and four weeks ago, and it is my intention to attempt to keep them down in length, and again this is why I have decided to create a dedicated page for all of these Biblical confusions that may or may not arise, but it is not my intention to attempt to engage in "open discourse"; if this is your wish then you may comment under each part of this series, but you are not necessarily likely to receive an answer, for it would wholly depend on the context of your question. I suppose that these are mostly editorial considerations, but that makes them no less important, read "Navigating the Informational Landscape", and no less prudent to this study; in fact, without good editorializing, this study would not be quite possible, or any study that should be taken seriously for that matter. I should add that my editorializing has nothing to do with that annoying term "political correctness", because I simply do not care what is correct in the political and sentimental sense, read "Sentimentalism" for more on that.
I should also, again, mention that I rely on a certain publication of the Bible, namely the Catholic New Revised Standard (NRSV-CE), and if you do not rely on this publication of the Bible then it is also your responsibility to follow along with each syllable of each verse of each chapter of the Bible in unity with the NRSV-CE. Again, there are subtle but important differences hidden in the choice of each word in each different publication of the Bible. I should state that there is no reason beyond doctrine in particular that I have chosen to rely on the NRSV-CE, and indeed there are many things that I find to be against doctrine in the NRSV-CE, such as referring to the Yahweh in the Old Testament as God and the Lord, which is why I am going to substitute "God" and "[the] Lord" with Yahweh whenever I should quote certain and relevant passages from the Bible, and I will indicate this by the usage of two brackets, [Yahweh]. I will also not necessarily include each verse in every relevant chapter of the Bible, and this I will indicate by the usage of three dots inside two brackets [...], indicating that there are missing gaps in the passage being considered; in this instance you must look up these verses yourself if you should be interested in the text. I am not doing this to hide, but rather to save time and space for more relevant matters; often these missing passages will include lists of lineages etc, but I have no hard rule in this regard.
Yet 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 again, 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, as I mentioned above.
✠ The Flood Subsides ✠
Genesis 8:1 – 5:
But [Yahweh] remembered Noah and all the wild animals and all the domestic animals that were with him in the ark. And [Yahweh] made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided; the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, and the waters gradually receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred fifty days the waters had abated; and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
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| The Great Goddess in Her Chamunda Form (चामुण्डा) |
Now, God rescued Noah and his ark, and this passage further reiterates Genesis 1:26, and that man should continue to hold dominion over all life on earth, in the corporeal realm: "...let [man] have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth...". Now, the question then, something that will be explored further later, is this: should not men in light of these passages be nothing but dwellers of the ground, creatures that wander the earth aimlessly, like the fate that befell the primeval ancestor of man, Cain, read "Genesis, chapter 4"?
Genesis 8:6 – 12:
At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. Then he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground; but the dove found no place to set its foot, and it returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark with him. He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark; and the dove came back to him in the evening, and there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. Then he waited another seven days, and sent out the dove; and it did not return to him any more.
The most significant portion of this passage is the again the fact that the doves returns again and again after seven days, afthe a complete weekly cycle, thus the dove would return to the ark and to Noah on every new Monday. It is also quite significant that the on in the last week the dove returned it returned in the evening, something that could be understood again as a separation between the old and the new, the old world and the new world, the world of desolation and destruction and the world of new dawns, for a new cycle, a new week will reinvigorate life anew and the world anew – again the Lord (Yahweh) may tarry, and in that event it should be useful to know that upon the completion of a weekly cycle there is always a new Monday. When we live on the edge of the day, we may allow ourselves to be weary. Of course, the sacerdotal number of 40 should also continue to be significant in most doctrines and indeed within the purview of what some people refer to as "Judeo-Christianity", which is a term that I refrain from using. The fact too, that the first animal that Noah sent out was the Raven could also be considered something significant, for it has been established in accordance with profane science that Ravens are quite intelligent, but that is a discussion outside the scope of this post and really and preferably this entire study. It should also be noted that during Biblical times, using birds, ravens and doves, was a perfectly legitimate way of communicating and receiving important information, and this practice existed all the way until about somewhere in the previous century.
Then there is the matter of the Near East, or rather the fact that this takes place in the Near East, at least this can be deduced from these passages, but that is also a point entirely separate from this study, and I can only point you toward the fact that certain things have devolved since the time of Noah, read "My Views on the Unity of the Source".
Genesis 8:13 – 19:
In the six hundred first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and saw that the face of the ground was drying. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. Then God said to Noah, 'Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.' So Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. And every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out of the ark by families.
In doctrine this passage may be one of the most significant and signal reasons for the family, read "Should You Create a Family", for it lays the foundation of the new Monday and of the new cycle, and from this point onwards in the world of the new cycle, the world of rebirth and of the living God, a point I shall return to below, these were the foundational generations of our world, the new world, and all of this happened in the "six hundred first year",‖ or rather on the new Monday in the 601st year; note that when I refer to the "New Monday", that I do not necessarily want to imply that this literally took place on a Monday, for while the Bible may be detailed, it is not detailed enough in this case. Another point that bears being repeated here is the leitmotif of the shadow of death that must exist with every living creature, for what sets Noah apart and every living creature brought into the ark is that for each and everyone of them they were very much alive because they could still see their shadows upon the dry land, something quite impossible on water, which means that the waters in this case separated them, Noah and his ark, from the world of destruction, fire and fury. This theme, this leitmotif, can also be noticed in the contrast of the story of Noah's ark: namely that this is a celebration of life and of the continuation of life, while also being a kind of requiem for the old world, seemingly a contradiction – until it becomes clear that these things are not mutually exclusive; indeed, the shadow depends on the light, the lesser principles cannot be without the greater principles, read "Qualification" and "Hierarchy".
✚ Yahweh's Promise to Noah ✚
Genesis 8:20 – 22:
Then Noah built an altar to [Yahweh], and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when [Yahweh] smelled the pleasing odor, [Yahweh] said in his heart, 'I will never again curse the ground because of [man]kind, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.'
Here again, we are forced to confront the good and the evil, the light and the shadow, the day and the night, glory and shame, and for all of the evil, all the shame, the darkness of a thousand nights, Noah burnt offerings on his altar to Yahweh, something that indeed did please him, and something that also humbled Noah in front of Yahweh, something that made it clear that men are governed by laws, read "The Problem of Secular Law", and that no such thing as life or freedom can be possible without law, the law that later descended down to Moses (מֹשֶׁה) on Mount Sinai, a matter that I shall deal with in the next book of the Bible, namely Exodus.
The cyclical nature of the world and of the world unfolded must persist, for this was the command of Yahweh, and so the cycles will persist as long as the earth endures, as long as life endures, as long as man endures, for without man there can be no other life on the planet. This is why men must hold dominion over the earth, but as this dominion is being slowly corrupted and distorted this covenant may no longer hold true, read "My Views on Disease and Decay". These things are significant and they all depend on that point, on that history: what are men supposed to do without the animal kingdom and without the harvest, without the seasons and the cycles? You see, these things are all interconnected and today they are being profoundly disrupted in the name of profit and usery, corruption and deceit. And so, the lineage of corruption, the genealogy of deceit, continues, for the original sin endures, and men of the modern day are distant from the Creator – Yahweh-Elohim. O' Lord!
Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – August 15, 2026.
Footnote(s)
* To mention a few sources I could perhaps point to the great Philon (פילון) himself. I should also admit that this point is still somewhat debated and disputed among scholars, but it is nonetheless the consensus among most scholars that the book of Job or genesis was written first.
† Again, this is a point of dispute and there is no space for me to further elaborate on this here. If you do seek more information on this, allow me to direct you to my post "Proof of the Name of Yahweh".
‡ Here we can also see a certain similarity with the Hindu conception of destruction, read "Destruction!", where the Goddess Kali (काली) in her most aggressive and fierce avatar (चामुण्डा) must be persuaded to cease with her destruction, read as well "Inner Fury!". See the referenced image above.
§ Again, the number seven as a sacerdotal number is quite significant and is integral to the Book of Genesis; no doubt we will return to the significance of the number seven later in this study. In the meantime I will direct you, again, to part 1 in this study.
‖ The six hundred first year is not significant in and of itself, but it should perhaps be noted that we are now dealing with matters on a rather granular and detailed level, and in this case the number 601 is a prime number: indivisible by every number lesser than itself except the number 1, indicating a new dawn, a new multiple, in both a numerical sense but also in a sacred sense.
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