Bible Study, Part 11
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| Creation of Light (אוֹר) By Gustave Doré |
Genesis, Chapter 11 |
Sunday – September 6, 2026
September is here, which means that the fall is just around the corner, and I must say that from my position in the world, the fall came early this year, which may or may not be a shame, depending of course on your perspective. I have had some personal issues this summer, read "Medical Emergency Updates", and as a result I am having some difficulties still, read as well "Personal Disintegration". I am a strong person and there is no reason to worry for me, but even I face major difficulties sometimes, and at the present moment I am facing a "perfect storm" in many ways, really a confluence of adverse factors outside my own control. None of this means that I will be unable to continue this "Bible Study series", but it does mean that I may have to slow down. If indeed I am forced to slow down this series, I will announce this on my "INFO page"; at the moment I have no plans to slow anything down, but as it happens I may find it necessary to skip a week or two, that is I may find it necessary to simply not update this series every week. My goal is to update this series every week, but for personal reasons, read my "Personal Notes series", I may be unable to keep up the current pace. Again, only time can tell.
That stated and now out of the way, let us proceed with this the 11th post in this series. Because there are 10 previous parts nad because the number of parts in this series keeps growing, at this time by one new post/part a week, I have decided that I will no longer list each previous part; if you are interested in reading the previous parts in chronological order, which I recommend, you will have to look that up yourself. I will however list the first part of this series and the previous part of this series here (part 1) and here (part 10). Again, I will recommend that you read each previous part of this series before you read this part, because the Bible is written in a certain order, and thus far it does make sense to read the Bible in chronological order. Now, there are certain persons who would claim that you should read the Bible in a different order, but I am not interested in engaging in any such arguments here; if you do not wish to adhere to this order, then you are on your own and you may be likely to find that you will be somewhat confused by the Bible and indeed this series if you simply decide to skip over previous parts. Granted, there are many portions of the BIble, especially Genesis (בְּרֵאשִׁית), that tends to be of less relevance from a theological and doctrinal point of view, such as passages that list genealogies etc,. From the point of view of gaining important information and insight, I regard these passages from the Bible to be of less importance; this is not to say of no importance but of less importance, especially since genealogies tend to be the concern of people who dwell close to the ground, read "The Census". For the most part, these passages can be glossed over if one is in a hurry, not that one should read scripture in a hurry, read "Notes on Reading".
Now, as I usually do, I will list some rules and practices that I engage in while writing these posts, but before I do that I should once again make it clear that these posts are still too long winded and that I need to cut them down, primarily I do need to cut this part down, which I will do in the future, and that means that I am going to create a separate page where I will explain these things, but until that page has been finished I will continue to deal with these matters here.
As usual and when dealing with the Old Testament, the Tanakh (תָּנָ״ךְ), I will refer to God, the Lord, and the Creator, as Yahweh (יהוה), for I hold that the Old Testament represents a covenant between the Yahweh and the Jews, and therefore it should be more appropriate to refer to God as Yahweh in that context. Now, when I refer to the New Testament I do rely on the title God and sometimes the Lord or even the Creator, but for the purposes of this study it is certainly more accurate and preferable to refer to God as Yahweh.* I will state this though, if you consider the God of the entire Bible to be universal, then you may as well consider the laws pertaining to the Hebrews, the Jews, to apply universally as well, a position that would create certain uncomfortable problems for many, especially in the context of the New Testament, but again this is a point that is outside the scope of the present study. Thus far this study has relied entirely on a certain publication of the Bible, namely the Catholic New Revised Standard (NRSV-CE), which is why it is important that you should observe any deviations from this publication of the Bible, as other publications tend to carry certain, from the point of view of the NRSV-CE, mutations with them, mutations that tend to alter the meaning of each passage, even though this alteration may only be subtle and/or even superficial, read "Notes on Reading".†
I may also find it necessary, as I alluded to above and a point that I have made in each of these posts/parts, to cut out certain portions of the scripture when I quote them on this page, mostly because I find no need to comment on them and because they simply occupy to much space on each page, and if this happens I will indicate this by the usage of three dots inside two brackets, [...]. I will also substitute each part of each verse that contains references to Yahweh by using his New Testament titles such as God and the Lord; I will substitute these titles for the righteous name Yahweh, and this will also be indicated by me the usage of two brackets, [text], with the text containing the string Yahweh. While some persons may find the title Jehovah acceptable, I will never use Jehovah as a substitution for God or the Lord.
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 Tower of Babel ✠
Genesis 11:1 – 9:
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.' [Yahweh] came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. And [Yahweh] said, 'Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.' So [Yahweh] scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore it was called Babel, because there [Yahweh] confused the language of all the earth; and from there [Yahweh] scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
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| Tower of Babel (מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל) By Lucas van Valckenborch |
The points that I made about language above are also further reinforced in this passage, as it is the case that these first peoples of the earth were uniform; yes they may have begun in unity, but by this stage it is clear that they existed only in uniformity, which meant that they were missing out, as Yahweh explains: "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language;‡ and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them...". If one can control the mind through language, it is reasonable to assume that language and other aspects of the human conditions that are subject to qualified differentiation are of the most importance, especially as a function of time, yes, but also of decay and the inevitability of the fall of man. It would also be appropriate to use an analogy from profane science again—do remember that this is an analogy and that this is not to suggest equivalency—before a cell is ready to differentiate, it is called a stemcell, and all stem cells are uniform, and if these cells were to remain uniform and undifferentiated, they would cause illness and disease, something that would serve to counter the body. Well, it could be construed, by this analogy, that a utopia would have to exist outside the world, outside the possibility of manifestation, for everything inside such a closed system would fastly approach uniform homogeneity, pure potential stuck in one single undifferentiated moment in time, read "The End of History".
✚ Descendants of Shem ✚
Genesis 11:10 – 28:
These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood; and Shem lived after the birth of Arpachshad five hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.[...]
Since this passage mostly concerns the genealogy of Shem (שֵׁם), and because it is of little relevance for the purposes of this study I will not include the whole genealogy in the quotation; if you are interested in those details you will have to look them up on your own. I will say this though, tying this part into the previous: it would be prudent to conclude that man indeed has one common origin, the primordial body, and that one original form represented the first humanity, and this would indeed require us to consider how the different races came about, but such considerations are still outside the purview of this study.§
Of course, we are still only dealing with Genesis (בְּרֵאשִׁית), and so we are early in the Bible, and at this point we still have not left off from the first generations in the new world, the post flood world. Now, I cannot speak on behalf of these first generations, but from the point of view of the Bible, it is perfectly clear that these people were far healthier than subsequent generations, and I suppose as well that we can see that reign of cyclical providence within these people as well as within ourselves, for who are we compared to what, compared to the generations following Noah (נֹחַ), the great patriarch? At any rate this is the theory, the theory that people are using to explain these things, and just as well I suppose.
✙ Descendants of Terah ✙
Genesis 10:27 – 32:
Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Abram and Nahor took wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah. Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there. The days of Terah were two hundred five years; and Terah died in Haran.
Now, this is a significant part of the Bible that we may not miss out on, for we are just about to embark on the story of Abraham (אַבְרָהָם), although in these passages his name will still be Abram (אַבְרָם). Notice as well for the first times references to the land of Canaan (כְּנַעַן), and of course Ur (אוּר), Ur being located in modern day Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia). The story of Abram (later Abraham) will become more significant later, especially as we move deeper into Genesis, but for now you may attempt to prepare for the story of Abraham, short though it is, but short though Genesis is.
While this passage again is mostly listing descendants, it may still be important to keep these descendants in your mind in the future, nad it is also of great value to be able to announce that you know some of these people, again I have omitted some of them in this post, which is why you must look some of these people up on your own.
Still, in this generation of the post flood world, people are leading comparably long lifes, if they are compared with the average lifespan of moderns; these people are still closer to the truth, closer to the primeval form, even though they have now been scattered across the face of the earth, and again let us reiterate what was stated in the first paragraph: the Tower of Babylon should represent the catastrophe of utopia, the necessary convulsions involved before the resolution – the fact that hierarchies must exist for a reason and that order cannot be instilled without them.‖ All of these universal and ageless truths, wisdoms of as old as the world, they have always been here, yet modern man believes in his own ideals, he has been struck by hubris. Verily, this is what the story of the Tower of Babel must represent, especially in the commotion of the modern world.
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) – September 6, 2026.
Footnote(s)
* This continues to be a point that I return to in these posts, and as usual I will continue to direct you to these posts: "Yahweh Elohim" and "Proof of the Name of Yahweh", for more information. Again, this somewhat contentious point does not belong in this post.
† Here we can further reiterate the importance of language, what language can do and how it may be used to shape meaning and thus the future "progression" of the world. If you cannot control your own words, then you may not control your own thoughts. Really, this can certainly be used to promote dangerous agitations on a mass scale, and this has already happened, read "Politics & Ideology" and "Genesis, Chapter 4".
‡ Again, this point has been made many times elsewhere, read "Totalitarianism!", but it would do us all good if we allowed ourselves to always repeat this point: if you cannot control your mind, you may not be subject to your own will; and which case, you are now destined to be controlled by the whims of others, read as well "What are Demons?". There is indeed something quite absolutist and totalitarian about uniformity in form and language, and again this uniformity is actually quite the opposite of unity, read more here.
§ Again, this is a very contentious issue as well, and it is not my purpose to engage in the pseudoscience of race; this topic is quite frankly grounded in materialism. The people who engage in this dispute are all wrong, yet they tend to be able to correctly explain why their opponents are wrong. For more on this, I direct you to my posts: "The Great North", "Traditional Forms", and "Hyperborea". Again, the matter of the first man and his form is controversial and quite simply outrageous.
‖ Hierarchies are very much necessary, and this has always been so, for they are essentially reflections of divine and natural law, really they can also be conceived as startas surely, but another way of conceiving of them is as supernodes in a great network, each supernode representing certain tendencies, certain currents, and certain inclinations, read "Hierarchy" and "My Views on Hierarchies".
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