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What Does Noah Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
What does Noah mean in the Bible?
Noah: the part of the mind that has turned from fear to love and so is seen whole, the awakened self that remains innocent while the rest still dreams of ruin.
Christian Psychology lens · Genesis 6:8
Where Noah appears in the Bible
Genesis 9:20
Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.
1 Chronicles 1:4
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
1 Peter 3:20
who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
Noah through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Genesis 5:29
Christian Psychology
A weary mind, laboring under a guilt it feels laid upon the whole world, longs for comfort and rightly senses that comfort is coming. The heaviness in its work is the weight of condemnation it has spread across everything, and it aches for the rest that only release can bring.
The comforter it awaits is not a person who will change its circumstances but the shift in perception that lifts the sentence from the ground. When a mind stops seeing the world as cursed, the toil eases, because the burden was never in the labor itself but in the guilt the mind carried into it.
- Noah: the coming comfort within the mind, the gentle correction that lifts the weight of guilt from all a mind sees and does.
- Ground: the field of the mind's own effort, felt as cursed only because the mind has laid its condemnation upon it.
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Esoteric · Genesis 9:20
Esoteric
Noah is the state of rest and inner refuge reached after the flood of the lower nature has spent itself, the head and mind come to quiet. To become a husbandman is for that settled self to begin cultivating within, and the vineyard he plants is the right hemisphere of the brain, the higher side where the wine of spirit is grown.
The drunkenness that soon follows is intoxication by that spirit, the awakened higher consciousness overtaking the man. What religion reads as a hero's shameful lapse is the settled inner self planting the luminous side of the brain and being overcome by the very spirit it raised.
- Noah: the state of rest and inner refuge after the flood of the lower nature
- Vineyard: the right hemisphere of the brain, the higher side where the wine of spirit is grown
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What Noah means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisTen generations Adam to Noah: Ten generations mark completeness. One whole age of humanity runs its course before the flood.Genesis 5:1-17
- PsychoanalysisNoah, the righteous one: Noah alone remains upright. Jung stressed that the individual, not the mass, carries consciousness in a collective crisis.Genesis 6:8-12
- PsychoanalysisNoah 'walked with God': Like Enoch, Noah keeps an ongoing relationship with God. This relationship is what allows him to hear the warning.Genesis 6:8-12
- Clinical PsychologyNoah (verse 8): the good man who rides out chaos without giving up his morals.Genesis 6:8-12
- Clinical PsychologyNoah (verse 8): an early sketch of the savior who carries everyone through.Genesis 6:8-12
- Clinical PsychologyNoah (verse 9): the true ancestor of humanity, the kind of person we come from.Genesis 6:8-12
Commentaries on Noah
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Noah
repose; consolation
Fillmore, Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (1931) · Noah
rest; calm; quiet; peace ; tranquillity; equilibrium
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