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Genesis 6:16 · World English Bible

Genesis 6:16 Meaning You Shall Make a Roof

You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

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What does Genesis 6:16 mean?

The ark is the body built to carry consciousness safely through the flood of the lower emotions, and its window at the top is the opening in the crown through which light enters and the higher self looks out. The door set in the side is the entrance at the level of the heart, where what belongs inside is admitted and the animal natures are gathered in.

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The ark is the body built to carry consciousness safely through the flood of the lower emotions, and its window at the top is the opening in the crown through which light enters and the higher self looks out. The door set in the side is the entrance at the level of the heart, where what belongs inside is admitted and the animal natures are gathered in.

The 3 stories are the threefold human stacked within one vessel: the belly of appetite below, the breast of feeling between, the head of mind above. A person is a single craft with 3 floors, made to float intact while the waters of feeling rise around it.

Ark: the body built to carry consciousness through the flood of the lower emotions Window: the opening in the crown through which higher light enters and looks out Door: the side entrance at the heart where what belongs within is admitted 3 stories: the threefold human of belly, breast, and head stacked in one vessel

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Live Genesis 6:16 today

  1. Once today look up and out, at the sky from the bus window, at the light on a wall. Let something in from above the level of your worries.
  2. Let one person through the side door today. Answer a real question honestly instead of saying you are fine, and let the conversation go a floor deeper than usual.
  3. When you are stressed, ask which floor is talking. Hungry and tired, hurt and anxious, or actually thinking clearly? Feed the right floor instead of arguing with the wrong one.

Who do I let all the way in, and who only gets the front step?

The same truth in other traditions

Hinduism · Upanishads

The body is a city with many gates, and the light that enters the highest one shows you what you really are.

Sufism · Rumi

Your chest is a door. Be careful who you open it to, and never nail it shut, because the guest you are waiting for also comes that way.

Taoism · Zhuangzi 4

The empty room is the one that fills with light. Fast the heart until it is open, and brightness comes in on its own.

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