Genesis 7:10 · World English Bible
Genesis 7:10 Meaning After the Seven Days
After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.
What does Genesis 7:10 mean?
The waters rising over the earth are the emotional and psychic forces flooding the material nature of a person, the lower consciousness overwhelmed and dissolved so that a new state can form. The number 7 symbolizes completion of a cycle, the finished round of development after which the old condition is washed away; the 7 days are the full inner period that must pass before the deluge of feeling breaks.
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The waters rising over the earth are the emotional and psychic forces flooding the material nature of a person, the lower consciousness overwhelmed and dissolved so that a new state can form. The number 7 symbolizes completion of a cycle, the finished round of development after which the old condition is washed away; the 7 days are the full inner period that must pass before the deluge of feeling breaks. The earth submerged is the fleshly self covered over by a tide it cannot hold back.
What this marks in a person is the arrival of a cleansing flood after a cycle has run its course. When an inner phase completes, the accumulated waters of emotion pour over the old material self and drown it, clearing the ground for the higher life that follows the deluge.
The waters of the flood: the emotional and psychic forces that overwhelm and dissolve the lower material nature. The earth: the fleshly self, the material consciousness covered over by the rising tide. 7 days: the completed cycle of development that must run its full round before the cleansing breaks.
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Live Genesis 7:10 today
- If something in you has been quietly ending, a version of yourself, a way of working, a relationship you keep patching, give it an hour alone with no phone. Let the feeling come all the way up instead of scrolling until it recedes.
- With one person today, say the true sentence you have been editing down. Not the summary you text, the actual thing, out loud, and let it be as unsteady as it is.
- When the flood arrives at the worst moment, a meeting, traffic, a group chat going sideways, do not try to hold the water back. Breathe, let it move through you, and answer from the other side of it rather than from the middle.
What in me has already finished its round, and am I still trying to keep it dry?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
Water is the softest thing, yet it wears down rock and carries off whole hillsides. What cannot be forced open is eventually dissolved.
Zen
A cup already full holds nothing new. The teaching is not to add, but to empty, and the emptying is rarely gentle.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
What stands in the way of the old form becomes the material of the new one. Nature does not preserve a thing past its season, it breaks it down and builds again from the same stuff.
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