Chili

Yes it is today as the Catholic Church has replaced the alogory with the Advent Wreath saying he same thing.

CarmStephanieE

I thought it was their forsight on the Lion King, "The Circle of Life" and all that.

:huh:

Chili

No, just the 4 candles including the wite one (3 purple and one white) that tells the same story . . . to Catholics only = a private club.

Mageth

Meh, the Ark was an alien spaceship (which have been variously described as either round "flying saucer" like things or cigar-shaped things, which would fit with either myth).

After the aliens dropped of Noah et al. on Ararat, they cruised down to Egypt and taught the Egyptians how to build pyramids and such. That's why they can't find the Ark on Ararat, BTW.

Chili

Are you sure? I heard te found 6 of them but they were not Noah's.

Chili

Not sure abut the Loin King but for Noah the ark was appropriate in that there was no dry land upon which man could walk in Gen.1 until God separated the waters and so created the subconscious mind as the sea and the conscious mind as the dry land where man as human could gain knowledge in a mind of his own. In doing so he obviously was separated from the sea where all the acquired knowledge accumulated, and from where this retained knowledge is inter-generational upon us from 'there' via the woman who never was banned from Eden to indicate that she was wherein humans have permanence in a land of their own = Israel for the Jews.

So the ark that Noah built reflects his own contemplative direction in life while on 'dry land' (in exile or outside of Eden = the sea and today we call those people 'inner directed,' or tithing people paying attention (not money) to their ow heritage also called 'tradition' in Judaism as shown in Fiddler on the Roof, for example).

Accordingly it can be said that as Jew Noah was a ark builder by way of Plato's "theory of recollection" of intuit knowedge (elaborated on in Posterior Analytics by Aristotle) while abroad and so was ready to journey home into his own land that was rightfully his as it was `paid for` (accumulated) by his very own ancestors = lineage recorded in Matthew, revealed in Luke`s and realized in John`s Cana event = see the movement here to catch the motion.

To do this he must vacate his ow dry land (read conscious mind) and journey home after uploading all of his assets so that reason will prevail once he arrives at this hereto now unknown destiny (that can be called the other side of life or subconscious mind that always was his inspiration by night and-or in the absense of his own faculty of reason). This would then be how his inner search for meaning in life was answered.

The flood can only occur once because there was no richess in woman who was said to be naked to wit in Gen. 2. As NT people it was appropriate that circumcision was replaced by baptism for the simple reason that we have an alpha to upload to say that our woman was not naked to wit after 2000 years into our mythology with recurring manifestations of truth (pillars of faith). Jesus was one of those and he then points at John as the inner man set free upon the annihilation of his dry land issue that later is added to the sea that he had learned to walk on in Galilee and thus the sea was to longer in the end, to say that the two had become one, once again, but now without chaos in the mind of man.

You may call this the circle of life as it is indeed to arrive at the place we first started and know it for the first time. The white candle then is our baptism candle wherein we meet the woman as mother of our God and once we know her have no choice but crown her queen of heaven and earth.

So really, it is all metaphors building upon each other to say very little in the end with regard to the meaning of words.