"Whenever knowledge threatens hierarchy, apocalypse follows"→Genesis, Chapter 8—The LORD smelled a sweet savour; While earth remaineth, duality shall not cease.
📝🚨🔥 PRE-NOTES 🔥🚨📝
Hi to all! WOW. I just discovered Jorjani's essay "BE PROUDLY SATANIC" last night. Having reached Chapter 8, a larger pattern has become visible. I am not going back to revise Chapters 3-7, so here is a little retrospective motif:
Genesis 3: Humanity encounters 'forbidden knowledge' and the possibility of emancipation from a divinely imposed hierarchy. The serpent discloses a new horizon of discernment; the “Fall” can therefore be read as the first act of human insubordination against an established order.
→ Genesis 6 / Watchers tradition: that individual revolt becomes civilizational. The Watchers cross the boundary between heavenly and mortal orders and transmit knowledge of arts, sciences, sexuality, astronomy, metallurgy, and other technologies. A hybrid civilization emerges that no longer accepts nature as fixed, but actively modifies it through 'technē'.
Genesis 7: the response is apocalypse. The flood becomes the destruction of a civilization whose knowledge and technological capacity threaten the established hierarchy. Jorjani's central formulation is: “whenever knowledge threatens hierarchy, apocalypse follows.”
Genesis 8: therefore becomes the aftermath and re-emergence. The waters recede, the earth becomes habitable again, Noah leaves the ark, and humanity begins again upon the renewed earth. The surviving ark functions almost like a seed-vessel of civilization: what was not destroyed can emerge, cultivate, build, reproduce, and begin again...
Theme: Remembrance, emergence, waiting, spiritual renewal, discernment, gradual revelation, returning to solid ground, peace, new beginnings, gratitude, consecration, restoration, divine faithfulness, gradual revelation, liberation from confinement, continuity of life
Symbols: The ark, the floodwaters, the wind, the mountains, the raven, the dove, the olive leaf, the altar, the burnt offering, Ararat
Sources Consulted:
• Jason Reza Jorjnai, Be Proudly Satanic
• Mary Baker Eddy, Science & Health, With Key to the Scriptures
Mood: Distracted!
Highlights
KJV:
• Gen. 8:8-12
"Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more."
Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures:
584:27
DOVE. A symbol of divine Science; purity and peace; hope and faith.
purity → peace → hope → faith
The dove doesn't merely represent peace after everything is resolved, it appears during the uncertainty. The dove becomes almost an instrument of spiritual discernment. Noah is learning what is true about the world through the dove.
Spiritual understanding perceives the gradual emergence of peace and life.
• Jason Reza Jorjani, Be Proudly Satanic
"...This logic is reiterated, with even greater clarity, in the episodes that follow. The revolt of the Watchers, as preserved in the Book of Enoch, is not a descent into depravity but a civilizational insurrection. Angels violate the heavenly caste order by taking mortal wives and teaching them the arts, the sciences, the crafts of beautification, reproduction, astronomy, and metallurgy. Knowledge is erotic, and eros is technological. A hybrid civilization arises that no longer reveres the Lord and no longer accepts nature as a fixed creation, but modifies it through technē. The response is extermination by flood. The lesson is unambiguous: whenever knowledge threatens hierarchy, apocalypse follows."
forbidden knowledge → emancipation → civilizational expansion → suppression → apocalypse → survival → re-emergence → reconstruction
It's potentially the violent interruption of a civilizational transformation. And that gives Genesis 8 a completely different emotional character.
Genesis 7 is: the old civilization is submerged.
Genesis 8 is: what survives begins to emerge.
That distinction is really important—The ark isn't just a lifeboat anymore. It's effectively a civilizational seed-vessel.
“The earth is not a prison; it is a field of engineering, a realm to be cultivated into paradise through progressive creativity.”
→ “whenever knowledge threatens hierarchy, apocalypse follows.”
divinely sanctioned hierarchy → forbidden knowledge → emancipation → technological/civilizational expansion → divine reaction → suppression
Compared to the other authors I've referenced so far:
Eddy: What happens to consciousness when error is confronted by Truth?
Neville: What happens when an old state of consciousness is destroyed and a new one emerges?
Jorjani: What happens when human beings acquire capacities that threaten a divinely sanctioned hierarchy?
Questions:
• Who benefits from the traditional interpretation of the symbol?