Genesis, Chapter 9—YHWH/Yaldabaoth is a TOTAL rasta! Rainbows are invented & Noah gets "drunk".
Themes: Covenant, renewal, divine promise, abundance, embodiment, appetite, consciousness, vulnerability, shame, perception, honour, dishonor, family dynamics, blessing, consequences, freedom, responsibility, life, death, blood, inheritance, spiritual lineage, expansion, repopulation, the continuation of humanity
Symbols: the rainbow, the covenant, Noah, the vineyard, the vine, wine, drunkenness, nakedness, the tent, Shem, Ham, Japheth, the garment, walking backward, the face, blood, flesh, the green herb, animals, the 'bow (rainbow), the earth, blessing, cursing, generations
Sources Consulted: • Neville Goddard, Freedom For All
Mood: Fulfilled.
Highlights
KJV:
• Gen. 9:3
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
J/K!!
• Gen. 9:13
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
🌈☁️ The sign of the covenant! The flood was the great dissolution. Now the 'bow says: Never again.
Insights:
• The vineyard — The flood has ended. Humanity has begun again. Noah establishes himself on the renewed earth, and his first agricultural act specifically mentioned is: a vineyard.
The vine can symbolize life, growth, cultivation, fruitfulness, but wine introduces another dimension: altered consciousness.
So Noah moves from:
renewed earth → cultivation → fruit → fermentation → intoxication → unconsciousness.
The man who successfully navigated the flood now encounters a completely different kind of danger:
—not external destruction, but loss of consciousness.
Drunkenness symbolically gives you a state in which ordinary discrimination is diminished.
wine = intensified sensation / experience
drunkenness = loss of spiritual discrimination
nakedness = exposure of what consciousness normally covers
Noah isn't dressed in his patriarchal dignity anymore. He's simply exposed!
The great survivor of the flood becomes radically vulnerable.
• That tent:
Noah is inside his tent.
A tent is a dwelling, an interior space, a private consciousness. So the entire incident happens inside, not out in the world.
The flood has destroyed the external old world. Now the drama moves inside the household / interior consciousness.
—The waters have receded, but the work of consciousness isn't finished!
From Genesis 7: Can consciousness remain stable while the world is being flooded?
To Genesis 9: What happens when consciousness itself becomes clouded?
• Okay blah blah blah, Ham sees his father's nakedness, then goes outside and tells his brothers. Shem and Japheth take a garment walk backward, covering Noah without looking at him.
Ham → sees, looks, reports
Shem + Japheth → cover, turn away, preserve dignity
• Now the bee in my bonnet about this at first glance was, why did Noah curse Canaan? Why curse Ham's son? Because:
— Ham exposes.
— Shem and Japheth cover.
Going back to chapter 7, using Neville's framework:
Noah → renewed consciousness
Shem → name / identity
Ham → heat / feeling
Japheth → enlargement / expansion
their descendants → the multiplication of consciousness into the world
Treating Genesis 9 as an inner drama of consciousness, we can think on them as three aspects of creative consciousness:
Shem — NAME = The power of designation. What something is called! Identity. Conception. The word.
Ham — HEAT = Feeling, intensity, warmth, passion, emotional/physical energy. The felt dimension.
Japheth — ENLARGEMENT = Expansion. Extension. The movement of consciousness outward into experience.
And look what Genesis 9 does with them:
Shem is blessed.
Japheth is enlarged.
Ham's lineage receives the curse!
• Genesis 7 → 8 → 9 becomes a lovely progression:
flood → emergence → covenant
destruction → renewal → promise
old world → new world → continuity
And then immediately after this cosmic covenant: Noah gets drunk and naked.
The world has been renewed. The covenant has been established. Humanity is blessed. And Noah is still a human being.
Questions:
• I'm pretty satisfied with this for now! Thanks!