GENESIS 6........

by **Harry** Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:48 am

Genesis 6
1 It happened, when men once began
To multiply upon the earth,
And daughters were brought forth by man,
2 That sons of Ælohim, that is,
The heavenly watchers that were His
Devoted servants, saw that beauty
Was more marked in those girls than duty,
And took wives from the daughters of
Men, all they chose to take and love.

Genetic engineering's no new thing.
The watchers of creation, wondering,
Decided that experiment would be
The better part of angel destiny.
The products of their meddling fingers were
The children of the chosen for their fur.
As humankind were given trees to tend
And berry-bushes stretching without end,
The angels too decide to plant and grow
New combinations in genetic row.
No doubt, Beloved, they thought experiment
Was beautiful no matter where it went.
Creation went on splintering away
To prove that You are one at least today.

3 And YHWH said "Now My Spirit shall
Not strive with man forever, all
He is indeed is flesh, and yet
Six scores of years I shall forget."

You gave the world and angels Your fair warning
That You would not put up with grief and scorning.
The problem with mankind was merely flesh
That could be moulded in an awful mesh,
And was, it seems, resulting in a mess
Of violence. Probation to confess,
One hundred twenty years, and then the flood
Should put an end to shedding of the blood.
I doubt that I have got such time since now
My hair is grey above a wrinkled brow.
Let Your mind then, Belovèd, strive with me
For those few years remaining on my tree.
I too am flesh, though not yet violent.
Strive still with me till every veil is rent.

4 In those days there were fallen ones
Or giants on the earth in tons,
And also afterward when those,
The sons of Ælohim, once chose
To lie with daughters of men, they
Bore mighty men of ancient day,
Men of renown. 5 And then YHWH saw
Man's wickedness was great for awe,
And every intent of his heart
Was only evil from the start.

The products of genetic engineering
Were giants strong and mighty, nothing fearing,
Men of renown and mighty men of old.
Their intellects leave moderns in the cold.
Their thoughts and plans were lofty ones and bold.
Yet evil only marked their course of thought,
And evil only came from hands so taught.
It is no wonder that You killed the lot.
If any hand devised ancestry's code
On my behalf, that must have been Your load.
Thus I am better than those giants were
If in me genes and godly plans concur.
Plant in my heart Your thoughts, the thoughts of good,
And I shall fly in thought by field and wood.

6 When YHWH took comfort that He'd made
Man on the earth, His grieved heart stayed.

O changeless One, Beloved, I seek that heart
That can be grieved. If grieving be my part,
Then grieve on, my Beloved, let comfort come
When You and I make up a single sum.
Take comfort, my Beloved, in me as then
When You chose Noah from among all men.
The earth may be a place of strife, and yet
The earth is highest gate, both dry and wet.
Creator, see not wickedness arise
From my hands like the iridescent flies
That feed on fecal faith. Take comfort, Lord.
Let my hand be the one to grasp the sword
Of peace. In peace let me repeat Your name
While others play at violence and game.

7 So YHWH said "I will destroy man
Whom I've created and lay ban
Upon the earth, for man and beast,
And creeping creature from the least
Up to the birds that fly in air,
I'm sorry that I made them there.

The fondest question is why did You make
A world where man and bird and beast could take
The road towards destruction and worse still
To violence on other creatures' will.
You cannot rub it out and say that You
Did not get it just right, once more will do.
The infinite in power, omniscient mind
Preclude creating monsters in a blind.
It does not wash to blame celestial sons
For what You knew beforehand of their guns.
It does not wash to say You're sorry either,
Or that You merely had to take a breather.
Beloved Creator and Destroyer I
Look all about the crowded earth and sky.

8 But Noah, man of God, found grace
In eyes of YHWH and every place.

Week 2
9 This is the line of faith of Noah.
A just man living before Shoah,
Perfect in all his generations.
Noah walked in Ælohim's stations.
10 And Noah sired three sons: Shem, Ham,
And Japheth, names in cryptogram.

How did the blessèd Noah find grace in
Your sight, Beloved, instead of cherished sin?
The first thing was his genealogy,
The line of faith to Eve and Adam's tree.
The second was that he was just, the third
That he was perfect, while the gracious word
Of the fourth gate was that he walked with You.
Let me too find grace in the things I do,
As I lay hold upon the faith of him
Who kept the burning light that had grown dim.
I take the gate of righteously transmitted
Divine law, and the gate of justice fitted
Into the gate of Your perfection till
I walk with You like Noah in Your will.

11 The earth was spoiled also before
Ælohim, and was filled with gore.
12 So Ælohim looked on the earth,
Indeed it was spoiled of its worth,
For all flesh had spoiled their own way
Upon the earth and every day.
13 And Ælohim told Noah, saying
"The end of all flesh comes for paying
Before Me, for the earth is filled
With violence through those who've killed,
Indeed I shall destroy them all
All flesh and all the earthly ball."

For violence and not for love the Flood
Came on the earth, for violence and blood.
All flesh corrupts its way and takes a stand
To battle with the flashing sword in hand.
Destruction bears its own destroying seeds,
And slaying hands decay to useless weeds.
There is but One eternal to be sung,
Your name, Beloved, is first and final rung.
The end of all flesh comes before Your face,
All things return to You and find their place.
I here relinquish all my striving will
And stop the sword and make the harrow still.
I quietly destroy all things but You,
And find behind all forms the One and True.

14 "So make yourself an ark of wood,
Of gopher wood, make rooms as good
Within the ark, and cover it
Inside and out with pitch to fit.
15 "And this is how you shall make it:
Three hundred arm-lengths for the ark,
And fifty wide, and thirty high.
16 You shall make a light for the bark,
The Zohar one arm-length apply
Above, and set the door in place
In the ark's side above the base
Of three decks made for breathing-space.

You told the prophet when he made the ark
To make a light to penetrate the dark.
Beloved, You must have told him how it's done,
And with what magic tools and skills begun,
And what ingredients concocted well
Produce the mystic Zohar's sentinel.
I only know it is a thing above,
In breadth an arm-length, but the usage of
This window on eternity and You
Escapes my powers and knowledge. Beloved, do
Whisper the secrets of its powers to me,
Light, light has always been a mystery.
Within this darkened ark I turn my face
Toward Your light, perchance it is an ace.

17 "Indeed, I, I Myself am bringing
Floodwaters on the earth, and springing
Surprise destruction under heaven
On all flesh living, breathing here,
All creatures from both whales to leaven,
Upon the earth shall die in fear.

The gate of water opens wide its doors
Inviting dance upon the crystal floors
Of seas of glass. I enter and I know
What eating bidden fruit could never show.
A whirling waterspout, I motionless
Regard the universe and its caress.
I know You for Yourself when breathing fails
Beneath the tiding waters and their gales.
Baptisms follow wave on drowning wave
And carry all things living to their grave.
But in the soul's destruction hour there is
A moment when life's neither hers nor his,
But clarity dawns for a fleeting spark
And I return to dance around the park.

18 "But I will make a pact with you,
And you shall go into the ark,
You and your sons, your wife, shall do,
And your sons' wives, shall all embark.
19 "And of each living thing of all
Flesh you shall bring two at a call
Of every sort into the ark,
To keep them safely in the dark
Alive with you, and they shall sport
Among both male and female sort.
20 "And of the birds after their kind,
Of animals duly resigned,
Of every creeping thing on earth
After its kind and counted worth,
Two of each sort come to the hive
For you to keep them all alive.
21 "And you shall take both for yourself
And for them food upon the shelf
All that is eaten gather in
For you and them in bale and bin."
22 Thus Noah did, according to
What Ælohim told him to do.

Beloved, it seems You left to Noah all
The work involved, You just extend the call.
He had to convince sons and wives to go
Inside the ark with tales of rain to show
A miracle unheard of, then convince
The animals to come in also since
A flood was coming fast, and after that
Talk birds to come in where the docile sat.
Not any two would do but he should get
A mated pair of each and their food set
In store. It seems the simpler part to bring

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