Noah's spark

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

NOAH’S SPARK
“And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all
flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.” This means
that all our desires are egoistic.
However, we still see amidst all that corruption a certain
point, miniscule and lonely, which is completely opposite
from everything else on the earth. This is the “point in
the heart.”
At the first egoistic level, this point is called “Noah.” The
Noah within us is our first spiritual desire. It may be tiny
and barely discernible, but we already feel it living inside us.
Thus, we have discovered Noah.
Noah’s spark lives inside every one of us. The problem
is that we’ve surrounded it with heaps of selfishness that
continually drown out its soft voice. As the ego grew, it
coated Noah with more and more layers, overwhelming it
with incessant desires. The pursuit of pleasure distanced
man from Noah, making him coarser and more egoistic


as Noah’s voice grew more and more faint. Finally, he has
become essentially silent.
But Noah didn’t go anywhere. He constitutes the basis of
man’s soul. Indeed, he is eternal, and simply waits for the
time when man will turn back toward him.
In fact, this point we call “Noah” is the very center of
our desires and is directly connected to the Creator. It is
also eternal, whereas the egoistic desires surrounding it
are short-lived, fleeting, vain and empty. Only that which
aspires upward to the spiritual world is eternal, and that is
where our desire known as “Noah” aims.
Dear reader, have you ever wanted to suddenly stop this
crazy rat race we call “life,” shut your eyes, cover your ears,
and feel the silence that lives inside of you? Have you ever
wished to hear the inner voice, un-obscured by foreign
influences? Have you ever wished to hear your own voice,
and in so doing, seemingly disappear from this world, which
imposes on you its desires from dawn to dusk?
The TV, radio, and newspapers spray you with their
advertisements; people both familiar and strangers force
their thoughts and desires on you. Money! Power! Fame!
That’s what you hear left and right from your environment,
until you start to think that these are actually your thoughts.
Caught in the daily vortex of life, you can no longer tell
whether it’s you who wants these things or someone else.
Your inner voice has been suppressed, smothered by all
that’s happening around you. As you run along the highway
of life, you’re spurred on by foreign desires. It’s only later
that you realize that you were wrong, that you never wanted
any of these things, that they were simply dictated to you,
forced onto you by someone else.


How blissful it feels to be able to stop and hear your
own, single desire, pure and disconnected from the material
world. It’s the desire to experience spirituality, which is
known in the Old Testament as “Noah.” It lives on inside of
you, whether you’re a president or a mass murderer. When
you wade your way through the husk of foreign feelings and
thoughts, you will ultimately arrive at Noah and hear the
voice: “...for you have I seen righteous before Me in this
generation.”
If you can hear the Noah within you, this tiny altruistic
spark called, “Noah the Righteous,” if you can sense the
desire to ascend above this world, then you are ready to
achieve the peace, security, and eternity that await you on
your spiritual path.
And if you’re not, you will continue to spend every
waking moment slaving away to foreign bodily desires, as
they continue to whisper in your ear, “Go on, indulge in the
pleasures of this world, live for yourself, don’t be an idiot!”
And what happens when you succumb to these desires?
The body grows feeble and dies and gets tossed into the
ground to decompose. The death of the flesh is inevitable.
A pity, isn’t it? You work your entire life for the body, but in
the end, it betrays you.
What about Noah? Well, Noah doesn’t betray you because
Noah is the desire of the eternal soul. It is connected to
eternity, and if you attach yourself to Noah, you become
eternal as well. It’s that simple. All you have to do is to want
it. That is precisely what the book speaks of in the chapter
about Noah.
“And the earth was filled with violence… it was corrupt;
for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.”


We remember that the word “earth” (Heb. Eretz) stems
from the word Ratzon—desire. Therefore, “The earth was
filled with violence” and “It was corrupt” means that your
desires are corrupted: you exhaust yourself in pursuit of
another’s possessions, you are completely egoistic, and you
live only for yourself. You already feel that this attitude
causes destruction within and all around you (just look at
what’s happening in the world—we are tearing it to shreds
with our egos).
But is there really no answer to all this? Sure there is. Find
the “Noah” inside you and save your life, as the text says:
“And, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” Follow
the Creator’s advice, as He is the Supernal Intellect or
Supernal Law, and this is what He says: “But I will establish
My covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you,
and your sons, and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall
you bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they
shall be male and female. Of the fowl after their kind, and
of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the
ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto you,
to keep them alive.”
What does this mean? The whole world is inside you. You
are at the highest degree of existence, the tip of the pyramid
that includes all the animate, vegetative, and inanimate
souls located below you. They are “bound” to you as the
one true creature that has a soul and the responsibility to
raise itself and the whole world to the level of the Creator.
Thus, this chapter describes how the desire called “Noah”
inside you assembles all the corrected parts of the soul
(human, animate, vegetative and even the uncorrected parts


that aspire for correction), which is the meaning of “two of
every sort,” and comes into the ark with them.
The ark is a kind of screen, a protective force field that
you create around you, and that helps you resist external
disturbances, meaning all the egoistic influences of
this world.
You simply refuse to allow anything to enter you, negating
all contact with your environment. By doing so, you don’t
become a hermit or abandon your family and this world
altogether, absolutely not! You still go to work, make your
living and go about your business as usual, but only externally.
Internally, you try with all your might to deny entrance to
the material world. With the help of the ark, the protective
screen, you seek answers to the questions, “Who am I? What
am I living for? What is most important to me in life?”
You haven’t found the answer yet, but you keep searching,
and that is already incredibly significant. You are preparing
yourself to find the answer, and you are already certain that
your search will be successful, since the point in the heart
within you has already awakened and won’t let you rest for
a moment. This point maintains direct contact with the
Creator, and as it grows within you, it forms a vessel that’s
ready to receive the Upper Light. That is the voice you hear,
telling you you’re on the right track and that you will definitely
reach the Creator, even if you don’t yet feel Him.