The Flood

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

THE FLOOD
Maim is the flood that will drown your spiritual embryo if
you heed the body’s questions, destroying all that you’ve
worked so hard to assemble within. Don’t listen to it!


The flood comes as a ruthless force that can destroy
everything. Those desires that couldn’t endure the questions,
meaning those that didn’t “come into the ark,” truly perish
in its waters: “And all flesh perished that moved upon the
earth.” And yet, the paradox is that for all its ruthlessness,
the flood also purifies.
However, it purifies only those in whom the desires to
attain the spiritual world prevail. It is as if man doesn’t
even hear the rational questions of his body as he advances
toward the goal, no matter what. In this case he acts like
Noah, building himself an ark (finding the right books, the
right teacher, and the right environment). He will also take
shelter there with his numerous individual desires that are
yet to be corrected (but will be corrected as the ark “sails”
the flood waters).
“Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and
the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose
above the earth.” What is the meaning of these 40 days,
during which your body pelted you with all your desires with
its seemingly logical questions: “Ma?” and “Mi?”
Forty is a very significant number in spirituality. Naturally,
we’re not talking about days here. The number forty
represents the quality of bestowal, the Creator’s quality.
Forty is also the numerical value of the letter Mem. In
Hebrew it is written as ם. As you can see, it resembles a
closed space, but in reality it consists of two letters Dalet
ד) ) joined together. One of the two is upright (stemming
from the Hebrew word Delet—door), while the other Dalet
is upside down. When joined together they form a closed
letter Mem ( ם). However, when the moment comes, they
will open.


If you manage to withstand those forty days of the mind’s
onslaught and not break, “the water will lift up the ark” and
it will “float on the surface of the water.” This means that
the two letters Dalet lock and form a “sealed” letter Mem,
and you “float.”
You become a spiritual embryo in the womb of the
mother (the Upper One, the closed Mem), which protects
you, cares for you and feeds you. You remain under its full
protection for as long as you grow there. Your Upper mother
(Heb. Ima) won’t let anything hurt you. You begin to float
on the water, toward the Upper World.
“…and only Noah was left, together with those that
were with him in the ark.” Thus “water” transforms from a
destructive force into the light of mercy for you, cleansing
you and helping you advance. You ascend above the flood
waters in which our world is currently drowning, torn apart
by the ego and succumbing to the questions of the body.
Now let’s repeat one last time how you can cleanse,
rather than drown, in the time of the flood, and how you
can become a “spiritual embryo” and enter the Mem. To
accomplish this, you must pick up the necessary books and
begin to “wash” yourself with them, as though with clean
water. Bathe in the Light of Mercy, which, through your
correct study, will cleanse you on the outside. You draw it
like a magnet by reading these books, and it will fill you on
the inside when you are open to the Light and its quality of
bestowal, whereupon the Light will enter you.
It is precisely the Light of mercy that helps you reveal
the one desire amidst all your other desires, the desire
called Noah.


Like flood waters, the same Light “floods” those desires
and forces within you that need to be “thoroughly drenched”
so as to cleanse them for subsequent use.
How long must your desires for spiritual advancement
remain in the ark? For as long as it takes for the “flood
waters” to rise above the “earth” (your remaining desires)
until they “drown” in the Light of Mercy, cleansing to such
an extent that you can use them correctly for your inner,
personal and only desire, known as “Noah.”
“…The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in
the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of
the mountains became visible.”
You were in the ark, detached from all the egoistic desires.
You didn’t use them, but remained “inside” the books and
the thoughts of spiritual ascent, like an embryo in the
mother’s womb. You were under the Creator’s protection,
sheltered by Him. You reveled in that silence; it was like
Paradise. But now you’re grown and mature, and the time of
your emergence into the world is nearing. It’s time to begin
your “exit from the ark.”
Until now, you were constantly praying for your birth,
which is called “raising MAN” to the Creator, the Upper
One. The acronym MAN stands for Mayin Nukvin (female
waters, referring to the amniotic fluid).
This means that you must begin your own path, to “leave
the Creator’s womb,” as if with female waters, to be born
and start working with your thus far “light” egoistic desires.
You didn’t take them with you into the “ark,” having put
them on hold for the right time. Now that they’ve been
properly washed and cleansed with “flood waters,” it’s time
for you to start correcting them.
 

In doing so you become increasingly closer to the spiritual
world, to the Creator, since the end goal is the correction of
the entire ego. Only then will you feel free, immortal, and
absolutely blissful. This is what the Creator wants for you.
This is the only condition under which you can be close to
Him.
You have already begun traversing this path. Now don’t
stop!
So, the “waters break,” much like amniotic fluid during
labor.