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NOAH'S SONS
Symbols of the three Divine aspects, Will (Shem),
Action (Ham), and Wisdom (Japhet); or in a lower sense, of
intelligence, works, and desire.
“And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his son's wives
with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood." -
GENESIS. vii. 7.
And the Self, or the individuality, takes refuge within the
causal-body appointed for it; and so also its knowledges,
affections, etc. And this occurs because the pressure upon the lower
self (the reflected Higher) forces it, so to say, to this course.
The "son's wives" signify the dual aspects of the three aspects of
the Self.
"There is, first and highest (of Noah's sons), the contemplative
life, which delights in things unseen, in adoring love and holiness.
There is again the active life, which is good, and does good, but
deals more with external things. Besides these there is the
doctrinal life, a mind occupied with truth, without the savour and
power of it; a form of life, which, though growing out of the
regenerate mind, is nigh to evil, and must be subdued and fought
against. Shem is the first of these; Japhet, the second; the third
is Ham, the father of Canaan, whom Israel have to overcome. In point
of honor Shem stands first, but in their development Japhet's and
Ham's sons are given before Shem's; shewing, what indeed is proved
by all experience, that the highest life in us is the last to
develop itself." - A. JUKES, Types of Genesis, pp. 132-3.
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