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the “doctrine of the New Church in the form of a City.” (Apocalypse Revealed
896) The “City of New Jerusalem” truths were the same ones taught by Enoch’s
Word in the mind, the Ark of “Noah.” Of course, Enoch’s Codex would have
been less than the 30 volumes we now have, perhaps as short as New Jerusalem
and Its Heavenly Doctrine (London 1758), which has all doctrines in summary
form. This preservation is exciting to contemplate: the Code of Enoch.
We return to the question, “Where did Noah run to, escaping destruction?”
Could the cave art of the Lascaux and Chauvet caves in France, and most
recently in Altamira, Spain, be where and how this knowledge was preserved?3
This art dates from 46,000 to 19,000 B.C. Prominent among the animals
depicted are bears. Bears signify or mean the fallacies or reasoning from the
literal sense of the Word. (Ibid. 573, Apocalypse Explained 782)
Cave art is full of animals, and during the flood, “they knew the meaning
of animals.” (True Christian Religion 833:2) Those bears could indicate the act
of preserving Enoch’s Word. In fact, a skull of a bear was found in one cave,
just sitting on a stone pillar, as if left yesterday,
but 20,000 years ago, as if to ask, “Get it?” It is
like a signature.
And in Australia the aborigines, all CroMagnon survivors among us, depict the
“rainbow serpent” called Borlung or Ngyalod,4
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commemorating their Dreamtime legend
surely referring to the flood. They bring the
Eden serpent and Noah’s rainbow – the flood’s
duration – into one single creature. Their tales
of Dreamtime, a living mythology, could refer
to the mental awareness and revelation their
ancestors actually experienced during the flood.
This huge hiatus – from the end of one
church or religion until the beginning of a new
church or religion – demarcated the duration of
the flood. It was a flood of sin, reflected in the
Swedish term for Noah’s Flood: “Syndafloden.”
And a flood of sin it was. During those 10,000s
3 Images from Chauvet Cave art. http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;
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New Philosophy 1988, Borlung and the Rainbow Serpent, p. 665.
5 http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701&va=Australian+a
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