The Great Flood as an Internal Experience on the Path….
“The great flood in Genesis is not about a literal flood upon the Earth. Whether that actually happened or not is irrelevant. It describes a process that occurs within ourselves once we reach a certain point in the Great Work. Today after Invoking all of the main Sumerian deities that represent primal forces - from Nammu, Anu, Enlil, Enki, etc - and then all the deities representing planets - I began invoking the deities representing the powers of the original 18 Sumerian constellations. As I did so, the formed something around me that I can only describe as the firmament. I was the Earth, and I was surrounded by the celestial globe. And then it gave way....and a deluge entered. The Earth was submerged. When we do these practices we are tracing our way backwards through the stories in the Bible and the Sumerian tablets. We are aligning our consciousness with.....I am tempted to say a previous astrological configuration. Not the universe as it now exists.” - Damien Echols, Journal entry from his Patreon