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Illustration page 15: In the Chassidic stories, recorded by

Martin Buber, the horse-and-carriage play an important role: it is the mysterious vehicle, in which the teacher travels to bridge physical distances as well as different

dimensions. Illustration H. Werkman

Apparently, the light needs something to make itself known to us, something by which it can be re ected. The light can be re ected by so-called solid matter and in this way, we become aware of both matter as well as the light and also of ourselves, because we also consist of these aspects. However, if the Gnostics speak of ‘God is light’, they do not refer to our familiar sunlight nor is it the light of our consciousness on which they are focused. The divine Light is of a completely di erent level of vibration, a level that is wholly di erent from our consciousness. This divine Light is not directly re ected in us, simply because there is virtually nothing that can re ect it and this is why we do not perceive it.

THE MYSTERY OF THE ARK If we are unable to perceive the divine Light, what could then be the meaning of the story of Noah, to whom God gave this divine sign? Noah is the build-

The unknowable light is split into seven knowable colours of a wholly di erent level

er of the Ark, ‘the protected place’ or ‘the mystery school’, which arrives on the holy mountain Ararat, the divine realm, after seven months of sailing, or after seven stages. We see how the Ark sails until the dove, the divine Spirit itself, informs Noah that the solid ground of the new life has been reached. It is this Noah human being who re ects the divine light in the Ark that he builds to save the group of souls that is entrusted to him. He is the one who sees the rainbow, as if re ected in a mirror, because he has passed through the serene silence. The Light that he re ects is the renewing life, with a sevenfold structure. And while the Ark is built, the white light is systematically split into seven helping rays, seven magical colours of construction. This spectral split confronts us with the seven stages of the process of trans guration. Thus, Noah builds his Ark and, by the compass of the light that touches him, he sails for seven months to the certain goal. If during the process of trans guration of the group that forms the Ark, that is, during a process of rebirth, the unknowable light is split into seven knowable colours, this certainly no longer refers to the colours that we perceive, but to a completely di erent spectrum of activity.

THE NEW HEAVENLY ARC The special, bright red of the subtle, rst touch in the microcosmic heart spreads in the blood via the heart and is linked with it. Next, the orange of a new lightness, a new joy, pervades the being and the divine prana begins to ow through the nerve uid. If this new prana has found its course in a being, we see a bright yellow, the colour of a new consciousness, a new thinking faculty develop that turns the increasingly direct inspiration by the Spirit into reality. The green colour of a new faith, on the basis of deeper insight into the new, developing situation pervades the system, and the increasingly experienced grace brings a strong hope, based on the truth: the blue of an ever more clearly perceived perspective on the horizon of life. This blue also represents the new sensory perception. The whole Ark, the group, radiates in an indigo power eld that rushes forward with dynamic energy in this wondrous course of the genesis of the Spirit-Soul, in which supernal violet ether values show the liberation as a reality. This sevenfold light mystery is the mystery of liberation, and while the seven stages of the construction of the Ark are accomplished, a new heavenly arc is stretched in the human being and in the group: a living sign of an eternally radiating covenant between God and man.