On the Blessing of Noah

On the Blessing that Noah Gave to His Sons The last of his own, while he was still his own. A discourse, number one. On the blessing that Noah gave to his sons. The hidden mysteries of the good that are with man, I have seen in the scriptures, which examine the mysteries of the houses in a spiritual and mysterious way. The spirit of revelation revealed to the son of 'Amram spiritually, so that the mystery hidden in their members was revealed to men. In their members the mystery of their freedom was hidden, and with their flow it was carried from one to another. In them was placed the treasury of the life of their generations, and by their seal the lives in them were preserved. The animal of life crept upon the creation in the dwelling of Adam, so that when it was carried away, it would live in its lives, its mortality. With the dwelling of its dwelling, the animal from its members pursued, until it became a request for life, not for death. Mysteriously it pursued, secretly before the seers, and when they saw, they did not see the power of its animality. Openly I showed that it was taken in Adam and in Seth, and shortly after in Enosh and in Lamech and in Noah his son. In Noah the power of the living one that was hidden in man was examined; from him the decrees of the knowledge of paradise were changed. Lamech rejoiced that Noah would save the ruined world, and by his purity he purified the earth from curses. By means of the deeds, the righteousness of his father's word was fulfilled, that he would cause the earth to live by means of the blessings with which he blessed his sons. His members were able to be a vessel for the vessel of man, to preserve the lives of his kind from the destroyers.

In the limbs of his body he bore the jubilee of the treasure of life, and gave it to his sons, that they might inherit it after him. Wisely he guarded the treasure of his father's house, and with a key he opened its covering before his children. The spirit taught him to guard his wealth with vigilance, and he also taught his sons to stand upon his courses. His strength strengthened the weakness of the tremors of his soul, and he sought a discourse of righteousness from his thought. Like conduits were his limbs for the irrigation of the spirit, and like doors he opened the mouths of blessings. Doors of words flowed from his mouth, the mouth of the spirit, and the earth became obedient to the sons of his womb. The righteous one sowed good seed in the field of his sons, and he was careful that their inheritance be in purity of soul. His heart was pure and the word of his mouth was simple, and with joy he raised his voice to bless. "Blessed is the householder of faith who strengthens the tremors to bless his children in his name. Blessed is the physician in whom the wealth that moves to the work of his hands is increased, and his servants seek the life of the living from the dead. Blessed is the one in whom the sweetness of the lover of man is revealed, and the truth of the name of God is sealed in his hands. Blessed is the one in whom the key of the wrath of the house of his servants is loosed, and he revives the living among the dead, the dumb and the speaking. Blessed is the one who sets up the sign of the cross before the seers, that they may resemble him in calling his name in purity of soul. Blessed is the one in whom the power of the wisdom of his divinity dwells, that from my mouth I may seek the word that gives life to the dead.

Blessed is he who made the image of Adam for the Adams, and who was like the order of the hair of the one of the beginning. Blessed is he who created in me a creation of error from that which was, that the world might be guided by the order of his creator. Blessed is he who set up on the high step of the image his image, and extended his authority over the cities in his likeness. Small was he to his hour to mount up to the name of his essence, for he set his mind on the power of the understanding of the future. With foresight the priest blessed the sons of his womb; over her he blessed Shem, his God, and he covered his sons. Blessed is the Lord, his God of Shem, behold the foresight, and over the name of Shem and not yours, O righteous one. You are an elder, you are from your mothers, a priestly father; upon you is placed the beginning of the name of your God, and cover your sons. It is new, that which the son of the priest has done in the mystery of your blessings, and the seal of something new is to be sealed in her. Blessed is the God of Shem, who was called the priest of truth, and he made his sons partners in the abundance of wealth which he bequeathed to his son. Japheth is the name of the side and the remainder in the dwelling of Shem the elder, and Ham is the servant who performed service for his brothers with service. To Shem, blessed is the Lord, and to Japheth the side, and to Ham the servant—three forms in one word, distinct and equal. One is the name of the Lord, and one is the beginning, and one is servitude, and for all three from one mouth in three words. Into three measures he divided his utterances, speaking well, and when he came in the second time, equal of one word. Three tribes he held, his sons, a priestly father, and to one he extended, and to two, one with his companion.

The elder made the younger and the middle one, and over his inheritance Noah ascended after two forms. In the form of words he covered the power within his words, and he placed the name of blessing upon the first one, though he did not bless him. There is no blessing for Shem the first if a man seeks it. For behold, "Blessed is the Lord," said his father, but Shem was not blessed. Nor again the curse that he cursed the last one, who was near to him. For behold, he cursed the son of Ham, but it was not for Ham. For Shem gave his blessing to Shem, the Creator above all, and Ham gave it to the curse that was for him, to the son of his firstborn. Your words are laborious, O righteous one, and your account is deep, and no man stands upon the understanding of your blessings. Your understanding is hidden and gives birth to many from inquiries, and the seeker has no clear path in the depth of your words to the place he seeks. Not your blessings cling to the name of the blessed ones, nor do your curses constrain the soul of the accursed ones. You wished to bless Shem, that he might be named with the name of God, and when the blessing reached its time, you gave it to its lord. You wished also to curse Ham, the hot one, hot in sin, and when you struck, you struck his son with his own pain. No man knows where you have called to the end of your action, neither the blessed nor the accursed when they are seen. What is it to me that you are not master over your will, and as if you are not the one who speaks, but another? The waters of others flow to your courtyard at the hand of the one who wills, and the course of your thought is bound to where it goes.

The righteous one remembered the words of the command that he had spoken, and he was not able to reveal the hidden things within it. The hidden things within it were not hidden things, but rather covered things. And that wonder of the sign was something concealed within it. A great mystery is concealed in your word, O righteous man, and the flood of your generation is a flood destined to be exalted. The sweetness of life fills your utterances, O son of the waters, and the bitterness of them repels death from humanity. It is a wonder, the saying that your heart seeks its earth, O blessed one, that in blessings you mixed curses and concealed them. In God you likened everything, O man, in your beginning, that his sign is equal for good and evil to be changed. His sign, your wisdom, to liken the likeness of himself with the utterance by which it is likened in the change of your words. His is the word that goes out to the leaf by the word of your mouth, and he interprets through you the distinct meanings of one sense. One sense is concealed in the word of the son of Lamech, the righteous one, and one living being lives in the prayer of his utterances. A living being of truth he established for the lover of truth, and he lived before him as is fitting for the fear of truth. The manifest truth signified for him the truth of his name, that humanity might see his truthfulness in the mouth of a man. In the mouth of Noah descended the word of truth that was hidden, and on his lips were uttered the sounds of the thought of humanity. With humanity it ran from Adam, the head of humanity, and its course did not rest until it reached the limbs of his body.

In his body and his soul the sister began to cover the man, and like a spring she poured her knowledge upon the heads of her children. Christ was revealed in him when he spoke the word of the sign, and he gave it to his sons in the form of the hundred blessings. To his firstborn he entrusted the treasure of life that was hidden in him, for he saw that he knew how to guard its secrets without error. His brothers did not submit under the authority of his wickedness, for through his service they would partake of the treasure of life. He divided life from his lifetime to the sons of his womb, and he taught Noah to guard the mystery of life that was in him. Mystically, Noah saw the life that was in him, so that it might not be revealed and a stranger might enter without permission. In this manner, he set a sign for Ham and Japheth under the great name of Shem, for the father did not wish to honor the mystery that was in the elder. He did not honor the firstborn because he honored the pure one, but rather to entrust it to the one who renewed the pure vessel that was in him. He did not divide honor to the pure one, full of sorrow, but to the mystery that completes mysteries in its perfection. He did not divide his words without distinction into three measures, but he sought the care of his children with one word. He spoke the word, and when he spoke well, he did not speak it, and he was careful to speak it well in order according to what he spoke. And he was careful, the good master of the word, that its essence might be the essence that rules over and swallows up the righteous Noah, guarding the mysteries. In his truth, the Creator watched, the Creator who revealed to him everything, and he revealed and showed him the great mystery of the salvation of man.

In the revelation of his self he saw that he was confirmed in faith, and he gave in it power to the mystery of the words of faith. In faith he received the word of his Lord, and he raised his word and proclaimed the truth that was revealed to him. In love he received the mystery of the revelation that was revealed to him, and he marvelled greatly at the abundance of goodness that is with man. With great wonder the righteous one stood at the beginning of his word, that as it is possible for a man to see the evil ones. Like the son of Jesse, his father also marvelled, the son of Jesse, who without a ladder ascended to the head of the wise and cunning one. With the wonder that resembles that of the one who in the song of the Lord rejoiced, Noah also stood at the time of the mystery that was revealed to him. David marvelled and mounted words in the chariot of words; Noah was amazed and gave birth to a saying of the Lord of life. In the life that he begot, he marvelled and was amazed openly, how much he is exalted above the life of the sons of the flesh. In giving life, the wise one marvelled, not in life, and he turned his word from the gift towards the giver. He opened his lips and sought to say, "Blessed is the creator of the firstborn," but he turned the word and said, "Blessed is the God of Shem." From his intention to bless his son, he was ready to bless; the wonder seized him and he blessed Shem with words full of blessings. "Blessed is God," said the sorrowful one to the sorrowful one of his creators, and he hid his son within from the word that was with his Lord. In the blessings of his Lord, the righteous one mixed the blessing of his son, for he was confident that Shem, the God of blessing, was all of it. "Blessed is the God of my creator, who desired him and called him by his name," and also blessed is my creator, who concealed his Lord and his son in his bosom.

In that which was hidden in his son, he marvelled and said, "Blessed is the Lord who is destined to be revealed in my son, his lordship." That which was rich was revealed to him by his Lord for the good work, not openly but in a mystery, mysteriously. From his descendants it was destined that he would set free the men who were in bondage; over them he marvelled that from bondage to bondage it was destined that he would set free. From Shem it was destined that a king would arise who would reign over all, before that which he knew concerning his brothers in the watch of his name. But to Japheth he did not give unique blessings, neither to the teaching of Japheth nor to Ham who performed the work of slaves. Why did he not give to Japheth an inheritance as to Canaan? But he gave to him that Japheth would dwell and increase in the inheritance of his brother. Why, when he cursed Ham, did he not remove him to a distant place? But he confined him within the inheritance of the blessed brothers. Why did he not separate him by an island as he did to Canaan, and did not prevent him from mixing with his relatives? Why did the curse not prevail over him as it is said, and why did he not serve his brother as it is written? Scripture teaches that the seed of Ham did not serve in servitude, neither the sons of Shem the blessed firstborn nor the sons of Japheth. The sons of Ham are said to have begotten Nimrod first in wickedness, and that the true Nimrod testifies that he is the son of Ham. Nimrod received wickedness and the kingdom of rebellion, and before the Lord the scripture sets up his might. This Nimrod was a son of the Chaldeans, like a man who, it is said, gave him wickedness. And that the Lord made Nimrod a mighty man, the curse is not true as it was spoken.

In the sons of Ham, Noah saw Egyptians and Cushites, and it was not that they were enslaved to reveal the scripture, but that they enslaved. In the sons of Shem, Noah saw Israelites and the sons of Abraham, and without law they performed servitude to the sons of the cursed. Where then is the word fulfilled as it is written, that this was contrary to the deeds that were spoken? Contrary to what was spoken, it was not in truth. In the meaning of the one who speaks truly and his speech, the manifest truth began in the lineage of the interpreter of the scripture, and upon the closed meaning he revealed it to the eyes of the generation. Without meaning, the vision of his beauty is not seen, and without labor, his truth is not chosen. Labor seeks a lineage that labors in mysteries, and easy labor was found for him who saw it clearly. Very clear is he who labored in it lovingly, and very dark is he who did not work in the truth of his love. Through love it is possible that every man see him as he is, and through interpretation it is easy that even others perceive him. Through love he heard him, and through desire he longed to perceive him, that the bowels of love and their beloved might be revealed in him. Beloved is the lineage of the interpreter of the scripture over his beloved, and every man is guilty who remains in it lovingly. The advantage of men is filled with the meaning that is hidden within it, and the righteous one is also in this manner of how much advantage. According to his advantage, the wise man saw and spoke with wisdom, that his dignity might not be scattered among the eyes of the foolish. The eye of the foolish is accustomed to scatter what is revealed, upon which the covering of words is cast over all utterances.

In the evil of the foolish, he saw the sign of the word that spoke concerning Noah, and he concealed the utterance of his mouth in the silence of words. He was able to reveal the hidden mystery that was revealed to his glory, and it was easy for him to show plainly his love. Not that he showed it as a lack of abundance in men, but that men were not sufficient to open the door from him. Nor did Noah himself divide the wealth of the mystery with his hands, not as if he showed his power firmly. The truth saw the bodily forms in the body of his son, and he confessed to his Lord that he showed the mystery before the events. Like a mirror, he set the pattern before his mind, and he rejoiced in his embrace lovingly without satiety. Without satiety, that daughter of voice came, blessed is the Lord, the God of Shem, who blessed in his name. As if in a contest, he was established in the rank of his son, and he called to Noah for his two brothers to be established. Blessing and curse he signified to the sons of his covenant, that they might see the vision of their minds in the mystery he saw. He taught the sons of Japheth that his side and the movements of his soul might be sufficient to receive the wealth that came from Shem. To Ham he showed that the shoulder of the lord of his sister would bear the yoke of the service of life hidden in his brother. With blessing and curse he urged Noah to guard his word, that what is completed by the events might receive its wealth. Before the events he was eager that the hand of the one who is worthy might accomplish what is to be accomplished, that what is perfected might become worthy in the face of his children.

In the beauty of the splendor of the mystery that he had seen beforehand, he was gazing, and he hastened his sons to fashion it before his eyes. With the eye of the vision that he saw, the seer beheld the hidden mystery, and he was amazed that he saw it in a body without concealment. In the body of his son it was made manifest corporeally, and he trusted that within him the good news was hidden. Like a sign, he set up Shem before his daughters, and the more he looked, the more he looked without weariness. With Shem he struck the gaze of his eyes and his intention, like one who rejoiced in the mercy of the body, he delighted in his lineage. Twice he covered his face to the lineage of the blessings, and this he did out of love for his son. The servant of servants made him a servant for two times, and this is the sign of the reward of the love of the father for his sons. Out of love for his son, Noah bound a yoke to his sons, that they might be submissive under the lordship of their lord and his son. To his lord and his son he subjected the world through Ham and Japheth, as was fitting in their jubilees, the end of all. Every people was destined to serve the son born of him, because of the sign of the yoke of his sons in the vigil of his son. Through the service of the king from his jubilee, he made his sons serve, and Noah stamped after two stamps of the change of words. The stamp of the fullness, the son of Lamech cast upon Ham and upon Japheth, and he changed them to the face of the measure of the decrees. The decrees of blessing and curses he gave to the two of them, when he distinguished well by name in the division of the equal.

One is the power that divides into two, and one is the intention that divides the two into one. The two are divided from one into two: the goodness that from Shem to Ham, the contemptible, and to Japheth, the hard. To the servant, his sister, as to a servant from the house of his lord, and to the free son, as one who is raised up on the scaffold. From the treasury of Shem, the generous, he also enriched Japheth, and to him they submitted slavishly and with a bond. Japheth received from love the nature of the service of his brother, and Ham, with a bond, his mother who bore him, that he might serve his brother. In the name of freedom he gave freedom to the meek soul, and in servitude he placed the arrogant under freedom. Paul also did something similar in his writings, and he subjected servants and free men to the Lord Christ. Every freed servant is one who is redeemed from childhood, and even the free man is a servant of the Lord Christ. And that which Paul did concerning the two covenants under one Lord, when he divided the word of the Spirit, which is not one. And this is one, as it is written in the book, and the righteous of later times also raise their hands. From after the Spirit, Abraham received the kingdom of life and sealed the book of the covenant with his two sons. He begot two from his limbs, full of blessings, and he poured out the flowing stream of words that resemble the Spirit. To Isaac he handed over the authority that he received from Shem, and to the son of Hagar, his servant, he gave the portion of service like Ham. In the Spirit, the seer saw the division that blessed one and enslaved one, and he also handed over that which would complete the words of your deeds.

To him, this same man, also Isaac, son of the king, and humbly resembling in words of actions. Like Noah and Abraham, he performed for his children the generation of words, and in this form, the blessing of the fullness of the river came. To Jacob, honored in old age, though not aged, and to the elder, he placed him beneath in the rank of the house of Ham. To Esau, he said that he would again be freed from servitude, and from a hundred, as if he would free him, for he was already freeing him. Esau was not enslaved to Jacob throughout his life, nor did his seed again serve servitude to the Israelites. In the river, signs of words of sorrows are placed in the scriptures, and no one knows how to marvel properly at their meanings. The power of understanding strengthens the eye to perceive, how the meaning of words is formed on the page of words. Like forms forming images of the future, they form patterns of hidden things through the revealed. The seers see something that does not pass away in it, for when they do not see, the pattern of his forms is before the seers. Job, the herald who proclaimed mysteries before actions, and before the event came, he revealed the mystery of his life among the earths. Job, the guides who sought the way for the coming of the king, and placed in it words full of the signs of the savior. The words of the savior are the words of those who speak of the savior, and in the conclusions of their utterances, they show the ways. The decree of love is in the books for the instruction of men, so that they not be destroyed by the division of opinion, the ruin of the two. To one will of one creator, they submitted equally, and they were not divided over the meaning of the opinion of the left.

The good tidings, hear, which is interpreted in their tongues. And they stood the tidings to proclaim the tidings of the future. The spirit of the beginning of its head to the spirit before their eyes. And they filled all of them with the steps of the word of his mouth. With his mouth he walked lightly on the path of tidings. And with his tongue he trod the way of the kingdom of life. Or the walker whose mouth walked instead of his walks. And when he did not walk, his tongue touched the earth. Or the guide who showed a path without walks. And he placed in it waters that are not touched by steps. Or woe to you, O man who trod lightly the measure of life. That your words might reach the house of the sign that gives life. He gave life, hidden in your seed mysteriously. And before your showing, the power of his life through one of your children. In your firstborn you found the dwelling of life that does not die. And your wonder was to be preserved in the life of your son. In great wonder your thoughts stood at the fruit of your word. When you saw in the members of his body the life of men. In wonder you looked at that life that subdued all. And you called your sons to look upon it spiritually. In your showing of life your word looked at the mystery of good. And toward his promise you directed the face of the white of his brothers. In the beauty of his splendor, the sign of the womb of your sons was amazed. And when he was not able, the painter of his death before their eyes. As if he desired that they might be preserved in the word of your mouth. When the image of their life was painted in the name of God. As if your heart was inclined to the name of your God. And he inscribed in it that daughter of voice that your Lord blessed. Blessed is the Lord who formed in you, O Lord of great forms. That you might form in your sons the image of the traditions that live for him.

In the debt of love toward your Lord, your generations were born, that they might be the fulfillment of grace for the good that is to come. The good leaven was hidden in you, the good from his goodness, and you cast it into the body of your sons that it might guard the future. Wisely did the wise one act toward your generations, concealing the wealth of their success in their members. The wise man makes wise your movements to accomplish this, that they might be guides with your jubilee, the life of your race. Your race’s beloved placed in your race the treasure of life and hid it in your earth that it might be preserved until the end of the ages. Like merchants, the senses of its bearers carried it, and they bore it in love from one to another until Mary. O wonder, from the Creator to the beginning, that though he was mortal, he was the guardian of the life of his living ones. O knowledge that stands still, how many depths he placed in his creation, the wealth that suffices for its need. O essence that from nothing made everything, that he might fill and complete his essence from his wisdom. The wisdom of truth from his wisdom placed in the natures, and she, his wisdom, teaches the race of the race to know his name. She revealed to Adam the hiddenness of her form in revelation, and she taught him that he has a Lord, the Lord of all. She bound Abel, the pure one, in the mercy of his Lord, and in revelations he repaid the gratitude that is fitting for the hidden. By her, your beautiful brother was made wise to beautify himself, and he who beautified much endured in the beauty of the immortals. She revealed to Lamech concerning the child who was from him, who would give rest to the earth and remove the mourning of the briefness of man.

She renewed in him, in the son of Lamekh, a new glory, and translated his mouth into new sounds of the renewal of humanity. Whatever that knowledge from God said, that wisdom ceased, and she is the one who makes wise until the end. From her wisdoms the first ones learned to become wise, and she again also completed the later ones who come after. The good one from all became wise in her to examine her mysteries, he again from all brought his offering near to her house. As to a friend she revealed to him the mystery of her secrets, and he also in love preserved her command of the truth of her foundation. Truth preserves the friend of righteousness for the fear of righteousness, and she in righteousness paid him the reward of the good from his labor. A good reward she paid to the zealous one who labored with her, and it was more than her, and she gave it to his sons that they might be hidden in her. The provision of immortal life she placed in his hands, and he also placed it in the hands of his sons that they might live by consuming it. The zealous one consumed the food of life and fed his sons, and placed his life, and it flew in the zealous one's nest, his rain in the living. The life that from Noah ran with the generations from Noah and to the end, and they were of the age until the course of the sacrifice was completed. From the beginning life began to run, and with them it endures in the nearness without end. The power of the son of the son in the life of the son is hidden, and when she pleased him, he showed her to the eye of all and in everything. In that creation he buried the life from his life, and after the sacrifice he revealed his will which was hidden in the son. In hidden and revealed he showed his love toward our humanity, and wisely he completed his will through the hands of all.

by her hand she completed his work against all and everything, and she gave him thanks more than all who love everything.