Gnostic, Kabbalistic and Talmudic Ideas Shape Aronofskys Noah by Michael Hoffman Darren Aronofskys new film Noah uses the Genesis account of the patriarch Noah as a canvas on which to paint anti-Biblical concepts. At the beginning of the movie, written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel, we are informed that the descendants of Cain built a technological society, based around a mineral that glows named zohar. Once zohar runs out, the civilization collapses. At first the Biblical people are aided by fallen angels --the Watchers-- and then they turn against them. In accordance with the Midrash, medieval rabbinic sources state that the Sons of the Elohim, i.e. the Watchers, are revealed in the pages of the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Furthermore, the Zohar is the most important subset of the black magic texts of the Kabbalah, a rabbinic work sacred to all of the Conservative Hasidic groups with which the Republic Party in the U.S. laughably maintains an alliance in the name of promoting family values. In Aronofskys movie, Noah starts to think that his covenant with the Creator isnt centered on repopulating the earth after the Flood, but ensuring its end. Here we encounter the familiar anti-child philosophy which is based on Gnostic rebellion -- the Gnostic/Nazi/New Age conviction that Yahweh isn’t the omnipotent deity of the Bible, but a lesser being subject to mans will, (as the Talmud teaches), who has imprisoned our souls in the material world of matter and flesh (as the Gnostics teach, in accord with their reading of the Book of Enoch).
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 01:12:16 +0000
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