God in Genesis 1: Elohim
Rudolf Steiner interprets the “days” of creation as long periods, each marked by the activity of different groups of beings, with the Elohim playing a central role.
Day 1
1In the beginning of the story the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more created new conditions in the atmosphere of the earth."
Note that the earth was already established, but with unfavorable conditions
Ekukqaleni. In the beginning. There is the same obscurity in the Zulu use of this phrase as in our own. We must understand it here as meaning, in the beginning of the present order of things, and not, from all eternity.
UNKULUNKULU (source)
The original means of Genesis 1:1: “The earth became a waste and a desolation.”
Jordan Maxwell (source)
2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the surface of the deep. And the wind of the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more moved upon the surface of the waters.
3And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Sound is how God spoke the dream into creation. It started with sounds. This is the way the Bible begins the story when God spoke our world into creation. “And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.” Genesis 1:3. Every step of the creation process became reality when God spoke.
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4And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more saw the light, that it was good: and the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more dividid the light from the darkness.
5And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more called the light Day and the darkness they called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Day 2
6And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more said, Let there be an extended surface in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters in the seas from the waters in the clouds.
7And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more made the extended surface, and divided the waters which were under the extended surface from the waters which were above the extended surface: and it was so.
8And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more called the extended surface the Atmosphere. And the evening and the morning were the second cycle.
9And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more said, Let the waters under the atmosphere be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters they called Seas; and the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more saw it was good."
Day 3
11"And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind: and the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more saw that is was good.
13And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Day 4
14And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more said, The light in the expanse of the sky that divides the day from the night will be for signs, appointed times, days and years:
15and the ligt in the expanse of the sky shines upon the earth, so...
16The elohim observed carefully the two great lights; the great light that dominates the day, the small light that dominates the night, and the stars.
17And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more permitted the expanse of the sky to become bright on the land,
18And dominate the day and the night, and divide the light from the darkness: and the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more saw it was good.
19And the evening and the morning were the fourth cycle"
Day 5
20And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and flying creatures that may fly above the earth in the open expanse of the atmosphere.
21And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more created new conditions for great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged flying creature after their kind: and the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more saw that it was good.
22And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let flying creatures multiply in the earth.
23And the evening and the morning were the fifth cycle.
Day 6
24And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beasts of the earth after their kind and it was so.
25And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more brought about the beasts of the earth after their kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps upon the earth after their kind: And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more saw that it was good.
26And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more said, Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27So the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more created humans in their own image, in the image of the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more they created them; male and female the created them.
28And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more blessed them, and the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and bring it under cultivation: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
In Genesis 9:1, after the flood, God tells Noah and his sons: "Multiply and replenish the earth." "Replenish" implies doing it again, suggesting a prior civilization destroyed by the flood.
Similarly, in Genesis 1:28, God tells Adam and Eve: "Multiply and replenish the earth," implying recreation after desolation. Rabbinical works confirm this
Jordan Maxwell
29And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more said, Behold, We have given you every plant bearing seed, which is upon the surface of the all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.
30And to every beast of the earth, and to every flying creature of the air, and to every thing that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, every green plant will be for food: and it was so.
31And the אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîym · Strong’s H 430Plural of eloah: gods, or the supreme God; the plural form is used even when one being is meant.Read more saw every thing that they made, and behold, the abundance was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Rudolf Steiner
The Elohim initiate Earth’s development by radiating soul-spiritual warmth over elemental waters, recapitulating ancient Saturn’s warmth. They introduce light on the first “day,” announcing “Let there be light.” On the second “day,” they stir elemental masses via sound ether, creating separation (rakia) between upper and lower elements.
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Genesis 1 Transcript by 9Nania
Rudolf Steiner connects the Elohim to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, interpreting the “days” of creation as periods marked by the activities of different groups of spiritual beings, with the Elohim playing a central role.
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