1 But Gods remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark. And Gods made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;
The creative forces remembering Noah, symbolize the enlightening of the consciousness of the individual during meditation. This enlightening energy from above is symbolized by the wind blowing over the earth, calming the waters.
2 the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,
The process of dissolving the contents of the subconscious is complete. The symbolic waters stop falling from Above.
3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters had abated;
4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of Ararat.
Ararat means “Sacred Place” and symbolizes the state the consciousness is left in after the “flood” subsides and the individual becomes enlightened.
5 And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,
7 and sent forth a raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.
The raven looking for dry ground symbolizes attempting to ground one’s awareness, bringing your enlightened consciousness back to Earth.
8 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground;
9 but the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put forth his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.
The sending out of the dove from the ark symbolizes the search for a new identity incorporating the enlightenment received from this experience. This often takes some time to establish.
10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
11 and the dove came back to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.
The olive leaf the dove is holding symbolizes the beginning of forming this new identity.
12 Then he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she did not return to him any more.
13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
It can take some time to get used to this new consciousness and thus, ground it within your being, but it eventually does happen.
15 Then Gods said to Noah,
16 "Go forth from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you.
17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh--birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth--that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth."
Noah’s emerging from the ark with the animals symbolizes the individual attaining enlightenment. The animals are the individual’s purified instincts, which are called Intuition. The birds are his continued aspiration to the forces of creation.
18 So Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
Noah’s son’s symbolize respect for the forces of creation, fervency of prayer, and expansion of consciousness.
19 And every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves upon the earth, went forth by families out of the ark.
All the animals returning to earth symbolize the individual beginning to acknowledge the physical world again, but in a purer state of mind.
20 Then Noah built an altar to YHVH, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
The altar symbolizes the continued reverence for the collective forces of creation, which the individual acknowledges as his/her source. The animals as burnt offerings symbolize the continued subjugation of the animal instincts to this new state of consciousness.
21 And when YHVH smelled the pleasing odor, YHVH said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.
22 While the earth remains, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
The promise of YHVH to not to destroy the wipe out all life again symbolize the completion of the process of purification and enlightenment that the individual has gone through. The person continues his/her life but lives in the enlightened state symbolized by Noah and his sons.