This period marks the beginning of talks about NOAH's Ark. I had always considered the myth of NOAH's Ark to be an esoteric allegory. Many of our company had now begun to see that this myth was not merely an allegory of the general idea of esotericism but was, at the same time, a plan of any esoteric work, our own included. The system itself was an “ark” in which we could hope to save ourselves at the time of the “flood.” Fragments: Sixteen