The Flood did not cover the 'whole' earth, as it says in the Old Testament, but according to New Revelation specifically "Central Asia, with the Aral and the Caspian Sea remaining to this day as memorable Ieft-overs, for the area covered by the Caspian Sea today was once the over-great and proud Hanoch empire. From this principal region the waters poured into both Siberia and also Europe, though the latter was not inhabited at the time; part broke to the south, where the East Indies are today, and most of all over Arabia. Northern Africa was also seriously affected, as far as the high land (Ethiopia), where the flooding was only minor. America was only involved to a small extent in the north, from Siberia; the south remained quite free, as did most of the islands in the great ocean" (the Pacific). "Although it says in the Old Testament: 'Covering all the mountains of the earth and apart from that borne in the ark, nothing alive was left on the earth', this should not be taken literally as referring to the physical earth, for 'mountains' merely means the pride and lust for power shown by men. And that nothing alive was left on the earth except that in the ark means that only Noah most faithfully maintained a spiritual life in God and out of God." (Ha III 357 and 358)