- They quoted the Song of Moses to distinguish
between the Most High and the usurper Jehovah...
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- The notion that humankind was created
by some type of extraterrestrial genetic manipulation, according to some
researchers, is the actual basis of the creation stories found in the ancient
Sumerian records and the later Hebrew scriptures. This idea is set out
in detail in the work of Israeli scholar Zecharia Sitchin, who uses the
Sumerian records to argue that modern homo sapiens were created by beings
from outer space called "Nefilim". He believes that the Nefilim
created humans by genetically modifying homo erectus, then mated with them
and argued over what to do with them.
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- In 1989 Zecharia Sitchin's radical hypothesis
was taken a major step further with the publication of the book The Gods
of Eden, appropriately subtitled: The chilling truth about extraterrestrial
infiltration -- and the conspiracy to keep humankind in chains. The author,
a Californian lawyer going by the nom de plume "William Bramley"
brought together all the major themes found in earlier `ancient astronaut'
research and merged them with a unique `conspiracy view of history.' Bramley's
thesis, shocking and confronting to nearly all established popular beliefs,
is:
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- Human beings appear to be a slave race
breeding on an isolated planet in a small galaxy. As such, the human race
was once a source of labor for an extraterrestrial civilization and still
remains a possession today. To keep control over its possession and to
maintain Earth as something of a prison, that other civilization has bred
a never-ending conflict between human beings, has promoted spiritual decay,
and has erected on Earth conditions of unremitting physical hardship. This
situation has existed for thousands of years and it continues today. (The
Gods of Eden)
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- The idea that human kind is the product
of genetic engineering carried out by extraterrestrials from outside our
tiny planet challenges both Darwinian evolution and creationism. Have the
dogmas of science and religion blinded us to the truth of our origins?
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- The Christian church proclaims that a
supposedly all-knowing, all-powerful `God' created our first parents from
`mud', in much the same way as a potter moulds clay. Only when Adam and
Eve broke their Creator's rules were they subject to pain, sickness and
death. By disobeying this `God', they also condemned their offspring --
all humanity -- to be `sinners'. Christianity derives the unfortunate tale
of Adam and Eve from Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible, or Old
Testament.
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- If we interpret the Bible literally,
regarding it as an infallible historical document, we are introduced to
a creator `God' (Jehovah/Yahweh) who, by his own admission, is jealous,
wrathful and full of vengeance. The fear of the "Lord" (Jehovah)
is constantly stressed throughout the Old Testament. He is expected to
reward those who worship him and are not delinquent in their observance
of the ritual law, by gratifying their worldly desires for material gains
and worldly power. One cannot help but note that this cruel, bloodthirsty,
and selfish `God' bears a striking resemblance to the capricious gods of
Sumeria.
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- This all too human `God', according to
Genesis, took a walk in the "cool of the day," unaware that his
prize humans had spoiled his creation by eating the `forbidden fruit'.
After this, having chased the first human couple out of Paradise, he threatens
their descendants with his wrath until the day when he drowned the whole
world in a flood.
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- This `God' Jehovah, as the historian
Gibbon observed in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is a "being
liable to passion and error, capricious in his favour, implacable in his
resentment, meanly jealous of his superstitious worship, and confining
his partial providence to a single people and to this transitory life."
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- Research indicates that the Hebrew Bible,
far from being an infallible historical text authored by the Supreme Being,
is a heavily revised compilation of at least two entirely separate works.
Fused together in the Book of Genesis are two separate works known to scholars
as the northern "E" and southern "J" traditions, which
are supplemented by additional revisions and inserts. In "E"
(the Elohist passages) resides the pre-Judaean tradition of the northern
peoples who exalted the Most High God El and the subordinate Elohim (Shining
Ones). The "J" or "Jehovist" passages describe a totally
alien entity, the evil and contending Jehovah (YHWH), the "Lord".
According to Max J. Dimont in Jews, God and History: "In the 5th century
B.C. Jewish priests combined portions of the `J' and `E' documents, adding
a little handiwork of their own (known as the pious fraud), which are referred
to as the `JE' documents, since God in these passages is referred to as
`Jehovah Elohim' (translated as `Lord God')."
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- This is why within the Bible we encounter
contradictory and conflicting images of the Supreme God. We find Jehovah,
a tribal god, masquerading as the Supreme Being. The first chapters of
Genesis describe an awesome struggle between two rival powers. There is
the Most High God and His Elohim who create through their own manifest
spirit; and the malevolent Lord God, Jehovah, who created a synthetic being
composed of dirt. Jehovah is actually Satanael, a Shining One who rose
in revolt against the Supreme God. Though later called the One God, the
early Hebrews knew Jehovah as only one of many Elohim. They quoted the
Song of Moses to distinguish between the Most High and the usurper Jehovah:
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- When the Most High (El) gave the nations
their heritage, When He divided mankind, He fixed the territories of the
peoples According to the number of the sons of God; But Jehovah's (YHWH)
share was his people, Jacob was his inherited possession. (Deuteronomy
32:8)
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- The Gnostic Christians of the early centuries
AD, who preserved the original teachings of Jesus, distinguished between
the Heavenly Father and the god of the Hebrew Bible. Jehovah (YHWH) was
not the Father revealed by Jesus. While the Hebrew Bible revealed a tribal
god, the God of Jesus was the universal Supreme Being of all humanity.
The Hebrew god was a god of fear, Jesus' Heavenly Father was a God of love.
In fact, Jesus never referred to the Heavenly Father as Jehovah. The Gnostic
Gospel of Peter states that the Hebrews were under the delusion that they
knew the Supreme Being, but they were ignorant of him, and knew only a
false god, an impostor, whose true nature was unknown to them.
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- The Gnostics, based on their thorough
study of the Book of Genesis, exposed Jehovah as Satanael the Demiurge,
the creative power of this fallen material world, who is hostile to the
Supreme Being. One Gnostic teacher told how the unknown Father made the
angels, the archangels, powers and dominions. The world, however, and everything
in it, was made by seven particular angels, and man too is a work of the
angels. These angels he described as rebellious feeble artisans.
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- Saturninus (90-150), who established
an important Gnostic community in Syria, taught that the One True God,
the Heavenly Father revealed by Jesus, dwells in the highest Realm of Light.
Between this transcendent Realm of Light and our finite world exist vast
intermediate hierarchies of archangels, angels and spiritual powers; the
builders of the universe and the fashioners of man. In foolishness and
vanity Satanael rebelled against the Realm of Light, leading astray a company
of angelic beings. Satanael and his minions contrived to trap spiritual
beings in physical bodies. Saturninus told how Satanael's creator angels
endeavoured to create physical human bodies in the image of spiritual beings.
This way they planned to keep spiritual beings permanently attached to
physical bodies.
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- In Saturninus' account of creation, Satanael's
creator angels could only form a primitive android. It was necessary to
animate it with a spirit being from the upper realms. Satanael therefore
lured down into his soulless universe a light-spark from the heavenly realms
and trapped it within the material body of Adam. According to Apelles,
another early Gnostic teacher, spirit beings were enticed from their place
in the heavenly realms by the opportunity of physical experience, through
the machinations of Jehovah, after which he bound them in bodies of flesh.
Generation succeeded generation, as the light-sparks took embodiment in
human forms. Soon these spiritual beings became so engrossed in the material
world that they lost all awareness of their origin in the Realm of Light.
They found themselves captured in the world of the Demiurge Satanael. Indeed,
they became slaves to the malevolent creator angels and the things of their
world.
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- The Catholic Church, by accepting the
Hebrew Bible in its literal interpretation, mistook the tribal god Jehovah
for the Supreme Being. In imitation of old Israel, the Church set about
establishing a political and religious empire. Only the Gnostic Christians
stood in their way. The Gnostics quickly found themselves viciously denounced
as heretics, their sacred books banned and burnt. Thanks to the miraculous
discovery of several Gnostic scriptures at Nag Hammadi in Egypt, just fifty
years ago, we can gain a better insight into the Gnostic Christian communities
of the early centuries AD.
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- A Gnostic work uncovered at Nag Hammadi
called The Apocalypse of Adam, is an enlightening account of the creation
of Adam and Eve. This book, dating from the first century, may be an attempt
to reconstruct the original Genesis. Adam is said to declare:
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- When god had created me out of the earth
along with Eve your mother, I went about with her in a glory which she
had seen in the aeon from which we had come forth [Realm of Light]. She
taught me a word of knowledge of the eternal God. And we resembled the
great eternal angels, for we were higher than the god who had created us
and the powers with him, whom we did not know.
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- Then god [the Demiurge/Satanael], the
ruler of the aeons and the powers, divided us in wrath. Then we became
two aeons. And the glory in our heart(s) left us·.After those days
the eternal knowledge of the God of Truth [Heavenly Father] withdrew from
me and your mother Eve. Since this time we learned about dead things, like
men. Then we recognised the god [Demiurge] who had created us. For we were
not strangers to his powers. And we served him in fear and slavery.
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- The Gnostics understood that there are
many different orders of beings. Their writings refer to numerous hierarchies
of spiritual entities, both of the Light and of the Darkness. These beings
not only move in the subtle frequencies, but can also take form in the
physical dimension. Like the Essenes and Jesus, the Gnostics recognised
the ability of "angels" to embody themselves in the flesh. The
fallen angels were most often termed rulers or Archons, and the chief Archon
known by various names such as Satanael, Jehovah, Ildabaoth, Sacklas, Satan,
Sammael, etc. They possessed the power to create bodies and believed themselves
to be `gods'. As a consequence of their degraded state, they are hostile
to humanity and attempt to prevent mankind from attaining to spiritual
liberation.
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- John A. Keel, author of Disneyland of
the Gods, and Our Haunted Planet, argues that the late 20th century interest
in extraterrestrials, aliens and UFOs is just a modern day attempt to come
to terms with the same forces other peoples and cultures once identified
as "demons" or "fallen angels":
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- The flying saucers are merely another
frame of reference to provide us with acceptable explanations for some
of these grotesque events. An invisible phenomenon is always stalking us
and manipulating our beliefs. We see only what it chooses to let us see,
and we usually react.
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- The notion that the human body is the
work of malevolent creator angels remarkably parallels the idea that extraterrestrials
engaged in genetic engineering to `create' homo sapiens. Are we dealing
with exactly the same phenomenon? Did the Gnostics know the truth about
Man's real origin and the unseen powers that seek to keep human beings
in bondage? Are the malevolent creator angels who, say the Gnostics, stole
spiritual beings and trapped them in physical bodies, the same as the extraterrestrial
creator gods of Sumeria? Consider the following observation of a modern
Gnostic scholar, Dr. Stephen Hoeller:
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- The star-angels and other ruling spirits
appear as tyrannical, limiting agencies in this Gnostic view. They are
usurpers who lord it over humanity and creation in order to enhance their
own self-importance and glory. It is incumbent upon the knower to realize
this and to extricate himself from the grasp of these powers whenever possible.
The existential predicament of human life lies in the uncomfortable dominance
to which these lesser godlings subject the spirits of human beings, and
from which only the experiential realization of Gnosis can extricate them.
(Jung and the Lost Gospels)
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- The creator angels or Archons are also
characterised as terrible powers or forces of negativity and illusion.
They are cosmic Prison Warders seeking to keep their human charges bound
to the Earth. Caught up in the illusions of material existence, Man believes
he is just a body and he cannot grasp the truth of his origin. This condition
perpetuates spiritual blindness, leaving human kind in captivity to the
Prison Warders.
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- However, the Gnostics never ceased from
proclaiming that Man's True Being is not his body, and the material world
is definitely not his true home. Man is a spiritual being and his purpose
is to realise his higher Self, that light-spark exiled in the physical
body. His destiny is to return to the Realm of Light, his true home beyond
the stars.
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- We must be reawakened to our origin,
where we came from, how we became trapped on this planet, and how we can
achieve liberation. The Gnostics urge us to escape from the trap of the
world and open our eyes to our true origin.
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- For further information on the subjects
discussed in this article, please write to: The Secretary, Life Science
Fellowship, PO Box 12116, A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Extracted from New Dawn No.44 (September-October,
1997)
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- © 1997 by Life Science Fellowship
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