There is a
simple premise in esoteric literature: thoughts have power. Even modern science
accepts that behind the structure we know as the material world is a web of
energy, and the interactions between different types of energy create the
semblance of solidity we call matter. Thought, then, as a form of energy, has
the same power. This is why in so many traditions there are admonitions about
controlling the thought process, while thinking and doing are still different
things, thinking does have its effects.
Clairvoyants
of many persuasions have seen and documented the shapes and forms produced by
various types of thought; witness the work of Charles Leadbeater. While many of
these forms are fleeting, when empowered by the emotions and by memory they
become more than just thoughts, they become thought forms.
These
thoughtforms exist beyond simply when they are thought – they take on an
independent existence within the mind of the thinker. They then influence
memory and condition our perceptions of everyday life. We may want to see these
thoughtforms as only existing within the psyche of the neurotic or unstable,
and yet all of us have our lives conditioned by the thoughtforms we have
created in the past. For most people they never see the present unfiltered, all
experience is sieved through thoughtforms created from childhood, and even
beyond through past lives.
“Meme:
(pron. ‘meem’) A contagious idea that replicates like a virus, passed on from
mind to mind. Memes function the same way genes and viruses do, propagating
through communication networks and face-to-face contact between people.”
– David S. Bennahum.
Thoughts
however go much further. As documented in much modern research on Memes,
thoughtforms can become like viruses of the mind. They can spread throughout
groups, families, nations and indeed the world and are passed through the
deeper levels of the unconscious we all experience. Rumours, tales and urban myths
are all memes or thoughtforms. While they may be primarily passed by the
printed word, internet, media, etc., there is a time when they reach a certain
“saturation point” and then become part of the collective unconscious. This is
exceptionally dangerous as negative and violent forms can control groups and
crowds creating mob violence and aggression. These group-minds are really
thoughtforms out of control, and are known in the Gnostic Tradition as Archons.
There are multitudes of Archons dwelling both within our minds and within the
collective unconscious.
Not only can
Archons exist in the unconscious collective mind, they can create a breach into
the astral worlds through which fallen spiritual entities can then move into
the earthly spheres and control the thoughtforms created. The Archons are the
products of mankind enlivened by fallen spirits and fed by our own emotions.
They can control and influence individuals, collectives, even nations and
governments.
In Gnostic
literature these Archons can so increase in power that they become Dominions,
forces which control whole groups of people; even races and countries. People
of many religions think that they are worshipping the I-AM; however they are
actually feeding a false god, an Archon they have created from their own
ignorance. This happens all too often and is why the esoteric tradition is
imperative.
Without the
guidance of esotericism, many will be caught within the web of exoteric (outer)
religion. Fundamentalism, cults, literalism, extremism are all products of
incorrect readings of the spiritual tradition. When these groups develop, their
thoughtforms take on a life of their own and, not being connected to the “real”
energies of the Great Chain of Being, they soon sour and become a nexus for the
manifestation of fallen entities from the astral worlds.
These fallen
spirits work out of step with the universe and invigorate these forms so that
they become independent, discrete fields of energy within the astral world
(Archons). They grow from Archons to Dominions and rule from their astral
kingdoms. Their poor and unfortunate worshippers think they are following the
“true god” but are actually feeding monsters created from mans suffering and
ignorance. Many of these forms feed on suffering, while others feed on
pleasure, and they amplify the emotions of their members to gain more and more
sustenance. In some sense they are truly “spiritual vampires”, and without
esotericism, all religions and traditions succumb.
“(They
took…) The name of those that are good and gave it to those that are not good,
so that through the names they might deceive him (mankind) and bind those to
those that are not good.”
– Nag Hammadi Gospel of Phillip 54:18-25.
The imagery
of Archons is very strong in Gnostic literature, and because it has become
mixed with tales of cosmological dualism, many have come to believe that the
Archons are the result of a cosmic error or fall. The reality is that there was
no cosmic error, just a misinterpretation caused by ignorance. Yet at the same
time this ignorance has created a doorway through which fallen forms can enter
and it is these Archons, or whatever we call them, which keep us from
appreciating our own misperceptions. Indeed, it is through our own permission
that they enter the earth sphere. This is the idea which gave birth to the
“fall of man” tradition. Since man in his ignorance created fallen thought
forms and allowed fallen entities to enter into the earth stream, then
ultimately man is responsible for the present condition of his planet, his
culture and his soul.
The issue of
Archons is complex for there is an interaction between our own thoughtforms and
real fallen astral entities. The thoughtforms allow these entities to interface
with our own unconscious. They can change form according to the language of the
culture through which they communicate and, being a mixture of our own
thoughtforms and “fallen” spirits, can mimic our own hidden desires and needs.
While in Medieval periods we may have had demons, incubus and succubus, in the
present we have aliens, UFO abductions and medical experiments by creatures we
cannot see. In the modern mode, these Archons are sometimes called
“ultraterrestrials”. However we must realize that these forms are spiritual in
origin. Although there are many other races within our universe, it does seem
that a percentage of UFO sightings and experiences reflect our own fears,
terrors, needs and desires and hence have an Archontic origin.
“The
world is the work of lowly powers which, though they may mediately be descended
from Him, do not know the true God and obstruct the knowledge of Him in the
cosmos over which they rule. The genesis of these lower powers, the Archons,
and in general that of all the Orders of being outside God, including the world
itself, is the main theme of Gnostic speculation … The universe, the domain of
the Archons, is like a vast prison whose innermost dungeon is the earth, the
scene of man’s life. Around and above it the cosmic spheres are arranged like
concentric enclosing shells. Most frequently there are seven spheres of the
planets surrounded by the eighth and of the fixed stars…
The
religious significance of this cosmic architecture lies in the idea that
everything which intervenes between here and the beyond serves to separate from
God, not merely by spatial distance but by active demonic force. Thus the
vastness and multiplicity of the cosmic system express the degree to which man
is removed from God…
The
Archons collectively rule over the world and each individually in his sphere is
a warder of the cosmic prison. Their tyrannical world-rule is called
Hiemarmene, universal Fate … [This universal fate] aims at the enslavement of
man. As guardians of his sphere each Archon bars the passage to the souls that
seek to ascend after death, in order to prevent their escape from the world and
their return to God.” – The
Gnostic Religion, Hans Jonas.
So when we
read a description of Gnosticism such as that found in the classic text The Gnostic Religion by
Hans Jonas, we must appreciate that the seeming cosmic dualism is actually a
dualism between the real and the unreal, between the light of the higher worlds
and forces which have been created through ignorance. They are like “monsters
from the Id”, they seem real enough and since the physical world is shaped and
formed by our perceptions, they are for all intents and purposes real. The only
way for us to escape Hiemarmene (universal fate) is to realize that we have
created the prison bars ourselves.
“What a
tragic world this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the
ultimate tragedy is that they don’t know it; they think they are free because
they never have been free, and do not understand what it means. This is a
prison, and few men have guessed. But I know, he said to himself. Because that
is why I am here. To burn the walls, to tear down the metal gates, to break
each chain. Thou shalt not muzzle the Ox as he treadeth out the corn, he
thought, remembering the Torah.”
– The
Divine Invasion, Phillip K. Dick. HarperCollins 1981.
“For we
contend not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against the
powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness.”
– Ephesians 6:12.
While the
Archons and the Demiurge are creations of man’s ignorance, they are used by the
fallen spirits as a source of power. This is one of the major problems with the
Archons we create – they attract forms and spirits which are themselves in
ignorance and hence follow them.
Reference:
The
Institute for Gnostic Studies. (1997-2000). The
Gnostic Handbook. [e-book].
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Are the Anunnaki real? Are they
aliens? Or are they part of a bigger picture?
by D.M. Murdock/Acharya S
The
"Anunnaki" are the major players in a paradigm making its way
into popular folklore,
via the work of the late Zecharia Sitchin, an economist by education and
profession, and the author of several best-selling books, including Genesis Revisited, that
explore ancient mythology and the mysterious megalithic ruins found around the
globe. These various books also seek to demonstrate that there was in ancient
times an extraterrestrial race that genetically manipulated mankind for various
reasons.
The Sitchin
thesis ("Sitchinism"), now embraced by numerous other writers, who
have incorporated it into what is apparently a new worldview, essentially
asserts that these ancient Sumero-Babylonian gods, the Anunnaki, are aliens
from the planet Nibiru (Sitchin's "12th Planet"), which passes by the
earth every 3,500 years or so, at which time they planet-hop to the earth and
create mischief.
Although the idea of
the ancient gods being aliens may seem novel, the tendency to make the gods of
old into "real people" or "flesh and blood" is not at all
new, dating to before the time of the Greek historian Herodotus (5th c. BCE)
and developed by the Greek philosopher Euhemeros or Evemeras (c. 300 BCE). This
tendency is called, in fact, "euhemerism" or "evemerism,"
which claims that the numerous gods of various cultures were not
"mythical" but were in reality kings, queens, warriors and assorted
heroes whose lives were turned into fairytales with the addition of miraculous
details to their biographies. The current Anunnaki thesis is a modern version of
evemerism, although it seeks to explain the miracles as not fabulous
"additions" to the tales but genuine attributes of advanced
extraterrestrials.
Unfortunately
for those who would wish to see concrete evidence of such exciting notions as
extraterrestrial visitation in Earth's remote past, the Anunnaki will not be
the place to look, as the true nature of these various gods and goddesses was
already known long before the era of modern revisionism.
Ancient
Astronaut Theory
The tireless
researcher Charles Fort was widely known as the chronicler of what are now
called "Forteana,"bizarre anomalies and
mysteries that throw the current perception of reality on its ear, whether
it be religious or scientific. In an attempt to explain these anomalies,
which include weird stories or "myths" and enormous, astonishing
ruins worldwide, a number of people,
including Swiss writer Erich von Daniken and Zecharia Sitchin, have created the
"ancient astronaut theory," which dictates that alien visitors have
been influencing human life for thousands if not millions of years, even to the
point of genetic manipulation. von Daniken, it should be recalled, was one of
the first moderns to put forth the ancient astronaut theory and was widely
ridiculed and vilified for his observations.
Because of
Sitchin's apparent scholastic training, he becomes more credible for many, even
though he is one of those renegades not scholastically trained in his field.
Furthermore, it should be noted that neither man came up with the ancient
astronaut theory, which was largely developed by a German occultic
society, for one, during the 19th century.
Supporters
("Sitchinites") claim that Sitchin is one of the few people who read
the Sumerian language and that because he can read Sumerian, he must be
interpreting the data properly. The assertion that he is one of the few
scholars of Sumerian is not true. Moreover, the idea that someone may be able
to read a language and therefore can interpret its data properly is a specious
argument, because the one certainly does not guarantee the other. Years before
Sitchin, biblical and Dead Sea scrolls scholar John Allegro studied Sumerian
intimately and came to very different conclusions: To wit, that many of the
words revolved around sex and drugs. Hence, it is not the "mere" ability
to read the Sumerian that will produce an accurate rendering of it.
Biblical
Bias?
Like so many other
paradigms that make it into popular culture, the alien astronaut theory has been
agenda-driven. In fact, it seems that the most recent attempt may be prompted
by the same type of motivation that produced the Bible, a chronicle largely
consisting of the plagiarized myths of other cultures that were reconstituted
as "humans" of a particular ethnicity. It appears that the Anunnaki
thesis has now led to the conclusion that, while the Bible is not infallible,
its god Yahweh is valid and its various characters are the superhuman
alien-hybrid progenitors of "the chosen."
In reality,
there was no reason to recreate the ancient gods as aliens or humans,
because the ancients themselves were quite clear about what it was exactly they
were worshipping and fancifully describing in epic poetry. The speculation is not
needed, as, for example, the Sumero-Babylonians themselves said that the gods
were the planets, not people, and that their stories were myths
representing personifications of these bodies.
It is believed that by "dismissing" the myths
of the ancients as myths,
we are somehow robbing them of their "history." This claim is
ludicrous, as it is those who insist that there are no myths who are
actually defaming the ancients. It seems as if everyone has already forgotten
the work of the learned and esteemed mythologist Joseph Campbell. Campbell knew
that major biblical tales, such as that of Moses and the Exodus, were mythical.
In his book Occidental Mythology,
following a discussion of the Bible, Campbell turns to the "Gods and
Heroes of the European West," and says, with apparent resentment:
"Fortunately,
it will not be necessary to argue that Greek, Celtic or Germanic myths were
mythological. The peoples themselves knew they were myths, and the
European scholars discussing them have not been overborne by the idea of
something uniquely holy about their topic."
Perhaps
mythology is simply not as exciting as the UFOlogical paradigm, whereby ancient
astronauts were buzzing all over the place, being worshipped for their
extraordinary capacities. However, the desire to see such a "history"
often seems to be coming from exposure as a youth to comic books and sci-fi
movies—and even the History Channel these days, featuring "Ancient Aliens" shows!
Astrotheology
of the Ancients
The ancients
were not the dark and dumb rabble commonly portrayed. They were, in fact,
highly advanced. As such, they developed over a period of many thousands of
years a complex astronomical/ astrological system that incorporated the
movements and qualities of numerous celestial bodies, which could be called the
"celestial mythos." The celestial mythos is found around
the globe in astonishing uniformity. In fact, it served as the manner by which
life on Earth was ordered, as it contained information crucial to life, such as
the movements and interrelationship of the sun and moon. Without the mythos, no
people would have been able to become sea-faring, and planting and harvesting
would have been difficult. And the mythos needed no alien intervention to be
developed by humans, nor did it need moderns to come along and reinterpret it
contrary to what its creators intended.
For example,
the Anunnaki play a part in the mythos, but they are not "people,"
human or otherwise. The Anunnaki, in general, represent the seven "nether
spheres" and guardians of the seven "gates" through which the
"sun of God" passes into the netherworld or darkness. They are also
the "tutelary spirits of the earth." So, immediately we encounter a
problem which reveals that what Sitchin is putting forth is not what the
ancients themselves said of the traditions they themselves developed. Like so
many before him, Sitchin also wants to make the main character of the celestial
mythos, the sun, into a person. Actually, he wants to make it into several
extraterrestrials. These various gods found around the globe, such as Apollo,
Osiris, Horus, Krishna, Hercules, Jesus and Quetzalcoatl, are not people or
aliens but personifications of the solar hero, as was stated by the peoples who
created them. The ancients were not so dumb that they mistook planets for
people, even though they personified those planets and, where the knowledge or gnosis
of the mythos was lost, they hoped for "the incarnation," or the
carnalization or appearance of a "god." There is no need to recreate
the wheel here by speculating upon what the ancients "really" meant.
The
Anunnaki and Assorted Other Characters
Contrary to
popular belief, the Sumerian culture has been known for centuries and did not appear
suddenly out of nowhere with the discovery of the cuneiform tablets found at
Ur, capitol of Sumeria, for example. If anything, the tablets and others
verified what we already knew about Sumeria from its inheritors, the Akkadians
and Assyro-Babylonians. The Sumerians were not a lost civilization, except that
their older physical remains such as at Ur had not been remembered through the
ages but were rediscovered only in the mid-19th century. Their mythology and
culture were fairly well preserved in the succeeding civilizations: For
instance, some 300,000 tablets of the Babylonians have been found thus far,
which include much commentary on their gods.
The main
characters in the Sumero-Babylonian religion/mythology are Enlil/Ellil,
Utu/Shamash, Marduk/Merodach, Gilgamesh, Nanna/Sin, Inanna/Ishtar, Ea/Enki and
Dumuzi/Tammuz. A number of these deities are in the class called
"Anunnaki" and/or "Igigi." The Anunnaki are numbered
variously: 7, 50 and 900.
None of
these characters is a historical person, as, again, the Sumero-Babylonians
correctly identified their own gods as being the "planets," which, of
course, included the sun and the moon to the ancients. Says the Catholic
Encyclopedia regarding Babel:
"The storied tower of Birs Nimrud counts
seven of these quadrangular platforms painted in seven colors, black, white,
yellow, blue, scarlet, silver and gold, and in the same order sacred to the stellar
gods, Adar (Saturn), Ishtar (Venus), Merodach (Jupiter), Nebo (Mercury), Nergal
(Mars), Sin (the Moon), Shamash (the Sun)."
Enlil/Ellil/Bel
The
"king of the Anunnaki," Enlil is the storm/wind god, also essentially
the same as the later Bel or Baal, the Canaanite sun god/solar hero. Enlil and
Ninlil give birth to the moon god Nanna, "a major astral deity of the
Sumerians," who was called "Sin" in Babylonian. Sin is the same
moon god encamped at Mt. Sinai, as well as worshipped at Ur and Harran, where
purportedly lived the mythical Abraham, progenitor
of the Hebrews, who "borrowed" many of their gods (Elohim) from
Mesopotamia (and Canaan, Egypt, etc.). Obviously, neither the moon nor
"his parents" are real persons/aliens; nor are the rest. Regarding
Enlil/Bel, the Encyclopedia
Britannica says:
"Bel
"(Akkadian),
Sumerian Enlil,
Mesopotamian god of the atmosphere and a member of the triad of gods completed
by Anu (Sumerian An) and Ea (Enki). Enlil meant 'Lord Wind'- both the hurricane
and the gentle winds of spring were thought of as the breath issuing from his
mouth, and eventually as his word or command [cf. Christian "logos"
(John 1:1)]. He was sometimes called Lord of the Air.
"Although
An was the highest god in the Sumerian pantheon, Enlil had a more important
role: he embodied energy and force but not authority. Enlil's cult centre was
Nippur. Enlil was also the god of agriculture: the Myth of the Creation of the
Hoe describes how he separated heaven and earth to make room for seeds to grow.
He then invented the hoe and broke the hard crust of earth; men sprang forth
from the hole. Another myth relates Enlil's rape of his consort Ninlil
(Akkadian Belit), a grain goddess, and his subsequent banishment to the
underworld. This myth reflects the agricultural cycle of fertilization,
ripening and winter inactivity.
"The
name of his Akkadian counterpart, Bel, is derived from the Semitic word baal,
or "lord." Bel had all the attributes of Enlil, and his status and
cult were much the same. Bel, however, gradually came to be thought
of as the god of order and destiny. In Greek writings references to Bel
indicate this Babylonian deity and not the Syrian god of Palmyra of the same
name."
Although
there were many Baalim, the singular Baal apparently came to represent the sun
in the age of Taurus (c. 4500-2400 BCE), whence, it is said, comes
the word "bull."
Sin
and Shamash
The moon god
Sin is the father of Shamash, the Babylonian sun god, who was worshipped by the
Israelites. Indeed, "sun" in Hebrew is "shamash." The sun
god Shamash was called the "sublime judge of the Anunnaki."
Enki/Ea
The
"commander of the Anunnaki" and son of Enki/Ea, the god of "the
waters" (cf. Gen. 1:1), was Marduk, or Merodach, who is apparently the
Mordecai of the biblical book of Esther (Ishtar). Also called a "king of
the Igigi," Marduk was the supreme Babylonian god and often represented
Jupiter, although as "Bel-Marduk" he incorporated aspects of the sun
god as well and was considered as such at a late period in his worship.
One of
Marduk's 50 names was "Nibiru" or "Nebiru," in which Robert
Temple in The Sirius Mystery
sees the Egyptian term "Neb-Heru," meaning "Lord of the
sun." The god
Horus or "Heru" is indeed largely a sun god, depicted as a hawk with wings
outstretched and the solar orb on his head.
Rather than
representing the "12th planet," the description of Nibiru in the
Enuma Elish does indeed seem to depict the personification of the sun and its "exploits." "Nebo" was
the Babylonian version of "Moses," actually a solar hero, and Nibiru,
in fact, is represented by a winged disc, a common motif depicting the
sun. According to the consensus of astronomers worldwide, both amateur and
professional, there is no evidence for the 12th planet/Nibiru as Sitchin
presents it. (In other words, "Planet X" is not a known,
astronomical reality.)
Gilgamesh
The demigod/hero
Gilgamesh is depicted as wrestling the "celestial bull," said
to represent the sign of the age of Taurus and is similar to the motif of
the Perso-Roman sun god Mithra slaying the bull. In mourning the death of Enki,
Gilgamesh "goes to the mountains of Mashu and passes by the guardian
scorpion-demons into the darkness." Mt. Mashu was where "every
evening the sun sought repose." Per Robert Temple,
"Mashu" may be derived from an Egyptian term meaning,
"Behold, the sun." Like "Moses," derived from mashah in Hebrew (Strong's
h3871), "Mashu" is apparently related to "Shamash" and
represents the sun. The "scorpion-demons" or scorpion-men are
evidently the stars in the constellation of Scorpio, in the darkness of the
night sky. Gilgamesh has also been associated with the Egyptian sun god Osiris,
as has the biblical "Nimrod" or "Nemrod." The Catholic Encyclopedia (CE) states:
"Gilgamesh,
whom mythology transformed into a Babylonian Hercules [the Greek solar hero],
whose fortunes are described in the Gilgamesh-epos, would then be the person
designated by the Biblical Nemrod. Others again see in Nemrod an intentional
corruption of Amarudu, the Akkadian for Marduk, whom the Babylonians worshiped
as the great God..." ("Babylonia")
Inanna/Ishtar
One of the
"seven who decreed the fates," Inanna/Ishtar was the Goddess,
alternately Venus, the moon, the constellation of Virgo, the earth, etc. Ishtar
was "Astarte" in Phoenicia, and, as Frazer says in The Worship of Nature,
"Her Phoenician worshippers identified her with the Moon..." Like the
Greek god of the underworld, Hades, who allowed his beloved Persephone to
return to the surface in order to create spring, Inanna was the creator of
seasons, as she is depicted permitting the solar-fertility god
Dumuzi/Tammuz to remain in the underworld for only six months out of the year.
Dumuzi/Tammuz
One of the lesser
Anunnaki, the "shepherd god" Tammuz was worshipped also in Jerusalem,
per the book of Ezekiel (8:14). As the Babylonian records state concerning
their "garden of Eden" or "Edina," of Eridu: "a dark
vine grew; it was made a glorious place, planted beside the abyss. In the
glorious house, which is like a forest, its shadow extends; no man enters its
midst. In its interior is the Sun-god
Tammuz. Between the mouths of the rivers, which are on both
sides." (CE
"Babylonia")
The
Netherworld Seven
In the Epic
of Gilgamesh, the Anunnaki appear thus:
"The
Flood: Nergal pull down the dams of the nether waters, Ninurta the war lord
threw down the dykes, and the SEVEN judges of hell, THE ANUNNAKI, raised their
torches lighting the land with their vivid fire."
The "nether
waters" represent the heavens, and the Anunnaki were called "the
fates" and light-bearers of the night sky. They were the "seven
judges of hell" and "seven nether spheres," as Barbara G. Walker
relates in her entry on Mary Magdalene (The
Woman's Encyclopedia, 614):
"The
seven 'devils' exorcised from Mary Magdalene seem to have been the seven Maskim,
or Anunnaki, Sumero-Akkadian spirits of the seven nether spheres, born of the
goddess Mari. Their multiple birth was represented in her sacred dramas, which
may account for their alleged emergence from Mary Magdalene. An Akkadian tablet
said of them, 'They are seven! In the depths of the ocean, they are seven! In
the brilliance of the heavens, they are seven! They proceed from the ocean
depths [Maria] from the hidden retreat!"
"A
generally accepted view of the universe in antiquity was the doctrine of the
planetary spheres, conceived as great crystal domes or inverted bowls nested
inside one another over the earth, turning independently of one another at
various rates, and emitting the 'music of the spheres' with their motions. The
theory was evolved to explain the apparently erratic movement of planets
against the background of the fixed stars. Reading from the innermost sphere
outward, arranging them
according to the days of the week, they were the spheres of the moon, Mars,
Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and the sun. Outermost was the
eight sphere, the Empyrean, the home of fixed spheres and the ultimate God: the
highest heaven.
"As a
corollary to this theory, it was also assumed that there were seven nether
spheres descending under the earth: the 'seven hells' to which Dumuzi and
Inanna (or Tammuz and Ishtar) journeyed; whose seven gates were guarded by the
seven Anunnaki or Maskim, the nether counterparts of the planetary spirits.
According to an Akkadian magic tablet, 'They proceed from the ocean depths, from
the hidden retreat.' From the ancient idea of the seven nether spheres, Dante
took his vision of the descending circles of hell.'
"Early
Christians taught that each human soul descends from heaven, picking up one of
the seven deadly sins from each planetary sphere along the way: lust from
Venus, anger from Mars, and so on. After death, the soul returned to the
highest heaven, shedding the same sins one by one, while passing the
'innkeeper' of the spheres - providing, of course, that the soul was Christianized
and therefore properly enlightened."
When we
study what the ancients said about them, we discover that the Anunnaki, et al.,
are part of the celestial mythos, not "aliens." Here
the Anunnaki are the "seven nether spheres" or mirror images of
the seven "planets." These seven judges are a common mythical motif,
also found in Slavic/Serbian mythology, for example, where they are clearly
identified as the planets:
"Among
the Serbs the Sun was a young and handsome king. He lived in a kingdom of light
and sat on a throne of gold and purple. At his side stood two beautiful
virgins, Aurora of the Morning and Aurora of the Evening, seven judges (the
planets) and seven 'messengers' who flew across the universe in the guise of
'stars with tails' (comets). Also present was the Sun's 'bald uncle, old
Myesyats' (or the moon)." New
Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, 284
As we can
see, the reality of this issue is much more colorful and luminous than a group
of bizarre aliens terrorizing cavemen. This information is what the ancients
themselves wrote. They did not write, "And so the Anunnaki were sky people
from another planet who landed here and mated with humans, etc." In fact,
"Anunnaki" is a generic term for gods, especially secondary gods, and
means "gods of heaven and earth," not
"those who from heaven to earth came." "An" or
"Anu" means "sky" and represents the name of the "god
of heaven," while "Ki" means "earth" and is the name
of the earth goddess.
The
Host of Heaven and Sons of God
As noted,
the Anunnaki were numbered 900 as well, some of whom apparently represented the
stars,
i.e., the zodiac, or "heavenly host," as worshipped by the Canaanites
and Hebrews. In this regard, Benson writes in The History of God From Abraham to Moses:
"The
Anunnaki were analogous to the 'host of heaven' of the Hebrews. Marduk allotted
portions to the Anunnaki: 'To the Anunnaki of heaven and earth [Marduk] had
allotted their portions.' Likewise, the Canaanite-Hebrew god El Elyon allotted
portions to his sons: 'When the Most High [Heb. Elyon] gave to the nations
their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of
the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. For the LORDs portion
is his people, Jacob [Israel] his allotted heritage.' (Deuteronomy 32:8-9 RSV)
These 'sons of God' in the following verse are also called the 'host of
heaven,' to whom God divided to all the nations: 'And lest you lift up your eyes
to heaven, and when you see...all the host of heaven...which the LORD your God
has divided to all nations under the whole heaven.' (Deuteronomy 4:19 KJV)
These gods were secondary gods: 'For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord
of lords...' (Deuteronomy 10:17 KJV) 'O give thanks to the God of gods...'
(Psalm 136:2 KJV)"
Yahweh
Also, the
biblical god Yahweh is not a person, alien or otherwise. "He"
too is in large part a solar myth. Regarding Yahweh, the Catholic Encyclopedia
says:
"It
seems likely that the name of Ea, or Ya, or Aa, the oldest god of the
Babylonian Pantheon, is connected with the name Jahve, Jahu, or Ja, of the Old
Testament."
The
Babylonian "Ea" is equivalent to Enlil, whom, as we have seen, is a
sun god.
Prior to being labeled Yahweh, the Israelite
god was called "Baal." signifying the sun in the Age of Taurus. When
the sun passed into Aries, "the Lord's" name was changed to the
Egyptian Iao, which became YHWH, IEUE, Yahweh, Jahweh, Jehovah and Jah. This
ancient name "IAO/Iao" represents the totality of "God," as
the "I" symbolizes unity, the "a" is the "alpha"
or beginning, while the "o" is the "omega" or end.
In fact, the
name Yahweh, Iao or any number of variants thereof can be found in several
cultures:
"In
Phoenicia the Sun was known as Adonis...identical with Iao, or, according to
the Chinese faith, Yao (Jehovah), the Sun, who makes his appearance in the
world 'at midnight of the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth month.'"
YHWH/IEUE
was additionally the Egyptian sun god Ra:
"Ra was
the father in heaven, who has the title of 'Huhi' the eternal, from which the
Hebrews derived the name 'Ihuh.'"
Thus, the
tetragrammaton or sacred name of God IAO/IEUE/YHWH is very old, pre-Israelite,
and can be etymologically linked to numerous gods, even to "Jesus,"
or "Yahushua," whose name means "salvation" or
"Iao/YHWH saves."
Yahweh had yet another aspect to "his" persona,
as at some early stage the "sacred tetragrammaton" of "God"
was bi-gendered. As Walker states:
"Jewish
mystical tradition viewed the original Jehovah as an androgyne, his/her name
compounded as Jah (jod) and the pre-Hebraic name of Eve, Havah or Hawah,
rendered he-vau-he- in Hebrew letters. The four letters together made the
sacred tetragrammaton, YHWH, the secret name of God.... The Bible contains many
plagiarized excerpts from earlier hymns and prayers to Ishtar and other Goddess
figures, with the name of Yahweh substituted for that of the female
deity."
Thus, even
Yahweh was at one time plural, but "he" eventually became an
all-male, sky god. This singular Yahweh was a warrior god, representing the sun
in Aries, which is ruled by the warlike Mars and symbolized by the Ram-the same
symbolic ram "caught in a thicket" near Abraham and used by him as a
replacement sacrifice for his son Isaac. This warrior god Yahweh was not only
Jealous but Zealous, as his name is rendered in Young's Literal Translation:
"...for
ye do not bow yourselves to another god-for Jehovah, whose name [is] Zealous,
is a zealous God." (Exodus 34:14)
In fact, the
same word in Hebrew is used for both jealous and zealous, although it is
transliterated differently, "qanna" being jealous and
"qana," zealous. As El Elyon was but one of the Canaanite Elohim, the
Most High God, so was "Yahweh," as "El Qanna," the
Jealous/Zealous God, which is why in the Old Testament he keeps sticking his
nose in and shouting at everyone. The title "Jealous/Zealous" is also
appropriate for a god represented by a volcano, as was Yahweh by the smoky and
fiery Mt. Sinai. Hence, Yahweh's followers themselves were intolerant and
hotheaded zealots.
Conclusion
There was in
reality never any need for sci-fi explanation or speculation as to these
various figures and their stories. Nor was there a need to take the Bible
as a literal, historical document. Indeed, the behind-the-scenes elite have
known the allegorical, mythical and astrological nature of the Bible and its
characters from the beginning.
It is
evident that the ancients recording these myths were in fact often smarter than
they are given credit for by modern critics and researchers. They knew the
difference between planets and people/aliens. The architecture, art, writings and traditions of these various ancient
cultures, including Sumero-Babylon, India, Egypt, Chaldea, Phoenicia, Canaan,
etc., show an advanced degree of civilization surpassing that which followed
it. Such later degradation is particularly true when it comes to biblical
peoples. The Bible, in fact, represents a dumbed-down version of the mythology
of the aforementioned cultures. In reality, in terms of cosmic knowledge, in
many important ways modern man has devolved. One of the major problems is the
compulsive and irrational historicization and vulgarization of the
planetary bodies and of the celestial mythos and ritual, a body of knowledge
and wisdom concerning the cosmos and specifically the solar system, which
filled the ancients with awe and reverence. This mythos and ritual is found
worldwide, reflecting a global culture in ancient times. This body of knowledge
is discovered in stone and story all over the world, reflected in the
mysterious megalithic ruins.
To reduce
this glory to a band of aliens and/or humans is a serious mistake, as it robs
the ancients of intelligence and wisdom, among other things, including the
quality of humanity itself. Furthermore, part of the brainwashing to get people
to accept the story of Jesus Christ, for example—which is significantly the
story of the sun—was to make
"myths" appear to be foolish stories with no basis in reality. This
mental programming or "meme" has been displayed abundantly, but the
fact is that myths are not mere fantasies and hallucinations. They are
stories designed to pass along vital information from generation to generation.
It is easier to remember the "exploits" of the sun, moon and stars,
for example, when they are personified and told in a fun story than when
presented in a dry dissertation. It is only when the knowledge, or gnosis, has
been lost that humans start believing these entities to be real people —and the
gnosis was very effectively driven underground by organized religion, such that
it was lost to the masses, who now must piece it together, often coming up with
erroneous and inaccurate interpretations with occasional hits now and then.
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