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GNOSTIC GRAIL…?
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Is
there an ET connection to the mystery of Jesus? Was the famed carpenter
from Galilee actually the Son of God, or a mere itinerant Rabbi
preaching Temple reform, or a cunning anti-Roman revolutionary–or was he
in fact a ‘Gnostic’, whose wisdom and teachings were so radical that a
vast authoritarian religious structure was erected to contain and
suppress it?
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“In
1209 an army of thirty thousand knights and foot soldiers from northern
Europe descended like a whirlwind on the Languedoc [Pronounced,
Lang-doc’]—the mountainous northeastern foothills of the Pyrenees in
what is now southern France. In the ensuing war the whole territory was
ravaged, crops were destroyed, towns and cities were razed; a whole
population was put to the sword. The extermination occurred on so vast
so terrible a scale that it may well constitute the first case of
“genocide” in modern European history.”
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“The
Inquisition arose out of an effort by Pope Innocent III to stamp out a
large heretical sect in the south of France known as the “Albigensians.”
Innocent III had called for a special Crusade in 1209 to enter France
and wipe out the sect. The five-year war, which ensued, devastated the
region. Ten years later, a new Pope, Gregory IX, continued the action.
He placed the Dominicans in charge of investigating the Albigensians.
Gregory gave the Dominican Order full legal power to name and condemn
all surviving heretics.”
“The inquisition helped breed a social reaction of violence to non-conforming ideas that the world has not yet fully escaped.”
“Albigensian”
and “Cathar” were essentially generic names. In other words they did
not refer to a single coherent church, like that of Rome, with a fixed
codified, and definitive body of doctrine and theology…in general the
Cathars subscribed to a doctrine of reincarnation and to a recognition
of the feminine principle in religion. Indeed, the preachers and
teachers of Cathar congregations were of both sexes. At the same time
the Cathars rejected the orthodox Catholic Church and denied the
validity of all clerical hierarchies, all official and ordained
intercessors between man and God. At the core of this position lay an
important Cathar tenet—the repudiation of ‘faith’ at least as the Church
insisted on it…the Cathars insisted on direct and personal knowledge, a
religious or mystical experience apprehended at first hand. This
experience has been called ‘gnosis’ , from the Greek word for
“knowledge” and for the Cathars it took precedence over all creeds and
dogmas. Given such an emphasis on direct personal contact with God,
priests, bishops, and other clerical authorities became superfluous.”
“For
the Cathars men were the swords that spirits fought with, and no one
saw the hands. For the Cathars a perpetual war was being waged
throughout the whole of creation between two irreconcilable
principles—light and darkness, spirit and matter, good and evil.
Catholicism posits one supreme God, whose adversary, the Devil, is
ultimately inferior to Him. The Cathars, however, proclaimed the
existence of not one god, but two with more or less comparable status.
One of these gods—the ‘good’ one was entirely disincarnate, a being or
principle of pure spirit, unsullied by the taint of matter. He was the
god of love.”
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“The
majority of Cathars seem to have regarded [Jesus] as a prophet no
different from any other—a mortal being who, on behalf of the principle
of love, died on the cross. And the cross—at least in association with
Calvary and the Crucifixion—was regarded as an emblem of Rex Mundi,
[Archon] lord of the material world, the very antithesis of the true
redemptive principle. Jesus, if mortal at all, had been a prophet of
AMOR, the principle of love. And AMOR, when inverted or perverted or
twisted into power, became ROMA—ROME, whose opulent, luxurious Church
seemed to the Cathars a palpable embodiment and manifestation on earth
of Rex Mundi’s sovereignty.”
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(Combined
excerpts from the books,“Holy Blood, Holy Grail”, by Michael Baigent,
Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, Dell Publishing, 1982, and “The Gods of
Eden”, by William Bramley, Avon Books, 1982 and the website,
http://www.Metahistory.org, by John Lash.)
GODDESS
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Dan
Brown’s blockbuster novel combined with the subsequent hit movie “Da
Vinci Code” both dramatically resurrected public fascination with the
Holy Grail mysteries and the secrets of Mary Magdalene as well as
ancient Goddess theologies.
What exactly was the ‘Grail’? Was it,
perhaps as tradition would have it, the chalice from which Jesus served
the wine at the ‘Last Supper’, and which also caught his blood at the
Crucifixion?
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Or,
was the Grail Chalice a metaphor hiding the shocking secret that Jesus
was by no means celibate and, in fact his ‘Holy Blood’ was secretly
preserved through future generations beginning with the child he may
have sired with his wife–Mary Magdalene?
Or, in an even broader
context, could the Grail mysteries be metaphors for the ‘Divine
Sophia’--ancient lost ‘Goddess’ theologies that revered the ‘feminine’
aspect of Deity?
The book entitled, “Not In His Image”, by John Lash
(Chelsea Green Publishing Co. 2006) offers a brilliant, ‘in-depth’ study
of the lost “Goddess” ideologies–Gnostic texts and cosmologies
examining their relationship to contemporary Western Civilization and
global ecology. Within this body of formidable research Lash reveals an
alternative account of Old Testament history that suggests the Holy
Bible may in fact be a chronicle of ancient extraterrestrial intrusion
and intervention in human development. Was the human race actually
subdued by extraterrestrial invaders, falsely masquerading as deity,
during the days of Abraham in the book of Genesis…?
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What
could lost pagan, ‘Goddess’ religions and theologies of remote
antiquity possibly have to do with the modern mystery of UFOs? Perhaps
more than we might ever dare to imagine…!
In the year 1947 the
possible reality of extraterrestrial intrusion into our world burst upon
public awareness with two dramatic events. First was the Kenneth Arnold
sighting near Mt. Rainier, when his eyewitness account of strange
flying craft coined the phrase ‘flying saucers’ in the national press;
and second was the famed saucer ‘crash’ reported by U.S. Army personnel
at Roswell, New Mexico. Since that point in time, the enigma of ‘flying
saucers’, or Unidentified Flying Objects, has become intrinsically
interwoven into our modern culture. Yet, that very same year, halfway
around the world in Cairo, Egypt, ancient documents revealing a “full
and coherent account of alien intrusion” that could be traced back to
early Bible times, was being translated by scholars of Gnostic theology.
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Two
years earlier, in 1945, an earthenware jar was dug up in a cave west of
the Nile near the village of Nag Hammadi. Contained in this jar were
papyrus scrolls or codices wrapped in leather of Biblical texts dating
back to around 400 AD. They appeared to be the only surviving fragments
of a much larger body of work; the equivalent perhaps of finding a mere
handful of pages left from a lost ‘Encyclopedia Britannica’. Yet it
appears these texts were secretly hidden in a last ditch effort to keep
them safe and preserved from a deliberate and systematic campaign to
destroy the vital information they contained.
Translation of the ‘Nag
Hammadi’ Scrolls reveals a body of early Christian teachings that are
considered ‘Gnostic’ in character. In other words, these texts contained
‘Gospels’ that had escaped censorship or revision by the Church of
Rome, and that repudiated the authority of orthodox Christian
doctrine—posing a theological threat, which clearly provided a motive to
keep them hidden.
Gnostic (from the Greek gnosis, meaning
‘knowledge’) thought insisted upon direct and personal, first-hand
religious or mystical experience with Deity, and vehemently rejected
dogmas, creeds and clerics or any superfluous intercessors between man
and God—an unwelcome posture for Vatican authority.
Yet contained
within these lost texts is an exotic description of the origins of Earth
and the human species that serious religious and Gnostic scholars
dismiss as mythological ‘science –fiction’—a fantastic and disturbing
description of cosmology that reveals an intrusion upon Earth humanity
by malevolent, parasitic extraterrestrial invaders, who use Earth humans
as puppets in a vast, unseen game of deception and domination.
“As
above, so below.” The Gnostic perception of the universe would tell us
that just as a biologist sees minute living creatures swarming in a drop
of water through a microscope, the swirling galaxies seen through an
astronomer’s telescope are also living beings! The entire universe is a
vast living consciousness with individualized nodes of living
consciousness existing within it.
In the most simplistic terms, the
Gnostic cosmology describes the central sun of our particular galaxy as a
living entity—intelligent light plasma. The ‘arms’ that extend and
swirl out from that central sun are like ‘children’ of that core
awareness. These plasma extensions reach out to the periphery of the
galaxy where solid matter is formed, and this is where the ‘play’ of
material creation is acted out. These conscious extensions stretch out
and form solid worlds and living beings in infinite variety to express
their own individual ‘dream’ of creativity.
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Planet
Earth first originated as a ‘metamorphosis’ of an intelligent stream
of light plasma extending from the central sun. That stream of light was
“SOPHIA“—a feminine emanation. Impulsive Sophia was so enraptured by
her dream of creation that she plunged into the realm of physical matter
alone, without her balancing male consort. In doing so, an accidental
aberration occurred. Within Sophia’s dream of creation was an ideal
‘intention’ for living, intelligent creatures that would become humans.
For that intention to properly manifest, it needed to blend with organic
matter. However, in her brash impulsive plunge, the sheer force of
plasma outpouring impacted with inorganic matter, creating an aberrant
species that could never properly manifest Sophia’s vision for the human
species!
The original intention of Sophia’s dream did successfully
blend with organic matter and proper humans came into being, yet they
were now challenged to confrontation by their aberrant cousins who use
subterfuge to divert humans from their true potential on planet Earth.
And Sophia, not only formed Earth from her dream—she actually became
Earth! Gnostic texts tell us that goddess Sophia literally morphed into
the living planet herself. Earth is Sophia. In other words, Earth is the
living mother of all humanity.
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The
subsequent unfolding of human history is the conflict drama between
Sophia’s intention for human expression and its accidental, mirror
competitors. Only when humans ultimately discover this vital truth and
overcome their adversary will they achieve Sophia’s divine dream for
their destiny.
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And
how do the Gnostic texts describe this ‘adversary’? Referred to as
“Archons”, (pronounced; Ar-kon, Greek, meaning magistrate, or–the
Authorities.) they come in two distinct types—an aggressive reptilian
humanoid and smaller, passive creatures resembling a ‘prematurely formed
fetus’! “Bizarre as it may seem, a solution to the most baffling
enigma of our time was fully elucidated in sacred writings almost two
thousand years ago. In the matter of the ET/UFO enigma, the Gnostics
were ahead of everyone today. Way ahead.”
“At first the Archons have
no habitat. They swarm around like an insect colony blown savagely
across interstellar space…This anomalous species comes into existence
prior to the time when the earth emerges by direct transformation of
Sophia’s own divine substance. Archons are Sophia’s offspring in a
sense, but in an entirely different way than humanity and other organic
species are. They do not emerge from her divine substance, Organic
Light, but from [relatively inert, not inherently alive matter]. They
are a freak species of inorganic composition, but they are alive and
conscious in their own way.”
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From
among the Archons a reptilian leader ultimately emerges, who “is
androgynous [and] rapidly assumes a markedly male, macho posture. He now
takes charge of the extraordinary situation produced by Sophia’s
plunge…Arrogant by nature [this] Demiurge deems himself to be at the
center of creation, lord of all he beholds. Gnostic texts state plainly
that [Demiurge]is insane, a demented god, or imposter deity. The
Demiurge is indeed a sort of god, a cosmic entity in his own right…but
he is a self-deified inorganic phantom deluded about his own identity.
This is not meant as a figure of speech… the Gnostic materials clearly
show…the Archons as real, physically existent inhabitants of our
planetary system, who wrongly attempt to penetrate our biosphere. God
exists, but he is insane. And he works against humanity…”
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“Gnostics warned that we coexist in a planetary system with a demented entity who can access our world through our minds.”
And,
Gnostics tell us, that through the human mind, the Archons were able to
impose their most cunning deception–religion. By manipulation of
religious ideology, the Archons are able to covertly substitute their
mind-set into human culture.
“Gnostics detected the humanized
face of the Archons in all authoritarian structures and systems that
deny authenticity and self-determination to the individual.”
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Surely
it is becoming more obvious that something undefined–just beyond our
perceptual grasp–is working ‘against’ humanity and even the planet
itself. Primitive, petty, Bronze-age disputes in remote antiquity fought
with swords and spears over religious rivalries and territorial claims
seem quaint and provincial, from our New Millennium point of view. But
for these same conflicts to rage on mindlessly for four-thousand years,
now fought with today’s high-tech, mass-destruction weapons, suggests a
profound pathological disorder in the human psyche that must be
identified and treated before this malignancy engulfs our species
altogether.
Gnostics would argue that, over the centuries, the
proliferation of rival religions, political structures as well as modern
corporate structures are each nothing more than microcosms of the
Archon’s original social control construct for human domination. These
structures mimic the Archon mind.
According to Gnostic theory, the
Archon’s major initiating intrusion into the human realm is documented
in the Old Testament book of Genesis, with the appearance of Jehovah to
the patriarch, Abraham.
“In the Gnostic perspective the Archons are
not only mind parasites—delusional nodes in the human mind, considered
quasi-autonomous psychic entities, if you will—they are cosmic
imposters, parasites who pose as gods. But they lack the primary divine
factor of…‘intentionality,’ ‘creative will.’ They cannot originate
anything, they can only imitate, and they must effectuate their copycat
activity with subterfuge and stealth, lest their true nature be
detected.”
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“Hence
[posing as Jehovah, the Archons] offer Abraham something that already
belongs to him as a member of the human race. The earth has already been
given to humanity: it is the precious habitat [dreamed] by the Goddess
Sophia…The Archons approach Abraham with a fake deal, promising him
possession and domination of the terrestrial realm, but this is not
compatible with Sophia’s…divine intention. The earth is not a
territorial prize but a precious setting where the human species can
realize its innate genius, its capacity for novelty, acting within the
natural boundaries set by the Goddess.”
“The Demiurge of the Old
Testament is an arrogant, demented pretender who claims that humans are
“made in His image.” These four words are the corporate motto of
patriarchy. Branded on the human soul, “Made in His Image” signifies the
total enslavement of humanity to an alien, off-planet agenda.”
The
seeds of this enslavement spread over the ensuing centuries like a
virus through patriarchal Judeo/Christian ideologies and Islam, which
essentially serve as the models for modern Western Civilization’s
political structures—brutish, authoritarian hierarchies designed to
dominate, rather than serve their respective populations. And rather
than responsible stewardship of our planet’s well being and natural
resources, in keeping with humanity’s opportunity to co-evolve with
Sophia, modern political and corporate hierarchies see the planet as a
lifeless rock to be plundered, tortured and exploited for greed and
profit.
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MONOTHEISM: THE GREAT UNMENTIONABLE EVIL
“The
great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is MONOTHEISM.
From a barbaric bronze age text known as the Old Testament, three
anti-human religions have evolved–Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These
are “Sky-God” religions. They are, literally, Patriarchal–God is the
Omnipotent Father–Hence the loathing of women for 2000 years in those
countries afflicted by the ‘Sky-God’ and his Earthly male delegates. The
Sky-God is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from
everyone on Earth, as he is in place not for just one tribe, but for all
of creation. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for
their own good. Ultimately TOTALITARIANISM is the only sort of politics
that can truly serve the Sky-God’s purpose.” Gore Vidal
Knowledge
of a sentient, living earth has been maintained and revered by
indigenous peoples around the planet: from Australia’s Aboriginals, to
the native peoples of both North and South America, as well as the
tribes of Africa. Yet over the centuries, the expansion and conquest of
Christian European nations have systematically exterminated and
marginalized these cultures, deliberately and effectively silencing
their awareness of the Goddess reality, and the unseen menace of the
Archon dominion.
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And, considering what the world is now, with all the misery, conflict,
destructive brutality, aggression, and so on. Man is still as he was. Is
still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive. And, he’s
built a society along these lines.” Krishnamurti
And yet the
Gnostics would argue the world we see today does not show the face of
true human, but rather the insane, homicidal face of the manipulating
Archon madness that distorts it. Perhaps humanity now confronts its
ultimate challenge to actualize its divine and greatest potential--the
power of its intentionality.
“This power was expressly given to
humankind to allow us to detect and resist Archontic subversion. In a
sense, the Archons are present in the cosmos to test us so that we are
certain to make optimal use of our divine endowment. The supreme
attainment of our humanity requires facing our inhumanity (our Archontic
side) and dis-empowering it, but not disowning it.”
In the Gnostic
texts even Sophia herself warns the evil Archon Demiurge, he will
ultimately be defeated by the humanity she created. It is our destiny…!
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THE ARCHONS: ALIEN INVADERS FROM SPACE
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