"Sons Of Jared” Envisioned

Ms. Gerritsen, to her surprise, discovered a real resistance group, the Sons of Jared, actually existed. This was subsequent to her having depicted such a group in her fictional “The Mephisto Club.”

What else did Tess Gerritsen's muse inadvertently reveal as she wrote “The Mephisto Club”? Conspiracy Nation, in “FBI Runs 'Sons Of Jared' Scare?” (op. cit.) promised to read the Gerritsen book, looking for clues.

Book Of Enoch

Gerritsen begins her enjoyable tale with a quote from the Book Of Enoch:

“And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate, and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind.” (Book Of Enoch X: 15)

Gerritsen claims the Book Of Enoch to have been written about the second century B.C. But the Book Of Enoch is much older, although what we now have was written about 200 B.C. When it was being decided which of many books to include in the Bible, St. Augustine was against including Enoch, because it was “too old.” This means the Book Of Enoch is at least from the time Genesis was written, if not earlier.

The Book Of Daniel also mentions the Watchers. Daniel 4: 1-18 describes Daniel, "he who was named Belteshaz'zar", the "chief of the magicians", being asked to interpret a dream of Nebuchadnez'zar. In the dream, Nebuchadnez'zar "lay in bed, and behold, a Watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven.”

Emmanuel Swedenborg described the Nephilim (a.k.a. Watchers) as signifying "those who through a persuasion of their own loftiness and preeminence made light of all things holy and true." They "are called 'mighty men' from their love of self; 'of old, men of renown' signifies that there had been such before." The Watchers are "that race, which lived before the flood" which kills and suffocates "by their most direful fantasies" so that human spirits "are entirely deprived of the power of thinking, and feel half dead." The descendants of the Nephilim were called "Anakim" and "Rephaim" writes Swedenborg, based on references in (Numbers 13: 33), (Deut 2: 10-11), and elsewhere in the Bible. (Arcana Coelestia)

Who Are The Watchers?

Gerritsen's muse describes the Watchers as looking “just like us.” The Watchers, though, are "evil, distilled to its purest form. Manifested in the shape of real flesh-and-blood creatures, walking among us."

These Watchers are not spirits, but flesh-and-blood, a "parallel species of predators who've evolved right alongside us." It is a "worldwide conspiracy of Nephilim, helping one another into positions of power." They then "hunt" (war) without restriction, in (e.g.) Kosovo, Cambodia, and Rwanda, theorizes one of the characters. (Gerritsen, op. cit.)

When writing The Mephisto Club, Gerritsen had her doubts, but "could not help thinking: What if the tale of The Watchers was not merely allegory but history?"

How the Watchers achieve their unrestricted evil is by assisting each other into positions of power. From there they can without restraint quench their lust for blood and evil through wars and genocides and destructions.

“But we live in a democracy,” some might argue. “The Watchers could never successfully infiltrate the power structure.” How it is done, notwithstanding the presence of democracy, is spelled out in “Empire Of Debt,” by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin. Bonner and Wiggin do not connect 13th-century Venice with the Watchers, but the mechanics of secret power are made plain:

Venice “was also democratic. People voted for people who voted for other people, who then voted for yet more people who elected the doge. The whole idea was to allow ordinary people to believe that they ran the nation, while real authority remained in the hands of a few families – the Bushes, Kennedys, Gores, and Rockefellers of thirteenth-century Venice.” These would be the “bloodline families,” descendants of the Watchers.

Other Theories On The Watchers

Before Eve, according to ancient folklore, Adam had been married to Lilith. Lilith was insatiable and had sex with demons. These were "goat beings" (Se'irim), desert-dwelling hairy creatures who cavorted with Lilith. Azazel, chief of the Se'irim, represents the spawn of such unions. Azazel is also a symbol for the Watchers.

Another version is that Seth, third son of Adam, was patriarch of a bloodline descending through Enos, Kenan, and on down to Jared and Enoch. The trouble started when the Seth bloodline mated with the daughters of the Cain bloodline.

But the early rabbis and church fathers never considered that Genesis 6:4 refers to a failure to keep the "faithful" lines of the godly Seth from mingling with the worldly line of Cain. The "bene ha Elohim" (sons of God) also never refer to men in the Old Testament, only angels, argues a different source. (http://altreligion.about.com/library/bl_nephilim.htm)

An off-the-wall take on the Watchers is suggested by Louis Proud, writing in the May 2008 issue of Fate magazine. Proud does not equate South Africa's “mantindane” (tormentors) with the Watchers, yet one cannot help but wonder. The mantindane are said to, even today, impregnate “countless women” and to “have covertly and profoundly influenced all human cultures and civilizations for millennia.” They are described as having “eyes” which are only “goggle-like covers,” hiding “straight pupils, like those of a cat.” (“Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa and the Alien Agenda”).

The Book Of Jubilees

Also consulted by Gerritsen was the Book Of Jubilees, sometimes called The Lesser Genesis, according to the Wikipedia reference. (“Jubilees”, May 11, 2008). The Book Of Jubilees had been so thoroughly suppressed that no complete Hebrew, Greek or Latin version had survived. Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, only fragments of Jubilees had been found.

“The Book of Jubilees narrates the genesis of angels on the first day of Creation and the story of how a group of fallen angels mated with mortal females, giving rise to a race of giants known as the Nephilim. The Ethiopian version states that the 'angels' were in fact the disobedient offspring of Seth (Deqiqa Set), while the 'mortal females' were daughters of Cain. This is also the view held by most of the earliest commentators. Their hybrid children, the Nephilim in existence during the time of Noah, were wiped out by the great flood.” (“Jubilees,” Wikipedia, op. cit.)

“However, Jubilees does state that God granted ten percent of the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim to try to lead mankind astray after the flood.” (Ibid.)

Gerritsen herself is more inclined to consider genetics, an “evil gene” passed down through generations and symbolized by the Watchers. Her “Mephisto Club”, an intuitive inkling of the “Sons Of Jared,” also hints at a bloodline (of Seth perhaps) which has battled the Watchers through the ages.

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