(Conspiracy Nation, 3/24/05)
-- The odd, brief statements in Genesis, that "the sons of God saw the
daughters of men that they were
fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose" (6: 2) and that
"there were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that" (6:
4) are a puzzle aching to be solved. There is some incredible historical
occurrence hidden in those passages -- but what is it? The deeper one
looks, the more confused one becomes. The following does not solve the
connundrum; in the words of the late Rod Serling, it is "offered for
your consideration."
To understand the arch fiend, you could do worse than to read John
Milton's Paradise Lost.
Evicted from Heaven, the Evil One consoles himself:
C.S. Lewis visualized Hell as a huge bureaucracy, police state, and
corporation rolled into one. The evil therein "is conceived and ordered
in clean, carpeted,
warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and
cut fingernails and smooth shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their
voice. On the surface, manners are normally suave, [but]
'Dog eat dog' is the principle of the whole organisation. Everyone
wishes everyone else's discrediting, demotion, and ruin; everyone is an
expert in the confidential report, the pretended alliance, the stab in
the back. Over all this their good manners, their expressions of grave
respect, their 'tributes' to one another's invaluable services form a
thin crust." [abridged] [1]
Lewis adds that "Bad angels, like bad men, are entirely practical.
They have two
motives. The first is fear of punishment: for as totalitarian countries
have their camps for torture, so my Hell contains deeper Hells, its
'Houses of Correction.' Their second motive is a kind of hunger, [a]
passion to dominate, almost to digest, one's fellow; to make his whole
intellectual and emotional life merely an extension of one's own. On
Earth this desire is often called 'love.' In Hell I feign that they
recognize it as hunger. But there the hunger is more ravenous. It is
for this that devils desire human souls and the souls of one another."
[abridged] [1]
But whence came this Hell? In Milton's version, Satan was evicted
from
Heaven and vowed revenge, "ever plotting how the
Conqueror least may reap his conquest, and may least rejoice."
Reportedly, according to the Koran, "the Fallen Angel was outcast by
God for
having refused to bow down before Adam, the creature made of clay,
since he himself had been born of fire." [2] So Hell was born
from sibling rivalry? Satan, created by God and having primogeniture,
refuses to bow before Adam, a later creation, and gets "kicked out of
the house." He thenceforth plots revenge against God by trying to trip
up Adam?
All this is connected to oil somehow, what Paul Roberts calls "the
entire hydrocarbon economy," [3] whose sooty fires burn night and day.
Hell is a place of unlimited oil.
St. Augustine (354 - 430 AD), when the Canon of what was and what
was
not Scripture was being decided, argued that the Book of Enoch was too old (ob nimiam antiquitatem) to be
included in what became "The Bible." [2] The Book of Enoch seemed to
have vanished thereafter, until James Bruce, descendant of Robert the
Bruce, in 1768 left Scotland
en route to Ethiopia. James Bruce was an initiate of Freemasonry
(presumably Scottish rite). In Ethiopia James Bruce recovered three
copies
of the Book of Enoch, in 1773. [2] Gradually, the Book of Enoch became
available to the public.
Other apocryphal texts are The Book of Jubilees and The
Testaments
of the Twelve Patriarchs, one section of which is "Reuben." Ancient
geneology shows Enos and Noam having a son, Kenan. Kenan and Mualeleth
yielded a son, Mahalalel. Mahalalel married Dinah and they had a son,
Jared. In Jared's time "the angels of the Lord descended on the earth,
those who are named the Watchers." (Book of Jubilees IV: 13-15) Jared
wed Baraka and their son was Enoch. (Jubillees IV: 16) The Watchers
"sinned with the daughters of men." (Book of Jubilees IV:
22) The angels of God "took themselves wives of all whom they chose,
and they bare unto them sons and they were giants." (Book of Jubilees
V: 1) After the Flood, "the unclean demons [souls/spirits of the
giants] began to lead astray the
children of the sons of Noah." (Book of Jubilees X: 1) [4]
The Watchers had been allured by "every woman who useth these wiles"
(Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: Reuben: 2: 17). (The "wiles"
were make-up and ornaments.) The Watchers
"lusted after them, and they conceived the act in their mind; for they
changed themselves into the shape of men, and appeared to them when
they were with their husbands. And the women lusting in their minds
after their forms, gave birth to giants, for the Watchers appeared to
them as reaching even unto heaven." (Reuben: 2: 18-19) This is a
somewhat different variation, where the actual sex occurs between the
wife and husband with the Watchers indeed watching, and the women
perceiving the Watchers as the true "alpha males."
Andrew Collins notices Enoch 69: 6, where fallen angel Gadreel is
named as
"he it is who led Eve astray." This opens a new aspect, that the
"serpent" who led Eve astray was a shape-shifting demon (not
"reptilian" but an evil spirit who could assume various shapes.) "If
this particular passage is contemporary with the book's [Enoch]
original construction during the first half of the second century BC,
then it firmly associates the rebellion of the two hundred Watchers,
during the age of the patriarch Jared, with the beguiling of Eve and
thus with the corruption of humanity." [2]
It is written, in Hebrews 13:2, "Be not forgetful to entertain
strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." If
angels can be
entertained, this suggests physicality of angels. And, if angels
can be entertained unawares why can not fallen angels and their demon
offspring, daevas, djinns, and vampires, be
entertained unawares?
There is also the issue of so-called "changelings." Amongst the
Kurds, "Demon babies" once were commonplace. Such changelings could be
genetic throwbacks to a time when the Watchers mated
with the Daughters of Men. "In time the chances of such inherited genes
producing extreme traits obviously diminished, but every so often a
giant child bearing the features of a 'demon' would be born into a
community." [2] This, in miniature, accounts for occasional
births of giants in recent times. (See "Giants In Those Days,"
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Giants.html)
Cain (first-born) killed Abel (second-born). As in Satan vs. Adam,
there is again the hint of sibling rivalry. After his notorious deed,
Cain went on to establish a family, possibly meaning a racial type. But
"Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name
Seth." (Genesis 4: 25) Seth too went on to found a family, again
possibly meaning a racial type.
The arch fiend convinced the Daughters of Men (or is it Daughters of
Cain, with Sons of Seth living in the Caucasus mountains) to wear
make-up and adorn themselves so as to lead astray the Sons of God (or
is it the Watchers). The offspring of the ensuing copulations are the
giants, who, because of their immense size, "could only be born by
using the surgical operation we know today as Caesarian section." [2]
An ancient Ethiopian book, the Kebra Nagast, also has the Daughters
of
Cain giving birth to gigantic babies through what we call Caesarian
section. [2] So does "Daughters of Men" really mean "Daughters of Cain"
(and does "Sons of God" really mean "Sons of Seth")? Who is correct,
those who say it was fallen angels or those who say it was a mixing of
racial types, the theory advocated by Andrew Collins in his book, From the Ashes of Angels?
Sir Walter Scott, in an historical novel based on the Crusades (The Talisman), has the
Arabs refering to Jesus as Issa ben Miriam. Other nomenclatures are
Iesus and Rabbi Yeshua. The teachings of Issa ben Miriam (Jesus) may
have been dependent
upon an
earlier work, the Book of Enoch. [1] Jesus is reported as saying, "I
have come not to destroy the law, but to fulfill [restore?] it."
(Matthew 5:17) Remember too that Miriam (Mary), mother of Jesus, is
believed to have been impregnated not by Joseph, her husband, but by
means of a "Holy Ghost." Did Issa ben Miriam, son of an angel, know the
older, Enochian truth? Is that why he was murdered on "Good" Friday?
The Roman emperor Constantine convened a Council of Bishops at
Nicaea, in Asia Minor, in 325 AD. There, the boot came down. The belief
of angels having copulated with humans, as in Genesis 6, was evicted
from accepted
doctrine. The angels were spiritual, not material, so could not have
taken wives of mortal women. But did the learned prelates forget that
Mary had conceived courtesy of a "Holy Ghost"?
In a recent essay, Catherine Austin Fitts describes a CIA staff
member telling her, "Your problem is that you have not answered the
question, where does evil come from?"
[5] The nearest conjecture at this point relies on a lengthy poem by
John Milton and a suppressed book recovered by a Scottish explorer.
------- Notes -------
[1] Prophet, Elizabeth Clare. Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil. Summit University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-922729-43-3
[2] Collins, Andrew. From The Ashes Of Angels. Bear & Company, 1996. ISBN: 187918172-X
[3] Roberts, Paul. The End Of Oil. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. ISBN: 0-618-56211-7
[4] Book of Jubilees qtd. in Prophet, Elizabeth Clare, op. cit.
[5] Fitts, Catherine Austin. "Will The Real Economic Hit Men Please Stand Up?" From The Wilderness newsletter, Vol. VII No. 11, March 8, 2005