posted January 06, 2011 02:49 PM
http://www.jimnicholsufo.com/goddess-secrets-of-gnostic-cosmology/ Dan Brown’s recent blockbuster novel combined with the subsequent hit movie Da Vinci Code have 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 also caught his blood at the Crucifixion?
Or, was the Grail Chalice a metaphor hiding the 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 Mary Magdalene—his wife?
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?
A book recently published, entitled Not In His Image, by John Lash (metahistoy.org) 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 he reveals a surprising and disturbing account of ancient extraterrestrial encounters that are of vital consideration to serious, contemporary UFO research. Was the human race actually subdued by extraterrestrial invaders as early as the time of Abraham from the Old Testament book of Genesis…?
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, Washington, 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.
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.
Acting as a benevolent, loving parent, the central sun allows great leeway in the creative expression of its children in order that they might learn the lessons needed through their acts of creation.
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 plasmic outpouring impacted 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 confront 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. Goddess Sophia literally morphed into the living planet herself. Earth is Sophia! In other words, Earth is the living mother of all humanity!
What has subsequently unfolded as 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.
And how do the Gnostic texts describe this ‘adversary’? Referred to as “Archons”, 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. Archon’s 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.”
“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 or a mythological trope. Not by a long shot, for 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…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, we find that through the human mind, the Archons were able to impose their most cunning deception–religions. 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.”
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 disputes in remote antiquity fought with Bronze-age 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, spreading into the deadly age of today’s high-tech, mass-destruction weapons suggests a deep 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. 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.
A brilliant inventor and seer, Nikola Tesla, who designed America’s first alternating-current power station at Niagra Falls, was keenly aware of the free-energy potential of planetary harmonics. As early as World War I, Tesla envisioned the Earth as a gigantic generator of unlimited, clean electrical energy that could be transmitted through a network of towers to provide inexpensive power for automobiles, airplanes, ships and even whole cities. In fact his first prototype transmission tower was under construction on Long Island, New York at the outbreak of the First World War. However, when his financier, Robber-Barron, J.P. Morgan learned he could not exploit the masses for millions of dollars with Tesla’s tower, he ordered it torn down.
Of course the alternative legacy of pollution from poisonous internal combustion engines and global domination by petroleum empires is self-evident. Tesla was horrified by the proposed use of atomic energy, which he saw as a deadly, gross perversion of natural elements. But his pleas to protect our natural environment went unheeded.
Conversely, in 1943, under direct orders from President Franklin Roosevelt, General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recruited physicist Robert Oppenheimer and a cadre of the most brilliant physicists and engineers in the country– confined them in a secret base at Los Alamos, New Mexico—and gave them a single, nineteen-month assignment to design and deliver a working atomic bomb. Up to that point an atomic bomb was ‘science-fiction’ theory, yet the assignment was brilliantly met to the resulting horror of the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.
I refuse to believe that comparable human ‘genius’ in a similarly ‘focused’ program could not design and implement efficient revolutionizing, non-toxic, alternatives to petroleum dependence. Yet we have witnessed two terms of an ‘Oil Barron’ in the White House–whose interests do you think he has served? Archons perhaps?
It may be curious to note that when threatened by a toxic virus, a living creature will develop a fever to kill the invading bacteria. Perhaps the true cause of global warming is not ‘greenhouse gas emissions’ at all, but the planet’s natural immune system preparing to rid itself of the malignant infection that the Archons have introduced here through human ‘carriers’, and has, after centuries, spread unchecked to such overwhelming proportion that it threatens the very life of the planet itself–Sophia’s fever!
Knowledge of a sentient, living earth has been maintained and revered by indigenous peoples around the planet: from Australia’s Aboriginies, to the native peoples of both North and South America, to 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.
Perhaps the promised Armageddon looming on the horizon will not be a religious slugfest to determine Islamic or Judeo/Christian supremacy, but humanity’s last chance to reclaim its very soul!
In 1947, even as the Nag Hammadi scrolls were being first studied, the world still basked in the euphoria of victory over the wicked threat of both German and Japanese imperialism. We exulted over the ‘evil’ we had defeated. And yet evil never dies, it morphs over and over again. World War II—the war to end all wars—was superseded by a new war in Korea and the rise of evil Communism. The Korean War was followed by Soviet military expansion into Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. The Vietnam War ensued raging for ten years. Evil never sleeps.
Despite the deceptive respite of the collapse of Soviet Communism, as new evil now spreads terror into the New Millennium—witness the destruction of the World Trade Towers in New York City. The planet itself is dying beneath our feet while insane suicide terrorists unleash bloody horror daily in the streets of Baghdad—once the very heart of Babylon and the cradle of human civilization. Is it not time to ask the question: what is this congenital insanity at the core of the human psyche? Like a capricious cancer, it knows no religious, political or ethnic boundaries. How do we confront it? How do we ultimately conquer it—before it conquers us?
Or in the words of author, John Lash; “Today, as I write these words, the Earth is wracked by an ecological crisis due to anti-nature theology, and consumed by violence and terrorism rooted in religious causes. In Iraq suicide bombers now massacre their own people on a daily basis, either for colluding with the occupation forces, or for being on the wrong side of a medieval dispute over the succession from Muhammad. The Commander-in-chief of the occupation forces [George Bush] has openly admitted that the Christian father god guides his political decisions, thus attributing to God’s plan a fascist agenda that inflicts murder and oppression on countless people in the Near East. The work of the perpetrators is double destruction: to take life and ruin lives. If they are lucky enough not to be caught up in the mayhem, good and decent Muslims and their Christian and Jewish counterparts stand aside, watching what is done in the name of their cherished beliefs. In the final balance the people who commit and promote violence and murder in the expression of religious beliefs may be a minute fraction of the faithful, but they are the ones who determine the course of events, shape history, affect society, and threaten the biosphere.”
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 imagination. “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…”
(Excerpts from, Not In His Image, by John Lash, published by Chelsea Green Publishing Co. 2006.)
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