Theos-Talk Archives (September 2001 Message tt00171)

September 18, 2001


Dear Friends:


If one reads The SECRET DOCTRINE this concept is eliminated. In
any case there is no logical sense to it.

What is the Motive?

What is the objective?

Who benefits ?

Does it explain the disparity in human capacity and character ?

Theosophy declares:

We deal with a world and Universe that runs by law only. No
whims or chance or luck. No "Dark Gods" who may or may not
select us to be their victims.

Every being is deemed to have a portion of the divine UNIVERSAL
SPIRIT at its core. The external vehicle or form changes the
center is stable and grows in individual intelligence by means of
the experiences and incidents it encounters.

One might hazard an yet offer the statement for consideration:
Every Atom will eventually become a Man-Mind. Every Human-Mind
will become a BUDDHA (one who is universally WISE.)

If you want to study the Theosophical scheme of TOTAL EVOLUTION
than read and study The SECRET DOCTRINE. The whole scheme as is
to be seen operating in Nature is made plain.

Best wishes,

Dallas

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-----Original Message-----
From: nos [mailto:nos@granite.net.au]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 6:52 PM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Theos-World Origins of Man

The Dark Gods



By Life Science Fellowship

The notion that humankind was created by some type of
extraterrestrial
genetic manipulation, according to some researchers, is the
actual basis
of the creation stories found in the ancient Sumerian records and
the
later Hebrew scriptures. This idea is set out in detail in the
work of
Israeli scholar Zecharia Sitchin, who uses the Sumerian records
to argue
that modern homo sapiens were created by beings from outer space
called
"Nefilim". He believes that the Nefilim created humans by
genetically
modifying homo erectus, then mated with them and argued over what
to do
with them.

In 1989 Zecharia Sitchin's radical hypothesis was taken a major
step
further with the publication of the book The Gods of Eden,
appropriately
subtitled: The chilling truth about extraterrestrial
infiltration - and
the conspiracy to keep humankind in chains. The author, a
Californian
lawyer going by the nom de plume "William Bramley" brought
together all
the major themes found in earlier 'ancient astronaut' research
and
merged them with a unique 'conspiracy view of history.' Bramley's
thesis, shocking and confronting to nearly all established
popular
beliefs, is:

Human beings appear to be a slave race breeding on an isolated
planet in
a small galaxy. As such, the human race was once a source of
labor for
an extraterrestrial civilization and still remains a possession
today.
To keep control over its possession and to maintain Earth as
something
of a prison, that other civilization has bred a never-ending
conflict
between human beings, has promoted spiritual decay, and has
erected on
Earth conditions of unremitting physical hardship. This situation
has
existed for thousands of years and it continues today. (The Gods
of
Eden)

The idea that human kind is the product of genetic engineering
carried
out by extraterrestrials from outside our tiny planet challenges
both
Darwinian evolution and creationism. Have the dogmas of science
and
religion blinded us to the truth of our origins?

The Christian church proclaims that a supposedly all-knowing,
all-powerful 'God' created our first parents from 'mud', in much
the
same way as a potter moulds clay. Only when Adam and Eve broke
their
Creator's rules were they subject to pain, sickness and death. By
disobeying this 'God', they also condemned their offspring - all
humanity - to be 'sinners'. Christianity derives the unfortunate
tale of
Adam and Eve from Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible, or
Old
Testament.

If we interpret the Bible literally, regarding it as an
infallible
historical document, we are introduced to a creator 'God'
(Jehovah/Yahweh) who, by his own admission, is jealous, wrathful
and
full of vengeance. The fear of the "Lord" (Jehovah) is constantly
stressed throughout the Old Testament. He is expected to reward
those
who worship him and are not delinquent in their observance of the
ritual
law, by gratifying their worldly desires for material gains and
worldly
power. One cannot help but note that this cruel, bloodthirsty,
and
selfish 'God' bears a striking resemblance to the capricious gods
of
Sumeria.

This all too human 'God', according to Genesis, took a walk in
the "cool
of the day," unaware that his prize humans had spoiled his
creation by
eating the 'forbidden fruit'. After this, having chased the first
human
couple out of Paradise, he threatens their descendants with his
wrath
until the day when he drowned the whole world in a flood.

This 'God' Jehovah, as the historian Gibbon observed in The
Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire, is a "being liable to passion and
error,
capricious in his favour, implacable in his resentment, meanly
jealous
of his superstitious worship, and confining his partial
providence to a
single people and to this transitory life."

Research indicates that the Hebrew Bible, far from being an
infallible
historical text authored by the Supreme Being, is a heavily
revised
compilation of at least two entirely separate works. Fused
together in
the Book of Genesis are two separate works known to scholars as
the
northern "E" and southern "J" traditions, which are supplemented
by
additional revisions and inserts. In "E" (the Elohist passages)
resides
the pre-Judaean tradition of the northern peoples who exalted the
Most
High God El and the subordinate Elohim (Shining Ones). The "J" or
"Jehovist" passages describe a totally alien entity, the evil and
contending Jehovah (YHWH), the "Lord". According to Max J. Dimont
in
Jews, God and History: "In the 5th century B.C. Jewish priests
combined
portions of the 'J' and 'E' documents, adding a little handiwork
of
their own (known as the pious fraud), which are referred to as
the 'JE'
documents, since God in these passages is referred to as 'Jehovah
Elohim' (translated as 'Lord God')."

This is why within the Bible we encounter contradictory and
conflicting
images of the Supreme God. We find Jehovah, a tribal god,
masquerading
as the Supreme Being. The first chapters of Genesis describe an
awesome
struggle between two rival powers. There is the Most High God and
His
Elohim who create through their own manifest spirit; and the
malevolent
Lord God, Jehovah, who created a synthetic being composed of
dirt.
Jehovah is actually Satanael, a Shining One who rose in revolt
against
the Supreme God. Though later called the One God, the early
Hebrews knew
Jehovah as only one of many Elohim. They quoted the Song of Moses
to
distinguish between the Most High and the usurper Jehovah:

When the Most High (El) gave the nations

their heritage,

When He divided mankind,

He fixed the territories of the peoples

According to the number of the sons of God;

But Jehovah's (YHWH) share was his people,

Jacob was his inherited possession. (Deuteronomy 32:8)

The Gnostic Christians of the early centuries AD, who preserved
the
original teachings of Jesus, distinguished between the Heavenly
Father
and the god of the Hebrew Bible. Jehovah (YHWH) was not the
Father
revealed by Jesus. While the Hebrew Bible revealed a tribal god,
the God
of Jesus was the universal Supreme Being of all humanity. The
Hebrew god
was a god of fear, Jesus' Heavenly Father was a God of love. In
fact,
Jesus never referred to the Heavenly Father as Jehovah. The
Gnostic
Gospel of Peter states that the Hebrews were under the delusion
that
they knew the Supreme Being, but they were ignorant of him, and
knew
only a false god, an impostor, whose true nature was unknown to
them.

The Gnostics, based on their thorough study of the Book of
Genesis,
exposed Jehovah as Satanael the Demiurge, the creative power of
this
fallen material world, who is hostile to the Supreme Being. One
Gnostic
teacher told how the unknown Father made the angels, the
archangels,
powers and dominions. The world, however, and everything in it,
was made
by seven particular angels, and man too is a work of the angels.
These
angels he described as rebellious feeble artisans.

Saturninus (90-150), who established an important Gnostic
community in
Syria, taught that the One True God, the Heavenly Father revealed
by
Jesus, dwells in the highest Realm of Light. Between this
transcendent
Realm of Light and our finite world exist vast intermediate
hierarchies
of archangels, angels and spiritual powers; the builders of the
universe
and the fashioners of man. In foolishness and vanity Satanael
rebelled
against the Realm of Light, leading astray a company of angelic
beings.
Satanael and his minions contrived to trap spiritual beings in
physical
bodies. Saturninus told how Satanael's creator angels endeavoured
to
create physical human bodies in the image of spiritual beings.
This way
they planned to keep spiritual beings permanently attached to
physical
bodies....

CUT