“Everything that the Indians brought me from the tunnels dates to before Christ. Most of the symbols and pre-historic representations are older than the Flood.”
But the question of questions is: Why were the tunnels built?
Today I know that there is no mention of Lucifer in the Old Testament. It would be impossible, anyway, for the legendary figure of Moses, in whom the authors of the Old Testament are subsumed, is supposed to have lived about 1225 B.C., but Lucifer comes from Latin and that language is dated to 240 B.C. at the earliest. Lux fare (= Lucifer) means light-bringer, light-bearer, light-maker. It is odd that the sinister devil should be introduced into Catholic religious instruction as a bringer of light.
But the Old Testament does have something to say about war in heaven.
The reader will find descriptions of events and prophecies that have been preserved in chapters 1-25 of the Prophet Isaiah (740-701 B.C.). Isaiah 14:12 says:
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
“For thou saidst in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north.”
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon: and the dragon fought and his angels,
“And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.”
Many of the ancient documents of mankind mention wars and battles in heaven. The Book of Dzyan, a secret doctrine, was preserved for millennia in Tibetan crypts. The original text, of which nothing is known, not even whether it still exists, was copied from generation to generation and added to by initiates. Parts of the Book of Dzyan that have been preserved circulate around the world in thousands of Sanskrit translations, and experts claim that this book contains the evolution of mankind over millions of years. The Sixth Stanza of the Book of Dzyan runs as follows:
“At the fourth (round), the sons are told to create their images, one third refuses. Two obey. The curse is pronounced . . . The older wheels rotated downward and upward. The mother’s spawn filled the whole.
There were battles fought between the creators and the destroyers, and battles fought for space
; the seed appearing and reappearing continuously. Make thy calculations, o disciple, if thou wouldst learn the correct age of thy small wheel.”
In the Egyptian Book of the Dead, that collection of texts which contained instructions for behavior in the hereafter and was placed beside mummies in the tomb, Ra, the mighty Sun God,
fights with the rebellious children in the universe
, for Ra never left the world-egg during the battle. The Latin poet Ovid (43 B.C. to A.D. 17) is naturally better known to posterity for his
Ars amandi
than for his collection of myths, the
Metamorphoses
. In the latter, Ovid tells the story of Phaeton (= the shining one), who was once given permission by his father Helios, the Sun God, to drive the chariot of the sun. Phaeton could not control the chariot, fell through the sky and set the earth on fire. In Greek mythology the twelve children of Uranus (the personification of heaven) and Gaia (the personification of earth) play an important part. These twelve Titans were terrible children who used their tremendous strength to rebel against the established order, i.e. against Zeus, the king of the gods, and attacked Olympus, the abode of the gods. Hesiod (
circa
700 B.C.), an earlier, Greek colleague of Ovid’s, who recounts the ancestry of the gods and the origin of the world in his
Theogony
, tells us that the Titan Prometheus brought fire down to men from heaven after violent conflicts with Zeus. Zeus himself was forced to share world dominion with his brothers Poseidon and Hades after a bloodthirsty struggle. Referring to Zeus by his name of God of Light, Homer (
circa
800 B.C.) describes him as cloud-banger, thunder-powerful and combative, who had no scruples about using lightning when fighting his enemies and so deciding the struggle in his favor. Lightning as a weapon also occurs in the Maori legends of the South Seas. They tell of a rebellion that broke out in heaven after Tane had arranged the stars. The legend names the rebels who were no longer willing to follow Tane, but Tane smote them with lightning, conquered the insurgents and threw them
down to earth
. Since then man has fought man, tribe fought tribe, animal fought animal and fish fought fish on this earth. The god Hinuno fares no better in the saga of the North American Payute Indians. After he had begun a battle with the gods, he was
thrown out of heaven
.
The International Academy for Sanskrit Research at Mysore, India, had the courage to take a Sanskrit text by Maharishi Bharadvaya and replace the traditional conventional language of translation by words from our modern conceptual world. The result was staggering. The primeval legends turned into a straightforward technical report! (
Gods from Outer Space
.)
If we apply the same procedure and simply replace the word “heaven” by the modern concept “universe,” then in the twinkling of an eye the legends and myths of wars between the gods in heaven become gigantic battles in the universe between two hostile camps. In the children’s heaven of religion, of course, no wars took place, in it reigned and still does reign the one and only beneficent and almighty God.
Yet the Old Testament mentions not just one god, but several gods:
“... Let
us
make man in
our
image, after
our
likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air . . .” (Genesis 1:26).
This plural is mentioned by the monotheistic Moses on another occasion:
“. . . the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair . . .” (Genesis 6:2).
Helene Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), who founded the Theosophical Society in London in 1875, wrote in
The Secret Doctrine
, a work in six volumes, published in 1888:
“One of the names of the Jewish Jehova, ‘Sabaoth’ or the ‘Lord of Hosts’ (Isabaoth) belongs to the Chaldaean Sabaeans (or Tsabaeans) and has as its root the word ‘tsab,’ which means a ‘cart,’ a ‘ship’ and an ‘army.’ So ‘sabaoth’ literally means ‘the army of the ship,’ the ‘crew’ or a ‘squadron of ships.’”
I suspect that several gods had a hand in the creation (= opening up) of the earth, as well as in the “creation” of man. The creation myth of the Quiché Mayas, the
Popol Vuh
, tells us how man was created:
“It is said that those ones were created a shaped, they had no father, they had no moth yet they were called men. They were not be, of woman, they were not produced by creators and Shapers, nor by Alom and Caholom, only by a miracle, by magic were they created and shaped . . .”
The Indian people of the Mayas, whose rather sudden emergence into so-called history is dated to shortly after the beginning of the Christian era, at first lived a very primitive life in the forests, killing game with the most rudimentary weapons. Yet the myths of the
Popol Vuh
are supposed to date from this primitive stage. How could phrases like the following have occurred to such primitive minds: “. . . they had no father, they had no mother . . . they were not born of woman . . . by magic were they created and shaped.”
It all seems so contradictory and confused that it cannot be explained logically by existing theories. So I should like to stimulate new ideas with the following scenario.
Was our blue planet the refuge of the losers in a cosmic battle?
If we continue to speculate about this theory, there are certain unavoidable premises. The home of the conquered must have had similar conditions to our earth. Their planet must have been about the same distance from the sun and naturally must have had an atmosphere containing oxygen.
What is the possibility that space flights could have begun from earth-like planets in the cosmos?
The statistical probability is enormous.
The fact that the question of the existence of cosmic neighbors has become a “serious subject for research” (to quote Professor Hans Elsässer) is closely connected “with the view of many natural scientists who find it ridiculous to assume that we are the only intelligent beings in the cosmos.”
Who knows how many stars there are?
We reckon there are 100 billion fixed stars in our galaxy. So that if every tenth fixed star is surrounded by a planetary system, ten billion fixed stars have such systems. If we leave the majority of planets out of this rough calculation, taking only the figure of ten billion fixed stars (which really implies a much larger number of planets) with one planet each and allotting earth-like qualities only to each tenth one, we arrive at the truly astronomical figure of one billion planets resembling our earth. Supposing only each tenth planet to be of the size of the earth and possess the temperature range that makes it possible for life to originate and flourish, we are still faced with the inconceivable figure of 100,000,000! And even if we assume that only one in ten of these planets has a suitable atmosphere, we are still left with 10,000,000 planets with “putative” conditions for organic life.
Hans F. Ebel of Heidelberg University writes in his essay “Possible Life on Alien Planets”:
“Astronomers’ estimates tend to accept the figure of inhabitable earth-like planets in our Milky Way alone at hundreds of millions.”
So my theory does not inevitably collapse for lack of sites for launching ramps on earth-like planets. The hypertrophied opinion which dominated our conception of the world until a few years ago that the earth alone could support intelligent life has vanished from even the most rigid academic circles.
Tempi passati
.
There is one other question mark.
Supposing that the universe does teem with planets and intelligent life, might not all the forms of life on them have developed in quite different directions from those taken by organic life on earth? If, in addition to the tolerance allowed when making any high statistical estimate, we assume that the beings who waged their cosmic war were like humans, are we not being rather presumptuous?
In fact, the most recent research in many fields related to the subject confirms that extra-terrestrial intelligences
must have been
like men. Atomic structures and chemical reactions are the same everywhere in the universe. And, according to Professor Heinz Haber:
“It is simply not true, as has often been imagined in the past, that the phenomenon of life waits patiently until inanimate nature creates on a planet conditions under which life can exist. It seems to be more likely that life, with its extraordinary chemical activity, contributes enormously to creating its own environment and can transform a planet in such a way that it capable of supporting life in all its many-sided abundance.”
Lord Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907) was Professor at Glasgow University. In the natural sciences he had a great reputation as a physicist, for not only did he discover the second law of thermodynamics, but he also gave a strictly scientific definition of absolute temperature, which is measured in Kelvin degrees today. In addition, Kelvin discovered standard formula for the length of oscillations in electric oscillatory circuits and the thermo-electric effect named after him. As clearly emerges from these brief biographical data, Lord Kelvin was an important figure in the exact natural sciences; he is held up to students as one of the really great men in his field. But nowadays we do not hear anything about Kelvin’s conviction that in the very beginning “life” did not originate on earth, our tiny planet, but came wafting from the remote depths of the universe in the form of spores. Kelvin was convinced that these unicellular vegetable spores—asexual germ cells, from which new life could originate—were so resistant to the intense cold that they landed on earth still capable of creating life, together with meteors or meteoric dust, and developed under the life-giving power of light so that finally higher organisms could emerge from them. I advocate taking the whole Kelvin seriously, including the man who so many years ago rejected the arrogant assumption that life could only have originated on our planet. Even in these realms, which strictly pertain to natural science, we constantly come across the limits imposed by religious (= orthodox) thought. As life is finite, it must also be finite in the universe. Until natural scientists have
proved
that this conviction of Kelvin’s is false, they should give it a privileged place in the broad spectrum of opinions about how life originated on earth. The noble Lord has earned that much.