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1. Introduction
These writings aim to expose the parallel between a mysticism unveiled by Christian Gnosis - mysticism in the sense of divine mystery - and the events leading to the establishment of a New World Order (NWO). As the advent of this NWO approaches, a struggle becomes increasingly visible between:
The Wicked One now requires that It be given Its temple and Its blood sacrifices, that which is strived for by the Kabbalist, Masonic and other global elites. The reconstruction of the temple is the pinnacle of the NWO, the temple where both ambitions of the Wicked One will materialize: to rule over the temporal world through a global fiat currency and rule the spiritual world by pretending to be God.
Understanding current events, knowing the real stakes of international politics and resisting the NWO does not come from an encyclopedic knowledge or expert analyses of all kinds. The resistance to the NWO, or the “awakening”, comes simply from the fact that we are in an age where the masks come off. The true nature of this globalist project and the true face of the bankers behind it are being unveiled. Know that it is from this simple unmasking that the Truth will arise. It is understanding the meaning of the word Apocalypse (from the Greek apo: remove, and kalyptein: hide, cover = unveil, uncover).
One could wonder, is it really a coincidence that at the dawn of the final phase of the establishment of the NWO, internet emerges, one of the principal sources of our awakening?
Is it really a coincidence that the creation of the state of Israel coincided with the discovery of the Gnostic writings of Nag Hammadi, which had been buried by monks seventeen centuries before? A discovery that initiated what will become the true Apocalypse:
Unveiling the Father of Lies.
This short notice is addressed to those who have already approached more recent and much more publicized forms of “Gnosticism”, which are in fact recent versions / inversions of the actual, ancient, Gnostic teachings. Our site is devoted to historical Gnosis dating from Early Christianity and has therefore nothing to do with so-called fashionable New Age Gnostic movements, obsessively anti-Catholic, or plainly anti-Christian, originating from a recovery/inversion of Gnostic themes by an emerging Jewish mysticism during the 13th century; a pseudo-gnosis promoted by the esoteric works of Freemasons Albert Pike and charlatan Aleister Crowley, teaching a degenerated Kabbalah for Gentiles. It’s shocking to see people submit their spiritual search to a “Talmudic, Kabbalistic” teaching that basically grants them no spiritual prospects whatsoever. Kabbalah grants spiritual dimensions to no one but the “chosen people”! It’s a common mistake, a mediatized distortion that misleads in particular beginners, to confuse historical Gnosis with New Age and other Kabbalistic anti-Christian propaganda found in Hollywood. Genuine Christian Gnosis will never be accepted by any media, and definitely not by Hollywood. Perhaps all those halfwit experts who denounce the support of Hollywood to Marcionite or Valentinian Gnosticism should measure the weight of the Marcionite lobby in cinema against the weight of a lobby we no longer dare utter by name. Are these “experts” even able to understand why for instance, the CIA supports the development of Evangelical Christianity and Zionism in the Middle-East, yet never supports the Coptic or Orthodox Christians?
This presentation is based solely on the oldest sacred texts and defends its views by drawing mainly from recognized encyclopedias and academic controversies concerning exegesis. This isn’t vainglorious boasting rather than a clear opposition to those countless esoteric authors who rely on … other esoteric authors.
2. Unmasking the Wicked One
We defend the Gnostic viewpoint with regard to the knowledge of Evil. A good understanding of Christian Gnosis will teach that a spiritual journey feeding only on the knowledge of Good will remain a journey cripple and infantile. The knowledge of Good alone would amply suffice if we were all in paradise where any knowledge of evil would be futile. But in a world where evil exists, where evil has ramifications for future generations, where lies pervert almost everything, even the meaning of simple words: the bricks constructing the languages that define us, … a spiritual search ignoring this evil is like driving at night without the headlights turned on. This is one of the main criticisms laid upon Gnostics: they teach the Knowledge of Good and Evil, knowledge identified with the forbidden fruit of Eden in the biblical narrative. But the Gnostics situated the notorious biblical story of Paradise in a context completely opposed to the one of the Old Testament, which the Gnostics called corrupt and concealing of the truth. (For further examination of the corruption of the biblical tale of Genesis, and an overview of the perversion of the meaning of words, see Understanding the Story of Paradise)
Knowledge of Good and Evil according to Gnostics is coherent but complex and will be developed in another article to avoid cluttering this one up. However, the term “gnosis”, meaning “knowledge”, does not mean an intellectual knowledge rather than a knowledge through contact. Between these two forms of knowledge lies a difference similar to knowing, for example, Victor Hugo through his books and knowing him personally, through contact, e.g. being his neighbor. At the risk of appearing rather simplistic, we can say that in order to establish such a knowledge through contact, Christian Gnosis encourages the seeker to reconnect with his intuition and stimulate it. Gnosis incites to an inner journey until that which reveals itself deep within through direct intuition, a contact, a link, blurry and indistinct, but with an infinite dimension, awakens the seeker to his own infinite dimension, his belonging to all from which the All (*) separates him. This knowledge through contact is “Gnosis”, the connection of the seeker with his “inner Christ”. This connection makes the Gnostic grasp that his true identity is strange to this world and he develops in him the feeling that his worldly surroundings don’t make sense, that they don’t add up.
At this moment, the Gnostic revelation responds in depth and without compromise that: to realize his divine dimension, the individual must overcome or abandon his entire mental structure, a highly complex and mechanical structure that disables the mind to overcome that for which it was programmed. Gnostics viewed that without this “contact”, without gnosis, the individual remained a prisoner of anxiety due to the remoteness and oblivion of the Father, as well as a prisoner of fatality due to the mechanical limits of the Universe in which we’ve been created; a fatality and institutionalized anxiety that existed in times of Jesus Christ, where both Jewish and Greek beliefs taught nothing but fatality and the fear of God, Yahweh or Zeus, and it isn’t for naught that converts to Judaism were called “God-fearing” instead of “God-loving”.
According to Gnostics, the world was in need of the same upheaval as with the personal awakening, since it was ruled by a treacherous entity that structured the dimension in which we exist, an evil force that manifested his presence on Earth through the establishment of power, royal or religious, with as “epicenter”: the Temple of Jerusalem. A treacherous entity that, dethroned by Christian revelation, followed with the destruction of Its Temple, now requires that Its throne and temple are restored to It, which is precisely what the global elite with their New World Order, Freemasonry and even, to our greatest regret, Evangelical Christians, are striving to build.
And it’s to keep us in a state of oblivion and enclose us in our physical and material dimension (a dimension which is very real, make no mistake) that the occult powers offer mediatized freeways to atheistic materialism, or the introduction of “Noahide Law” which promises, among other things, to cut off the head of the Catholics and Orthodox (see here). Noahide Law accepts only two positions: fear Yahweh or be atheist, which may seem paradoxical, but isn’t. It mainly serves to sever all ties between man and his divine origins. To understand this better, one must know that there has never been a mysticism, a possible link between man and Yahweh in ancient Jewish writings. Jewish mysticism is but a late development that only concerns the “chosen people”, something which is clearly and sincerely illustrated by Gershom Scholem, the main authority in the field.
Increasingly greater in numbers are those who at present comprehend or sense that a dark mystique lies behind the mechanisms or forces that weave the coming of the New World Order. But who or what exactly is this dark entity identified by Gnostics, and also, as we shall see, already clearly identified in ancient mythologies, up to the oldest Sumerian texts?
Many have already uncovered a cult of the Fallen Angel, Lucifer, in the so-called secret societies that nestle and recruit in the highest echelons of world power. The Lucis Trust even has a place at the UN in the form of a Non-Governmental Organization, and a consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The organization was initially called the Lucifer Publishing Company. According to the Lucis Trust, the name was chosen because the founder, Alice Bailey, saw Lucifer, the Fallen Angel, as a positive principle.
But in view of the oldest sacred texts, mythologies and even religions of the world, Lucifer doesn’t carry much weight, and its acceptance as an evil principle is quite recent: it wasn’t until 408 AD when St. Jerome, author of the Vulgate, chose the name Lucifer to translate the Hebrew “HYLL” of Isaiah 14:12 which addressed a Babylonian King identified with Nimrod in Genesis 10. The decision by St. Jerome of introducing a new referral to designate Evil was unlikely an innocent move and has certainly helped exonerate the truly accused of Early Christianity.
Luciferianism is very much alive today, but the Luciferians are just puppets of a caste much older, venerating an evil entity with which they have made a pact since the dawn of time, a pact they call “Covenant”. This exiled entity is described in all ancient mythologies and religious texts as the entity hiding behind the famous biblical Nimrod. This entity exists in all ancient religions - religions of the past that were renamed "mythology" in order to hide from us that they are the roots, the founding texts of the religions of today.
Knowing the true identity of the “god of this world”, as it was called by St. Paul, is understanding the pursuit of the NWO. It’s understanding why the Catholic and Orthodox churches are the first ones to go, destroyed by the numbers during the French, Mexican and Russian revolutions; or targets of aggressive media orchestrated by that same caste. Exposing this entity is also understanding why in the highest spheres of the “Old Testamentary” world, secret Luciferian or other “Skull and Bones”-like societies have made their nest.
(*) The All does not mean all of God's creation as most interpreters believe, but everything that separates us from the Divine Fullnes, ie. the material universe created by the Demiurge.
3. The Demiurge
Gnostic revelation teaches that evil, darkness and lies all have a mystical origin. According to Gnosis, the road to evil began with this primordial separation from our divine dimension where the male and female principle were as “one”. According to ancient Gnosis, a primordial tear was produced in the most distant feminine aspect of the Father, followed by the complex establishment of the material, cosmic dimension in which we now exist. Our existence here below outside of the Fullness, an existence reduced to this material dimension, means to be spiritually dead. The simple etymology of the word “exist” already explains what the Gnostics told us: existence, exist: from the Latin existere, composed of ex and sistere = “to remain outside”.
Remark: A common mistake is to confuse the Demiurge and Satan, even in works devoted to Christian Gnosis. This separation from our place of origins, the Fullness (called “Pleroma” in Gnosticism), is the work of the Demiurge, but the maintenance of our “existence” in this physical universe of flesh and blood is the work of Evil, which a thorough reading of the Gnostic texts reveals.
A very important point to understand the significance of the Gnostic revelation is that this teaching of the forgotten Fullness and the role of the Demiurge was not a Gnostic invention, but an unveiling of what was concealed by both Jewish and Greek cults alike, by the priests of the Temple of Solomon and the Temple of Apollo.
What remained veiled, and remains veiled today, was that the creator-god, nor the god for whom people built temples and performed sacrificial worship (we shall see that the creator-god and the god people sacrificed to are also different), was not God himself, but that these gods and the creation of the material universe actually separate us from God. We know for a fact, thanks to archeology and recent biblical exegesis, that almost all the founding texts of all ancient religions – including Genesis of the Old Testament, as we shall see – explain that a separation with our divine dimension is the founding act of the creation of the material universe.
This disjunction of the primordial union is symbolically described in the sacred texts as “the separation of Heaven and Earth”(attention: this separation repeats itself in lower realms!). This topic of the Tear in the primordial Fullness, the separation of Heaven and Earth, will be developed in another article, but to summarize, we conclude that this theme presents itself in all parts of the world. Describing them all would demand several pages, but here are some examples:
The same thing is true for Oceania, Africa and their oral traditions, and especially for the subject that interests us most, the ancient religions of the Middle East. These religions of the Middle East are rooted in Sumerian mythologies where the primordial Fullness is represented by the union of Nammu (feminine) and Apsu (masculine). Nammu is probably the oldest Sumerian deity (see: “History Begins at Sumer” by Samuel Noah Kramer) and therefore the world. Nammu gives birth to An and Ki (Heaven and Earth) and it is their son, the Demiurge Enlil, who creates the cosmos by disjoining the “inseparable” couple An-Ki.
Throughout the ancient Near East, the Demiurge created the world by splitting the primordial union, dividing Heaven and Earth. All the creation myths of the Near East tell the story of this primordial separation, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Sumerian myth of the great god Utu, through Babylonian religion and Marduk who divides Tiamat and Apsu to form Heaven and Earth, etc … All of them, but one?! The biblical god didn’t separate heaven and earth, but created them?! …
Actually … the translators of the Holy Bible have lied to us from the very first words in the Old Testament:
Even in the Bible, God (Elohim – who is Enlil in the Sumerian counterparts), like every other demiurge of various mythologies in the Middle East, did not create but separate Heaven and Earth. “Official” translations of Genesis 1.1 read: “In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth.” The word that is translated into “created” is ba-ra (בָּרָ֣א ); but ba-ra means both “create” and “separate”. Translating ba-ra with separate concurs way better with the Sumerian context and is also linguistically more accurate (see e.g. the work of Ellen Van Wolde, professor Theology and Exegesis of the Old Testament at the University of Tilburg, who proposes a more accurate translation of Genesis 1.1 as follows: “In the beginning in which/when God separated the heavens and the earth …”). The courageous demonstration of Ellen Van Wolde provoked an outcry among some exegetes who demonstrated nothing in return but their bad faith.
For cults and religions that worship the Demiurge and ascend him to the rank of Supreme God, this very separation of Heaven and Earth has, according to them, exited us from Chaos. This is how the primordial union mother/father, Nammu/Apsu in Sumer, Tiamat/Apsu in Babylon, became Chaos, called Tohu wa-Bohu in the Old Testament. Theologians that have raised their shields against Ellen Van Wolde may now do the same against Robert Graves and Raphael Patai who both prove that Tohu wa-Bohu symbolized the Fullness, and not Chaos: Tohu = Tiamat and Bohu = Abzu).
For Gnostics however, this separation ends the era or age of the Fullness before the cosmic creation. We will see that the mythologies and the emergence of large religious reformations were made precisely around these two alternatives:
1. The choice between, on one side, a spirituality binding each and every human being to the primordial Fullness, each having a share of Eternity within and the prospect of returning to that Fullness, escaping the material world which involves (and makes sense to boot) a fraternal morality and the exceeding of one's ego. These spiritualities consider the cosmological creation as the work of the Demiurge.
2. Secondly, a cult raising the Demiurge to the rank of Supreme Divinity while relegating the primordial Fullness to the rank of primordial Chaos, like the Old Testament or Greek cults of Zeus have done. These cults impose their authority through the fear inspired by their God, which man can curry favour with rituals and blood sacrifices, including human sacrifice. These cults grant no divinity whatsoever to man who can only be punished or materially rewarded by these gods, fortune and power being the greatest favours granted, as was the case in original Judaism.
4. The Good, the Bad & the Just
5. The Fallen Angel
Son of the Demiurge
in the oldest mythologies: from Ninurta to Yahweh
To highlight the parallel between the Gnostic description of the Wicked One and the oldest mythologies recently discovered, we must first establish the identity of the Wicked One according to Sumerian scripture.
Originally, in the oldest Sumerian texts, the Demiurge Enlil was kept away from human affairs. He was peaceful and remote. This Sumerian Demiurge Enlil becomes Ellil in Akkadian and eventually El in the pantheons of the Near East, that is to say, the Canaanite and Ugaritic religions, and the Old Testament.
El or Elohim is a name of God in the Old Testament. The dominant theological position, which says that El and Yahweh have always referred to the same god, is increasingly challenged by academic biblical exegesis and archeology. We will see why.
In the Sumerian texts, Enlil’s first son was an evil god, god of death, war and plagues. He was Ninurta (Nergal in Babylon). We will demonstrate that following the track of Ninurta leads us straight to Yahweh. The Sumerian texts tell the story of his birth, a result of the r*pe of Ninhursag (Ninlil) by Enlil, conform with Gnostic cosmogony where Yahweh-Cain was born from the r*pe of Eve / Epinoia by the Chief Archon (the Demiurge).
With Ninhursag being the feminine aspect (Ki) of the detachment of An-Ki (the couple symbolizing the primordial Fullnes: An = Heaven and Ki = Earth), and, for the Gnostics, Epinoia / Eve being an emanation of Sophia, who symbolizes the feminine aspect of the primordial Fullness (Pleroma), the parallel between the Gnostic cosmogony and Sumerian scripture (2000 to 300 BC) is undeniable!
As we have seen, the name of the Demiurge El / Enlil is constant in Sumerian and Near Eastern religions. Only the name of his Son, the “Lord”, changed according to the place or time he was revered.
The oldest known names for the Rebellious Son are Ningirsu and Ninib, which became Ninurta, which we will find later in Babylon in his best-known and already somewhat corrupted version as God of plagues and war, Nergal, son of Enlil and Ninlil. The cult of Ninurta / Nergal is also found in other cults dedicated to the gods associated with Ninurta, throughout antiquity. For example:
Resheph: god of plagues and war, identified with Nergal in the list of Ugaritic-Akkadian deities (Ugaritica, 5 (1965), 45:26), in inscriptions found at Tel Amarna (EA 35:13) and also identified with Apollo in translations found on Greco-Phoenician bilingual tablets. Resheph is mentioned as the god of Shechem in the “Ebla tablets” (-2500 BC), Shechem being the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel.
Apollo: god of plagues, son of the Demiurge Zeus. Apollo was identified with Helios during the Hellenistic period. The name Apollo derives from Aplu Enlil, Hittite and Akkadian god, Aplu meaning “son” (Aplu-Enlil = son of Enlil). See also the city of Archof (aRShOoPh = Resheph), renamed Apollonia in the Hellenistic period as the Greeks equated Resheph with Apollo.
Shulman or Shalem: son of El, also known as Resheph-Shulman, god of Ur-Shalem (Jerusalem) with the famous Temple of Solomon (Solomon = Shulman, explained in the final chapters).
And lastly the Ugaritic Yahweh: Akkadian god Adad, son of Enlil, becomes Baal-Hadad and is the son of El in Ugarit.
Since he was the most important son of Enlil, Ninurta, god of war, plagues and diseases (also of fortune, since he is the god of those who work in metals, those who made weapons and jewelry), it was to Him people turned to in favour of blessings and protection. Ninurta and his priests, terrorizing first, then rising to power offering protection, thus initiated a mechanism which became the prototype of the means to take power, a means to impose a rule of law, constitute states or establish a mafia.
Which God did kings and chiefs call upon for blessing? A just god? A god of festivities or rain? Or a god that could grant victory, sow calamities and diseases on their enemies? This is why, in the religions of the Middle-East, the most important son of Enlil/El (Ninurta) became Ba’al, a title meaning “Lord”, though he carried different names depending on the city and era: the god Hadad, eldest son of El in Ugarit becomes Ba’al-Hadad; the god Melqart, eldest son of El in Phoenicia, becomes Ba’al-Melqart, etc. (We shall also see that the various Baalim (plural of Ba’al) occupy in Semitic pantheons, the same place Ninurta has in Sumerian pantheons.)
People sacrificed to Ba’al in order to win wars, ward off diseases and curses, and it was thus mainly to Him that people devoted a cult, for Him that temples were built, sacrifices committed and the utmost horrible sacrifice of them all, the sacrifice of the firstborn.
Consider for example how Ninurta became Ba’al-Haddad at Ugarit, a city located in modern Syria, whose discovery in 1928 by French archeologists has allowed for a better understanding of the context in which the Old Testament was written, where Jews lived alongside the Ugaritic coasts where many cultural exchanges took place and whose language was hence very similar.
With regard to the origins of Judaism, one could consider the texts discovered in Ugarit as being closer to historical reality than biblical scripture. They have two major advantages. Firstly, they have been dated to 1500-1200 BC and are thus contemporaries of the time when people worshipped Yahweh, while the biblical texts concerning this period have been written during the Babylonian exile between 622-500 BC, nearly a millennium after the events they describe. Secondly, they lack ideological distortion. Indeed, analyses of biblical writings show that they have been extensively altered and redacted over the centuries to defend the dogmas of a nascent Jewish religion. It was about scribes wanting to show that the god Yahweh Almighty imposed himself in one fell swoop upon the Israelites as being the only God in the time of Moses, +/- 1300 BC.
As put by the archeologist Jean-Baptiste Humbert in 1997 (translated from French): “the discovery in Ugarit of another Canaanite literature [we knew only one: the Bible!] threw a vivid light on a religion close to that of ancient Israel. Many ideas adopted were shaken up. The celebrated Jerusalem was just a big block of houses, and the temples of the almighty Yahweh were no larger than sacristies. Israel proved to be but a remote province under the influence of its powerful neighbors, whose inhabitants were only trying to imitate the arts and manners.”
That the Sumerian Ninurta equates with the Semitic Ba’al-Hadad can be clearly and simply confirmed by the denominations and translations of the name Ninurta in the different languages of the Middle East: Ninurta is called Ningirsu or Ishkur in Sumerian; Ishkur is called Adad in Akkadian, Hadad in Aramaic, and becomes Ba’al-Hadad (Lord Hadad), son of El (Enlil), at Ugarit.
Ba’al-Hadad in turn simply becomes Ba’al (Lord) in Ugarit and every other north-western Semitic religious system. The cults dedicated to Ba’al, Ba’al-Hadad, Ba’al-Melqart, et al. become dominant throughout the Middle East.
Why do we consider that all these different names designate the same god? Simply because these gods share the same characteristics and play the same role in the same myths. However, it is of vital importance, for these common characteristics to be discerned, to keep in mind that the more sacred texts and cults examined are recent, a fortiori the Son of the Demiurge gains in significance and the more syncretism becomes important (in history of religions, syncretism is a mixture of influences), as with the case of the supreme god of Babylon, Marduk, who gradually absorbed the features of rival gods as Babylon gained in importance. Marduk, originally a minor agrarian god, ended up replacing Enlil (and absorbed his attributes) as the supreme god of the pantheon. In Sumerian, “Marduk” is written “AMAR.UTU” (son of Utu. Utu is the one that separates Heaven and Earth – Uruk tablet STPU 3.67). Archaeology tells us that when an inferior deity takes the place of a superior one, he also consumes his titles and his exploits, which is obviously the case when the cult of Ninurta supplanted that of his father Enlil.
In addition to being considered identical since antiquity, the characteristics of above mentioned gods leave no doubt about their parentage. Look at the following characteristics:
1. They are the Son of the Demiurge: Enlil (El in the OT) is the father of Nergal, Resheph, Ninurta, Shulman, etc. Demiurge Zeus is the father of Apollo.
2. They are the Gods of thunder and lightning (Stormgods). This is one of the categories by which the Son of the Demiurge is catalogued in specialized literature. Ninurta, Apollo, Nergal, Ba’al-Hadad, Yahweh, ... all fall into this category.
3. They are Gods of War, of Plagues, of Death and Disease.
4. One of the most important characteristics: they are the gods that confront the primordial Serpent/Dragon. This theme of the Son of the Demiurge slaying the serpent/dragon is present in all mythologies of the Near East and practically all mythologies of the world:
Even Thor, son of the Demiurge Odin, slayed the primordial serpent Jörmungandr. This logic with which we examine and compare the old myths and ancient gods is easily accepted by all, as long as we assume that these myths are completely alien to our beliefs. But the faces tense up and frown when the same logic is applied to our beliefs, especially when approaching the god of the Old Testament.
However, if we put these mythologies and ancient beliefs of the Near East through a sieve using the four criteria described above, we find in this sieve, side by side, Ninurta, Ba’al-Hadad, Teshub, Resheph, Nergal, Shulman, … and Yahweh.
Before using our sieve, we must remember that it’s important to take into account, on one hand, the mechanisms of syncretism in religious texts, including the Old Testament, and on the other hand, also consider the possibility of any form of “make-up” of texts written by clergymen, who have a natural tendency towards “monolatry” or even “monotheisation” of their god, also with regard to the Old Testament. Remember the words of Jesus: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” (Matthew 23).
[all biblical verses in this essay will be taken from the KJV unless noted otherwise]
6. The Wrath of "God"
Biblical scholars have long demonstrated the similarities between the titles and attributes of Ba’al and Yahweh, similarities that have become obvious especially since the discovery of the Ugaritic texts.
“Stormgod” and “Rider of Clouds” are the most common descriptions of Ninurta and Ba’al-Hadad. The classification “Stormgod” includes, in comparative mythology: Ninurta, Ba’al-Hadad, Resheph, Shulman, et al. An abundance of literature classifies Yahweh in this category, despite many pitiful commotions that have arisen. This aspect of Yahweh is already very accessible on the internet, but here are some examples anyway:
Yahweh: God of War, Death and Plagues
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. – Deuteronomy 32:42
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
– Deuteronomy 32:23-25
In order to believe in the great mercy of God in the Old Testament, in God’s love for all men, it’s better not to read it. The rabbinical system of thought doesn’t care and is perfectly consistent with the so-called universal goodness of Yahweh. Historically, Jewish monolatry consisted of being terrorized by none other than Yahweh himself. If we look closely enough, we can understand why the ultra-orthodox are called “Haredim” (= the “Terrorized”) and non-Jews that converted to, or were influenced by, Judaism are called “God-fearing”: the number of men, women, children killed with the approval, out of vengeance, or even a simple vexation, of the Lord Yahweh rises to several millions. (Indeed! See Dwindling In Unbelief)
And Yahweh didn’t just attack warriors threatening Israel, but killed tens of thousands of babies with disease:
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem. – Exodus 13:15
Yahweh participates in the education of children:
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. – 2 Kings 2:23-24
Yahweh encourages them not to complain too much:
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. – Numbers 11:1
Adequate obedience to Yahweh, is not only killing men and warriors, but killing everyone, women and children included:
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: … - Numbers 31:1-2
And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. – Numbers 31:14-17
Numbers 16:
12-13 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
27 … and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children …
31-33 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
44-45 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
47-49 … and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Yahweh assists people in choosing sides:
Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. – Exodus 32:26-28
Yahweh kills men, women, elderly and children alike, not because he is God and he “works in mysterious ways”, but because Yahweh is but one name of many of the Demiurge’s Rebellious Son, an evil demon who has usurped the place of his demiurgic father.
Continued below ...
1. Introduction
The Father of Lies
These writings aim to expose the parallel between a mysticism unveiled by Christian Gnosis - mysticism in the sense of divine mystery - and the events leading to the establishment of a New World Order (NWO). As the advent of this NWO approaches, a struggle becomes increasingly visible between:
- 1. on one hand, this strange global project with tribal pretensions (!), where a small minority seeks to dominate everyone else through the reversal of all values, justified by Talmudic sophistry. A dominion that imposes blending of race to achieve complete disappearance of the cultural diversity of people and their roots, except for one;
2. and on the other hand, a popular resistance to the NWO. A people’s resistance carried by a genuine universalism, a true brotherhood and an objective defense of the Truth, which will lead to the victory of the Greco-Christian Logos against Talmudic sophism.
The Wicked One now requires that It be given Its temple and Its blood sacrifices, that which is strived for by the Kabbalist, Masonic and other global elites. The reconstruction of the temple is the pinnacle of the NWO, the temple where both ambitions of the Wicked One will materialize: to rule over the temporal world through a global fiat currency and rule the spiritual world by pretending to be God.
Understanding current events, knowing the real stakes of international politics and resisting the NWO does not come from an encyclopedic knowledge or expert analyses of all kinds. The resistance to the NWO, or the “awakening”, comes simply from the fact that we are in an age where the masks come off. The true nature of this globalist project and the true face of the bankers behind it are being unveiled. Know that it is from this simple unmasking that the Truth will arise. It is understanding the meaning of the word Apocalypse (from the Greek apo: remove, and kalyptein: hide, cover = unveil, uncover).
One could wonder, is it really a coincidence that at the dawn of the final phase of the establishment of the NWO, internet emerges, one of the principal sources of our awakening?
Is it really a coincidence that the creation of the state of Israel coincided with the discovery of the Gnostic writings of Nag Hammadi, which had been buried by monks seventeen centuries before? A discovery that initiated what will become the true Apocalypse:
Unveiling the Father of Lies.
Warning
This short notice is addressed to those who have already approached more recent and much more publicized forms of “Gnosticism”, which are in fact recent versions / inversions of the actual, ancient, Gnostic teachings. Our site is devoted to historical Gnosis dating from Early Christianity and has therefore nothing to do with so-called fashionable New Age Gnostic movements, obsessively anti-Catholic, or plainly anti-Christian, originating from a recovery/inversion of Gnostic themes by an emerging Jewish mysticism during the 13th century; a pseudo-gnosis promoted by the esoteric works of Freemasons Albert Pike and charlatan Aleister Crowley, teaching a degenerated Kabbalah for Gentiles. It’s shocking to see people submit their spiritual search to a “Talmudic, Kabbalistic” teaching that basically grants them no spiritual prospects whatsoever. Kabbalah grants spiritual dimensions to no one but the “chosen people”! It’s a common mistake, a mediatized distortion that misleads in particular beginners, to confuse historical Gnosis with New Age and other Kabbalistic anti-Christian propaganda found in Hollywood. Genuine Christian Gnosis will never be accepted by any media, and definitely not by Hollywood. Perhaps all those halfwit experts who denounce the support of Hollywood to Marcionite or Valentinian Gnosticism should measure the weight of the Marcionite lobby in cinema against the weight of a lobby we no longer dare utter by name. Are these “experts” even able to understand why for instance, the CIA supports the development of Evangelical Christianity and Zionism in the Middle-East, yet never supports the Coptic or Orthodox Christians?
This presentation is based solely on the oldest sacred texts and defends its views by drawing mainly from recognized encyclopedias and academic controversies concerning exegesis. This isn’t vainglorious boasting rather than a clear opposition to those countless esoteric authors who rely on … other esoteric authors.
2. Unmasking the Wicked One
The Knowledge of Evil
We defend the Gnostic viewpoint with regard to the knowledge of Evil. A good understanding of Christian Gnosis will teach that a spiritual journey feeding only on the knowledge of Good will remain a journey cripple and infantile. The knowledge of Good alone would amply suffice if we were all in paradise where any knowledge of evil would be futile. But in a world where evil exists, where evil has ramifications for future generations, where lies pervert almost everything, even the meaning of simple words: the bricks constructing the languages that define us, … a spiritual search ignoring this evil is like driving at night without the headlights turned on. This is one of the main criticisms laid upon Gnostics: they teach the Knowledge of Good and Evil, knowledge identified with the forbidden fruit of Eden in the biblical narrative. But the Gnostics situated the notorious biblical story of Paradise in a context completely opposed to the one of the Old Testament, which the Gnostics called corrupt and concealing of the truth. (For further examination of the corruption of the biblical tale of Genesis, and an overview of the perversion of the meaning of words, see Understanding the Story of Paradise)
Knowledge of Good and Evil according to Gnostics is coherent but complex and will be developed in another article to avoid cluttering this one up. However, the term “gnosis”, meaning “knowledge”, does not mean an intellectual knowledge rather than a knowledge through contact. Between these two forms of knowledge lies a difference similar to knowing, for example, Victor Hugo through his books and knowing him personally, through contact, e.g. being his neighbor. At the risk of appearing rather simplistic, we can say that in order to establish such a knowledge through contact, Christian Gnosis encourages the seeker to reconnect with his intuition and stimulate it. Gnosis incites to an inner journey until that which reveals itself deep within through direct intuition, a contact, a link, blurry and indistinct, but with an infinite dimension, awakens the seeker to his own infinite dimension, his belonging to all from which the All (*) separates him. This knowledge through contact is “Gnosis”, the connection of the seeker with his “inner Christ”. This connection makes the Gnostic grasp that his true identity is strange to this world and he develops in him the feeling that his worldly surroundings don’t make sense, that they don’t add up.
At this moment, the Gnostic revelation responds in depth and without compromise that: to realize his divine dimension, the individual must overcome or abandon his entire mental structure, a highly complex and mechanical structure that disables the mind to overcome that for which it was programmed. Gnostics viewed that without this “contact”, without gnosis, the individual remained a prisoner of anxiety due to the remoteness and oblivion of the Father, as well as a prisoner of fatality due to the mechanical limits of the Universe in which we’ve been created; a fatality and institutionalized anxiety that existed in times of Jesus Christ, where both Jewish and Greek beliefs taught nothing but fatality and the fear of God, Yahweh or Zeus, and it isn’t for naught that converts to Judaism were called “God-fearing” instead of “God-loving”.
According to Gnostics, the world was in need of the same upheaval as with the personal awakening, since it was ruled by a treacherous entity that structured the dimension in which we exist, an evil force that manifested his presence on Earth through the establishment of power, royal or religious, with as “epicenter”: the Temple of Jerusalem. A treacherous entity that, dethroned by Christian revelation, followed with the destruction of Its Temple, now requires that Its throne and temple are restored to It, which is precisely what the global elite with their New World Order, Freemasonry and even, to our greatest regret, Evangelical Christians, are striving to build.
And it’s to keep us in a state of oblivion and enclose us in our physical and material dimension (a dimension which is very real, make no mistake) that the occult powers offer mediatized freeways to atheistic materialism, or the introduction of “Noahide Law” which promises, among other things, to cut off the head of the Catholics and Orthodox (see here). Noahide Law accepts only two positions: fear Yahweh or be atheist, which may seem paradoxical, but isn’t. It mainly serves to sever all ties between man and his divine origins. To understand this better, one must know that there has never been a mysticism, a possible link between man and Yahweh in ancient Jewish writings. Jewish mysticism is but a late development that only concerns the “chosen people”, something which is clearly and sincerely illustrated by Gershom Scholem, the main authority in the field.
Increasingly greater in numbers are those who at present comprehend or sense that a dark mystique lies behind the mechanisms or forces that weave the coming of the New World Order. But who or what exactly is this dark entity identified by Gnostics, and also, as we shall see, already clearly identified in ancient mythologies, up to the oldest Sumerian texts?
Many have already uncovered a cult of the Fallen Angel, Lucifer, in the so-called secret societies that nestle and recruit in the highest echelons of world power. The Lucis Trust even has a place at the UN in the form of a Non-Governmental Organization, and a consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The organization was initially called the Lucifer Publishing Company. According to the Lucis Trust, the name was chosen because the founder, Alice Bailey, saw Lucifer, the Fallen Angel, as a positive principle.
But in view of the oldest sacred texts, mythologies and even religions of the world, Lucifer doesn’t carry much weight, and its acceptance as an evil principle is quite recent: it wasn’t until 408 AD when St. Jerome, author of the Vulgate, chose the name Lucifer to translate the Hebrew “HYLL” of Isaiah 14:12 which addressed a Babylonian King identified with Nimrod in Genesis 10. The decision by St. Jerome of introducing a new referral to designate Evil was unlikely an innocent move and has certainly helped exonerate the truly accused of Early Christianity.
Luciferianism is very much alive today, but the Luciferians are just puppets of a caste much older, venerating an evil entity with which they have made a pact since the dawn of time, a pact they call “Covenant”. This exiled entity is described in all ancient mythologies and religious texts as the entity hiding behind the famous biblical Nimrod. This entity exists in all ancient religions - religions of the past that were renamed "mythology" in order to hide from us that they are the roots, the founding texts of the religions of today.
Knowing the true identity of the “god of this world”, as it was called by St. Paul, is understanding the pursuit of the NWO. It’s understanding why the Catholic and Orthodox churches are the first ones to go, destroyed by the numbers during the French, Mexican and Russian revolutions; or targets of aggressive media orchestrated by that same caste. Exposing this entity is also understanding why in the highest spheres of the “Old Testamentary” world, secret Luciferian or other “Skull and Bones”-like societies have made their nest.
(*) The All does not mean all of God's creation as most interpreters believe, but everything that separates us from the Divine Fullnes, ie. the material universe created by the Demiurge.
3. The Demiurge
The Demiurge
The first concept in need of clarification for those readers unfamiliar with the Gnostic themes, is the notion of the “Demiurge”. The idea of the Demiurge often diverts those who approach Christian Gnosis and even horrifies the most sincere believers, and for good reason too: this Demiurge, this secondary and imperfect god, regarded by Gnostics as a barrier between man and the true Father, is none other than the Creator of the Universe himself! At first, to consider the Creator of the Universe as secondary or inferior to another seems paradoxical, contradictory. We must therefore specify that the Demiurge means the creator of the material universe and understand that this demiurgic concept is consistent in Gnostic thought, where the creation of the material universe happens from a tear, a separation from the true creation of the Father: the Divine Fullness.
Gnostic revelation teaches that evil, darkness and lies all have a mystical origin. According to Gnosis, the road to evil began with this primordial separation from our divine dimension where the male and female principle were as “one”. According to ancient Gnosis, a primordial tear was produced in the most distant feminine aspect of the Father, followed by the complex establishment of the material, cosmic dimension in which we now exist. Our existence here below outside of the Fullness, an existence reduced to this material dimension, means to be spiritually dead. The simple etymology of the word “exist” already explains what the Gnostics told us: existence, exist: from the Latin existere, composed of ex and sistere = “to remain outside”.
- [Modern cosmology tells a similar story when explaining baryogenesis, where our Universe was created through the separation of matter from anti-matter. According to recent scientific discoveries, this process is due to CP-symmetry violation. In cosmology, baryogenesis is the process during which an asymmetry between ordinary matter and anti-matter is produced until there remains a minimal excess (one particle in a billion) of ordinary matter over anti-matter. Matter and anti-matter then self-destruct in strictly equal quantities, leaving only residual material created by the baryogenesis. This residual matter constitutes our entire visible universe!]
Remark: A common mistake is to confuse the Demiurge and Satan, even in works devoted to Christian Gnosis. This separation from our place of origins, the Fullness (called “Pleroma” in Gnosticism), is the work of the Demiurge, but the maintenance of our “existence” in this physical universe of flesh and blood is the work of Evil, which a thorough reading of the Gnostic texts reveals.
The Primordial Waters, the Cosmic Egg or the Divine Fullness
before the Separation of Heaven and Earth
before the Separation of Heaven and Earth
A very important point to understand the significance of the Gnostic revelation is that this teaching of the forgotten Fullness and the role of the Demiurge was not a Gnostic invention, but an unveiling of what was concealed by both Jewish and Greek cults alike, by the priests of the Temple of Solomon and the Temple of Apollo.
What remained veiled, and remains veiled today, was that the creator-god, nor the god for whom people built temples and performed sacrificial worship (we shall see that the creator-god and the god people sacrificed to are also different), was not God himself, but that these gods and the creation of the material universe actually separate us from God. We know for a fact, thanks to archeology and recent biblical exegesis, that almost all the founding texts of all ancient religions – including Genesis of the Old Testament, as we shall see – explain that a separation with our divine dimension is the founding act of the creation of the material universe.
This disjunction of the primordial union is symbolically described in the sacred texts as “the separation of Heaven and Earth”(attention: this separation repeats itself in lower realms!). This topic of the Tear in the primordial Fullness, the separation of Heaven and Earth, will be developed in another article, but to summarize, we conclude that this theme presents itself in all parts of the world. Describing them all would demand several pages, but here are some examples:
- - In the Rigveda, creation occurs from the separation of Hiranyagarbha (= Brahman), the primordial egg, which consists of Heaven/the Sky (Dyaus) and Earth (Prithvi). The Hiranyagarbha is called Brahman: the infinite Absolute overlooking all dualities. Brahma (not to be confused with Brahman!) is the demiurgic creator-god of Hinduism who created the universe by splitting the Cosmic Egg, of which both parts formed Heaven and Earth.
- In Chinese mythology, Pangu creates the universe by separating the Cosmic Egg and it’s he who keeps Heaven (yang) and Earth (yin) apart.
- In Greek mythology, Uranus (Heaven/Sky) and Gaia (Earth) were to be separated for the creation of the cosmos to take place.
- In Māori mythology, the universe is created through the separation of the first couple, Rangi (Heaven/Sky) and Papa (Earth).
- In the Finnish epic of Kalevala, the Cosmic Egg is split, the upper half forming the Sky, the lower half forming the Earth.
- In Mongolia, it’s the Demiurge Utan who creates the universe by separating Heaven and Earth.
- In Egypt, all creation myths have one thing in common: the Nun/Nu, which is the birthplace of the creator-god (Atum). In Egyptian mythology, Nun, the male principle and Naunet, the female principle, form the primordial union. It’s but in later traditions that Nun was demonized and identified with Chaos. Shu, the god of storms, kept Nut (Heaven/Sky) and Geb (Earth) apart.
The same thing is true for Oceania, Africa and their oral traditions, and especially for the subject that interests us most, the ancient religions of the Middle East. These religions of the Middle East are rooted in Sumerian mythologies where the primordial Fullness is represented by the union of Nammu (feminine) and Apsu (masculine). Nammu is probably the oldest Sumerian deity (see: “History Begins at Sumer” by Samuel Noah Kramer) and therefore the world. Nammu gives birth to An and Ki (Heaven and Earth) and it is their son, the Demiurge Enlil, who creates the cosmos by disjoining the “inseparable” couple An-Ki.
Throughout the ancient Near East, the Demiurge created the world by splitting the primordial union, dividing Heaven and Earth. All the creation myths of the Near East tell the story of this primordial separation, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Sumerian myth of the great god Utu, through Babylonian religion and Marduk who divides Tiamat and Apsu to form Heaven and Earth, etc … All of them, but one?! The biblical god didn’t separate heaven and earth, but created them?! …
Actually … the translators of the Holy Bible have lied to us from the very first words in the Old Testament:
Even in the Bible, God (Elohim – who is Enlil in the Sumerian counterparts), like every other demiurge of various mythologies in the Middle East, did not create but separate Heaven and Earth. “Official” translations of Genesis 1.1 read: “In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth.” The word that is translated into “created” is ba-ra (בָּרָ֣א ); but ba-ra means both “create” and “separate”. Translating ba-ra with separate concurs way better with the Sumerian context and is also linguistically more accurate (see e.g. the work of Ellen Van Wolde, professor Theology and Exegesis of the Old Testament at the University of Tilburg, who proposes a more accurate translation of Genesis 1.1 as follows: “In the beginning in which/when God separated the heavens and the earth …”). The courageous demonstration of Ellen Van Wolde provoked an outcry among some exegetes who demonstrated nothing in return but their bad faith.
For cults and religions that worship the Demiurge and ascend him to the rank of Supreme God, this very separation of Heaven and Earth has, according to them, exited us from Chaos. This is how the primordial union mother/father, Nammu/Apsu in Sumer, Tiamat/Apsu in Babylon, became Chaos, called Tohu wa-Bohu in the Old Testament. Theologians that have raised their shields against Ellen Van Wolde may now do the same against Robert Graves and Raphael Patai who both prove that Tohu wa-Bohu symbolized the Fullness, and not Chaos: Tohu = Tiamat and Bohu = Abzu).
For Gnostics however, this separation ends the era or age of the Fullness before the cosmic creation. We will see that the mythologies and the emergence of large religious reformations were made precisely around these two alternatives:
1. The choice between, on one side, a spirituality binding each and every human being to the primordial Fullness, each having a share of Eternity within and the prospect of returning to that Fullness, escaping the material world which involves (and makes sense to boot) a fraternal morality and the exceeding of one's ego. These spiritualities consider the cosmological creation as the work of the Demiurge.
2. Secondly, a cult raising the Demiurge to the rank of Supreme Divinity while relegating the primordial Fullness to the rank of primordial Chaos, like the Old Testament or Greek cults of Zeus have done. These cults impose their authority through the fear inspired by their God, which man can curry favour with rituals and blood sacrifices, including human sacrifice. These cults grant no divinity whatsoever to man who can only be punished or materially rewarded by these gods, fortune and power being the greatest favours granted, as was the case in original Judaism.
4. The Good, the Bad & the Just
Readers accustomed to Gnostic themes may have suspected that the Demiurge will be singled out in this essay. However, the most common mistake, committed even by experts, is that no distinction is made between the Demiurge and the “Wicked One”, something we will set straight immediately.
Before being destroyed and banned for centuries, the Gnostic teachings and the Nag Hammadi texts were not meant to be read without instruction. It is at times difficult to clearly situate or distinguish the Demiurge, the Elohim, Cain, Yahweh, etc … especially because in the Gnostic system, that which “emanates” isn’t always distinct from that which is “emanated”. For example: Christ and the Primordial Man are at times distinct but are actually identical; Barbelo is also the Primordial Man, but in its feminin aspect; Epinoia/Eve is an emanation of Sophia as one of her aspects; Yahweh engenders Cain, but Cain is just the carnal aspect of Yahweh (this will be specified in later chapters). Therefore it is often difficult to decipher the difference Gnostics make between the Demiurge and the “Wicked One”.
We shall see that this confusion also stems from the fact that the Old Testament has muddied the waters by merging two gods into one, El and Yahweh, who originally were two distinct entities. Hence the common mistake made by all twopenny esotericists of believing that according to Christian Gnosis “the Demiurge is Yahweh who is the Wicked One”. This is wrong, and a careful reading of the Gnostic writings clearly shows that:
This Gnostic distinction between the Demiurge and the Wicked One was made perfectly clear by Irenaeus of Lyons:
Adolphe-Félix Gatien-Arnoult stated in his book “l’Histoire Comparée de la Philosophie” (Comparative History of Philosophy), pg. 319, that On God, Satan and the Demiurge Marcion himself acknowledged:
An Ismaili version of the Fallen Angel for those interested:
Bernard Barc, Professor at the University of Lyon III, internationally recognized expert on Jewish hermeneutics and Gnostic literature, says here: “Saklas, the Demiurge, gives Yao the central position [4th out of 7] in this system with three authorities on his left and three on his right side to indicate that he is the unifying name of this 'hebdomad of the week', which is confirmed by his appearance of a seven-headed snake.”
Thomas Römer, Professor of the Hebrew and Ugaritic Bible at the University of Geneva, Professor of the Old Testament at the University of Lausanne and Chairman at Collège de France, points out that the Gnostics called the god of the Jews “Yao” and explains in his “introduction of the Old Testament” that originally, the name of the Jewish god wasn’t pronounced Yave rather than Yao.
The Gnostic teaching that Yao/Yahweh was an emanation of the Demiurge is also confirmed by Irenaeus of Lyons, who said: They have also given names to [the several persons] in their system of falsehood, such as the following: he who was the first descendant of the mother is called Ialdabaoth; he, again, descended from him, is named Iao, ... - Against Heresies, Book I, Chapter XXX. 5
Having realized that according to Christian Gnosis Yahweh is not the Demiurge (Yaldabaoth/Saklas), it is also very important to understand the significance of the Revelation of Christian Gnosis, as is the case with the revelation of the forgotten Fullness, namely that this isn’t an invention rather than an unveiling of that which is veiled by rabbis and priests of cults that venerate the cursed Son of the Demiurge, whether it’s Apollo, Yahweh or another “Ba’al”: these gods have always designated, under different names, the Evil Son of the Demiurge. Numerous archeological and even biblical evidence has recently supported the Gnostic tradition that describes Yahweh as the Son of the Demiurge, and associate Him with Cain and the serpent from Eden.
We shall see that by describing Yahweh as the Son of the Demiurge, the Gnostic texts return Him to his original place (both names El and Yahweh designate God in the Bible, but originally designated the Demiurge El and his Son Yahweh). We will also see that ascribing to the Son of the Demiurge the role of the Wicked One corresponds to what is communicated in the oldest founding texts of all religions, from the earliest Sumerian texts onward.
On the other hand, Gnostic traditions, of which the most widespread was that of Valentinius, did not consider the Demiurge as evil rather than merely ignorant and incapable of achieving perfection. Valentinius was the most important Gnostic teacher. He taught in Rome between 135 and 160 AD. According to Tertullian, he was a candidate to become Bishop of Rome (the Pope) in 143, but failed in doing so, coming short but a few votes. Valentinius’ life wasn’t outside the Church until his eviction from the political apparatus of the Church of Rome. It was primarily due to opposition against his theses and those of Marcion that Orthodox Christianity was formed. Furthermore, the mere fact that “Orthodox Christianity was formed due to subsequent opposition against Gnostic theology”, as noted by the Encyclopedia Universalis, makes it absurd to speak of Gnostic “heresy”.
Valentinian Gnosis describes the Demiurge as the Just Dimension, “just” in the moral sense, but also for His mathematically precise construction of the universe (cf. the idea of the Great Watchmaker). Ptolemaeus Gnosticus, disciple of Valentinius, situates the Demiurge (the Just) between the Father (the Good) and the Wicked One (the Unjust).
We have seen that the Gnostic texts reveal that the official cults with their temples of Zeus, Apollo and Yahweh, hide from us that the Demiurge created our cosmos by dividing the primordial Fullness, by “separating Heaven and Earth”. We have seen that mythologies worldwide know of the separatist role of this Demiurge of which traces are left behind in even the Bible itself. Equally, we will establish that a careful reading of these mythologies and the Bible confirms the Gnostic Revelation concerning Yahweh, namely that:
Before being destroyed and banned for centuries, the Gnostic teachings and the Nag Hammadi texts were not meant to be read without instruction. It is at times difficult to clearly situate or distinguish the Demiurge, the Elohim, Cain, Yahweh, etc … especially because in the Gnostic system, that which “emanates” isn’t always distinct from that which is “emanated”. For example: Christ and the Primordial Man are at times distinct but are actually identical; Barbelo is also the Primordial Man, but in its feminin aspect; Epinoia/Eve is an emanation of Sophia as one of her aspects; Yahweh engenders Cain, but Cain is just the carnal aspect of Yahweh (this will be specified in later chapters). Therefore it is often difficult to decipher the difference Gnostics make between the Demiurge and the “Wicked One”.
We shall see that this confusion also stems from the fact that the Old Testament has muddied the waters by merging two gods into one, El and Yahweh, who originally were two distinct entities. Hence the common mistake made by all twopenny esotericists of believing that according to Christian Gnosis “the Demiurge is Yahweh who is the Wicked One”. This is wrong, and a careful reading of the Gnostic writings clearly shows that:
- 1. the Demiurge is not the Wicked One;
2. Yahweh is the Wicked One, an emanation, a “son”, the Fallen Angel of the Demiurge.
The Demiurge is not the Wicked One
This Gnostic distinction between the Demiurge and the Wicked One was made perfectly clear by Irenaeus of Lyons:
- They further teach that the spirits of wickedness derived their origin from grief. Hence the devil, whom they also call Cosmocrator (the ruler of the world), and the demons, and the angels, and every wicked spiritual being that exists, found the source of their existence. They represent the Demiurge as being the son of that mother of theirs (Achamoth), and Cosmocrator as the creature of the Demiurge. Cosmocrator has knowledge of what is above himself, because he is a spirit of wickedness; but the Demiurge is ignorant of such things, inasmuch as he is merely animal. Their mother dwells in that place which is above the heavens, that is, in the intermediate abode; the Demiurge in the heavenly place, that is, in the hebdomad; but the Cosmocrator in this our world.
- Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, Book I, Chapter V. 4
They also declare the “adversary” is one of those angels who are in the world, whom they call the Devil, maintaining that he was formed for this purpose, that he might lead those souls which have perished from the world to the Supreme Ruler. They describe him also as being chief among the makers of the world, …
- Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, Book I, Chapter XXV. 4
Adolphe-Félix Gatien-Arnoult stated in his book “l’Histoire Comparée de la Philosophie” (Comparative History of Philosophy), pg. 319, that On God, Satan and the Demiurge Marcion himself acknowledged:
- 1) as first principle a being of infinite Light, Bythos.
2) a creature of shadow and darkness: Satan, matter.
3) a being, ignorant rather than wise, where Justice is degenerated to a ruthless rigidity, the Demiurge. But the precise relationships Marcion established between these are not well known.
An Ismaili version of the Fallen Angel for those interested:
The Ismaili version of the Fall is quite different from that which most Christians are familiar with (and which derives ultimately from St Augustine). Before time began, the Ismailis say, the First Intelligence issued a Proclamation or Summons to all the Forms of Light that occupied the various levels of the hierarchy. The word used for this Summons (davat) is important, because it is also applied to the Ismaili preaching on earth, which is thus regarded as a reflection or copy of the archetypal Summons in heaven. (The word is still in common use in modern Persian to mean simply "invitation".) The Universal Soul - the First Emanation - obeyed the Divine Invitation, but the Chief Archangel of the Second Level (the Third Intelligence) became confused in some way and refused. The exact reason for his refusal is unclear, but according to H. Corbin it was a failure to recognize the "boundary" constituted by the Universal Soul above him; this failure led him to try to reach God directly, which amounted to thinking that he himself was divine. His "sin" seems in fact to have been an error in theology. As a result of his mistake he was relegated from the second rank to the lowest of all, the tenth, while all the others moved one step up. (Notice that the interval from the Third Intelligence to the Tenth Intelligence is seven, the Ismaili mystic number.)
The erring archangel did not fall alone. With him at the second rank had been a number of other beings, and they fell into the same trap as he, misled by his bad example, so they had to accompany him to the tenth level. Realizing his mistake too late, the fallen archangel told his companions that the only way they could regain their former station was by following his orders and obeying the Intelligences whom they now found above them. Perhaps not unreasonably, most of them refused to listen to him, and the most recalcitrant of all went so far as to incite rebellion. This was the future Satan. "The archangel," he said, "has brought all this trouble on us; we merely did what he did himself. Now that he has landed us in this mess he wants to drag us into something even worse." Most of the other Beings agreed with him, but some rejected his arguments and others were uncertain what to do. The brilliance of those who rejected the archangel's authority became darkened and they were plunged into ignorance.
Realizing that if they remained as purely spiritual beings they would never be able to extricate themselves from their confusion, the archangel determined on a plan to liberate them. He made himself the Demiurge (a kind of minor creating deity) and created the material world to serve as the means by which these beings could regain their former status and enlightenment.
http://ismaili.net/appendix1.html
The erring archangel did not fall alone. With him at the second rank had been a number of other beings, and they fell into the same trap as he, misled by his bad example, so they had to accompany him to the tenth level. Realizing his mistake too late, the fallen archangel told his companions that the only way they could regain their former station was by following his orders and obeying the Intelligences whom they now found above them. Perhaps not unreasonably, most of them refused to listen to him, and the most recalcitrant of all went so far as to incite rebellion. This was the future Satan. "The archangel," he said, "has brought all this trouble on us; we merely did what he did himself. Now that he has landed us in this mess he wants to drag us into something even worse." Most of the other Beings agreed with him, but some rejected his arguments and others were uncertain what to do. The brilliance of those who rejected the archangel's authority became darkened and they were plunged into ignorance.
Realizing that if they remained as purely spiritual beings they would never be able to extricate themselves from their confusion, the archangel determined on a plan to liberate them. He made himself the Demiurge (a kind of minor creating deity) and created the material world to serve as the means by which these beings could regain their former status and enlightenment.
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Yahweh is the Rebellious Son of the Demiurge
And Saklas commanded that seven kings should rule over the heavens and five over the chaos of Hell. The names of the glories who are over the seven heavens are these: The first is Iaoth, the lion-faced. The second is Eloaios, the donkey-faced. The third is Astaphaios, the hyena-faced. The fourth is Iao [Yahweh], the snake-faced with seven heads. The fifth is Adonaios, the serpent-faced. The sixth is Adoni the monkey-faced. The seventh is Sabbataios, whose face is a flame of fire that shines. This is the hebdomad of the week. These are those who rule the world.
- Secret Book of John
And Saklas commanded that seven kings should rule over the heavens and five over the chaos of Hell. The names of the glories who are over the seven heavens are these: The first is Iaoth, the lion-faced. The second is Eloaios, the donkey-faced. The third is Astaphaios, the hyena-faced. The fourth is Iao [Yahweh], the snake-faced with seven heads. The fifth is Adonaios, the serpent-faced. The sixth is Adoni the monkey-faced. The seventh is Sabbataios, whose face is a flame of fire that shines. This is the hebdomad of the week. These are those who rule the world.
- Secret Book of John
Bernard Barc, Professor at the University of Lyon III, internationally recognized expert on Jewish hermeneutics and Gnostic literature, says here: “Saklas, the Demiurge, gives Yao the central position [4th out of 7] in this system with three authorities on his left and three on his right side to indicate that he is the unifying name of this 'hebdomad of the week', which is confirmed by his appearance of a seven-headed snake.”
Thomas Römer, Professor of the Hebrew and Ugaritic Bible at the University of Geneva, Professor of the Old Testament at the University of Lausanne and Chairman at Collège de France, points out that the Gnostics called the god of the Jews “Yao” and explains in his “introduction of the Old Testament” that originally, the name of the Jewish god wasn’t pronounced Yave rather than Yao.
Next, the ruler had a thought - consistent with his nature - and by means of verbal expression he created an androgyne. He opened his mouth and cooed to him. When his eyes had been opened, he looked at his father, and he said to him, "Eee!" Then his father called him Eee-a-o ('Yao').
- On the Origin of the World
- On the Origin of the World
The Gnostic teaching that Yao/Yahweh was an emanation of the Demiurge is also confirmed by Irenaeus of Lyons, who said: They have also given names to [the several persons] in their system of falsehood, such as the following: he who was the first descendant of the mother is called Ialdabaoth; he, again, descended from him, is named Iao, ... - Against Heresies, Book I, Chapter XXX. 5
Having realized that according to Christian Gnosis Yahweh is not the Demiurge (Yaldabaoth/Saklas), it is also very important to understand the significance of the Revelation of Christian Gnosis, as is the case with the revelation of the forgotten Fullness, namely that this isn’t an invention rather than an unveiling of that which is veiled by rabbis and priests of cults that venerate the cursed Son of the Demiurge, whether it’s Apollo, Yahweh or another “Ba’al”: these gods have always designated, under different names, the Evil Son of the Demiurge. Numerous archeological and even biblical evidence has recently supported the Gnostic tradition that describes Yahweh as the Son of the Demiurge, and associate Him with Cain and the serpent from Eden.
We shall see that by describing Yahweh as the Son of the Demiurge, the Gnostic texts return Him to his original place (both names El and Yahweh designate God in the Bible, but originally designated the Demiurge El and his Son Yahweh). We will also see that ascribing to the Son of the Demiurge the role of the Wicked One corresponds to what is communicated in the oldest founding texts of all religions, from the earliest Sumerian texts onward.
On the other hand, Gnostic traditions, of which the most widespread was that of Valentinius, did not consider the Demiurge as evil rather than merely ignorant and incapable of achieving perfection. Valentinius was the most important Gnostic teacher. He taught in Rome between 135 and 160 AD. According to Tertullian, he was a candidate to become Bishop of Rome (the Pope) in 143, but failed in doing so, coming short but a few votes. Valentinius’ life wasn’t outside the Church until his eviction from the political apparatus of the Church of Rome. It was primarily due to opposition against his theses and those of Marcion that Orthodox Christianity was formed. Furthermore, the mere fact that “Orthodox Christianity was formed due to subsequent opposition against Gnostic theology”, as noted by the Encyclopedia Universalis, makes it absurd to speak of Gnostic “heresy”.
Valentinian Gnosis describes the Demiurge as the Just Dimension, “just” in the moral sense, but also for His mathematically precise construction of the universe (cf. the idea of the Great Watchmaker). Ptolemaeus Gnosticus, disciple of Valentinius, situates the Demiurge (the Just) between the Father (the Good) and the Wicked One (the Unjust).
- And if the perfect God is good by nature, in fact he is, for our Savior declared that there is only a single good God, his Father whom he manifested; and if the one who is the opposite nature is evil and wicked, characterized by injustice; then the one situated between the two is neither good nor evil or unjust, but can properly be called just, since he is the arbitrator of the justice which is his. – Ptolemy’s Letter to Flora
- 1) The mystical or metaphysical dimension between the Father, the Demiurge and the Wicked One.
2) The inner or psychological dimension: at some point our mind is limited by the notion of what is just or unjust. Gnosis teaches that this limit is a true prison, a blindness that prevents us from discovering our divine dimension which is above that of the just and the unjust.
3) The material or terrestrial dimension: Gnosis teaches that this struggle is reflected here below by the tripartite division of humanity into following categories:- - The ‘spirituals’ or ‘pneumatics’ (pneumatikos = “breath”), animated by the breath of the Fullness, oriented towards Good and Forgiveness.
- The ‘psychics’, torn between their divine origins and the material, mechanical dimension, limited by the just and unjust, seeking reward and fearing punishment.
- The ‘hylics’ or ‘materials’, those that are but matter, seeking only material wealth, guided by neither the just or the good.
- - The ‘spirituals’ or ‘pneumatics’ (pneumatikos = “breath”), animated by the breath of the Fullness, oriented towards Good and Forgiveness.
- 1) The Good God: the one who loves and forgives, our absent Father revealed by Isu Chrestos (Greek for “Good”).
2) The Just God: the Demiurge who justly punishes and rewards.
3) The Unjust God: Yahweh-Cain, who sows war, death and disease.
We have seen that the Gnostic texts reveal that the official cults with their temples of Zeus, Apollo and Yahweh, hide from us that the Demiurge created our cosmos by dividing the primordial Fullness, by “separating Heaven and Earth”. We have seen that mythologies worldwide know of the separatist role of this Demiurge of which traces are left behind in even the Bible itself. Equally, we will establish that a careful reading of these mythologies and the Bible confirms the Gnostic Revelation concerning Yahweh, namely that:
- 1) he is an emanation of the Demiurge, his most important Son, Son who dethrones (or tries to dethrone) his Father.
2) he is the Unjust, the Harmful, the Angel of Death, who reigns over this world.
3) he is represented on Earth by the descendants of Cain and the Pharisees.
4) his city is the “earthly Jerusalem”.
5. The Fallen Angel
Son of the Demiurge
in the oldest mythologies: from Ninurta to Yahweh
To highlight the parallel between the Gnostic description of the Wicked One and the oldest mythologies recently discovered, we must first establish the identity of the Wicked One according to Sumerian scripture.
The Demiurge Enlil / El
Originally, in the oldest Sumerian texts, the Demiurge Enlil was kept away from human affairs. He was peaceful and remote. This Sumerian Demiurge Enlil becomes Ellil in Akkadian and eventually El in the pantheons of the Near East, that is to say, the Canaanite and Ugaritic religions, and the Old Testament.
El or Elohim is a name of God in the Old Testament. The dominant theological position, which says that El and Yahweh have always referred to the same god, is increasingly challenged by academic biblical exegesis and archeology. We will see why.
Son of the Demiurge: Ninurta
In the Sumerian texts, Enlil’s first son was an evil god, god of death, war and plagues. He was Ninurta (Nergal in Babylon). We will demonstrate that following the track of Ninurta leads us straight to Yahweh. The Sumerian texts tell the story of his birth, a result of the r*pe of Ninhursag (Ninlil) by Enlil, conform with Gnostic cosmogony where Yahweh-Cain was born from the r*pe of Eve / Epinoia by the Chief Archon (the Demiurge).
With Ninhursag being the feminine aspect (Ki) of the detachment of An-Ki (the couple symbolizing the primordial Fullnes: An = Heaven and Ki = Earth), and, for the Gnostics, Epinoia / Eve being an emanation of Sophia, who symbolizes the feminine aspect of the primordial Fullness (Pleroma), the parallel between the Gnostic cosmogony and Sumerian scripture (2000 to 300 BC) is undeniable!
Different Names of the “Rebellious Son”
As we have seen, the name of the Demiurge El / Enlil is constant in Sumerian and Near Eastern religions. Only the name of his Son, the “Lord”, changed according to the place or time he was revered.
The oldest known names for the Rebellious Son are Ningirsu and Ninib, which became Ninurta, which we will find later in Babylon in his best-known and already somewhat corrupted version as God of plagues and war, Nergal, son of Enlil and Ninlil. The cult of Ninurta / Nergal is also found in other cults dedicated to the gods associated with Ninurta, throughout antiquity. For example:
Resheph: god of plagues and war, identified with Nergal in the list of Ugaritic-Akkadian deities (Ugaritica, 5 (1965), 45:26), in inscriptions found at Tel Amarna (EA 35:13) and also identified with Apollo in translations found on Greco-Phoenician bilingual tablets. Resheph is mentioned as the god of Shechem in the “Ebla tablets” (-2500 BC), Shechem being the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel.
Apollo: god of plagues, son of the Demiurge Zeus. Apollo was identified with Helios during the Hellenistic period. The name Apollo derives from Aplu Enlil, Hittite and Akkadian god, Aplu meaning “son” (Aplu-Enlil = son of Enlil). See also the city of Archof (aRShOoPh = Resheph), renamed Apollonia in the Hellenistic period as the Greeks equated Resheph with Apollo.
Shulman or Shalem: son of El, also known as Resheph-Shulman, god of Ur-Shalem (Jerusalem) with the famous Temple of Solomon (Solomon = Shulman, explained in the final chapters).
And lastly the Ugaritic Yahweh: Akkadian god Adad, son of Enlil, becomes Baal-Hadad and is the son of El in Ugarit.
The Evil Son of El becomes Ba’al (Lord)
Since he was the most important son of Enlil, Ninurta, god of war, plagues and diseases (also of fortune, since he is the god of those who work in metals, those who made weapons and jewelry), it was to Him people turned to in favour of blessings and protection. Ninurta and his priests, terrorizing first, then rising to power offering protection, thus initiated a mechanism which became the prototype of the means to take power, a means to impose a rule of law, constitute states or establish a mafia.
Which God did kings and chiefs call upon for blessing? A just god? A god of festivities or rain? Or a god that could grant victory, sow calamities and diseases on their enemies? This is why, in the religions of the Middle-East, the most important son of Enlil/El (Ninurta) became Ba’al, a title meaning “Lord”, though he carried different names depending on the city and era: the god Hadad, eldest son of El in Ugarit becomes Ba’al-Hadad; the god Melqart, eldest son of El in Phoenicia, becomes Ba’al-Melqart, etc. (We shall also see that the various Baalim (plural of Ba’al) occupy in Semitic pantheons, the same place Ninurta has in Sumerian pantheons.)
People sacrificed to Ba’al in order to win wars, ward off diseases and curses, and it was thus mainly to Him that people devoted a cult, for Him that temples were built, sacrifices committed and the utmost horrible sacrifice of them all, the sacrifice of the firstborn.
Consider for example how Ninurta became Ba’al-Haddad at Ugarit, a city located in modern Syria, whose discovery in 1928 by French archeologists has allowed for a better understanding of the context in which the Old Testament was written, where Jews lived alongside the Ugaritic coasts where many cultural exchanges took place and whose language was hence very similar.
With regard to the origins of Judaism, one could consider the texts discovered in Ugarit as being closer to historical reality than biblical scripture. They have two major advantages. Firstly, they have been dated to 1500-1200 BC and are thus contemporaries of the time when people worshipped Yahweh, while the biblical texts concerning this period have been written during the Babylonian exile between 622-500 BC, nearly a millennium after the events they describe. Secondly, they lack ideological distortion. Indeed, analyses of biblical writings show that they have been extensively altered and redacted over the centuries to defend the dogmas of a nascent Jewish religion. It was about scribes wanting to show that the god Yahweh Almighty imposed himself in one fell swoop upon the Israelites as being the only God in the time of Moses, +/- 1300 BC.
As put by the archeologist Jean-Baptiste Humbert in 1997 (translated from French): “the discovery in Ugarit of another Canaanite literature [we knew only one: the Bible!] threw a vivid light on a religion close to that of ancient Israel. Many ideas adopted were shaken up. The celebrated Jerusalem was just a big block of houses, and the temples of the almighty Yahweh were no larger than sacristies. Israel proved to be but a remote province under the influence of its powerful neighbors, whose inhabitants were only trying to imitate the arts and manners.”
That the Sumerian Ninurta equates with the Semitic Ba’al-Hadad can be clearly and simply confirmed by the denominations and translations of the name Ninurta in the different languages of the Middle East: Ninurta is called Ningirsu or Ishkur in Sumerian; Ishkur is called Adad in Akkadian, Hadad in Aramaic, and becomes Ba’al-Hadad (Lord Hadad), son of El (Enlil), at Ugarit.
Ba’al-Hadad in turn simply becomes Ba’al (Lord) in Ugarit and every other north-western Semitic religious system. The cults dedicated to Ba’al, Ba’al-Hadad, Ba’al-Melqart, et al. become dominant throughout the Middle East.
Why do we consider that all these different names designate the same god? Simply because these gods share the same characteristics and play the same role in the same myths. However, it is of vital importance, for these common characteristics to be discerned, to keep in mind that the more sacred texts and cults examined are recent, a fortiori the Son of the Demiurge gains in significance and the more syncretism becomes important (in history of religions, syncretism is a mixture of influences), as with the case of the supreme god of Babylon, Marduk, who gradually absorbed the features of rival gods as Babylon gained in importance. Marduk, originally a minor agrarian god, ended up replacing Enlil (and absorbed his attributes) as the supreme god of the pantheon. In Sumerian, “Marduk” is written “AMAR.UTU” (son of Utu. Utu is the one that separates Heaven and Earth – Uruk tablet STPU 3.67). Archaeology tells us that when an inferior deity takes the place of a superior one, he also consumes his titles and his exploits, which is obviously the case when the cult of Ninurta supplanted that of his father Enlil.
In addition to being considered identical since antiquity, the characteristics of above mentioned gods leave no doubt about their parentage. Look at the following characteristics:
1. They are the Son of the Demiurge: Enlil (El in the OT) is the father of Nergal, Resheph, Ninurta, Shulman, etc. Demiurge Zeus is the father of Apollo.
2. They are the Gods of thunder and lightning (Stormgods). This is one of the categories by which the Son of the Demiurge is catalogued in specialized literature. Ninurta, Apollo, Nergal, Ba’al-Hadad, Yahweh, ... all fall into this category.
3. They are Gods of War, of Plagues, of Death and Disease.
4. One of the most important characteristics: they are the gods that confront the primordial Serpent/Dragon. This theme of the Son of the Demiurge slaying the serpent/dragon is present in all mythologies of the Near East and practically all mythologies of the world:
- Teshub, Stormgod, rebellious Son of the Demiurge Kumarbi in the Hurrian pantheon, kills Illuyanka, the primordial serpent;
Apollo, rebellious Son of the Demiurge Zeus, kills the primordial serpent Python;
Hadad, rebellious Son of the Demiurge El, kills the primordial serpent Yam;
Ninurta, rebellious Son of the Demiurge Enlil, kills the primordial dragon … etc;
Yahweh, rebellious Son of the Demiurge El, kills the primordial serpent Leviathan.
Even Thor, son of the Demiurge Odin, slayed the primordial serpent Jörmungandr. This logic with which we examine and compare the old myths and ancient gods is easily accepted by all, as long as we assume that these myths are completely alien to our beliefs. But the faces tense up and frown when the same logic is applied to our beliefs, especially when approaching the god of the Old Testament.
However, if we put these mythologies and ancient beliefs of the Near East through a sieve using the four criteria described above, we find in this sieve, side by side, Ninurta, Ba’al-Hadad, Teshub, Resheph, Nergal, Shulman, … and Yahweh.
Before using our sieve, we must remember that it’s important to take into account, on one hand, the mechanisms of syncretism in religious texts, including the Old Testament, and on the other hand, also consider the possibility of any form of “make-up” of texts written by clergymen, who have a natural tendency towards “monolatry” or even “monotheisation” of their god, also with regard to the Old Testament. Remember the words of Jesus: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” (Matthew 23).
[all biblical verses in this essay will be taken from the KJV unless noted otherwise]
6. The Wrath of "God"
Ninurta, Hadad, Yahweh: Stormgods and Riders of the Clouds
Biblical scholars have long demonstrated the similarities between the titles and attributes of Ba’al and Yahweh, similarities that have become obvious especially since the discovery of the Ugaritic texts.
“Stormgod” and “Rider of Clouds” are the most common descriptions of Ninurta and Ba’al-Hadad. The classification “Stormgod” includes, in comparative mythology: Ninurta, Ba’al-Hadad, Resheph, Shulman, et al. An abundance of literature classifies Yahweh in this category, despite many pitiful commotions that have arisen. This aspect of Yahweh is already very accessible on the internet, but here are some examples anyway:
- And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, … - Exodus 19:9
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. – Jeremiah 10:13
Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. – Jeremiah 30:23
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. - Ezekial 1:4
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: … – Isaiah 19:1
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. – Exodus 9:23
Yahweh: God of War, Death and Plagues
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. – Deuteronomy 32:42
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
– Deuteronomy 32:23-25
In order to believe in the great mercy of God in the Old Testament, in God’s love for all men, it’s better not to read it. The rabbinical system of thought doesn’t care and is perfectly consistent with the so-called universal goodness of Yahweh. Historically, Jewish monolatry consisted of being terrorized by none other than Yahweh himself. If we look closely enough, we can understand why the ultra-orthodox are called “Haredim” (= the “Terrorized”) and non-Jews that converted to, or were influenced by, Judaism are called “God-fearing”: the number of men, women, children killed with the approval, out of vengeance, or even a simple vexation, of the Lord Yahweh rises to several millions. (Indeed! See Dwindling In Unbelief)
And Yahweh didn’t just attack warriors threatening Israel, but killed tens of thousands of babies with disease:
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem. – Exodus 13:15
Yahweh participates in the education of children:
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. – 2 Kings 2:23-24
Yahweh encourages them not to complain too much:
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. – Numbers 11:1
Adequate obedience to Yahweh, is not only killing men and warriors, but killing everyone, women and children included:
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: … - Numbers 31:1-2
And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. – Numbers 31:14-17
Numbers 16:
12-13 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
27 … and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children …
31-33 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
44-45 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
47-49 … and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Yahweh assists people in choosing sides:
Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. – Exodus 32:26-28
Yahweh kills men, women, elderly and children alike, not because he is God and he “works in mysterious ways”, but because Yahweh is but one name of many of the Demiurge’s Rebellious Son, an evil demon who has usurped the place of his demiurgic father.
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