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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
According to the ancient texts, Nibiru emerges from the depths of space and loops around the Sun in an orbit beyond the planet Mars - a considerable distance from the Earth.
If Nibiru was large enough, we might see it appearing as a very bright star, just as the planet Venus appears as the “Morning Star”. But is Nibiru large enough? According to the scientists, it is around three times the size of Earth, and hence three times the size of Venus. This greater size, relative to Venus, does not compensate, however, for its much greater distance from the Earth.
Consequently, using Venus as a benchmark, Nibiru would appear only as a very tiny point of light. This tiny point of light would appear to be fixed in position, but would in fact be moving slowly across the Earth’s skies over a period of several years. In summary, Nibiru would be very difficult to spot. Our trip back in time would thus be a waste of time, because we wouldn’t see anything unless we knew exactly when and where to look.
Did the astronomers of 200 BC know where to look? In my view, it is almost certain that remnants of Sumerian astronomical knowledge from 3,600 years earlier did survive, and in all probability Nibiru’s return was eagerly awaited, detected and carefully logged by Chinese and Babylonian astronomers.
Why then have the astronomical records of this sighting never been found? The answer almost certainly lies in the fact that many ancient records have never been properly translated, in addition to which there is a tremendous reluctance to acknowledge their scientific content. In the few cases where scholars have attempted to correlate Chinese and Babylonian texts to modern astronomy, they have all focussed on the non-controversial area of comets, whose orbits are scientifically proven.
If one of these scholars was to find an entry describing the appearance of a “star” called Nibiru which slowly moved and then disappeared several years later, it would be dismissed as an anomaly, since there is no currently recognized scientific theory to account for a star which moves of its own accord. Consequently, there would be absolutely no incentive for any scholar to bring such an interesting translation to our attention!
In the light of the above, there is no reason to assume that Nibiru did not turn up on schedule.
After all, the evidence in chapter 7 indicates that it has been orbiting the Sun for 4 billion years, so it is unlikely to have missed its most recent rendezvous! In addition, two highly significant things did occur c. 200 BC. The first occurred at the ceremonial centre of Chavin de Huantar, which had been constantly occupied since the temple incident nearly four hundred years earlier.
One authority comments that:
Meanwhile, a similar change occurred at Teotihuacan, where the industrial activities came to a halt and the “City of the Gods” became the city of men alone. Circa 200 BC whoever had lorded over Teotihuacan picked up and left, and the place became a Toltec city. The evidence suggests that the Gods withdrew from the New World coinciding with the return of Nibiru. Indeed, since 200 BC there have been no obvious signs of any physical presence of the Gods on Earth.
There may have been bright lights, visions and miracles, but there has been nothing to compare with the direct personal presence of the Gods which mankind experienced for nigh on 200,000 years . It is particularly important for us to appreciate that the return of Nibiru c. 200 BC marked a unique moment in history, for it was the first occasion on which its orbit had coincided (approximately) with the end of a 2, 160-year precessional age.
Could this symbolic event account for the apparent absence of the Gods ever since? Did the chief God Anu perhaps take the opportunity to bring the warring Gods on Earth to heel? In this chapter, I shall be suggesting that the Gods did indeed make a conscious decision to withdraw from the affairs of mankind.
Did the Gods return to Nibiru, did they go elsewhere, or did they enter a reclusive period on Earth?
Wherever they went, indeed wherever they are now, we should not assume that they are in permanent retirement. On the contrary, the activities of the Gods have been driven, ever since the Flood, by periods of Lordship determined by the 2,160-year divisions of the precessional cycle. According to my analysis in chapter 11, the current era of Pisces belongs to Ereshkigal, a little-known Goddess, who was never ambitious for power.
Consequently, it is possible that mankind is
presently in a “hands-off" period which will expire imminently with
the new precessional era of Aquarius. At the end of this chapter, I
will be returning to the exact timing of this new era and its
possible implications for mankind.
The Magi’ were not astrologers, as some religions like to suggest, but astronomers:
According to the Biblical record, the Magi saw a star in the east but headed west. They did not follow a star, but followed a sign that indicated the beginning of a new precessional age, for it was almost exactly 2,160 years since the compromise date of Marduk’s return to Babylon. The impression is sometimes given that the Magi were led to their destination by a moving star (or UFO as some have interpreted it) but this is almost certainly a mythological embellishment of the story.
On the contrary, the Magi’s dialogue with King Herod indicates that their search was targeted towards a child born at a specific time:
This extreme action can be attributed to Herod’s familiarity with Jewish prophesy, which predicted the emergence of a messiah who would break the Roman yoke and reign over a restored kingdom of Israel. Herod was thus acting to eliminate a political threat and avert a possible military uprising.
Why were Jewish expectations of a messiah so high? It would seem that many of Jesus’s contemporaries were living in fear of “End Times” and of an imminent apocalyptic event. The timing and circumstances of Jesus’s emergence, at the end of a precessional era, together with his comments of a second coming at “the end of an age” and the beginning of a new era, all point towards the Gods’ sacred precessional calendar.
It is a fact that the use of the zodiac was commonplace in the land of the Nazareans in the first century AD. As we shall see, the importance of precession, as well as the 3,600-year orbit of Nibiru, both feature prominently in the traditions of the Bible and the Koran. These two religious books are the cornerstones of a monotheistic movement that has dominated our thinking for more than a thousand years, but are they ultimately based on the traditions of plural Gods?
Before we embark on that discussion, we must first complete our round-up of world history with a brief review of how Christianity and Islam began. As many commentators have pointed out, the personality of Jesus has been obscured by the powerful religious movement that was begun in his name, and it has thus become difficult in many instances to discern fact from myth. Nevertheless, certain myths can be dispelled with some confidence.
One such myth is exposed by Karen Armstrong, who points out that Jesus never claimed to be the Son of God, only the “Son of Man”. A second myth has been exploded by Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln (among others), who have clearly demonstrated that Jesus never intended to create a new religion. They stress that Christianity owes its roots not to Jesus but to Paul, who began to spread “the word” with his own missionary zeal.
What was the “word” that Paul preached?
According to Baigent et al:
In effect, Paul was replacing the worship of God in the Judaic sense (Yahweh) with the worship of Jesus as God - an act that was so blasphemous to the Nazareans that they sent missionaries in Paul’s wake (including Jesus’s own brother James) to undo his teachings!
What were Paul’s motives?
Baigent et al describe him as an agent provocateur, who undermined the potential for a Jewish uprising by transferring the blame for Jesus’s death onto the Jews themselves. In order to diffuse itself through the Romanized world, Christianity l transmuted itself... Jesus himself had to be divorced from his historical context, turned into a non-political figure - an other-worldly, spiritual Messiah who posed no challenge whatever to Caesar.
Thus, all trace of Jesus’s political activity was de-emphasized, diluted or excised. And, as far as possible, all trace of his Jewishness was deliberately obscured, ignored or rendered irrelevant. Despite the opposition of the Nazareans, Paul’s idea of Christianity spread quickly, winning a wide body of support throughout Asia Minor, Greece, Italy and the Aegean Islands. It would seem that the promise of ultimate resurrection from death in a Kingdom of God was a big attraction for the downtrodden masses.
In the third century AD, having survived various persecutions, Christianity became the state religion of the Roman empire under the emperor Constantine. In AD 325, Constantine held the first ever general council of Church bishops at Nicaea, to discuss the unification of religious beliefs under the umbrella of Christianity.
This was a debate on theology (a systematic, academic study of divine belief) and its result was the official pronouncement that Jesus was the “Son of God ” - a decision described by one modern authority as a “victory for theology, defeat for the scriptures themselves”.
Almost three hundred years later, however, a prophet named Muhammad received a series of “visions” which fundamentally challenged this central tenet of Christianity. The visions of the prophet Muhammad were written down to form the holy book known as the Koran, which became the “Bible” of Islamic religion.
Despite drawing on the same sources as the Old Testament, this book fundamentally rejected the interpretation of the Jewish scriptures. In particular, the claim that Jesus was the son of God was met with utter disdain. In the Koran, Allah himself stated that Jesus was a prophet. In fact He was quite indignant at the thought of having sons or daughters, which was a totally blasphemous idea! Significantly, there was no mention in the Koran of physical intervention by flesh-and-blood Gods.
Muslims would undoubtedly argue that it was unnecessary for Allah to mention these Gods, since they were only carrying out His divine will. Whilst the omission is certainly odd, my thoughts must remain private, since it is not for me (or any of us) to question what Allah chooses to say or not to say.
From a general perspective, Islam can be seen as part of a definite historical trend. Many of its messages followed similar themes to Buddhism, Confucianism and Christianity, and its central notion of One Spiritual God followed on from Second Isaiah’s concept of a composite deity known as Elohim.
Like the Elohim, Allah, too, was omnipotent and omniscient, the creator of the Earth, the heavens and mankind. Initially, monotheism fought an uphill struggle against the old polytheistic traditions and, contrary to popular belief, Islam was no exception. Nevertheless, the death of the ancient traditions of flesh-and-blood Gods can be seen, with hindsight, as inevitable.
By the time monotheism began to emerge, the memories of the Gods were fading, for in some parts of the world they had been absent for over a thousand years. At that time, the traditions of the Gods had already been filtered by the Greeks and Romans. Subsequently, the worship of the Gods was eradicated by the Christianization of pagan temples and by the relentless spread of monotheism from Islam and Judaism.
The paradigms which we have today have been fundamentally shaped by these historical influences. By taking an over-view of world history, we can see how so-called mythology has its roots in reality and how many human cultures and archetypes can be traced back to the activities and culture of the Gods themselves.
I have already shown how this approach works in numerous ways - the pyramid cult of the pharaohs, the Aztec obsession with blood sacrifice, the archetypal images of “giants” and “the fountain of youth”, even in the modern-day practices of numerology and astrology. Can a similar approach explain the origins of modern religious symbolism? We have already seen how one of those symbols - the cross - has its roots in the history of the planet Nibiru, but there is more - much more - to come. In the following sections, I will examine concepts such as heaven and hell, the immortality of the soul, and the Day of Judgment, and explain the origins of all these ideas.
I am not the first to suggest a common pool of knowledge from which different religions have drawn their ideas, but no-one has ever succeeded in finding it. It is a search which most have regarded as futile, discouraged perhaps by Voltaire’s famous remark that “if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”. One authority categorically states that “the modern historian of religions knows that it is impossible to reach the sources of religion”.
What a defeatist attitude! I suggest
that we have given up the search far too easily.
Our modern scientific minds can understand heaven only as an invisible world, perhaps existing alongside the physical world, but in a different “dimension”.
However, when we study the Biblical concept of heaven with the original Hebrew terms, we find something entirely different:
What is this badly translated text trying to say?
The key lies in the recognition of Raki’a in its more literal translation as the “hammered-out bracelet” - a clear reference to the Asteroid Belt. The Elohim is therefore a substitute for the role of the planet Nibiru in creating the Asteroid Belt.
As for the waters, they are the watery inner planets and the watery outer planets, which were separated by Nibiru’s act of “creation”. What is the significance of heaven receiving a new name, Shama’im? This Hebrew term was originally written out as two words, sham and ma’im, meaning literally “where the waters were”. It is almost certainly a reference to Tiamat, the watery planet from which Earth and the Asteroid Belt were created.
The “heaven” of Genesis is thus the physical place - the orbit - where Tiamat used to be. Amazingly, the Koran says exactly the same thing:
Does this mean that heaven is a mythical place that no longer exists - a memory of an earlier Earth at the beginning of creation? On the contrary, heaven was a location to which a few fortunate men were allowed to travel. One such man was Adapa who was provided with a shem by Enki who:
The abode of Anu was, according to the Sumerians, Nibiru. And Nibiru, the Planet of Crossing, intersected the former orbit of Tiamat in the Asteroid Belt. Thus we can geographically pinpoint an exact location in the Asteroid Belt which is the “heaven” of the ancient scriptures! This idea of heaven has been passed down over thousands of years to represent a “good thing”, and it is indeed a place to which mankind has always aspired.
Symbolically, there is little difference between the obelisks, which the Egyptians raised to the sky, and the spires of modern churches and cathedrals which echo the same theme. There is little difference between ancient kings such as Gilgamesh who tried to reach heaven by pleasing his Gods, and modern-day priests who try to reach heaven by pleasing God. Mankind has always yearned to ascend, literally, to the heavens. Is there any truth in the rumours of “hell”, the eternal fire to torment the sinners?
Hell features particularly strongly in the Koran, where it appears as a fiery place guarded by nineteen mighty angels. According to the Koran, mankind was created in order to put him to the test. All our good and bad deeds are observed by invisible angels and recorded in books called “Illiyun” and “Sidjeen” respectively.
Upon death, those souls which are doomed
enter the fire of hell immediately. Other souls get a further chance
to prove their worth, prior to a final Day of Resurrection, when all
souls are restored to their bodies and judged by Allah. The Biblical
concept of hell is contained in the New Testament and is seen by
many as an integral and essential part of Christianity, on the basis
that Jesus must have died to save us from something. Compared to the
Koran, the Biblical description of hell is somewhat vague, but this
has not stopped the Bible-thumping preacher from scaring us all with
tales of sadistic torture.
Here is their definition of hell:
The alarm bells are immediately beginning to ring! Let us first examine the meaning of the term Hades, which is translated ten times as “hell” in the Authorized Version of the Bible. Hades is generally known as the Greek God of the underworld, but the underworld was, as we have already discussed several times, the Lower World in Africa.
The concept of an underworld or land of the dead is thus a simple misunderstanding. As for the origin of the name Hades, it derives from the Greek haides, whose meaning is identical to that of the Hebrew she ‘ohl. What then does she ‘ohl mean? The Bible uses the term 34 times, translated 3 times as “pit” and 31 times as “grave”.
Some religions interpret shelohl as “the common grave of mankind”, from which the resurrection will take place when the Kingdom of God arrives. This, however, is just an interpretation that fits a particular religious scenario. In reality, both Fhe’ohl and haides literally mean “the hollow place” and “the unseen place” respectively. And both terms are used in the same context to convey a common idea - a place of the dead. The etymological origin of the word she’ohl has been the subject of intensive academic debate.
Although it is used primarily in the context of a grave, it is also used symbolically to represent the underworld.” Just as the underworld is described as a physical location in Africa, so too is she ohl described as a physical location with bars and gates, "a place of darkness” and a place of torment. Furthermore, the Bible cites God ’s power as extending from the heights of heaven to the depths of she’ohl, where his wrath could “devour the earth and its produce and set on fire the foundations of the mountains”.
It was also renowned as a dry and thirst-inducing place, causing Hammurabi to warn anyone against perverting his codes of law with the following curse: “Below, in the underworld, may he [Shamash] deprive his spirit of water!”. Could the idea of she’ohl have originated from a physical place, which has come to signify “hell”?
In chapter 14, I identified the underworld, Africa, as the land of the mines. These mines were dark and hollow pits, located in the lowest depths of the Earth. The work of the slaves in those mines was indeed tormenting and thirst-inducing. Many slaves died in those mines, hence the legend that the underworld was for men (but not Gods) a “place of no return”.
This aspect of death in the mines, combined with their being underground and hollow, would naturally have led to the double-use of she’ohl to define a grave or tomb, as well as underground mines. Consider, for instance, the way the English refer to a modern underground railway as “the underground” in everyday conversation; just as the defining noun “railway” is dropped in modern times, so too did the reference to “mines” fall out of usage in ancient times.
There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the idea of hell originated from the African mines. The mistress of those mines was Ereshkigal, also known as the “Lady of the Great Place Below”.” Her scribe Belit-seri was called the “Book-keeper of Heaven and Earth” or the “Book-keeper of the Great Gods”.
The historian Alexander Heidel deduced that her role was to write down the names of the new arrivals which were announced by the gatekeeper. There was even a ferry which had to be crossed to reach Ereshkigal’s abode. There can surely be no question that the idea of Hades has evolved from this source. If hell does not exist in the religious sense that we have come to know and fear it, does that mean that the devil, Satan, is out of a job?
The word devil has its
roots in the Greek diabolos, meaning “accuser/ slanderer’’, whilst
the name Satan comes from a Hebrew term meaning “resister/
adversary”. These origins do not indicate any sense of pure evil.
Rather, they convey the idea of one God opposing another. The image
of Satan as an evil spirit, tempting mankind astray, undoubtedly has
its roots in the Garden of Eden story. And we have already seen how
that story was simply a political put-down of the serpent God
Enki,
by his rival Enlil.
The question is intimately bound up with the distinction between body and soul. Many of us intuitively believe in a separate soul, reflecting perhaps our self-awareness as a species. Science, however, has yet to provide the definitive answer on whether we truly are a “special” species, or whether our sense of the human soul is simply a biological illusion. In fact, the whole subject of death is a taboo area for science.
We have therefore traditionally looked to religion to provide the answers to the enigma of death. Due to our all-too-short life spans, we need to believe in something, and this has proved an extremely fertile ground for religion. Given this need, or should I say vulnerability, it is not surprising that concepts such as heaven and hell have arisen without any logical foundation whatsoever.
My analysis indicates that these concepts are the invention of man, drawn from the history and culture of the Gods. This does not mean, however, that some kind of afterlife does not exist, and the concept of an immortal soul is the central issue. It is a matter of some debate whether the Bible supports the concept of an immortal soul or not. To the man-in-the-street, any religion that speaks of heaven and hell must implicitly accept the idea of a soul.
But this is actually not the case. Readers may be surprised to find that the Bible does not mention an immortal soul per se, but refers instead to a “resurrection”. The Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that this refers to a physical resurrection, which is not dissimilar to that described in the Koran. They thus argue that the Bible does not support the idea of an immortal soul, and attribute its origin to a “pagan intrusion into Christianity”.
Where then did the pagan idea of an afterlife come from?
Terms such as Hades, purgatory, paradise and limbo are not found in the Bible but come from Greek philosophy. And it is a well-known fact that the Greeks, in turn, obtained their ideas from earlier cultures, and in particular from Egypt. As we have seen in earlier chapters, the Egyptian pharaohs’ belief in the afterlife was one of the strongest religious beliefs in the history of any civilization.
Egyptian tombs were unique, far surpassing anything from the Sumerian civilization. Their beliefs were so strong that they buried their dead with unprecedented possessions and treasures for use in the next life. It is fair to conclude that the concept of the immortal soul was an Egyptian first, which later spread throughout the ancient world. How did the Egyptian beliefs come about? At the centre of the Egyptian afterlife cult was the myth of Osiris.
The essence of this tale is that Osiris died and was reborn. He was reborn in the sense that his seed was used by his wife Isis to create the son, Horus. And he was reborn, according to one version of the tale, after he ascended the stairway to heaven. Through these legends, Osiris came to represent the hope of eternal life to the Egyptians, who made pilgrimages to his cult centre at Abydos and re-enacted his life cycle.
As I have repeatedly described, the Egyptian concept of heaven was a physical place, which we can now identify as Nibiru. The Duat from which Osiris ascended to heaven was also a physical place, a space centre in the Sinai. And the route to the Duat was marked first by the Pyramids and then later by Heliopolis. The pharaohs’ religion was based on emulating the journey of Osiris using their own pyramids and Osiris-style mummification rites.
The procedures were even supervised by a “shem” priest, the meaning of the name signifying the symbolic rocket which is so graphically depicted in ancient Egyptian art (Figure 3). The reason why this cultural revolution took place in Egypt is simply geography - the pharaohs were much closer to the comings and goings of the Gods in Sinai than the Sumerians were.
This geography may also account for the archetypal image of the phoenix rising from the ashes, which also has its origin in Egypt. The phoenix cult, centered significantly in Heliopolis, involved a cycle of rebirth which was closely connected to the idea of an afterlife. It is believed that the Temple of the Phoenix in Heliopolis contained an obelisk, capped by a conical or pyramid-shaped apex stone, known as the Benben Stone.
Whilst the origins of this myth are lost in time, there is almost certainly a link to a physical return of a God or Gods in Egypt, and possibly to the shems which we discussed in chapter 6. It is these events - the Osiris ascent to heaven and the phoenix cycle of rebirth - which have caused the idea of an afterlife and an immortal soul to be passed down over thousands of years. I would now like to shift to the closely related concept of physical resurrection, which also has its origins in Egypt.
This idea has featured prominently in the history of religion, via the claimed resurrection from death of Jesus (disputed by the Koran), which is absolutely fundamental to Christian beliefs. Even more important is the idea of a future physical resurrection at a Day of Judgment.
The Koran spells this out quite explicitly, and the Bible, too, can be interpreted in this sense. Both the Bible and the Koran claim that this physical resurrection will occur in a coming Kingdom of God. According to the New Testament, the Kingdom of God will come when the “times of the Gentiles are fulfilled” is When that appointed time comes, all that have lived on Earth will be physically resurrected from death, and will be judged whether they are fit to enter the Kingdom of God.
Where do these resurrection ideas come from?
Ancient Egyptian folklore is brimming with resurrection myths, with Osiris, already mentioned, being the most famous example of physical resurrection from death. Another legend describes how his son Horus decapitated his own mother, who was then brought back to life by the God of magic, Thoth.
Then there is the imprisonment and escape by Marduk from his death sentence in the Great Pyramid. We discussed that incident in great detail in chapter 9 and concluded that it was a genuine historic event. It is curious that, in the Babylonian myth, the resurrected Marduk had to be judged by the other Gods whether he was fit to return to Babylon and assume Lordship over the Gods.
The religious parallel is striking. It is also possible that our archetypal obsession with rebirth and resurrection may have its roots in an event 4 billion years ago. It was at that time that the planet Tiamat was split apart by Nibiru, with one half being reborn as the Earth, with an entirely new orbit. It was the mother of all resurrections. Even more intriguing are the Biblical references to the timing of the resurrection.
According to the New Testament, the Kingdom of God would come at an exact time, at the “end of an age”. Jesus said that this would occur when the “times” of the nations were fulfilled, and a close reading suggests that the reference to “times” implied a fixed or definite period. Someone seems to have acquired the idea that God is working to a very precise timetable!
Could the reference to an “age” therefore
represent a precessional
period of 2,160 years, or could it perhaps represent Nibiru’s
orbital period of 3,600 years?
But did Jesus and other earlier Jewish prophets obtain this idea from the legends of the planet Nibiru?
There is certainly no mistaking Nibiru as the Lord in the following Biblical passage describing the Flood:
The psalmists were clearly familiar with the idea of Nibiru causing the Flood, even though they ascribed it to a manifestation of God. Psalm 104 even describes the location of Nibiru in space:
Simon Peter, an apostle of Jesus, clearly puts the Day of Judgment in the same category as the Flood:
This passage is remarkable, since it alludes to a celestial event that affects the heavens as well as Earth. This is confirmed by references to the Day of Judgment in both the Koran and the Book of Isaiah:
Zechariah even alludes to a celestial event which will arrest the Earth’s spin:
If we apply our new understanding of “heaven” the Biblical claim that the Kingdom of God will be accompanied by a new Earth and a new heaven becomes highly significant. According to the religious interpretation, the Day of Judgment is concerned with the rights and wrongs of mankind on Earth.
If so, why is there a need to shake the heavens as well? In chapter 7, I set out the scientific evidence to suggest that the Flood was the latest in a cycle of periodic cataclysms. Could this relatively recent event in mankind’s history have triggered the archetypal myth of the apocalypse? If so, the Biblical warnings of “End Times’, together with similar dire warnings from other cultures all around the world, may have a common point of origin.
The Aztecs believed that the present age or “sun” will be destroyed by fire; Buddhist scriptures describe similar suns, with the present era being ended when the Earth bursts into flames; the Hopi Indians have a similar prophesy of the world being ended by fire. These traditions are echoed by the Bible, where Isaiah describes a day accompanied by “flames of a devouring fire”, along with “thunder and earthquake and great noise”.
Psalm 97 states that the Lord will be accompanied by fire and lightning, which will melt the mountains like wax. Jesus himself cited earthquakes as one of the signs that would mark the end of the age. These legends and prophesies were not invented out of thin air, but surely have a historical basis. By recognizing Nibiru as the cause of the catastrophic phenomenon, we can begin to consider a scientific prediction of the date of the next cataclysm on Earth.
When might the next cataclysm, known to religions as the Day of Judgment, threaten mankind?
The last catastrophe, the Flood in 10,983 BC, can be seen as a very recent event in the context of hundreds of millions of years of the Earth’s history (see chapter 7). If these cataclysms operate in fixed cycles, as seems likely, then the next one must be a long way off. The good news is that there is unlikely to be a cataclysm in the year 2013 as predicted rather melodramatically by Graham Hancock using the Mayan Long Count!
How far off might the next cataclysm be?
I will offer a guess, but that is all it is.
The foremost number of the Sumerian mathematical system was 12,960,000. Since there should by now be no doubt regarding the Sumerians’ astronomical knowledge and the source of that knowledge, could this enormous figure represent another extremely long astronomical cycle? Could it be the countdown to the next close passing of Nibiru and the next great cataclysm? As described in chapter 7, the Flood cataclysm occurred as a result of an unusual alignment of the outer planets which forced Nibiru off course.
Let us assume that each catastrophic encounter forces Nibiru into a slightly different orbit. How long would it take for the planets to once again form an alignment which coincides with a return of Nibiru? In December 1995, a team of US scientists experimenting with chaos theory announced a rather interesting result. Computer simulations showed that an array of identical pendula, subjected to the same electronic impulse, displayed chaotic behaviour over space and time; however, when each pendulum was given a different length and different impulse, organized behaviour patterns emerged.
The scientist Maurice Chatelain, as part of his studies of Nibiru’s orbital period, found an amazing series of 3,600-year alignments of three or more planers occurring within the Solar System. Could it be possible that, from an initial state of chaos, each return of Nibiru gradually brings these planets back into a cosmic equilibrium? Could this process evolve over 3,600 returns of Nibiru? Returning to Sumerian mathematics, it is curious that the number 60, which forms the basis of our “short count” of seconds and minutes, when squared gives us 3,600 - a “medium count” of the return of Nibiru.
If we then square 3,600, the result is the sacred Sumerian number of 12,960,000. This period represents exactly 500 Earth precessional cycles of 25,920 years. Since Nibiru was the force that caused the Earth’s wobble, there is a distinct possibility that the Earth may be wobbling in a cosmic equilibrium with Nibiru. By the same token, since Nibiru shaped the Solar System as we see it today, is it not possible that the outer planets are also orbiting in an equilibrium determined by Nibiru?
This “long count” of 12,960,000 years would bring a risk of cataclysm but not a guarantee. If Nibiru was to make an unusual orbit into the inner Solar System, we must also consider the additional effects of the planet Mars, and furthermore, we must consider the position of Earth in its solar orbit. Some multiples of 13 million years might therefore be riskier than others. Whilst far from being a proof of this hypothesis, it is interesting that the cataclysm which destroyed the dinosaurs has been dated to 65 million years ago - that is 65 million years before the most recent cataclysm known as the Flood.
The elapsed time is an exact multiple of 13 million years. Speculation aside. it would seem that the Day of Judgment is not of immediate concern, but nor should it be misinterpreted as a symbolic religious event, for it is clearly nothing of the sort. Religions have persistently fallen into the trap of assuming that the words of the prophets are gospel, whereas it is more likely that the prophets were simply men such as ourselves, who were trying equally hard to figure out the truth of our existence.
The memories of the flesh-and-blood Gods were remote for them, just as they are even more remote for us
today. In summary, religions can shed little divine light on our destiny
after death. We should therefore treat the established concepts of
resurrection, heaven and hell with a high degree of skepticism.
The word “science” is derived from the Latin verb scire, meaning “to know” and thus science is the pursuit of “knowledge”. But few sciences are exact and knowledge rarely comes with a cast-iron guarantee. Instead, it comes beyond reasonable doubt.
This is the approach taken by the judicial system, for the simple reason that it is not practical to expect any higher degree of certainty. At the end of the first chapter, I drew an analogy with a Day in Court, and asked you the reader to act as the jury. The role of the jury is to establish truth and make convictions based on the principle of reasonable doubt. If I can convince you the reader, beyond reasonable doubt, then the case is closed and the mysteries are solved.
What then is “the case” and how does this book meet the burden of proof required by the judicial system. The interventionist’s case is that flesh-and-blood Gods created mankind in their own image through genetic engineering 200,000 years ago. Considerable evidence has been presented in chapter 2 of this book to establish genetic intervention as an exclusive solution to the mystery of mankind’s origins.
Everything else in this book represents detailed corroboration of this central claim. In order to bring a conviction, the accused must be firmly identified. I have indeed identified the Gods by name and by address - their cities on Earth and the planet Nibiru via which they came to Earth. The next requirement is to place the accused at the scene of the “crime”. I have established this via a chronology that links the arrival of the Gods on Earth to the emergence of Home sapiens.
For the first time ever, we have a chronological methodology which can be confirmed by double-checking against the Biblical record dating back to Adam. Expert witnesses have been called upon to confirm the scientific basis of Biblical longevity and the Sumerian Kings Lists have also been entered into evidence to validate the Biblical time scale. Further expert witnesses have confirmed the appearance of anatomically modern man c. 200,000 years ago, via fossil and mtDNA evidence.
These witnesses lend further credibility to the new chronology which dates the genetic creation of Homo sapiens to 180,183 BC. Finally, I have entered into evidence the testimonies of the ancient scribes, who witnessed the first-hand confessions of those Gods who were actually present at the scene of the creation of man.
These testimonies are highly consistent and uncontradicted by any contemporary witnesses. The Interventionist’s Day in Court requires not a “weapon”, as in a murder trial, but a capability. In order to illustrate the point, let us suppose that a murder was committed by a short sharp karate chop. We would then seek not a weapon but a suspect with the capability of inflicting the damage - a suspect trained in the martial arts.
The “crime” of which the Gods stand accused is genetic intervention, the evidence being the mysterious fusion of man’s chromosomes, an uplift in his brain size and all of the other enigmas outlined in chapter 2. We must therefore prove the capability of the accused to carry out the act. Have I successfully proved the capability of the Gods for genetic engineering 200,000 years ago? What I have done is repeatedly demonstrate a level of technology equivalent to that now being discovered in the twentieth century space travel, ultrasonic machining and astronomy, as well as some skills that are still totally beyond us (how did they move those stones?).
These skills can be physically verified and are thus solid evidence. Based on this evidence, we can reasonably conclude that the Gods were aware of genetics. In support of this conclusion, we have heard the ancient scribes testifying to various acts of genetic manipulation - the cloning of Horus, the unusual birth of Noah, and indeed the first intervention to create the LU.LU.
Another factor which supports this conclusion is the physical evidence of the different races of mankind alive today - a mystery which has yet to be explained by any other scientific theory. In order to press charges against the accused, we also need exclusivity of suspect.
The jury must ask itself who else might have had the capability 200,000 years ago to genetically create Homo sapiens? The answer is that there is not a scrap of evidence that places any other suspects anywhere near the scene of the “crime” (suggestions of a Supernatural God would, I think, be ruled inadmissible in court!). Finally, we must satisfy one last element of the judicial system to establish the case “beyond reasonable doubt”.
That element is motive. In chapter 14, witnesses were called upon to testify that man was created as a slave to carry out the Gods’ toil. I have corroborated this very strong motive by a detailed examination of the master-servant relationship that existed between man and his Gods after the Flood, and I have identified the toil as a variety of activities including the mining and processing of various minerals.
During the Interventionist’s Day in Court, a great deal of time has been spent in establishing the reliability of the witnesses. This is a standard legal procedure, and a very important one. I have focussed in particular on the Sumerian witnesses who have provided the bulk of the testimony. I have cited detailed examples of texts which are supported word-for-word by physical evidence - in particular the damage to the Great Pyramid, Jebel Barkal and the Sinai peninsula.
I have also demonstrated the amazing geographical evidence which supports the Sumerian accounts of the Gods and their cities. Finally, I have described the Sumerian culture - intelligent, serious, pious and righteous. What legal arguments might be raised in opposition to the interventionist’s case?
The only possible argument is the evolutionist’s claim that no “crime” has been committed, on the basis that Darwin’s natural selection explains our existence. Mankind himself is therefore the battleground and the evidence of chapter 2 goes right to the heart of the issue. If the evolutionists are going to mount a serious argument, then they must exit their “intellectual cul-de-sac” and come up with some radical adaptations to Darwin’s ideas.
As things stand, the Darwinian
argument is weak and it is reasonable to conclude that a “crime” has
indeed been committed. As to the guilty party, the evidence is
damning!
Such an approach has no scientific merit whatsoever, and speaks only to the motives of those who would prevent us from upsetting the establishment paradigms. Nevertheless it does open up an interesting area which I would briefly like to discuss.
In 1987, Gene Phillips, the founder of the Ancient Astronaut Society, addressed the question of the missing evidence in his opening conference speech:
Let us examine Gene Phillips’ claim, beginning in Mesoamerica. In 1994, National Geographic reported that:
In particular, National Geographic highlighted how little is known about the Olmecs, the earliest American civilization, noting that “excavation almost anywhere in Mesoamerica may enrich the treasury of Olmec art”.
However, even where sites are already known, archaeological progress proceeds at a snail’s pace. For example, at the famous Mayan site of Palenque only a very small part of the complex has been excavated. Many further structures are known, which map contain relies like the beautiful and intriguing Pacal sarcophagus (Plate 58), but archaeologists have not even begun to explore them. In South America, further clues to the mysterious functions of Tiwanaku lie hurled underground. archaeology has only belatedly realized the extent of beneath the ground.
The Bolivians, short of archaeological resources, are crying out for an international team to carry out a thorough, professional excavation of the site. In Egypt, the picture is the same. At the important site of Memphis, the capital founded by the first pharaoh Menes, only a limited amount of archaeological work has ever been carried out. Although there is little to be seen above ground, what vital clues to the beginning of Egyptian civilization might lie buried below? Why has it taken so long to explore such a key site?
Another important city in Egyptian mythology is Edfu, the city of Horus. Tradition has it that the temple which still stands at Edfu, marks the spot where a “creation” took place. It was also at Edfu that the God Horus allegedly established a “foundry of divine iron”. Archaeologists suspect that many ancient religious structures are buried deep beneath the present town, but no effort has been made to penetrate the lower levels.
If they did, they might shed light on the apparent cloning of the God from the seed of Osiris and they might even find the winged disc of Horus, sitting in a hangar buried beneath the ground. Further south, close to the first cataract of the River Nile at Aswan, two other important Egyptian sites remain relatively untouched by archaeology. One is the island of Elephantine, where the God Ptah (Enki) allegedly controlled the level of the Nile from subterranean caverns.
Needless to say, no underground explorations have officially taken place. Nearby, the highly sacred island of Bigeh marks the alleged place of eternal sleep for Osiris, but it is nowadays partially submerged, preventing scientific confirmation of the legend. In Turkey, the mysterious site of Catal Huyuk dates back to around 6500 BC, making it one of the earliest known settlements. One would therefore expect it to have been thoroughly excavated, to shed light on the origins of civilization. On the contrary, only a small fraction of the site has been excavated.
Prior to the resumption of work in 1993, archaeology had stopped with the excavation of one acre out of 32 by Mellaart in the 1960s. Why is there such a backlog of archaeological work when it would pay dividends in increased international tourism? One reason is the prioritization of funds and skilled archaeologists. During the last one hundred years, tremendous progress has been made by focusing resources in ancient Mesopotamia, where more than thirty sites have been extensively excavated. There are simply too many potential sites and too few trained archaeologists.
Therein lies another problem. Archaeology is by its very nature a destructive science, and modern archaeologists are paranoid about the use of proper digging and recording procedures. This approach, by necessity, makes the whole process interminably slow. One almost longs for the days when amateurs such as Schliemann vandalized (allegedly) the site of ancient Troy - at least he got something done! However, I am not seriously suggesting that as a way forward.
Another factor which slows down the rate of discovery is the obsession of modern archaeology with extensive field surveys. Valuable resources are thus focussed on one site for vast lengths of time, in order to obtain a detailed understanding of that particular culture. As a result they can tell us what the Maya used to eat for breakfast, but they cannot tell us where the Maya came from! If we genuinely wish to understand more about our past, this kind of research must be deferred until we have successfully gained an overview of ancient cultures.
To be fair, not all of the missing evidence is the fault of archaeologists. We cannot blame them for the fact that ancient Babylon lies beneath the water table. We cannot blame them for the civil unrest which has hampered further excavation of the world’s oldest settlement at Jericho, along with other ancient sites in Lebanon. Nor can we blame them for the modern roads and military base which prevent a thorough excavation of Teotihuacan.
Another factor which prevents archaeologists from uncovering the past is religion. It is religion which prevents what would surely be a highly revealing exploration beneath Jerusalem. Similarly, we cannot fully excavate the ancient city of Harran, due to the Muslim temples which have been built on the site. The same archaeological block exists with hundreds of prime religious sites, which have arisen where they are for good reasons - to reflect a spot of sacred historical importance. This is a classic “catch 22”, which would frustrate even an Interventionist Institute of Archaeology if we were fortunate enough to have such a body.
Religion is also to blame for the destruction of many valuable ancient texts, which were once regarded as works of the devil by over-zealous missionaries. The destruction of these texts, however, pales into insignificance compared to the untold damage caused by thousands of years of human warfare. We can only guess at what artifacts were destroyed in the battles which razed city after city to the ground.
If warfare is public enemy number one, then vandalism must rate a close second, with few sites having escaped the looting which has continued unabated over the past few millennia. One almost weeps at the clinical efficiency with which the Spanish conquistadores melted down thousands of Incan and Aztec artifacts into gold ingots. Almost an entire cultural legacy vanished in that brief period of history. Most of us know all about the ancient Egyptian tomb-robbers, but how many of us are aware of the alleged thefts of antiquities from Giza and Saqqara even in recent times?
In March 1995, the British police arrested five leading art dealers in an attempt to break a multi-million pound trade in looted Egyptian treasures. Priceless artifacts are disappearing from under the very noses of the archaeologists as they discover them. At Tiwanaku, early explorers reported seeing bronze objects which long ago disappeared, presumably plundered by the local population. In Mesoamerica, inscriptions which might unlock the Maya’s past have been hacked off temple facades and broken up, forever preventing any attempt to decode their meaning.
Thousands of valuable Mayan relies have disappeared into the hands of thieves who have sold them into private collections, where they are permanently hidden from public view. Some of the oldest private collections in the world belong to the secret societies. I would include in this category the Vatican, who have been one of the most active supporters of archaeological research in the twentieth century.
Unfortunately, it is not difficult to imagine what would happen to any controversial discoveries which were made by the Catholic Church. As the old saying goes, “turkeys don’t vote for Christmas”, and the Vatican is hardly going to announce a find that undermines its monotheistic position. The most famous secret society of modern times is Freemasonry. The origins of this society begin with the Knights Templars, a group founded c. AD 1100 at the time of the Christian crusades to oust the Muslims from the Holy Land.
Around AD 1300, the Knights Templars was declared an illegal organization by the King of France. The fleeing Templars eventually settled in the Western Isles of Scotland, from where they founded the society which is now known as Freemasonry. The Knights Templars spent many years excavating at Jerusalem, and studies of their history suggest that they secretly recovered a technological device - either the Ark of the Covenant or a “Manna Machine”.
Rumour has it that the secret location of the Ark of the Covenant may be revealed very shortly. As the best documented technological artifact from ancient times, its public debut would cause quite a stir. Unfortunately, its secret has been kept safe for so long, that the technology behind it may no longer seem so amazing. Therefore, even if the real Ark were revealed tomorrow, scientists would denounce it as a fake. Secret societies appear in the most unlikely places.
For instance, what should we make of the Egyptian authorities’ continuing delays to explore beyond the doorway that was discovered by Rudolf Gantenbrink inside the Great Pyramid? The discovery of the mysterious doorway was made on 22nd March 1993. A week later not a word had been said to the press.
Frustrated by repeated stonewalling and cancelled press conferences, Gantenbrink decided to go it alone and break the story to the press. After the discovery was announced by the Daily Telegraph on 7th April 1993, it quickly became obvious that the world was not supposed to know. The German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, which had been involved in the find, told Reuters news agency that nothing of significance had been discovered!
Officials from the Institute attempted to kill any interest by confidently telling journalists that “there is no chamber behind the door”. On 20th April 1993, the Egyptian Gazette even carried the headline “German scientist’s claim a hoax”! Two months after the discovery, an ex-Giza official, Dr Mohammed Ibrahim Bakr told the press that an organized “mafia” were attempting to impede the archaeological work for their own purposes.
Bakr’s claim may be true or may be the accusations of an embittered man. Whichever is the case, the fact is that Rudolf Gantenbrink could easily have modified his robot to slip an endoscope underneath the doorway and resolve the matter once and for all. After three years of stonewalling by the Egyptian authorities, it would now seem (at the time of writing) that the opening of the doorway is imminent.
But the simple truth is that the
world would never have known about the Pyramid’s hidden doorway, if
Gantenbrink had not been present and recorded a video to prove it.
Mankind is here, despite the lack of evolutionary time, a fact which is quite unbelievable in itself. The Great Pyramid is there, in Egypt, with technology which is equally unbelievable.
I have visited the sites in this book and seen impossible feats of engineering with my own eyes, and so can you. These are the hard-hitting facts which should make us reassess our beliefs. Is it really so unbelievable that we were created by flesh-and-blood Gods, when the only alternatives are a Divine Creation or a Darwinian evolution?
If we put our preconceptions to one side, it is the latter two scenarios which are the unbelievable ones! The evidence I have presented is like the strands of a rope, attached to every area of human knowledge.
Let us return to the mysteries which conventional scientists cannot explain:
Isn’t it odd that, despite the rate of technological progress, and the fantastic achievements in space exploration, our top scientists are still unable to explain all of the down-to-earth mysteries listed above. In complete contrast, the interventionist approach explains every single one of them, as part of a logical, comprehensive and fully integrated solution.
As opposed to the scientists’ complex arguments and contrived theories, the interventionist offers (by way of example) precise geographical relationships, supported by physical evidence - pyramids, platforms, a geological scar and blackened rocks - and all supported, in turn, by detailed textual evidence.
In addition, the interventionist approach enables us to understand, from a scientific point of view, the many prehistoric accounts which have become enshrined in myth. Thus the apparent immortality of the Gods can be explained by Genetic science. The Garden of Eden incident and the cursing of the serpent can be seen as a bitter dispute between two Gods. The Tower of Babel incident can be understood as a controversial attempt by Marduk to rebuild his pre-Flood city in Babylon.
And the Exodus represents a carefully timed evacuation by a disillusioned God. A by-product of this study is the identification of Planet X as Nibiru, the Planet of the Crossing which played a major role in the formation of the Solar System. The scientific recognition of this planet allows us to solve the fundamental unanswered questions of the Solar System. In particular, the collision of Tiamat with Nibiru can explain why the Earth’s land mass is concentrated on only one side, whilst the oceanic crust appears relatively young. It can also explain why the Moon is so large in relation to Earth.
It can explain where the comets and Asteroid Belt came from, and much much more. Scientists are bitterly divided, indeed confused, on all of these points, hence the extremely contrived theories which currently prevail. As if this was not enough, the existence of a recurring cataclysmic cycle on Earth, caused by Nibiru, can explain not only how life begun on Earth, but why it has also suffered a mysterious sequence of mass extinction’s.
The most recent such cataclysm was the Flood, an event which is so widely recorded in legend that its recognition has only been delayed by a lack of possible cause. That cause can now be scientifically identified as Nibiru. Nibiru can also explain much of the world’s religious symbolism. Its orbital path and collision course with Tiamat were commemorated in the sign of the cross. The position of the collision became known as “heaven”. Its first two orbits were recorded as Day One and Day
Two of the Biblical tale of creation. The recurring cycle of cataclysms which it caused on Earth was the origin of the belief in a Day of Judgment. As the twelfth member of the Solar System, Nibiru explains the use of “12” as a sacred number. And finally, it may also account for the importance of the sacred “7”, for Earth was the seventh planet counting inwards from Nibiru. This stark contrast between establishment confusion and interventionist solution is a sure sign that conventional studies of the Earth’s past have been based on a wrong paradigm.
Nevertheless, entrenched views are not easily dislodged. Despite the overwhelming evidence in this book (and the masses of additional evidence which has been left out due to lack of space), various experts will no doubt join forces to dismiss my conclusions out-of-hand. We should not be misled by these so-called experts, who outside their specialty are all amateurs. They will stop at nothing to defend their precious reputations and chronologies.
These are the people who are fighting tooth-and-nail
the undeniable geological proof that the Sphinx is thousands of
years older than previously believed! Most readers of this book, as
non-specialists, are in a much better position to take the wider
perspective and recognize the truth of mankind’s past.
A hundred years or so later, the Maya gradually began to abandon their ceremonial centers, and within a few more centuries their civilization had fallen apart. It was as if they had simply given up waiting. The Maya probably made the right decision, because one thousand years later there is still no sign of Quetzalcoatl. However, as we stand at the brink of the new millennium, could that return now be imminent?
As reluctant as I am to predict the unknowable future, I can nevertheless offer some scientific guidance on a range of possible chronologies. Readers can then attach their own probabilities to each possible outcome. At the heart of this book is the theory that the Gods took “turns” for Lordship based on a division of the Earth’s precessional cycle.
This cycle, caused by the Earth’s wobble, is an established scientific fact. The length of the precessional cycle cannot be an exact science, however, since the Earth has yet to complete such a cycle since the Flood. The latest estimates suggest a period of 25,776 years, representing twelve ages of 2,148 years
This suggests that the Sumerian mathematical system was deliberately structured on rounded figures of 25,920 and 2,160. In the calculations which follow, I have sometimes cited 2,160 for the sake of simplicity, but the actual figure can be read as 2,148 or an approximation thereof.
At the beginning of this chapter, I suggested that mankind might currently be experiencing a 2,160 year “hands off" period. If this is so, then the implications are extremely urgent, for that period will shortly end. How strong is my scientific theory that the Gods operated in eras of 2,160 years? We have strong evidence dating the Flood to 10,983 BC, and textual evidence associating the Flood with the zodiac sign of Leo. It may be a coincidence that the Sphinx was carved as a lion, but I think not. Its geological dating is admittedly not precise, but is consistent with the period 11,000-8,700 BC.
Then we have Manetho’s chronology of Egyptian Gods dating the beginning of Thoth’s reign to around 8700 BC, and textual evidence relating Thoth’s appointment to the war of the Gods. Again, it could be coincidence that the war of the Gods occurred at the end of a precessional period, but I doubt it. As for the next two precessional periods, commencing 6540 BC and 4380 BC, they were relatively uneventful, but I have offered evidence that the latter, the age of Taurus, matches the era of the God Ishkur in South America.
The changeover from Taurus to the new period of Aries, from c. 2200 BC, has been commemorated throughout the ancient world, as noted by the famous Carl Jung himself. I have set out detailed evidence that this period marked the scheduled return of Marduk to Babylon, which was delayed first by Inanna and then by Ninurta.
At this time, the stars were being watched all around the world, the physical evidence existing at Machu Picchu and Stonehenge in particular. Conventional science can offer no explanation for these ancient observatories, nor the ancient civilizations’ widespread obsession with astronomy. Finally, I have suggested that 2,160 years later, the birth of Jesus coincided with the period of Pisces, explaining the significance of the stars which brought the Magi to Jerusalem. When does the current precessional age end?
If we count 2,160 years from the time of Jesus. we arrive in the mid 21st century, but this chronology is not based on a reliable starting point. It would seem that the Magi counted 2,160 years from Marduk’s compromise return date to Babylon, but Marduk had in fact anticipated an earlier start to his era. The activity at Stonehenge, leading up to 2300 BC, marked his intended return which was only prevented by the military conquests of Inanna and Sargon.
When Marduk did try to return to Babylon, his brother Nergal convinced him that his time had not yet come. In chapter 11, I suggested that Marduk had counted from the Flood, whereas the precessional cycle had officially begun 108 years (one and a half celestial degrees) later. I then suggested that a compromise was reached, allowing the earlier starting point, but postponing his return from 2391 BC by 3 degrees (215 years) to 2176 BC. If, however, we remove the artificial insertion of the compromise which was only a delaying tactic.
Marduk’s precessional age should have been begun in 2284 BC. Calculating forward from that date points to the next precessional age occurring much earlier in the 21st century - either AD 2036 or AD 2012 (based on 2,160 and 2,148 years respectively. Other dates are also possible, depending on the assumptions used. For instance, when did the precessional cycle officially begin? If it was reset to point zero when Nibiru returned c. 200 BC, then we are already in the “new” era, which begun some time earlier in the twentieth century.
The other variable is the precessional cycle - do we use 25,920, 25,776 or some other figure? One possibility, based on sacred Egyptian and Sumerian knowledge is 25,737.5 years, leading to the start of a new era in AD 1998. On the other hand, it must be stressed that the system which the Gods used cannot be mimicked by the use of a calculator. If it could, why would Stonehenge have been built?
The cycles of the Moon and Earth’s movements around the Sun were already known. The measurement of these cycles could only have been for the correlation of something else, namely the rate of precessional change, This is of fundamental importance, because it signifies that the cycle was not regarded as a given numeric constant and Lordship could only be determined by direct observation of the heavens.
The historical significance of the precessional cycle strongly suggests that, if the Gods do return, it will be within the range of dates given above. It might equally be argued that their return will not occur until Nibiru’s next return c. AD 3400. And it can additionally be argued that the Gods are no longer based on Nibiru and might never return. Although I have tried to take a scientific approach to the question of when and whether the Gods will return, it is difficult to ignore the tremendous expectations that are building up as we approach the new millennium.
Some Jews still expect a personal messiah to come before AD 2000. Both Muslims and Christians are expecting the return of Jesus. Muslims believe that the hidden imam Muhammad al-Muntazar will reappear to restore true Islam, conquer the world and usher in a short millennium before the end of all things.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses expect God's Kingdom to arrive imminently, since all of the features of “End Times” are being experienced by the current generation. The ancient Maya had a great cycle of 13 Baktuns which can be used to predict the end of an era on 23rd December AD 2013. Admittedly, there have been many prophets of “End Times” during the last two thousand years, but never before has there been a scientific basis to support it.
Anyone could turn up claiming to be Jesus or Yahweh. On the contrary, there may be little advantage to the Gods immediately announcing themselves to the masses.
News of their return might be disseminated on a need-to-know basis, with only a few world leaders permitted to approach them. Life might appear to carry on as normal, but with a new political agenda. We might detect their presence in inexplicable events, changes in government policy or acts of war that don’t quite make sense, and perhaps an increase in government secrecy.
Eventually, these covert operations might give way to an openly declared presence, but only when the time is right. We should look for a manipulation of events that would facilitate a handover of sovereignty to the Gods. This could best be achieved by bringing the Earth to a crisis point from which the Gods themselves would emerge as saviours.
We might thus expect a breakdown of the social order and a widespread disillusionment with mankind’s existing institutions governments, religions and industry. Then, when the masses are frustrated, frightened, desperate and vulnerable, they would rally to the cry of a new world order under the Gods.
Should we live in fear or in hope of our returning Gods? The actions of the American government seem to indicate a perceived threat. In 1996, the Pentagon announced a plan, sponsored by the US Air Force, to save the world by deploying missiles which would intercept “asteroids” in deep space. Politicians have indicated their intent to pass legislation which would force America to deploy this missile defense system, codenamed “Clementine 2”, by AD 2003. Why the sudden haste? Is it part of the same hidden agenda that is attempting to place incredibly frustrated, sensitive telescopes into deep space?
In the difficult times that lie ahead, many of us may be tempted to sit back and wait for the return of our ancient Gods. This would be a dangerous strategy for the return of the Gods is by no means certain, and we cannot rely on them to save the Earth from all of its problems. On the other hand, many of us will see this as a time to restore our faith in a Spiritual God, an Ultimate Creator who may even have directly created the Gods who created us.
But whatever our inner religious thoughts might be, I would suggest that we all keep a wary eye on developments both on Earth and in space; for mankind may literally be about to meet his makers in a rendezvous which represents the greatest scientific secret of modern times.
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