Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? (24 page)
All this destruction of human origins and history has led to gaping holes in humankind’s true history, leading in turn to confusion due to mistranslations, misinterpretations, and name changes within religious documents, which may be ascribed simply to the differences among languages and cultures or to deliberate obfuscation.
Rabbi Dovid Bendory, rabbinic director for Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO), is just one of the more recent researchers who have found major misunderstandings based on mistranslations of the Bible. In a 2012 commentary, Rabbi Bendory explained that one of the most commonly recognized lines of the Ten Commandments, “Thou shall not kill,” is a mistranslation of the Hebrew
Lo tirtzach
, which actually means “Do not murder.” He said this term has “a clear and unequivocal meaning,” one that “forever changed the course of all human history,” as both Jews and Christians have been plagued with guilt and remorse over killing in wars, by accident, or self-defense.
“There is a world of difference between killing and murder,” he explained. “Can we possibly estimate the numbers of lives that have been lost by foolish pacifism rather than righteous defense in the face of evil?”
Mauro Biglino also has challenged interpretations and translations of the Bible. Biglino, formerly an Italian translator for the religious publishing house San Paolo Editors, has been a scholar of religious history and a student of ancient Hebrew for more than thirty years. Biglino was fired from his position as a translator of Vatican material after publishing a book in 2012 in which he claimed that extraterrestrials guided the development of humankind. He said this was confirmed by a careful and literal translation of the original Hebrew Bible.
In his original work,
The Book That Will Forever Change Our Ideas About the Bible
, now released as
There Is No God in the Bible
, Biglino pointed to the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy (1:28) in which scouts reported to Moses of encountering giants and great cities in the sky inhabited by the “sons of the Anakims.” Current Bible dictionaries fail to explain the Anakims. Yet several researchers connect the Anakim to the Nephilim, the oversize hybrid offspring of the sons of gods and the daughters of men mentioned in Genesis 6:4. Large bones and tools found all over the world, though little publicized, attest to the existence once of a race of giants. The biblical story of David and Goliath comes to mind.
According to Biglino, like the Nephilim, angels in the Bible are described only by their function as messengers rather than their physical nature. He said this is because the ancient scribes were writing about physical beings whose nature was obvious to the people of that time who had encountered them. They ate, drank, slept, and even washed themselves, hardly the activities of nonphysical beings. Only in later centuries, when such face-to-face contact was lost, were these messengers transformed into metaphysical entities.
Biglino noted that the Israelites of the Old Testament obviously did not see their god as a transcendent and unique entity, and their relationship with him was not viewed as unavoidable. “The whole history of Israel is full of betrayals, abandonment, cults dedicated to other deities, also called
Elohìms
, all concrete, all present like the Elohìm leading Israel and with whom there had been this alliance: Jews would serve him and he would help them conquer the land and become a nation. This same Elohìm repeatedly calls himself jealous, and we wonder: how can one be jealous of a partner if there are no rivals in the relationship?” Biglino also compared the original Ten Commandments of Yahweh as written in Hebrew to the modern, sanitized, and Christianized version and found little in common.
In addition to the account of Ezekiel and his fiery flying saucer, well covered in other sources and found to accurately describe a subspace vehicle by a NASA scientist, Biglino described the experiences of other biblical figures. These include Elisha and the prophet Elijah, whose name, Eliyahu, means “My God is El.” In II Kings 2:10–11, it is clear that Elijah has foreknowledge that he would be taken, and shortly he was pulled up into the heavens in a whirlwind by a “chariot of fire.” For three days, his countrymen looked for him but failed to find any sign of him. Biglino has pointed out that: “This was an announced event, known in advance by the involved parties and therefore programmed by the
Elohìms
who had decided to take with them this representative of theirs. One does not search for three days, laboring over hills and dales, for someone who has been kidnapped just in a vision or a dream!” Enoch, the father of Methuselah, who reportedly lived 365 years, was also taken up to heaven by his god.
Could these accounts actually be of alien abductions? Biglino has said that the prophet Zechariah encountered an
efahm,
interpreted as a flying roll or cylinder, similar to some UFOs reported today. He compares such biblical experiences with the flying machines of the Sumerian Anunnaki.
The Bible’s Psalm 82 describes God in assembly with other gods. Biglino viewed this as a description of a meeting between the ancient gods, or Elohims, and their superiors. Here they are warned about bringing arrogance to their positions over humans, as well as reminded that they, too, have finite, although lengthy, life spans. Biglino has pointed out that the connection is clear and simple: “The Elohims die like all ADAMS! It comes as no surprise to anyone who speculates that ANUNNAKI/ELOHIMS could have a long life—incredibly long for earthly beings, as it was measured on Nibiru’s orbital cycles—but that, as people made of flesh and blood, they too were meant to die. Simply astonishing is the fact that the Bible itself says so![emphases in the original].” Mauro Biglino’s conclusion was that we have worshipped the extraterrestrials who have come to our planet as gods, and the original recognition of these multiple gods has, over the years, been reduced to one god. This interpretation does not necessarily deny the existence of an omniscient universal creator God.
Biglino is not alone in believing that extraterrestrials are mentioned in the Bible. In 2003, Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a Vatican spokesman on the UFO issue, stated that not believing in “UFOs and the presence of other living beings is a sin. Their existence is not only proven by about a million witnesses, including those of many atheist scientists, but it is also confirmed by some passages of the Scripture that clarify some points about their presence.”
This vision by the Catholic Church was supported by José Gabriel Funes, an Argentinean Jesuit and director of the Vatican Observatory. In a 2008 interview, Father Funes stated, “It is possible to believe in God and in extraterrestrials. The existence of other worlds and other life, even more evolved than ours, can be accepted without this interfering in the discussion of the faith of creation, the incarnation, the redemption. … As a multiplicity of creatures exist on earth, so there could be other beings, also intelligent, created by God. This does not contrast with our faith because we cannot put limits on the creative freedom of God.”
The claims of José Funes and Mauro Biglino may seem outrageous to some. Yet their interpretation of the Bible is similar to the recent translations of Sumerian glyphs and ancient Hebrew. According to one reviewer of Biglino’s work, “Many translators have come up with parallel results. Mr. Biglino brings validity to the former researchers by sharing it with us. These are the translations that come through when you use the correct database to transcribe from. Researchers that worked with Michael Heiser [that critic of Zecharia Sitchin] are government funded and they use a newer base to translate with, which is preposterous to do so, due to the changing meanings and subsets of civilizations over time. The originals were hundreds if not thousands of years older than the database that Heiser’s group was translating with. Further, academics wouldn’t be allowed to put their stamp of approval on any work they found that’s related to extraterrestrials, due to the socio-economic upheaval it could cause. That very thing must be avoided at all costs, as far as they are concerned. Our government and the people behind the scenes are not receptive to anything other than what they’ve mandated. History is written by the victors, and rarely does the truth match what the victors write about. If the government allowed the truth, then billions of history, medical, financial, etc. books would need to be corrected.”
It is little wonder that learned men down through the ages have misunderstood the truths lying behind the gods of legend and myth? “Is it any wonder that ‘science’ can’t find any evidence for ancient aliens, or lost knowledge?” asked author Philip Coppens, a prolific writer who has made a study of old legends and secret societies throughout his life. If historians have been misled concerning true history, then perhaps it is time we consider that much of modern man’s entire worldview has been misguided.
The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.
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GES WAS A TIME OF GREAT INSTABILITY AND IGNORANCE
in the Western world. It dragged on from approximately AD 500 until the Renaissance. Those living with the luxuries of the twenty-first century have largely forgotten that prior to the year 1900 the vast majority of people in the world were illiterate, had no indoor plumbing, and lived at the whim of their rulers.
Only remnants of Greece and Rome’s knowledge had been preserved by a few Christian monks in Ireland, Italy, France, and Britain. If not for these monks, along with libraries in the Muslim countries, no knowledge whatsoever would have been preserved for us today.
The Roman Church controlled every aspect of life. To speak against the Church opened one to censorship, excommunication, or even death. The suffocation of free thinking led to the growth of secret societies and sects, many of which began in biblical times and vied with one another for control over ancient secrets. Much like the later Invisible College of Elizabethan times, these societies collectively were considered mystery schools, reservoirs of esoteric knowledge that was largely incomprehensible and thus fear-inspiring to the general public. Their literature was carefully constructed to both conceal and reveal some of their knowledge.
One such repository of ancient knowledge was the Sumerian “Table of Destiny,” thought to be the same as the Tables of Testimony mentioned in Exodus 31:18, as other Bible verses—Exodus 24:12 and 25:16—make it clear that these tables are not the Ten Commandments. British author Laurence Gardner believed this ancient archive may be the legendary Emerald Tablet of Thoth-Hermes. This tablet, considered one of the most ancient and secret of writings, is claimed to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes the Thrice-Greatest), a composite character of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, called Ninurta in ancient Sumer. Thoth/Ninurta was said to be a survivor of Atlantis who passed along antediluvian knowledge to a son of Noah—Ham.
“He was the essential founder of the esoteric and arcane ‘underground stream’ which flowed through the ages,” stated Gardner, “and his Greek name, Hermes, was directly related to the science of pyramid construction, deriving from the word
herma
, which relates to a ‘pile of stones.’ Indeed, the Great Pyramid is sometimes called ‘the Sanctuary of Thoth.’ ”
This tablet of knowledge was passed from ancient Sumer to Egypt and on to Greek and Roman masters such as Homer, Virgil, Pythagoras, Plato, and Ovid. In the Middle Ages and onward, it was passed through such secret societies as the Rosicrucians and Knights Templar and on to the Freemasons.
But such ancient knowledge had to be kept secret in the ages following the collapse of the Roman Empire. Christianity had gained absolute supremacy in the Western world, and until the Great Schism and the fall of Constantinople to the Muslim Ottoman Empire in 1453, the Roman Church stood as the ultimate authority in the Western world. Through the lending of both its money and blessings, the Vatican dominated kings and queens and controlled the lives of ordinary citizens through fear of excommunication and its infamous Inquisition.
Only the clergy and aristocracy could read and write, and the smaller factions of Christianity were so fractious that they held little power. With the crusaders holding the Holy Land of the Middle East, the unchallenged power of the Church became further centralized and all-powerful. The fact that most kings and queens had borrowed money from the Vatican only added to their subservience. Only in Scotland, where King Robert the Bruce was excommunicated in 1306 and only when Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses were made public in 1517 and Henry VIII established the breakaway Church of England in 1534 was the power of Catholicism challenged.
Earlier, a gnostic group called Cathars, mostly located in southern France, had proved to be a problem for the Church, as they claimed to possess knowledge concerning Mary Magdalene and her descendants that ran counter to Rome’s teachings. Known as the “pure ones” due to the conviction that their beliefs were purer than those of the Roman Church, the Cathars claimed that their knowledge had been passed along by refugees from Palestine who had fled the Roman invasion of AD 70. Beginning in 1209, French king Philip II, at the orders of Pope Innocent III, launched the Albigensian Crusade in an attempt to wipe out the Cathars, considered the most serious challenge to the Catholic Church to that date. Until very recently, little was known of the Cathars because the Roman Church had destroyed any material favorable to them.
To avoid annihilation, many Cathars simply blended into the populace. In later years, French leaders from Cathar families considered a religious crusade to take the Holy Land, and particularly Jerusalem, as a convenient excuse to search for verification of the Cathar traditions. Peter the Hermit—generally considered to be instrumental in promoting the First Crusade, along with Saint Bernard—was a personal tutor to the Crusade’s leader, Godfrey de Bouillon, himself a member of a Cathar family and believed by some to be the founder of Freemasonry.
The First Crusade led to the creation of societies that used secrecy as protection from the Roman Church, which began protecting its theology by increasingly violent means. By many recent accounts, at least one group of Crusaders brought back more than just heresy—they also came back with hard evidence of error and duplicity in Church dogma. In 1307, the Church tried to exterminate this group, proclaimed as heretics and blasphemers. They were the Knights Templar, whose traditions live on today within Freemasonry.
This religious-military knighthood, originally called The Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, was formed in 1118 when nine French Crusaders appeared before King Baldwin of Jerusalem and asked to be allowed to protect pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. They also asked permission to stay in the ruins of Solomon’s Temple, which had later been the palace of King Herod. These knights were led by Hugh de Payens, a nobleman in the service of his cousin, Hughes, Count of Champagne, and André de Montbard, the uncle of Bernard of Clairvaux, later known as the Cistercian Saint Bernard. All were from families connected to the Cathars. Authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, experts on the Knights Templar, wrote, “Payens and his nine companions all came from either Champagne or the Languedoc, and included the Count of Provence, and it is quite apparent that they went to the Holy Land with a specific mission in mind.” Provence lies adjacent to the Languedoc region of southern France and includes Marseilles, where by tradition Mary Magdalene arrived with other Palestinian refugees following the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It was in Provence that the knights hid the treasure of both wealth and knowledge they uncovered in Jerusalem.
Once in Jerusalem, King Baldwin, a brother of de Bouillon, granted the knights’ request, and the order was formed, becoming known as the Knights of the Temple, soon shortened to Knights Templar. For nine years, the Knights Templar excavated under the palace of King Herod, which had been built on top of the ruins of the temple built by King Solomon nearly a thousand years before Christ. Some researchers state that Solomon’s Temple was merely a carbon copy of a Sumerian temple dedicated to the god Ninurta and constructed almost a thousand years earlier.
Much of Solomon’s treasure—which included not only much gold, silver, and precious gems but also texts, scrolls, and tablets bearing the ancient knowledge of the gods—had been buried there by Jews to protect it from looting Romans during the Jewish Revolt of AD 66. According to the
Histories
, a history of Rome written by Tacitus in AD 109, Pompey the Great was shocked when he entered Solomon’s Temple in 63 BC only to find “the sanctuary was empty and the Holy of Holies untenanted.”
However, after the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, the Romans managed to cart off a portion of the treasure left behind to prevent further searching. They took it to Rome as war booty. The remainder, probably the most sacred tablets and scrolls, was secured in the catacombs under the temple and later forgotten by authorities when Herod’s palace was built.
Knowledge of this undiscovered treasure passed into southern France in AD 410, when a former Roman commander, Alaric, led his Gothic army in sacking Rome. The secrets of Solomon’s Treasure were taken to the homeland of the Goths, the Languedoc region in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains in southern France. It was from here that the French Cathars learned of the treasure still buried in Jerusalem. This information was passed through Cathari families and led to the fomenting of the First Crusade.
With the return of the Knights Templar, Solomon’s Treasure was once again reunited with the portion taken from Rome by Alaric. It remained hidden, with only bits of the ancient knowledge being used by secret societies, such as the Rosicrucians, Freemasons, the Bavarian Illuminati, and the elusive Priory of Sion, until the entire treasure hoard was taken by the German Nazis in early 1944.
In addition to secrets involving architecture, medicine, and instruments such as magnetic compasses, the knights learned the management of money. Although conventional history traces the development of modern banking to early Jewish and Italian lending institutions, the Knights Templar predated the Rothschilds and the Medicis.
“They pioneered the concept of credit facilities, as well as the allocation of credit for commercial development and expansion. They performed, in fact, virtually all the functions of a 20th century merchant bank,” wrote Baigent and Leigh. “At the peak of their power, the Templars handled much, if not most, of the available capital in Western Europe.”
The Templars held long-term private trust funds, accessible only by the originators of the account, a practice that continues today in Swiss banks. It can also be argued that the Templars first introduced the credit card and packaged tours, as they developed fund transfers by note, a technique most probably obtained from their Muslim contacts in the Middle East.
ALCHEMY: SCIENCE, MAGIC, OR BOTH?
Pieces of the ancient knowledge handed down from the gods concerning chemistry were used during the Middle Ages as a basis for the science of that day, known as alchemy. During medieval times, one of the primary goals of alchemists was to turn base metals into valuable gold or silver.
There is some controversy over whether the word
alchemy
stems from ancient Egypt, earlier known as Khem or Chem, or if the name derived from the Medieval Latin
alkimia
, Islamic
kimya,
or perhaps from the Greek
khemeioa
.
According to English author E. J. Holmyard, adherents of alchemy have included the royal bloodlines of Europe as well as common folk. Among alchemists, he included everyone from “kings, popes, and emperors to minor clergy, parish clerks, smiths, dyers, and tinkers. Even such accomplished men as Roger Bacon, St. Thomas Aquinas, Sir Thomas Browne, John Evelyn, and Sir Isaac Newton were deeply interested in it, and Charles II had an alchemical laboratory built under the royal bedchamber with access by a private staircase. Other alchemical monarchs were Herakleios I of Byzantium, James IV of Scotland, and the Emperor Rudolf II.”
Alchemy was the science of the times, and while it involved rudimentary chemistry, biology, geometry, numerology, and even physics, some practitioners gravitated toward the power of gold found in money.
The magic of money manipulation may have been perfected in more modern times, but its roots go far back into history, and there appears to be a correlation between control by money, gold, and the ancient gods. In his 2010 book,
Babylon’s Banksters
, Joseph P. Farrell, as a doctoral graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, who had unparalleled access to old books and manuscripts in Oxford University’s library, said his thesis was both simple to state but difficult to understand. “Since ancient times and with more or less uninterrupted constancy, there has existed an international money power which seeks by a variety of means—including fraud, deception, assassination, and war—to usurp the money- and credit-creating power of the various states it has sought to dominate, and to obfuscate and occult the profound connection between that money-creating power and the deep ‘alchemical physics’ that such power implies.”
In ancient times, the coinage of money was conducted and controlled by the priesthoods in obedience to their gods. In Babylon, descendant of the Sumerian culture, checks were in use as draws on deposits of valuables. But the gods demanded gold or silver, as noted in the Laws of Hammurabi. The monetary systems of Babylonia established branches on the coast of Greece and in the Mycenaean centers. The discovery of Babylonian seals in the Greek islands of the Cyclades showed that clay “promises to pay” in silver were written for loans against real goods. According to Farrell, such practices gave rise to an “international class of bullion brokers” or bankers. “Succinctly stated, the bullion trust and the temple are at the minimum allies, and at the maximum, the one has infiltrated and taken over the other.”
The ancient rulers, whether aliens themselves or mere representatives, discovered that their religions required financial support. Going back to at least the Babylonian civilization, the temples were dependent on financial institutions.
The Hebrew Mogen David, or Star of David, is of Babylonian origin and is indicative of how the Babylonian/Sumerian culture was blended with Hebrew religion during the Jews’ captivity in Babylon. And it was in the Temple at Jerusalem that Jesus turned violent against the money changers. Matthew 21:12–13 relates, “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold doves, and said unto them, ‘it is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.’