The Blind God

 Through the ages the Initiates of the Mysteries have been called by many names and the lenses of their perceptions have been colored by cultural differences and expectations leading to slight variations in doctrine the gist of which however being independently verified throughout. And the main common thread was that the God of the Old Testament and creator of the material world was not an all-powerful beneficent god. Quite the contrary. None were fooled by this insane entity and its crazed prophets. A number of these sects were collectively called Gnostics (From Greek gnosis, “knowledge”) because theirs was the aforesaid highest level of knowledge gained by direct experience of spiritual truth. They were not interested in belief and so were saved from the baser religious doctrines.

A cache of Gnostic scriptures was discovered in a sealed jar in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi, Egypt. It contained 13 leather bound manuscripts and more than 50 texts written in Coptic Egyptian. The Gnostics flourished between the 1st and 5th centuries CE. 

Everything comes from Mind. Thoughts are things and everything that you see around you, including you, started as a thought, including the planets, the stars, etc. Life has an uncanny tendency to find a way to come into being from not-being. The Gnostics envisioned a type of primal awareness springing from the void and called its first thought “Sophia” (Greek, “wisdom”): “For it is he who looks at himself in his light which surrounds him, namely the spring of the water of life. And it is he… who gazes upon his image which he sees in the spring of the Spirit. It is he who puts his desire in his water-light which is in the spring of the pure light-water which surrounds him.

“And his thought performed a deed and she came forth, namely she who had appeared before him in the shine of his light. She came forth from his mind… This is the first thought, his image” (The Apocryphon of John).

According to the Gnostics the first thought of mind was termed an Aeon, which is both a being and a realm. When thought became self-aware it desired to take part in creation: “And Sophia… being an Aeon, conceived a Thought from herself with the reflection of the invisible Spirit… She wanted to bring forth a likeness out of herself without the consent of the Spirit… and without her consort… And because of the invincible power which is in her, her thought did not remain idle and a thing came out of her which was imperfect and different from her appearance, because she created it without her consort.

“And when she saw the consequence of her desire, it had changed into a form of a lion-faced serpent. And its eyes were like lightning fires… She cast it away from her, outside that place that no one of the immortal ones might see it, for she had created it in ignorance… And she called his name Yaldabaoth…” (ibid).

The name “Yaldabaoth” comes from Aramaic yaled aba’ot, “begetter of Sabaoth,” a name of the Jewish god. It was an imperfect creation as the First thought brought it into being on its own without drawing from the source. Awareness, and all entities which are sparks of awareness, are formless and the images that sparks of thought project are symbolic representations of their properties, the form changing according to the thought. An example could be when a demon appears with multiple wings, glowing red eyes, and holding a sword. The multiple wings would represent that it was swift in action, the glowing eyes strong and knowledgeable, and the sword martial in nature. The image projected by Yaldabaoth/Yahweh showed that it had power and wisdom in its own way, though limited by its imperfection and fall from the source. A name likewise is a representation of an entity’s properties, such as Lucifer (Latin, “Bearer of Light”), signifying the properties of wisdom, or Saklas (Aramaic, “Fool”), another name for Yaldabaoth, signifying ignorance. 

According to the Gnostics Yaldabaoth was hidden away In the outer void away from the light of awareness and became conscious of itself and thought that it was all that was. It began to think its own thoughts, its own creations, and made them subordinate rulers, called by the Gnostics, Archons (Greek,”Rulers”). In some versions the archons either oppose or are completely oblivious to the aeons. Yaldabaoth then proclaimed itself god, and with its angels created its own realms, either of its own creation or copied from the aeons, including the material world:

“…[Yaldabaoth] organized according to the model of the first aeons [by using] the power in him, which he had taken from his mother, [and] produced in him the likeness of the cosmos…

“… This is the first archon [Yaldabaoth] who took a great power from his mother. And he removed himself from her and moved away from the places in which he was born. He became strong and created for himself other aeons with a flame of luminous fire which exists even now” (The Apocryphon of John). 

The emanation of Yaldabaoth was not from a literal female entity, this is more symbolism. There are no sexes in the fourth dimension. Male and female are representative of the two types of polar energies: Positive and Negative. Demons and Angels therefore are neither male nor female, they are positively or negatively charged conscious forces. Before I could see them I once asked a demon if it was male or female, though I meant in regards to polarity, and it just laughed at me. So I clarified and it said, “Negative.” But I digress.

The creation of its archons/angels corresponds to the “Let there be light” in Genesis 1:3 of the Old Testament. The Gnostics assert that as Yaldabaoth created the physical universe it trapped the sparks of light/awareness that were inadvertently cast out of the world of light with it in material bodies:

“When the authorities and the chief archon (Yaldabaoth) looked… they saw the form of the image in the water. And he said to the authorities which attend him, ‘come, let us create a man according to the image of God and according to our likeness, that his image may become a light for us’…He created a being according to the likeness of the first, perfect Man” (ibid).

The “First, perfect Man” is in reference to what the Qabalists term Adam Qadmon or “Primordial Adam,” of whom each human soul is a miniscule part. Again, all mystics know the same core themes though experienced differently due to cultural and exoteric teachings. 

Here is another version of Mankind being created by the gods:

“And God said, ‘Let us make man in Our tzelem (image), after Our demut’ (likeness)… So God created humankind in His own tzelem, in the tzelem Elohim (image of Gods) created He him…” (Genesis 1:26-27, Orthodox Jewish Bible).

There is such a striking similarity between these two texts because both are referring to the same event and the same entities: Yaldabaoth and its subordinate rulers and Yahweh and its angels. The word Elohim was one of the most important Hebrew god names in the original manuscripts, made from the feminine noun Elohe, “goddess,” and the masculine plural ending -im. It could therefore be interpreted as meaning “gods and goddesses.” In the Qabalah the name Elohim occurs in combination with other words and names in all of the Sephiroth of the Pillar of Judgement. It is a martial and violent force. The divine name in the Sephira Hod is Elohim Sabaoth (“Elohim of Hosts”), another expression of Yaldabaoth. Elohim is also sometimes used in the Qabalah as the name of an order of angels assigned to the Sephira Netzach, showing that it represents a plurality. We will touch upon the Qabalah in more detail later.

So we have an imperfect and violent force that emanated from the source of being which, perceiving only the outer void, thinks it is all that is and begins to manifest its own thoughts. A violent, capricious, and jealous entity, thinking itself superior to all and flexing its muscles on its creations. It became proud, proclaiming itself  “the Most High” and that there was none equal  to it: “It is I who am God, and there is no other power apart from me” (Hypostasis of the Archons).

And here: “I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me” (Isaiah 45:5, NKJV Study Bible). They are both the same entity. The Gnostics called Yaldabaoth the “blind god” and the “idiot god” because of its obliviousness to the rest of Being. Its agents, both angelic and human, have exhibited the same tyrannical quality of their father and have plagued the earth for millennia. Some say that “ignorance is bliss” but it’s also the source of hatred, intolerance, racism, and acts of violence. All wonderful qualities expressed by the children of Israel. 

The Gnostics therefore viewed the material world as a prison created by evil powers and sought a means of escape to return to the world of Spirit. This view is not unlike that of Buddhism which seeks escape from the wheel of death and rebirth in the world of suffering and a return to eternal bliss in Nirvana. Some of these views may seem a bit extreme but really what they mean by escape from the “prison of matter” or cessation from the “world of suffering” is spiritual evolution, the advancement to a higher degree/higher state of being.

With birth into the world of matter comes the Sin of Adam: Procreation. “Knowing” (having sexual intercoures) Eve, Adam perpetuated the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, which the Gnostic viewed as a device of Yaldabaoth to keep souls trapped in matter: “And he (Yaldabaoth) planted sexual desire in her who belongs to Adam. And he produced through intercourse the copies of the bodies, and he inspired them with the counterfeit spirit” (Apocryphon of John). Some Gnostic sects practiced asceticism, celibacy, and spiritual discipline as means of escaping the cycle of death and rebirth, again not unlike Buddhism. Others argued that if the god of conventional religion was evil then what it prohibited must be good, and so permitted every kind of sexual indulgence. The third and middle position was to allow any form of sexual activities that could not lead to pregnancy.

Yahweh and its agents have brought death, destruction, suffering, servitude, and suppression to countless numbers of innocent people the world over, and only those who know have truly seen through the veil: “And they (Archons) steered the people who had followed them astray with many deceptions. They (The people) became old without enjoyment. They died, not having found truth and without knowing the God of truth. 

“And thus the whole creation became enslaved forever, from the foundation of the world until now. And they took women and begot children out of the darkness according to the likeness of their spirit. And they closed their hearts, and they hardened themselves through the hardness of the counterfeit spirit until now” (ibid).

And so it continues, even until now. And they are still using the same methods. With their Commandments, Halachos, Shari’a Law, etc., the hearts and minds of hundreds of millions are hardened and closed, their empty love for “God” is really only selfish fear of punishment, their hollow hymns echoed only so as to avoid cancer or getting their car repossessed. They are indoctrinated since childhood to hate their bodies, to hate diversity, to hate any knowledge that does not conform with their limited views, to hate life yet to fear death so much that they will do anything to avoid it. Their false compassion is saved only for their fellow slaves and their worthless charity is given to the sound of trumpets that they may feed off of the praise of others like the true vampires and pariahs that they are. There is no escape from suffering because they are the perpetuators of suffering. And the sad part is that most of them do not even realize it. The religious leaders of the world are such because people allow them to be, and people allow them to be because they are so good at manipulation and hiding the truth. But a little investigation and an open mind will provide the key that will unhinge the fetters of a programmed existence. The priests of the Enemy have pilfered from the ancient texts again and again to formulate their own lies and present them as the one and only truth, and then attempted to destroy all the ancient texts to get rid of the evidence. The main source of the former was the cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumer/Babylon, and a good example of the latter was the burning of the library of Alexandria.

Manipulated History

The so-called Five Books of Moses, more commonly known as the Torah or the first five books of the Old Testament, were not written by Moses because Moses never existed. Nor were they original manuscripts. They were modified copies of Sumerian and Babylonian originals that were written in cuneiform on ancient clay tablets millennia before. Cuneiform was invented by the Sumerians circa 3200 BCE and was a written script of wedge shaped marks pressed into clay. It was used for everything from recording transactions, court proceedings, and architectural plans, to kings lists, legends, epic poems, and prayers.

The Israelites and their priests came into possession of this ancient knowledge during the Babylonian captivity from 587 to 450 BCE after the destruction of the First Temple of Solomon by Nebuchadnezzar II (ruled, 605-562 BCE). During this time they composed their sacred scriptures. 

One of the sources for their myths was the Epic of Gilgamesh, first told orally circa 2700 BCE then written down circa 2000 BCE. It tells the story of a legendary king of the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, Gilgamesh, and his quest for immortality. Before he begins his quest Gilgamesh is a tyrannical king whose “arrogance has no bounds by day or night. No son is left with his father, for Gilgamesh takes them all, even the children… His lust leaves no virgin to her lover, neither the warrior’s daughter nor wife of the noble…” The beast man Enkidu was sent by the gods to subdue him. Enkidu “ate grass in the hills with the gazelle and lurked with wild beasts at the water holes.” But Gilgamesh uses a woman to subdue Enkidu. Gilgamesh sends a trapper with a harlot from the temple of love out into the forest to wait for Enkidu by a water hole. On the third day Enkidu appeared and the trapper said to the woman: “There he is. Now, woman, make your breasts bare, have no shame, do not delay but welcome his love. Let him see you naked, let him possess your body. When he comes near uncover yourself and lie with him; teach him the savage man, your woman’s art, for when he murmurs love to you the wild beasts that shared his life in the hills will reject him.” The woman laid herself bare before Enkidu and seduced him, making love to him for six days and seven nights. Then when Enkidu tried to go back to the wild beasts “they bolted away.” “when the wild creatures saw him they fled. Enkidu would have followed, but his body was bound as though with a cord, his knees gave way when he started to run his swiftness was gone. And now the wild creatures had all fled away; Enkidu was grown weak, for wisdom was in him, and the thoughts of a man were in his heart. So he returned and sat down at the woman’s feet, and listened intently to what she said, ‘You are wise, Enkidu, and now you have become like a god’… And now she said to Enkidu, ‘When I look at you you have become like a god. Why do you yearn to run wild again with the beasts in the hills? Get up from the ground, the bed of a shepherd.’ He listened to her words with care. It was good advice that she gave. She divided her clothing in two and with one half she clothed him and with the other herself, and holding his hand she led him like a child to the sheepfold, into the shepherds’ tents.”

And so, the man seduced by woman gained the knowledge of the gods, was shunned by the animals and fled from the garden and we have the origin of the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. There were other elements added by the Israelites but this is the basis of the myth.    

Also in the Epic of Gilgamesh we find Utnapishtim, called In Sumerian Ziusudra, pilfered by the Israelites and renamed Noah. Utnapishtim was a favorite of Enki, the god of the waters, magic, and wisdom; and who, along with his consort Ninhursag, fashioned Mankind from clay. In one version of the flood the goddess of the moon, love, and war, Ishtar, The Queen of Heaven, made a complaint about humanity to the gods which has been lost but some think it was over procreation or migration. In response to the complaint, the gods decided to destroy humanity with a great flood. In another version, the god that wanted to destroy Mankind was Enlil, god of the sky, son of the god of Heaven Anu, and brother of Enki who was also called King of the Earth. Anu conceded to let humanity perish in the deluge but Enki intervened. He loved his creation and so secretly warned Utnapishtim from behind a reed screen about the coming disaster. Enki instructed Utnapishtim to build a great boat, with instructions and dimensions, and when the time came to fill the boat with his wife, family and animals. And thus the myth of Noah and the flood. While it is true that there are accounts of a great deluge found all around the world in ancient texts, the result of the end of the last Ice Age (c. 1100 BCE), the particulars of the Hebrew account are clearly of Sumerian origin. 

Next we have the alleged author of the Torah, Moses himself.  And who, like the bulk  of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim fairy tales, never existed, save in the minds and writings of the Levite priests during the Captivity. King Sargon of Akkad, who came to be known as Sargon the Great, was the real and proven founder of the Akkadian Empire, the first empire in Mesopotamia around 2334 BCE. But as with many great men and heroes of the past, not so proven legends arose around his origins. They stressed  that he rose from obscurity to become a famous, powerful king. While the legends all tend to describe him as starting with nothing and rising to the top by his own wits, there are many variations and one in particular that may sound very familiar. It describes his background as descended from a high priestess and an anonymous father. Sargon’s mother hid her pregnancy and his birth. And rather than killing the child she sought to give it a fighting chance by placing him in a wicker basket and sending him away on the Euphrates river, where he was discovered by Aqqi, a water-drawer and a member of the Sumerian royal family. He was then raised in the royal court as one of their own. Substitute “high priestess” with “Hebrew slave,” “Euphrates” with “Nile,” and “Sumerian royal family” with “Egyptian royal family” and you have the origins story of Moses which supposedly transpired thousands of miles away in Egypt and centuries later: “Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river. And her maidens walked along the riverside; and when she saw the ark (of bulrushes) among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it. And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, ‘This is one of the Hebrews’ children’” (Exodus 2:5-6. NKJV).

Then there is the history of the Israelites themselves. The history of the ancient Hebrews as told in textbooks is primarily derived from the Hebrew scriptures which as we know were falsified. Textbook author Charlotte Miller says this about it, “Much debate exists amongst scholars about the sources used to reconstruct the history of the Israelites with much debate revolving around the use and interpretation of religious texts, particularly the Hebrew Scriptures. Right now, scholars rely fairly heavily on the Hebrew Scriptures to discuss periods before about 1200 BCE because other sources just do not exist. Some main points of contention have centered on dates, the purpose of religious texts, the reality that the Hebrew Scriptures were written centuries after the events they described, and the relationship between the scriptures and historical fact. Additionally, there has been back and forth discussion about whether archaeological finds confirm or disprove the narrative in the religious texts. These heated debates have led some scholars to question whether it is even possible to write a history of the ancient Israelites” (Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilization).

A  simple logical  syllogism can now be formulated based on the available information that we now have before us in order to create a deductive argument that is logically sound. In logic a syllogism is a formal argument consisting of two premises and a conclusion –  If A then  B therefore C –  which must be true if the two statements are true. With this knowledge we can construct our argument thus : ¹The Hebrew Scriptures are mutilated and manipulated copies of Sumerian originals; ²The religions of the “People of the Book” are derived from the Hebrew Scriptures; ³Therefore, the religions of the “People of the Book”are derived from mutilated  and manipulated copies of Sumerian originals. And we now have a valid argument. ^.  

And lastly I will mention the two creation stories in the Book of Genesis. The first creation story (Genesis 1-2:3) ends with God resting from his work on the seventh day after creating Adam and Eve, then a second version is spliced to it (Genesis 2:4-3:24) In which Eve is then created from Adam’s rib and it starts: “This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created…”

 “Biblical scholars believe that the first creation story in the Book of Genesis (Genesis 1-2:3) was written by Israelite priests during the Babylonian exile, after they had heard other creation myths on the same grand scale. The second Genesis story (2:4-3:24) is attributed to a biblical author called Jahwist, who typically wrote with drama and economy. This second creation story focuses on Adam and Eve, and how God forbid them, without explanation, from eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge” (Phillip E. Bishop, Adventures in the Human Spirit, 7th ed.).

And then there is Allah, the terror of Islam and another guise of the idiot god. The Quran is one of the most repetitive books ever written. For the believers; Paradise where rivers flow; for the disbelievers: Eternal Hellfire. But I suppose that you cannot expect too much from an ignorant desert dweller who could not spell his own name. Three verses in Surah 14 relate the whole of the Quran, they are all on the same page and nearly on every other page. Read this one page and you have read the Quran, then you  may dispose of it: “Before  him (the unbeliever/infidel) is Hell, and he will be given a drink of purulent water. He will gulp it but will hardly be able to swallow it. And death will come to him from everywhere, but he is not to die. And before him is a massive punishment” (14:16-17); “Have you not seen that Allah created the heavens and the earth in truth? If He wills, He can do away with you and produce a new creature” (14:19); “And those who believed and did righteous deeds will be admitted to gardens beneath which rivers flow, and abiding eternally therein by permission of their Lord; and their greeting wherein will be Peace” (14:23). You have now read the Quran which any fool with even a modicum  of knowledge of the “Old Testament” could have written. You may now use its pages to line the bottom of your bird’s cage or burn it along with the Torah and the “Gospels” as they once burned the books of ancient science. 

Moreover, the Quran’s stories of the “prophets” are complete fabrications.  Nowhere in the Torah or the writings of Flavius Josephus is the childhood of Abraham recorded, yet we have not only his childhood but even his thoughts in the Quran. It purports that his father “Tarikh” (Hebrew, Terah) was a maker of idols and one day little Ibrahim was straddling a statue of Marduk (god of Babylon) infuriating Tarikh. Ibrahim says, “What is this statue father? It has big ears, bigger than yours.” To which Tarikh replies, “It is Mardukh, the god of gods son! These big ears show his deep knowledge.” This makes Ibrahim laugh, he was seven years old. They will ask you to ignore the fact that the fabrication was written two thousand years after the time of Abraham.

Then there is the well ZamZam beneath the “Holy Ka’aba,” south of Medina. Muslims claim that this is the well revealed to the Egyptian slave Hagar, mother of Ishmael, by an angel of God while she despaired of thirst and abandoned the child in a thrush in Genesis chapter 21. Nevermind that Abraham sent Hagar and Ishmael off with one bottle of water and some bread into the wilderness of Beer-Sheba in southern Palestine which is thousands of miles north of the Ka’aba and its well. The Quran and its commentators such as Ibn Abbas state that Abraham traveled for many days south into the Arabian peninsula with Hagar and Ishamel abandoning them near Mecca at the command of Allah, and thence the angel revealed ZamZam to Hagar whilst Abraham prayed facing the Ka’aba. This refutes the Genesis narrative though the Quran says that the Torah was divinely inspired, and I think it safe to say that Abraham never laid eyes on Mecca let alone dumped Hagar and Ishmael off there.

Another children’s story: “And surely, We created man from dry ringing clay, from black mud wrought into shape. And the Jinn We had created before from the fire and  the wind. And remember when thy Lord said to the angels, ‘I am about to create man from dry ringing clay, from black mud wrought into shape; so when I have fashioned him in perfection and have breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in submission to him.’  So the angels submitted except Iblis (Satan); he refused to be among those who submit. God said, ‘O Iblis, what is the matter with thee that thou wouldst not be among those who submit?’ He answered, ‘I am not going to submit to man whom thou hast created from dry ringing clay, from black mud wrought into shape.’ God said, ‘Then get out hence, for, surely, thou art rejected.  And, surely, on thee shall be My curse till the Day of Judgement.’ He said, ‘My Lord, then grant me respite till the day when they shall be raised.’ God said, ‘Thou art of those that are granted respite, till the day of the appointed time.’ He answered, ‘My Lord, since thou hast adjudged me as lost, I will surely make evil appear beautiful to them on the earth, and I will surely lead them all astray, except thy chosen servants from among them.’ God said,’This is a path leading straight to Me. Surely, thou shalt have no power over My servants, except such of the erring ones as choose to follow thee. And surely, Hell is the promised place for them all.’” (Surah 15:26-43). And thus the creation of Mankind and the origin of Evil. A Mbuti Pygmy could have come up with a more eloquent myth.