Childlike Faith Childhood’s End

When I finished the show last night, I actually was thinking about the ancient myth of the so called “winged planet.” I was thinking about all of the references I was talking about connecting this powerful “Destroying Planet” with much of the media hype about Star Wars that we will or are exposing ourselves to at this moment.

While I know that Planet X or Nibiru has been used as a doomsday tool or “Death Star” to get us prepared for the inevitable, I realized even if the alleged recent discovery of two planetary candidates yields nothing, which knowing mainstream science – the discovery will be discredited or denied – that Planet X is an excellent metaphor if not a mythology based on truth.

The truth we all have to face that unless we have guardian angels or even custodial aliens looking out for this planet – we will be facing cataclysm eventually. Many religions are hopeful that if we are faithful we will never have to face death.

However, history has shown us that even those with child-like faith will have to face the reality of childhood’s end and beyond our material demise is the ultimate mystery known only by those who have died before you and God himself.

The Sy Fy channel’s television special, “Childhood’s End,” premiered last night. It is based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke. It is also a book I recommended many times on my show, encouraging my listeners to read it.

It is in my opinion the classical cosmic joke about how an alien invasion can mimic a religious event only to reveal the emissaries from above are really the devils we have always feared.

The original short story, which was later expanded into Childhood’s End, was called “Guardian Angel.” The plot of “Guardian Angel” concludes when Karellen, the chief alien Overlord reveals himself to the world—and turns out to look exactly like the Devil.

It looked as if Clarke thought it would be funny and ironic to write a story in which an alien race comes down and helps humans achieve new levels of prosperity and happiness, but it turns out to look exactly like the devils they have feared for thousands of years. In the original short story, these devilish looking aliens had to hurry to get humans to prepare for the Golden Age because the Overlords feared something that would happen in the future – a cataclysmic end to the planet and its inhabitance.

They knew about Armageddon.

When Clarke decided to expand the story into Childhood’s End, he chose to extend the Christian metaphor by introducing new allegorical elements such as the Overmind – a metaphor for “God” or what New Agers call the Christ-like consciousness. As the devil metaphor grew, the Overlords were said to have never achieved the Overmind conversion.

They turned away from the influence of the Overmind. So we see that Karellan is Satan and that he and his demonic subjects help the world build a Utopia. When the Overlords reveal the end of mankind is about to transpire, we see the assimilation of the children into the Overmind. It is a science fiction version of the Rapture.

Clarke creates a religious allegory that is interchangeable with all of the ancient alien theories that are now part of speculative history.

Ancient histories have a coherent story that is told about our planet and how you see these stories, religious or historical they all seem to tell us that there is an apocalypse that we all have to experience, because our ancient ancestors experienced it.

Their ancestors did too – even pre-Adamic civilizations saw the building of the planet by a “great extra-terrestrial” intelligence or a “Universal Monarch” that made the planet a paradise, a Utopian existence that in the end, was blighted by the interference of a chaotic and irreverent adversary that fell out of favor with God and the custodial guardians that took mankind under their wing.

A good metaphor or allegory teaches us many things and if it is successful generates ideas that we have a hard time shaking from our consciousness. Metaphors and mythologies teach us valuable lessons and make us think about things in a more simplistic way.

Some say the mythology is often the milk we drink before we are fed the meat. This can be compared to the child who is nursed, until he is ready to eat like an adolescent or an adult.

Mythologies and metaphor are typically a product of imagination that has within it, simple enduring truths that believe it or not, make us who we are mentally and spiritually. There are many stories we relate to on a personal level because within them are timeless lessons that have been wired into us for some strange reason.

The mythologies about the great Gods from the sky are the most established stories in all cultures. Most of these stories have shaped many religious beliefs and have served to keep mankind in constant wonder about destiny and the future of all.

It can be said that affairs from above have guided and shaped affairs down below.

Planets and stars ruled the destiny of kings and kingdoms. The signs from the sky heralded the arrival of destroying entities and messiahs. The heavens will eventually show us that time is up and that the world has met its final definitive end.

Many religions today are obsessed with what has happened in the past. In fact, all civilizations should have a keen interest in history both ancient and contemporary.

No matter what atheist and agnostics will tell you, one cannot reject the ideas that the stars, the planets and the mover of such celestial bodies took part in creating wonders, thunder’s lightning and cosmic violence.

All histories insist that powerful gods ruled for a time, then as quickly as they came, went back up into heaven leaving behind the promise that if the planet ever needed them, they would return.

Monuments would then be erected to these Gods as beacons for their return – obelisks, pillars, monoliths and steeples have been erected on sacred places to send a signal to whoever is out there that we are hopeful for their return. Each one bears a symbol that some say is a sacred sigil empowered to divide each tribe according to its beliefs and particular God.

Some argue that they are all the same God.

Regardless of the different sects of the world, extra-terrestrial gods are something that mythology indicates were a collective memory. The obsession over the history of these beings is a gesture that keeps us remembering what shaped early civilizations in the first place.

Although we were warned at the time of Moses that God should not be depicted in any graven image, the images of both God and the Devil have been adopted by generations who need iconography that borders on idolatry depicting god in both statues and paintings.

Whether you believe it or not bearded gods, angels with wings and devils with horns have been part of the universal programming since the middle ages. God has always been depicted as majestic and powerful. He had a billowing beard and robes. In some sculptures, God and even his prophets were depicted with horns poking out of their heads. In Christian art of the Middle Ages, Moses is depicted wearing horns and without them; sometimes in glory, as a prophet and precursor of Jesus.

Michelangelo’s horned Moses stems from the description of Moses’ face as “cornuta” (“horned”) in the Latin Vulgate translation of the passage from Exodus in which Moses returns to the people after receiving the commandments for the second time An earlier biblical translation stated translates as “And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord.”

The term is now interpreted to mean “shining” or “emitting rays.” Thus the term horned is a metaphor for “glorified.”

However, starting in the 11th and 12th centuries, the social position of Jews, and their depictions in Christian art, became increasingly negative and reached a low point as the Middle Ages ended. Jews became identified with the devil, and were commonly depicted in an evil light, with horns.

Going back to the twelfth century, the devil was depicted with a wide variety of monstrous attributes, indicating that he was unnatural and cursed. Bat wings are one example, and of course, horns and a pointy tail. Earlier, he was seen as light and evolved into a green reptilian creature that was upright with legs and feet. In the Torah, the reptilian creature was there in the Garden of Eden and after he convinced creation to sin, the angels came and amputated his arms and legs.

It has also been reported on many forbidden archaeology websites that numerous skeletons of human creatures, with horns on their skulls or tails or both have been found, usually on giants or dwarfs – some say they probably are all hybrids of the Nephilim.

The Nephilim today have been identified as the ancient aliens or titans that appear in the Bible at the time of Enoch and Noah. It is believed that these extra-terrestrial sons of God came down from heaven to have sexual relations with the women and from this adulterous union came revenant demonic hybrids.

These angels or sons of god were fallen ones that were once in good graces with God but fell from heaven. All angels have been misunderstood over time and with artists depictions of these beings, we tend to see them as tender Cheribim instead of warriors that may have rugged or otherwise frightening countenances.

Throughout the world, beliefs about angels cover a wide spectrum; from one extreme, that they are merely thought forms and move about without detection to another extreme where they do have bodies without souls and are merely agents or soldiers that do the will of their master.

The idea of angels being beautiful with wings is merely an artist’s idea and in most historic and biblical accounts angels have been powerful and their faces have struck fear in mankind. Angels of the past had been described as resembling serpents or animals with large black eyes, with the strength of lions.

In the familiar Christmas passage from Luke we read:

“And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were sore afraid.”

Now, reading only Luke, we see that the shepherds fell to their knees and covered their faces when they saw the angel. The angel told them not to fear for there was great news about a child from God born in Bethlehem.

In many translations of the biblical account, we learn that the angel came down on what is called a flying altar, which is described as a golden bowl. In other translations, the angel arrives in red robes and is seen standing on a gold tetrahedron known as the Merkabah.

A Merkabah is described throughout the Bible as a light that burns like fire above the head of the anointed. The Merkabah and the Golden Bowl or dome has been described elsewhere as the method of travel for angels and other beings from Heaven.

“Then I looked, and above the dome that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in form resembling a throne.” — The Book of Ezekiel.

We can only assume the altar that assumes the shape of pyramids and domes is a type of vehicle for the angels.

When it is seen from the side it appears like a jewel. As it rotates, it becomes a Tetrahedron. It was known anciently as the vehicle in which the spirit of God travels. It can be called the “Chariot of Fire” or the “Angels’ Fire.”

One of the other possible misconceptions about the nativity is that the star of Bethlehem was in fact a star or a comet. The literal translation from the Greek is that a flying altar had led the shepherds and the wise men to the Christ child. A flying altar is far from the story of a star. The star is plain and simply an interpretation.

The star or altar was not stationary in the sky during the time of the nativity and as cited in several scriptures, it appeared before the wise men and moved ahead of them, much like a Merkabah or Chariot of Fire. This scripture will demonstrate that the Star of Bethlehem was a moving light and quite possibly not a star at all:

“When they had heard the king they went their way; and lo, the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the child was.” — Matthew 2:9

The Star of Bethlehem not only moved across the sky but it also moved and stopped as if it were piloted by an intelligent being eventually hovering over the house where the child lived. The scripture (if we are to take it literally) is evidence of this.

The light over Bethlehem hung low in the sky. Low enough that the wise men knew exactly which house the Christ child lived in. This would mean that the star, light, altar or craft, positioned itself right above the house.

Within the modern era, there have been many views on how angels and Gods have interacted with mankind. It also has created a method by which Pope Francis and others have created or at least have tried to mix science and spirituality through a new cosmology and exo-theology.

It is important now to re-envision what we know of angels and how they have somehow lent themselves to being more than religious figures, but figures that veiled though the centuries as heavenly emissaries that share the same attributes as fairies, and even extra-terrestrial entities.

After all, there are plenty of the Christian faithful who believe that an extra-terrestrial invasion will be a great deception and that the aliens that arrive will be accepted as saviors.

It would a cosmic joke to see that they were really demons and all of our faith in them would lead to our ultimate end.

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