Occupational blindness occurs everywhere, and not only in scientific circles, once disturbing new knowledge is deliberately disregarded. The ‘experts’ prefer to snatch at the most absurd explanations rather than pay the least attention to anything new, so that they can go on contemplating their own navels in the shrine of inherited knowledge. 2,500 years ago, the gods said to our ancestor, the prophet Ezekiel: ‘Thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not.’ Today they would certainly add: ‘They have reason, and use it not!’
Now to point 2. I never wrote that our ancestors were stupid and incapable of erecting prehistoric buildings. I never said that extraterrestrials built megalithic temples or pyramids, or drew the pictures on the plains of Nazca. Those are malicious assertions by my prejudiced opponents.
However, I do support the view that the reason and motive for the construction of some mysterious buildings can be traced back to extraterrestrial beings or that our ancestors used building techniques in which they were instructed by the ‘gods’. There are good grounds for my assumption. How else can one explain the identical masterpieces visible all over the world? According to contemporary doctrine, the various early cultures developed quite independently of one another—on Easter Island and in Brittany, among the pre-Incas or the inhabitants of Great Britain (Stonehenge). Or anywhere else you care to mention. Yet that cannot have been the case.
When I see stonework on Easter Island that exactly resembles the stonework above Sacsayhuaman (Peru) and when I find the same ‘manufacture’ in Malta, Catal Hüyük (Turkey) and at Baalbek (Lebanon), the question insistently arises: where was the international school of stonemasonry which sent mastermasons all over the world to use the same building technique? After all, there was no organised communication by plane or ship, no magazine called Megalithic Building Today.
My simple assumption.
If our ancestors piled up gigantic monoliths to form temples and pyramids all over the world, without knowing about one another, there must have been a common motive for this prodigious slave labour.
When the prophet Enoch dishes up several pages of astronomical titbits (the meaning of which he cannot possibly have understood in his day) and also claims that they were all dictated to him by the watchers of the heavens, it must be admissible to ask who these watchers of the heavens really were.
Even if such traditions about what our past was like leave questions to answer, I still do not call our ancestors stupid. On the contrary, I think they were highly intelligent. They adapted themselves to progress, which is more than I can say about some critics of my theory.
When scholars speculate about the IQ’s of our ancestors, the claim that experiments have shown that monkeys, especially chimpanzees, possess creative intelligence, keeps on cropping up. In a series of experiments monkeys have been trained to press special buttons to get to their food and water, to turn on the light or to use a switch to open the communicating door to the next cage.
On October 11, 1978, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported:
‘A city for 10,000 monkeys is now being built near Adler on the Black Sea. The monkeys belong to the Scientific Research Institute for Experimental Pathology and Therapy. As the Moscow weekly Nedelya reported, architect Vadim Adamovich’s plan envisages a laboratory and the huts necessary to house the animals, on a site of more than 84 hectares. Each hut will have running water, a bamboo bed and be in daylight. The walls will be painted in epoxyd colours. Each hut will have its own open-air enclosure. According to Nedelya,there has never been such a large enclosure for monkeys. A kind of fence of spiked iron arches will separate the monkey city from the rest of the world.’49
If we receive a report on this project in a few years’ time, we shall learn to our astonishment that our charming ancestors have acquired a certain limited intelligence. That they carry on like human beings in their bamboo marriage beds, that they no longer eat bananas with their hands, but cut them up and put them in their mouths with a knife and fork, that they use the WC most hygienically and communicate from cage to cage by telephone.
The Schweitzer Illustrierte describes the laborious training needed to make monkeys house-trained.50
Coco, a female gorilla, was born in San Francisco Zoo on July 4, 1971. A young lady called Penny Patterson took Coco over and after seven years of round the clock communal life taught her 350 words with which she can now make her wishes known. Teacher Penny first learnt the deaf and dumb language so that she could communicate with Coco. Now, after seven years, Coco uses the signs. Recently Coco was given a partner, a male gorilla called Michael. It remains to be seen if the children will inherit their mother’s intelligence or whether Miss Patterson will have to take them to kindergarten again. After all, she only trained one monkey; she did not change the whole tribe!
The intelligence of chimpanzees cannot be advanced very far. There is a Monkey School51 with a Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Programme on a Senegalese game reserve. Since 1968, Stella Brewer has been taking in chimpanzees which have lost their parents or fallen under human influence in zoos or circuses and teaching them what they need to know to live and survive in the freedom of the jungle. Back to nature—after human instruction!
So monkeys acquire a little intelligence through human effort and teaching. Man teaches them to press certain buttons, to say words, to understand signs and how to live in their own environment.
None of this occurred to the monkeys of their own accord. We human beings were their teachers. If these trained chimpanzees and gorillas should reach a certain independence in a few generations, if they could speak even halfway ‘rationally’ and so develop a sort of civilisation, we human beings would have played the role of ‘gods’ in their existence. We handed on knowledge, we gave them the foundations on which they developed. From the point of view of ‘thinking’ apes we had the intelligence and power. So in my view the experiments prove exactly the opposite of what their initiators had in mind. It was not proved that apes were independent from time immemorial, but rather that they could become so with outside help!
I leave it to my readers to draw their own conclusions from this excursion into the beginnings of human intelligence. Who were our teachers?
Finally, point 3. Is the gods=astronauts theory dangerous? Can it ‘seduce’ people into waiting idly for life to go by, into hoping that extraterrestrials will solve their problems? That is the most narrow-minded of all insinuations! Anyone who supports this lie should attack the representatives of established religions which promise ‘help from above’. What about this consoling thought: ‘The Lord will provide?’ What do children learn at the Sunday Schools of the major religious groups and sects? ‘Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’ ‘Man proposes and God disposes.’ ‘Ask and it shall be given unto you.’ ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.’
The danger of denying fate, of underestimating one’s own powers or leaving decisions to some ill-defined being, has no part in the gods=astronauts theory, quite apart from the fact that it is not, nor does it set out to be, a doctrine of salvation. And yet I claim that the extraterrestrials will return!
Christians await the return of the Lord. In the Gospel it says that he will come with great power and glory to sit in the clouds and judge.
This hope of return existed over 2000 years ago when Jesus was among the Jews, who had long been awaiting their Messiah. They did not recognise Jesus as their saviour.
In the Old Testament there are figures like the antediluvian prophet Enoch who disappeared for ever with the watchers of the heavens or his colleague Elijah of whom it is said that he vanished into the clouds in a fiery chariot. According to traditional teaching, Enoch and Elijah should return to die here.
Before he took off into the cosmos, Bep-Kororoti promised to return one day. He was the ‘warrior from space’ of the Kayapo Indians on the Rio Fresco in Brazil and they worshipped him as a god. The Kachina, gods of the Red In
dian Hopi in Arizona, also promised to return when they said goodbye.
When the white conquerers (1542/25) visited the Inca empire they were greeted joyfully on landing, because tradition promised that the gods would come back. In their religious innocence, the Incas mistook the Spanish hordes under the gold-crazy Francisco Pizarro for their homecoming gods. The Aztecs in Central America made the same mistake. When Hernando Cortez besieged Tenochtitlan, then the biggest city in America, in 1519, its capture was made much easier because the Aztecs thought the conquistador was their long-awaited god. When the navigator James Cook discovered the Hawaiian islands in 1778, the natives took him for their golden-haired god Lono who was returning to his country.
What kind of gods were these who made binding promises of the sort so frequently recorded in ancient traditions? They cannot have been nebulous spirits or imaginary phantoms. They were physical beings who came from heaven and lived among our ancestors—beings so superior that the power of gods was ascribed to them. When they set off heavenwards again, their promise to return was taken as a matter of course.
Was the extraterrestrials’ promise to return a frivolous one? No. They knew the physical law of time dilation, according to which astronauts in spaceships travelling close to the speed of light are subject to a different time from that on earth. They knew perfectly well that only a few years would pass for them in their spaceships, whereas millennia would speed by on earth. The extraterrestrials were able to make a promise to return, because they will fulfill it!
What do the extraterrestrials expect when they return?
A planet on which peoples fight each other to uphold their own stupid dogmas? Easy-going idle men who have neglected, forgotten or misused the ‘divine’ heritage of intelligence? Do the gods expect a planet with an advanced technology, atomic powerstations and spaceships, or a Stone-Age culture with men sharpening arrows by the light of oil lamps in dismal caves? Do they expect a society whose members covet the property of others or a society with a firm moral and ethical foundation which keeps the commandments imposed on it?
Which commandments?
The path and goal of human endeavour are most clearly laid down in the Old Testament:
‘And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish this earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.’ —Genesis 1:28
The task is plain. We are to use our human intelligence to dominate the animal kingdom and ‘subdue’ the earth with all its riches, oxygen, water, minerals, oil, etc., which are at our disposal.
It makes no difference whether we look on the Old Testament God who gave the instruction as some inconceivable omnipotent spiritual being or an extraterrestrial figure: the God or ‘Gods’ were far superior to men. He or they knew what the imperative ‘multiply’ would lead to, namely overpopulation and so to wars for new territories, to a shortage of food and clothing, in short to a state of necessity which could only be overcome by intelligence. That is why they endowed men with the intelligence which enabled them to solve their problems. That is how we should understand the promise contained in this sentence:
‘. . . The people is one . . . and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.’ —Genesis 11:6
And as we possess the intelligence to overcome our problems, we have no reason to sit twiddling our thumbs and waiting for extraterrestrial help!
In the Bible God is spoken of in the singular. Is it an inadmissible trick for me to speak of ‘Gods’?
In the original Hebrew text the plural concept ‘Elohim’ stands for ‘God’. The verb in front of the plural concept is in the singular. For example: ‘And the Gods created men in their own image.’* As the verb is in the singular, the translators changed the plural concept ‘Elohim’ into the singular, too, making it ‘God’. But expert theologians assured me that it would be equally admissible to assimilate the singular schuf (created) to the plural of ‘Elohim’. Then the translation would read: ‘The Gods schufen (German plural of created) men in their own image.’
*The German schuf = created is in the singular, but this, of course, is lost in English.—Translator’s note
How could the ‘Gods’ order men to multiply and subdue the earth when they must have known that the consequences of following out their orders would be disastrous?
The ‘Gods’ left early mankind with clear commandments. If they were kept, there would be an intact smoothly running civilisation with an assured future and a high level of culture. The ten commandments the gods imposed on our ancestors can be found in Exodus 20:2-17, and in Deuteronomy 5:6-21. In translations of the Bible each commandment is preceded by the imperative: ‘Thou shalt not.’ Actually the translation ‘Thou wilt not’ would be equally admissible, for the Hebraic concepts cover both possibilities.
If we consider certain commandments as being inspired by a prophet of the past, they acquire a new aspect throwing light on the future return of the gods.
The first commandment says:
‘Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth underneath, or that is in the water under the earth.’
The extraterrestrials knew perfectly well that they were not omnipotent immortal gods. They, too, probably worshipped the inconceivable something that, for want of a better word, is called ‘god’ in all religions. They also knew that our innocent ancestors took them for ‘gods’, so they tried to make a clear division between themselves and the inconceivable god. To prevent later generations worshipping idols of stone, wood and plastic, they imposed a strict ban on making images of ‘God’. And what happened? Immediately after the extraterrestrials took off into the depths of space, men disregarded the commandment. Every religion in every civilisation made images of the gods and christened them with a variety of names. The only religion which kept the commandment that I know of is Islam, which will not tolerate any kind of divine image.
The fourth commandment says:
‘Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long . . .’
That is surely the only one of the Ten Commandments which is kept by all civilised peoples.
I find the promise of longevity coupled with the commandment interesting because it has a present-day significance. Why should someone who honours his parents live longer? Isn’t this a hint at something which was first confirmed by modern research? Namely that the warmth of the parental home gives the psyche an almost lifelong sense of peace and security, just as—vice versa—a psyche damaged in youth makes a man unhappy. Men with psychological troubles, according to modern research, are more susceptible to cancer. Therefore keeping the commandment promises a longer life expectancy.
Commandments five to eight are simple and clear, and if strictly followed would bring heaven on earth:
Thou shalt not kill!
Thou shalt not commit adultery!
Thou shalt not steal!
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour!
That is really the simple formula for peace and happiness. How wonderful it would have been if men had always followed the intelligent laws of the ‘gods’! A world in which there was no killing on any pretext. No wars, no genocide. The television news which brings us nothing else every day could say something cheerful for a change. Yes, peace really was programmed thousands of years ago.
‘Thou shalt not commit adultery . . .’ I feel that this commandment did not count for much even at the time it was issued. Intoxicated with boundless freedom, people nowadays don’t want to know about it. How much strife and misery would have been avoided, how many tears would not have been shed, if this primordial law brought from another star had been obeyed!
We should have to shout halleluja if the commandment ‘Thou shalt not steal’ had been kept. No locks on the doors, policemen pension
ed off, bags and pockets without fastenings . . . because there is no stealing! But reality has turned a good commandment into an unachievable Utopia.
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