Our Most Probable Beginnings
( A rationalisation ).
The Mediation of angelic Intelligences in Creation.
This Article presupposes the existence of a self-subsistent, ultimate and absolute reality Who is a self-subsistent, living, intelligent, spiritual generator of ultimate, absolute living energy that is transfomable in all the known and yet unknown forms of energy ( spiritual, biological, material, etc. etc. ) we, the intelligent beings in Creation are dependent on and subjected to.
The three people of the Book( i.e., Hebrews, Christians and Mohammedans ) and a few others ( i.e., Buddhists, etc. ), believe in the existence of Angels, Demons being Angels who rebelled to God from pride, i.e., wishing to be like God, or superior to some other Angel or group of Angels.
Christians in particular believe in the existence of the human soul who is also a spiritual, intellectual substance. Perhaps there is a way that a human soul and an Angel are similar, except that a human soul can form a dedicated link with a human body becoming a human person. The word integrated would be assuming too much as we do not know much of how spirit and matter may be linked together. In the case of Jesus of Nazareth we the Trinitarians invoke the homeostatic unity in Jesus of his two natures, the divine and the human, without admixture........................etc..
An Angel cannot do this, although able to appear as a human being. Christians also believe in the existence of the Word, a spiritual being, a divine person, co-substantial with God and incarnated in the Son in an homeostatic unity with his human nature, as the Holy Spirit. Unlike the Moslems and the Hebrews who make bushes and asses speak for God, as if God needed a human or animal mouth or a mouth of some sort ( Angels only use these or anything else in Creation in order to attract and focus human attention onto themselves ), we believe that God speaks through the Word who is a spiritual person, co-substantial with the Father and the Spirit. For example's sake, if God needed an arm without the mediation of an Angel, outside the supervision of the Word v( God's Executive in Creation ), God would generate a spiritual person called The Arm who would do everything a human arm can do in a divine way. However, God is not so primitive and imperfect or impotent or limited as the Moslems and Hebrews believe in their retrograde thick skulls, that God needs animals, bits and pieces of body or body's functions to express God.
Christians in particular believe in the existence of the human soul who is also a spiritual, intellectual substance. Perhaps there is a way that a human soul and an Angel are similar, except that a human soul can form a dedicated link with a human body becoming a human person. The word integrated would be assuming too much as we do not know much of how spirit and matter may be linked together. In the case of Jesus of Nazareth we the Trinitarians invoke the homeostatic unity in Jesus of his two natures, the divine and the human, without admixture........................etc..
An Angel cannot do this, although able to appear as a human being. Christians also believe in the existence of the Word, a spiritual being, a divine person, co-substantial with God and incarnated in the Son in an homeostatic unity with his human nature, as the Holy Spirit. Unlike the Moslems and the Hebrews who make bushes and asses speak for God, as if God needed a human or animal mouth or a mouth of some sort ( Angels only use these or anything else in Creation in order to attract and focus human attention onto themselves ), we believe that God speaks through the Word who is a spiritual person, co-substantial with the Father and the Spirit. For example's sake, if God needed an arm without the mediation of an Angel, outside the supervision of the Word v( God's Executive in Creation ), God would generate a spiritual person called The Arm who would do everything a human arm can do in a divine way. However, God is not so primitive and imperfect or impotent or limited as the Moslems and Hebrews believe in their retrograde thick skulls, that God needs animals, bits and pieces of body or body's functions to express God.
God is Omnipotent and the right type of Christian does not seek to limit God, while remaining within the realm of human reason.
St. Thomas of Aquina was in fact a Master of Logic and an interpreter of Aristotle, who first among the post-Socratics believed in the worth of matter and reason, in alliance with spirit and soul.
So, whenever a Moslem or a Jew insults us and God saying that we say that God is many gods, they are drawing fire on their own heads as we do not say such a thing at all, however humanly failing to express the loftiness of the issue owing to our imperfect power of speech and thinking that is syllogistic, that is..............sequential. We are in fact all slaves of the syllogism, even our Computers.
And History has been proving just this oh foolish Wahabists of Mecca.
When our Scriptures talk about Jesus sitting at the right hand of the Father this is not to be interpreted literally. Any western school-student knows this, if he/she is not a cleavage- worshipper, i.e., a Pinocchio.
The Holy Trinity can only be inadequately represented by Art, as neither the Father nor the Son nor the Holy Spirit have a human body but are spiritual or like Jesus who has also a glorified body.
The Son is both the Word and the man Jesus of Nazareth who can assume at will an ethereal, visible, glorified human appearance outside the Holy Trinity.
So, what are you waffling about foolish Rabbis, Imams, Meuzzins, Sheriffs, Khaliffs, Ayatollahs, etc., etc.?
We know what we say, you do not understand what we say because of your malice and lust for independent, undeserved leadership and dominance, the sin of the primordial all-others-excluding self-seeker, the idolater of exclusivity and preferential preferment.
We also believe that the Word incarnated in the man Jesus of Nazareth who was born from Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. And this even Mohammed the great islamic reformer concurs with. I am mentioning all these beliefs and Beings in order to show that the interactions between spirit and matter are severall and multifaceted in the church’s tradition. Those who choose to not accept these beliefs and refer to these as foolishness are the real fools since they cannot come up with anything to replace them except a Big Bang Theory which leaves one with a vast darkness, emptiness, void, etc. etc. a big arabic zero in short and a dozen or more boards full of formulae which only show an elephant like memory of a digital type ( the sort computers have ) without any substance or conclusion and the waste of billions of taxpayers’ dollars. On the other hand, Hebrews/Jews have remained intellectually static, a religious fossil, anchored to Jehovah the Father and Creator, who may be a human anscestor of Jesus in whom also the Word became incarnated, to the neglect of the more original Holy Spirit. Similarly, and incompletely so, the Mohammedans have embraced the Holy Spirit as Allah, neglecting both the Father and Jesus as mediators between Spirit and humanity.
Where is all the cleverness of that, hey?
According to St.Thomas Aquina, known in the Middle Ages as Doctor Angelicus et Communis, Angels and Demons are in fact spiritual beings having purely intellectual substances ( See Summa Theologiae I, Treatise on the Angels. Questions 50-64). Angels can sin and incur all the range of guilts a human being can, when and if a human being in their care sins owing to their wrong counsel, or neglect of duty, while only being able to sin according to their own nature, according to affection, from envy and pride, that is not sensually.
An example particularly useful to what is going to follow, Angels cannot actually marry a woman and procreate from her, however they can be overcome by the sin of pride and envy to desire to become like God, Who can do in principle anything God wishes to do for the purpose of doing good, and in a distorted attempt to emulate God may counsel a human being in their care to actually take possession of a woman, perhaps against some existing legal or moral impediment and to do similarly other sinful acts. Angels can manipulate nature and cause a woman to procreate by manipulating scenarios and events. Angels can be behind the latest feats of genetic manipulations as spiritual forces manipulating human beings. Although not induced to sin through any natural affection, they share in the guilt accruing from the sin of the human being for whom they are responsible. A Guardian Angel is in fact part of the structures of Grace God devotes to the enlightenment, prevention, support and supervision of every human being so privileged and endowed by God at Baptism.
According to St.Thomas, there is no limit to the number and specialisations of Angels God creates. As a matter of fact, in general, no two Angels are necessarily the same.
I remember a very important prayer to the Guardian Angel I was taught as a child which I am reproducing here slightly modified in order to help me and the reader to focus on what I am saying-:
"Angels of God who are the guardians of the living and the dead, enlighten, guard, support and supervise those who have been entrusted to you by the Heavenly Piety. Amen!".
God the Father and Creator also uses Angels in order to Create and to direct and supervise human beings from whom God wishes to obtain some specific performance.
An Angel or a group of these can act together as intellectual substances by becoming part of any created substance or creature in order to achieve some particular end, i.e., by directing and supervising the development of such a substance or creature in accordance to some preordained plan or purpose in accordance with a planned or preordained path of evolution.
I believe that, as shown by Science, God works in Creation through evolutionary paths, experimentally, through trials and errors, by creating prototypes, trying these and modifying, correcting, improving, etc. and rarely in a direct way, to achieve a final product. I believe with Sir Laurence Gardner that the Genesis section of our Hebrew Scriptures has been over simplified, manipulated by its redactors in between 800 and 600 BC, with regard to the appearance of Adam and Eve in relation to the occurrence of the Flood, the responsibility about and occurrence of Original Sin, if any such ever occurred at all, and has given a false expectation about God’s creative powers and methods of creating. God does in fact not work in a direct and final way ( although God is Omnipotent and can theoretically do so), but in an experimental and gradual way in logical stages according to reason and scientific methodology. I shall attempt to speculate about the motives behind the hebrew manipulations of the Scriptures as mentioned by Sir Laurence Gardner in Genesis of the Holy Grail Kings and draw my own conclusions as to the effects of these manipulations in relation to present Christianity and to the political scenario of the western world and civilisation.
Most importantly, I believe Creation is a vast work fully involving all of God’s powers, which are infinite, in other words a vast work commensurate to God’s powers, dignity and greatness.
Creation is in fact not an accident ( i.e., a random event ) or a trivial game or a sporting engagement; it is mighty, difficult, serious, important work for God, according to a plan that requires experimentation, trials and errors, owing to it being commensurate to God’s powers, therefore engaging God to God’s infinite limits ( so to speak)!
This is so especially since human beings and Angels have been created with a free-will capable to oppose, resist and rebel against God, Who is aiming at infinite perfection.
This is amply demonstrated by the study of geological time, palaeontology, the appearance, evolution and above all and most importantly the extinctions of some of these species, of the various species of hominoids and human beings. etc.. We are in fact told by what is visible of the geological strata of the earth that the earth’s crust has required at least 4,600 million years to reach the present condition and that changes of this are continuous, if in general deceivingly slow in comparison to the relative and comparative short span of a human being’s life.
The Big Bang itself which must have needed an organiser of the whole show and the generator of the initial spark, facts strangely glossed over by our brilliant human mnemonical-elephantoids with Doctorates, may have occurred from between 20 to 10 thousand millions years ago!
And remember that without a Big Bang no human being could appear either.
Just consider as an example the peculiar comment about God’s existence, made by Sir Laurence Gardner, who is supposed to be a vastly intelligent scientist, an expert in Quantum Mechanics and Physics, and the head of the Celtic Church, of the Templar organisation, etc. etc., at page 95 of his book Genesis of the Holy Grail Kings, where he suggests that the Anunnaki or Nephilim may exist on an unseen planet beyond Pluto’s orbit, or in an extra dimension of warped time, etc., and I quote-:.....................................................................................................................................
and the origin of the Anunnaki must, for the time being, remain a matter of conjecture. In general terms, however, it is all rather less perplexing than the Judaeo-Christian concept of a single, unidentifiable entity who is perceived as having no source of origin whatever [God].
At page 64 of GHGK, Gardner makes a similar comment about the Angels as not having any spiritual or ethereal nature, however being able to benefit from some renewable gift of immortality assignable by an undefined or unspecified leader.
However even considering Gardner’s biased conclusions one cannot totally dismiss his concerns and information, as my own concerns, doubts and feelings of uneaseness have occurred during my theological studies of Genesis, long before reading Gardner..
Even our present specie of Homo sapiens sapiens sapiens ( most appropriately called by Gardner the Adamitic specie) is continuously evolving and a humble and honest study of the history of morality and ethics, made by somebody who is not a sycophant and a member of Homo pinocchius, the present stage of its development, may be pointing to a rapid degeneration and decadence of this specie, unless God intervenes again.
Who knows if, perhaps God’s plan is increasingly becoming to eventually blot us out as a failure, as God has done repeatedly in the past, and begin again with some new prototype?
But let us go back to our beginnings.
As I have mentioned in the first section of this Article, Geological, Climatic Scenarios & the Rise of Humankind, the first hominids (hominoids) began to appear in comparatively recent times, only 7 millions years ago, until the appearance at about 3.8 millions years ago of the Australopithecus species in its african( Afariensis) and asian variations ( Asiaticus or perhaps Java) who were allowed to evolve until either merged into the Cro-Magnon, estinguished or, and I am saying this only intuititvely, surviving in comparative purity in Papua New Guinea and the Australian Continent (i.e., the australian aborigenes).
The appearance of the Cro-Magnon, in circa 35,000 B.C., probably of the 'R' Y-DNA Haplogroup, hence a genetically very late mutation of the biological Adam who appeared as 'A' about 65,000 B.C. on the northern shores of Lake Victoria in Africa, is itself a mystery that may point to human survivors of a previous Global Warming, who went through a relatively short Glacial Era, the last one. The existence of the Cro-Magnon is an estblishee fact and their strong, massive, well formed skeletons are available as I have seen two specimen in the Crypt of the Church of St. Ambrose in Milan-Italy.
One must not forget to mention, for completenes' sake Homo abilis who appeared only 2 millions years ago, Homo erectus 1 million years ago, all either being absorbed by further prototypes or becoming extinct, like the case of the Neanderthal, whenever not genetically suitable or compatible with the existing plan. The Neanderthal is in fact a particular case we know about which appeared 70,000 years ago, which became extinct The appearance of the Cro-Magnon, in circa 35,000 B.C., probably of the 'R' Y-DNA Haplogroup, hence a genetically very late mutation of the biological Adam who appeared as 'A' about 65,000 B.C. on the northern shores of Lake Victoria in Africa, is itself a mystery that may point to human survivors of a previous Global Warming, who went through a relatively short Glacial Era, the last one. The existence of the Cro-Magnon is an estblishee fact and their strong, massive, well formed skeletons are available as I have seen two specimen in the Crypt of the Church of St. Ambrose in Milan-Italy.
( to be continued )
