55. Our Most Probable Beginnings

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.

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-:

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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
(   to  be   continued )