'In summary... it can be said that the beliefs
of the Hebrews would have been influenced considerably by pagan religions, not just from time to time, but continuously over the course of several thousand years. We should not be surprised therefore, if we find
elements of these pagan exploded planet cults finding their way into the various scriptures of the Old Testament.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 214)'we see in the Old Testament a totally new perspective on the
divine-human interface... But what if this whole scenario were nothing but a sham and a con?'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 218)
'... the real beginning was left out of the book of Genesis entirely...'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 212)
'The biblical story of Adam and Eve claims that God created Adam from clay, and later created Eve from the rib of Adam. But this turns out to be a blatant lie when the story is
compared to that of earlier Mesopotamian texts.'
(When The Gods Came Down caption to Plate 22)
'In the original story, Eve was not taken from Adam, but Adam was taken from Eve... the 'rib' was originally an epithet
for Adam, who came down from the heavens and entered the womb of Mother Earth (Eve).'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 231)
'As usual, Mother Earth conceived, and gave birth from her womb to the first 'man'. Thus 'man'
came out of 'Woman', so to speak.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 232)
'In summary, there is strong evidence to suggest that the Hebrew priests borrowed the story of Adam and Eve from older pagan legends, but twisted
it through 180 degrees to suit their own political and theological ends.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 233)
'The origin of Adam from Eve (Mother Earth) was twisted 180 degrees to make Eve come out of Adam (this
amounts to a blatant lie).'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 247)
'to acknowledge the true story would have been to acknowledge a deity - Mother Earth - with powers rivalling those of God himself.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 249)
'The true location of the Garden of Eden was also occulted behind a series of ambiguous and misleading statements.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 247)
'In summary, then, there were
two Edens, or two 'gardens' of Eden, and two separate expulsions of man. Adam was moved firstly from the heavens into the underworld, and secondly from the underworld onto the surface of the Earth.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 237)
'The original sin of mankind was not therefore really committed by mankind at all, but rather by the seed of mankind.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 312)
'the 'original sin' of mankind occurred in the heavens...'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 309)
'It is comforting to discover that the Flood was of the very same nature as all the other Great Floods of ancient Near
Eastern tradition, i.e. it came from a heavenly source.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 239)
'The true meaning of the Noah's Ark story is part of the mysteries revealed in my book 'When The Gods Came Down'.'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'Ancient Astronauts', March 2000)
'The biblical reference to the people of Babel 'making a name for themselves' by building a tower is entirely consistent with the Egyptian objective of establishing a
'name' for themselves in the Neter-Khert by building a pyramid.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 379)
'The building of the Tower of Babel was not a historic event... but a mythical event from the beginning of time.
The myth of Yahweh destroying the Tower of Babel reflects the denial of the afterlife by the Hebrew priesthood.'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'Ancient Astronauts', March 2000)
'Abraham was himself a celestial god within the
much-occulted Hebrew version of the exploded planet cult. Hence Abraham was known as an 'Ibri' - one of those who 'crossed over' from Heaven to Earth.'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'Ancient Astronauts', March 2000)
'I am now
firmly of the opinion that the various legends of the patriarchs do not belong in sequential order, but represent alternative, parallel accounts of the Hebrew creation. Moreover, I am certain that the patriarchs were
not human beings but mythical gods.'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'Ancient Astronauts', March 2000)
'As noted in 'When The Gods Came Down' [p. 448], the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were mythical cities of the underworld,
hence the idea that they now lie beneath the waters of the Dead Sea... the biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah is a mythical story based on the usual archetype of celestial catastrophism.'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'Ancient Astronauts', March 2000)
'can we really be sure that the original Moses was a real flesh-and-blood man, who took a real flesh-and-blood people across a real sea to a real mountain?'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 254)
'Was Israel enslaved from the moment of its creation in a mythical subterranean world?'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 259)
'The real promised land was not in Canaan at all. It was in Heaven.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 269)
'we revisited a number of biblical legends... and we came to some shocking conclusions. In every case - every
case without exception - we discovered that the Bible was not telling the whole truth, but, on the contrary, was muddling along with a series of half-truths or outright lies.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 246)
'It
is no exaggeration to say that never before in the history of religion had man actually set down in writing such a package of half-truths and outright lies.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 358)
'I do not wish to
criticise the Bible in any way. Perhaps it is better to criticise ourselves for being so naive as to think that the Hebrew priests would actually have exposed their priestly secrets in writing for all to see. That has
never been the way of the world...'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 247)
'All in all... the Hebrew priests had some very understandable reasons for telling the Israelites a mixture of lies and half-truths about a
religious heritage which they had once shared with all the pagan peoples of the ancient world.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 249)
'In fairness to biblical scholars... it should be pointed out that they have not had
the benefit of understanding the pagan cosmogonies.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 224)
