'One authority categorically states that
'the modern historian of religions knows that it is impossible to reach the sources of religion'. What a defeatist attitude! I suggest that we have given up the search far too easily.'
(Gods of the New Millennium p. 386).'there must have been some profound meaning, which prompted the most extraordinary and resilient religion in human history. That meaning can perhaps be summed up in two words -
Zep Tepi, the concept of a golden age or 'First Time', to which every [Egyptian] king wished to return upon his death.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 175)
'When I started my investigation into ancient Egypt, I was
positively looking to back up Sitchin's hypothesis. I expected to find lots of references to flesh and blood gods, to rockets, to spacecraft, and an underground space centre, and so on and so forth. But what I actually
found was exactly the opposite. There was little or nothing to support Sitchin's theory, and all the Egyptian gods turned out to be planetary in nature, with specific roles in the battles of the planets, their
explosion, reincarnation and metaphysical resurrections. My preconceptions were entirely overturned.'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'An Interview with Alan Alford', 20th July 1998)
'the secrets of the Pyramid Texts were
revealed when I superimposed upon them a very simple template from the cutting edge of modern astronomical research.'
(Introduction to The Phoenix Solution)
'When I began this investigation [into ancient Egypt], I
had no inkling whatsoever that Van Flandern's exploded planet hypothesis (EPH) would prove to be so important... As my investigation proceeded, and the match between the EPH and the Egyptian texts became increasingly
apparent, this book took on a life of its own, and it is true to say that the finished article bears no relation to what I set out to do.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 399)
'I listened to what the ancient Egyptians
were actually saying, and found myself being forced, against my preconceptions, to go in that particular direction.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 399)
'Some sceptically-minded people will find it difficult to believe
that I, a non-Egyptologist and chartered accountant (God forbid!), have decoded the Pyramid Texts and cracked the mystery of ancient Egypt.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 400)
'As for the questions why me and why now,
the answer can only be an unusual combination of interests in ancient wisdom, astronomy and Egypt, brought to fruition by a fortuitous exposure to Van Flandern's book Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 402)
'In summary, prior to 1993, the EPH could never have been taken seriously as a solution to the mystery of ancient Egypt, but since 1993 the information has been just sitting there
waiting for someone to make the connection. And these connections are only apparent to someone who takes the trouble to embark on a full-time, extensive, open-minded reassessment of ancient Egyptian mythology.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 402)
'For the last 170 years, Egyptologists have assured us that Egyptian religion was a confusing mixture of solar and stellar cults, whereas in reality the Sun and the stars were merely
visible symbols for the invisible - a planet, or rather two planets, which exploded.'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'An Interview with Alan Alford', 20th July 1998)
'I would hope that even the most sceptical of readers would
acknowledge that ancient Egyptian myths were describing events of an inter-planetary nature. The evidence which I have put forward is so expansive, detailed and all-embracing... it consists of every legend, every verse
in every text, and every last scrap of archaeological data which has been squeezed out of Egypt in the last two hundred years.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 372)
'the EPH draws together all of the most fundamental
aspects of Egyptian kingship - the pyramid, the temples, the regalia, mysterious artefacts such as the Benben Stone, and, above all, the rationale behind the afterlife journey to the Duat.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 399)
'In my view, the EPH provides an extraordinary and irresistible solution to the mystery of ancient Egyptian religious beliefs.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 399)
'If the EPH continues to
explain the mysteries of ancient Egyptian religion (which have remained unsolved after more than a century of study), we will have to recognise the EPH as a legitimate and probably unique solution to those mysteries.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 245)
'there is evidence... which suggests a widespread knowledge of the EPH at the fundamental heart of Near Eastern religion in the 5th-6th millennia bc. This knowledge might even be a
lot older, perhaps dating back from the 'current wave' of human cultures to the pre-11000 bc wave, and earlier waves still.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 396)
'Unlike all of the attacks which have been waged on
Egyptology in the past, The Phoenix Solution
encompasses our entire knowledge of ancient Egypt - not just the pyramids, but the whole pyramid complex; not just a few scattered verses from the Book of the Dead, but the entire corpus of Egyptian mythology.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 404)
''The Phoenix Solution' is much bigger than Egyptology. It's already obvious to me that most modern religions, including Christianity, are simply echoes of the exploded planet cult. In
other words, God was a planet which exploded. And the angels of God - his emissaries - were the meteoric fragments which rained down on the Earth. In my next book, I will be emphasising this much more strongly...'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'An Interview with Alan Alford', 20th July 1998)
'I suspect that The Phoenix Solution
is but a small step towards a more enlightened future for all who seek to penetrate the veils of scientific and religious dogma.'
(Introduction to The Phoenix Solution)
'who were the gods? This seal [VA 243]
provides a crucial clue - the Sky is dominated by a celestial body exploding into meteoric fragments.'
(When The Gods Came Down, caption to Plate 16)
'It thus becomes clear that the ancients did not worship the Sun
per se, nor any star per se, nor the Moon per se. It is vitally important that we realise that the Sun did not really die, the stars did not really die, and the Moon did not really die. On the contrary, these 'deaths'
were merely symbolic deaths, which reminded the ancients of what they believed had been a very real, physical death - of the planet which had exploded into physical meteoric fragments.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 107)
'it should be noted that the overall argument contained in these pages amounts to what is known in scholarly circles as a 'controlled study'. This means that it is not just a study of
one ancient religion - which might make it vulnerable to an error of interpretation - but is a study of two quite separate and independent religions. To put it crudely, the Mesopotamian scribes back up what the Egyptian
scribes said, and the Egyptian scribes back up what the Mesopotamian scribes said. This element of control is very important; it increases the reliability of the results disproportionately, and allows the conclusion of
the study to be expressed with a much higher confidence level.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 410)
'at the present time, the exploded planet cult stands alone, in my opinion, as the only bona fide explanation of
ancient mythology.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 411)
'the EPH taps into deeply held beliefs and archetypal symbols which are shared by many diverse peoples of the world... throughout the world, church steeples,
cathedral and temple spires, Buddhist stupas and Muslim mosques, all point upwards to the heavens, just as the pyramids and ziggurats did in ancient times. All of these religious structures symbolise the umbilical cord
which bonds together Heaven-and-Earth. We are constantly surrounded by echoes of the exploded planet cult, but entirely ignorant of it, until now.'
(The Phoenix Solution pp. 417-18)
'over the past five thousand
years we 'dumbed down' our earlier religious beliefs by portraying ex-planets, meteorites and comets in anthropomorphic terms - either as human beings (or human artefacts), or as gods with human-like appearances, or as
a God watching over us with a human-like mind, or as a spirit-like Son of God occupying a real human body.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 372)
'During the course of writing this book, I felt, for the first time in my
life, a stirring feeling, which one might describe as a 'religious' impulse, but in the true sense of the Latin word re-ligare, which literally means 'to bind us back' whence we came. The ancient Egyptian concept
of reversing time and returning metaphysically to the [planetary] body of Nut is extraordinarily profound and inspiring, for it takes us back through a chain of events that directed the evolution of all life on Earth as
we know it today, culminating eventually in the mysterious origins of mankind.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 416)
'It is a mind-blowing thought that our individual destinies - our futures - might lie in the past.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 417)
'If the EPH proves itself to be scientifically beyond reproach, it could, one day, provide just the kind of sound basis which is required for a common worldwide religious philosophy,
which could potentially reunite peoples from all different colours and creeds.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 418)
'The last thing the world needs is another 'false' religion.'
(The Phoenix Solution p. 417)
'The
last thing I want is to create another false religion. The world has got enough of them already.'
(www.eridu.co.uk 'An Interview with Alan Alford', 20th July 1998)
'Within the next decade, space probes will enable
us to assess whether the exploded planet theory is correct or not, and this will afford the opportunity to test our 20th century scientific consensus against the knowledge of astronomers from at least 6,000 years ago. A
most exciting prospect.'
(Article in Atlantis Rising Number 17 p. 59)
'it cannot be proven at the present time whether planets did, or did not, explode in our solar system, and therefore, regrettably, the essential
ethos of ancient religion must be classified, for the moment at least, as a myth.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 408)
