'As to the question of a Supreme Being, it is not my
intention that intervention by flesh-and-blood gods should detract from anyone's belief in a supernatural divinity whom we might call God with a capital 'G'.'
(Foreword to Gods of the New Millennium)'We are not
supposed to know who or what God is, or where he came from, for God is supposed to be a mysterious and unknowable being. Instead, we are told that the essence of religion is to have faith
in this elusive being, and faith, too, in the Church as the sole intermediary between man and God. Thus we are steered away from the knowledge of origins, and are instead sold faith
as a substitute for it.'
(Preface to When The Gods Came Down)
'Simply put, God had died, but then come back to life again. His act of creation had comprised a death and a rebirth. God himself had experienced a
death and rebirth. And Heaven, too, had experienced a death and rebirth (for God and Heaven basically amounted to one-and-the-same thing). Moreover, the death of God had also involved the death and rebirth of physical
life, which had been transferred from the planet of Heaven to the planet of Earth.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 106)
'The most fundamental archetype of this death and resurrection was of Heaven itself. Heaven - a
planet - had fallen into the Earth, but had then been separated from the Earth and restored metaphysically to the place whence it fell.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 224)
'As we enter the 21st century, however, the
time has come to think the unthinkable. Was the Hebrew God, Yahweh-Elohim, once a physical god, who carried out his creation using physical means?'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 219)
'The hyphenation makes all the
difference: In the beginning, God [Elohim] created Heaven-and-Earth...'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 226)
'the original version of the creation in Genesis - which we might call the alpha-cosmogony - was
succeeded by an occulted version of the creation - which we might call the beta-cosmogony. By dropping the aleph, the Hebrew priests completely changed the meaning of the first line of Genesis. Thus were
the gods (elohim) eclipsed by God (Elohim).'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 228)
'In a masterly stroke of deception, Yahweh's creation of the other gods was occulted from the book of Genesis by removing
the first letter (aleph) of the first line.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 358)
'God's creation of the metaphysical Heaven was concealed behind a clever code-word... as if to deceive the uninitiated.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 246)
'God's creation of the seven heavens was concealed behind a series of coded recitations, again as if to deceive the uninitiated.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 246)
'The true nature
of God's heavenly abode was concealed by presenting it, and him, as an unfathomable mystery.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 246)
'The name El Shaddai... offers us an intriguing insight into the original identity of
the Hebrew God... it can be stated with confidence that the meaning of El Shaddai was either 'God-of-the-Mountains', or 'God-of-the-Mountain-Peaks'.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 327)
'if proponents of the Gaea
hypothesis are correct in their presumption that planets are living beings, and if the life-after-death camp are correct in their philosophy, then it might be supposed that God's life force had survived the catastrophic
death of his body. God would thus have continued to exist, and he would still be in existence today.'
(When The Gods Came Down p. 370)
