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Автор: Howard Barry Schatz
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culture (founded ca. 3000 BCE) that was winding down. The recent arrivals brought a new influx of knowledge and wisdom that became the foundation of Hinduism, as recorded in four “Vedic” Samhitas (Sanskrit: collection): the Rig-Veda, Sama-Veda, Yajur-Veda, and Atharva-Veda. The Vedas greatly influenced Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and in Persia, Zoroastrianism.

      Figure 8 - Aryan "Chariot of the Gods”

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      When considered alongside later Indo-Aryan texts, the Vedic writings are the closest in character to the oldest Aryan tradition, with frequent references to One Supreme God. Vedic monotheism can be traced back to the Sumerian goddess Inanna and her sexual “integration” with the other 6 Sumerian “gods who decree.” The 7th god, Inanna, sexually “integrates” these energies into a Divine Unity. Inanna was later known as: Isis, Ishtar, Venus, Aphrodite, etc.. Inanna’s gradual motion through the skies “unites” the astrological emanations of the Sun’s universal energy. Vedic polytheistic deities began as mortals, but their liberated soul either dwelled in Heaven, or was somewhere in transit between Heaven and Earth. The Vedas are considered Apauruseya (Sanskrit: “unauthored” implying divine origin),” and are considered mantras that were revealed to man through 22 śruti (“what is heard”). Similarly, the only text attributed to Abraham, the Sefer Yetzirah, speaks about 22 Foundation Letters. Both texts are referring to the 22 chromatic tones of the Navel of Order (see Figure 25): an ascending 11-tone scale (Heavenly Fires) and a descending 11-tone scale (Heavenly Waters) describing the ancient Aryan spiral “ladder” that spans Heaven and Earth (Figure 21b). Also, in both texts, the centerline of the circle (the path of Heavenly Winds) depicted in Figure 25 is the World Soul that arises from Vishnu’s Navel as a 7 tone scale. Within the microcosm, we might think of the 22 vibrations of the surrounding circle (mandala) as the torso of the body, while the “Axis Mundi” of 7 vibrations depicts the soul (Figure 47a, b & c).

      Demonizing the Aryans

      Before the world discredited the man who first realized the possibility of an Aryan “master race,” the effort to discredit him drew upon two ancient texts that, in the minds of many, cast the Aryans themselves in a negative light. Those two texts were the Bible and the Book of Enoch. The Book of Genesis states:

      The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took for themselves, whomever they chose... It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim [Hebrew: men of renown] appeared on earth — when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty, who, from old, were men of renown. -- Genesis 6:1-4

      This passage has confounded Church fathers, presumably because it speaks about multiple “sons of God” — a concept that appears to contradict the First Ecumenical Council’s edict that Christ was the only son of God. This passage does, however, make perfect sense if we consider the theory that the “sons of God” were actually the Aryan “gods on the mountain.”

      In an attempt to explain the identity of the “sons of God,” an important Jewish Kabbalistic text called the Zohar, alludes to the great mysteries of the science of religion. It begins with Adam in the Heavenly garden, where God gave him a book written by Raziel, the angel in charge of the holy mysteries. The Zohar states that Adam studied it diligently, learning its sacred mysteries. But, when Adam was banished from the Garden, the book flew out of his hand, and Adam beat his breast and wept. The Zohar (55b) tells us what happened next:

      God thereupon made a sign to Raphael [the archangel] to return to him the book, which he then studied for the rest of his life. Adam left it to his son Seth, who transmitted it in turn to his posterity, and so on until it came to Abraham, who learned from it how to discern the glory of his Master, as has been said. Similarly, Enoch possessed a book through which he learned to discern the divine glory.

      After Adam bequeathed this birthright to his son Seth, Zohar 37b identifies the “posterity of Seth” as “the sons of God”:

      It came into the hands of the ‘sons of God,’ the wise of their generation, and whoever was privileged to peruse it could learn from it supernal wisdom... Tradition further tells us that Enoch also had a book, which came from the same place as the book of generations of Adam. This is the source of the book known as ‘the book of Enoch.’ When God took him [Enoch], He showed him all supernal mysteries, and the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden and its leaves and branches, all of which can be found in the book.

      From a historical perspective, Seth and Enoch would both have been Aryan patriarchs. The Zohar speaks about the Book of Enoch with reverence, although it was never part of the Hebrew or Christian Canons.73 Scholars generally consider it the most significant non-canonized Apocryphal text.74 There are three known versions, usually dated around 300 BCE. It was also part of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered around the Wadi Qumran in 1947. The Book of Enoch was written thousands of years after the Biblical Enoch would have lived, and it can be argued that any text written after Solomon’s Temple was destroyed (586 BCE) must be considered less than authoritative. After that decisive event, prophecy was considered dead. The last High Priest of Solomon’s Temple was considered the last person to understand the “Secret of Knowledge”75 that gave rise to the Biblical prophets.

      Early Church fathers, most notably Origen and Clement of Alexandria, held the Book of Enoch in the highest esteem.76 The introduction to Richard Laurence’s translation of the Book of Enoch states that this book is nothing less than “the Ethiopic key to the evolution of Christianity.” Notes to this edition of Enoch also state that the first mention of “Fallen Angels” was taken by early Christian writers from the Book of Enoch. We should note that the Church did its best to hide this text from the public. Possibly because it speaks of 200 “sons of God” who descended to Mount Armon77 as “Fallen Angels” in order to procreate with mortal women.

      We have described the “sons of God” as Aryan’s like Enoch and Noah, who understood how to purify the body and liberate the soul in order to “walk with God.” In Abrahamic terms, they understood how to “pronounce” the Word of God, YHVH, in order to achieve liberation. The Nephilim offspring of the sons of God simply refers to a continuation of the spiritual Aryan lineage. The most reputable Jewish sources render the Genesis translation as either “men of renown” or “heros of old.” The Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees appear to be attempts at providing the back story for Genesis 6:1-4. From that perspective, the Book of Enoch’s story line decides to cast the Nephilim as evil “Giants,” and their fathers as “Fallen Angels.” So, in order to clarify, we have to dig a bit deeper. The Hebrew suffix “im” is the plural form of the word Nephilim, while the root of the word NPL (ַלָפנ) literally means “to fall.” There are some who might translate the word as those who “cause others to fall.” We might recall that when the Aryan coneheads first left their caves, legend suggests they were very large and robust, especially with their elongated skulls. It is not surprising, therefore, that people were awestruck when encountering these giants, which may help explain how they “caused others to fall.”

      We have already mentioned the translator, Richard Laurence’s belief that the first Christian notion of “fallen angels” was taken from this text. But, it was not the offspring Nephilim who were considered “fallen angels,” it was their fathers. The Book of Enoch usurps the meaning of the root NPL (ַלָפנ) as “to fall” and erroneously applies it to the “sons of God.” Twisting the translation in this manner was intended to cast aspersions on the moral character of the sons of God, who “took wives among the daughters of men.” The Book of Enoch goes a step farther, and borrows a term from the Book of Daniel78 to describe the “sons of God,”the Hebrew word Irin (Watchers), suggesting that the “sons of God” were more than watchers of mankind, they were also lecherous “watchers” of mortal women who gave into temptation and thus became “Fallen Angels,” mating and giving birth to Nephilim “demon” offspring. The Book of Enoch misinterprets both Abrahamic meaning and Aryan history, asking us to believe that the Biblical “sons of God” were avatars,