|
PART 2
WHAT 'THEY' SEE
January 3, 2013
Nephilim As “Space
Saviors” For Man's Salvation
In our last entry top Vatican Astronomer Guy Consolmagno stated how
contemporary societies may soon “look to The Aliens to be the
Saviours of humankind.” [i]
To illustrate the theological soundness
of this possibility, Consolmago argues that humans are not the only
intelligent beings God created in the universe, and, he says, these
non-human lifeforms are described in the Bible.
He starts by
pointing to angels then surprises us by actually referencing
the Nephilim:
Other heavenly beings come up several times in the Psalms.
For
example, look at the beautiful passage in Psalm 89 that calls out,
“Let the heavens praise your wonders, 0 Lord, your faithfulness in
the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies can be compared
to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord?...
The
heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; the world and all that
is in it -you have founded them.” Likewise, God asks Job (38:7) if
any human can claim to have been around at the creation, “when the
morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for
joy.”
Are these “heavens,” “holy ones,” those “in the sky,” the “morning
stars ... and heavenly beings” more references to angels? Or do they
refer to some other kind of life beyond our knowledge?
…And these are not the only non-human intelligent creatures
mentioned in the Bible. There’s that odd, and mysterious, passage at
the beginning of Genesis, Chapter 6, that describes the “sons of
God” taking human wives. With it is a frustratingly oblique
reference to “The Nephilim ...the heroes that were of old, warriors
of renown .”
Most Biblical scholars suggest that the Nephelim and the Sons of God
in Genesis can be explained away as a left-over reference to the
creation stories of the pagans who surrounded ancient Israel, that
they were written by the kind of people whose culture saw anyone Not
Of My Tribe as being unspeakably alien.
Likewise, the references to
heavens and stars singing and praising the Lord can be seen simply
for the beautiful poetry that it is.
But whether you interpret these creatures as angels or aliens
doesn’t really matter for the sake of our argument here. The point
is that the ancient writers of the Bible, like all ancient peoples,
were perfectly happy with the possibility that other intelligent
beings could exist. [ii]
Read that again, then ask yourself:
Did the Vatican’s top astronomer
actually mean to use the story of the Nephilim from the Bible as an
example of the kind of “space saviors” man could soon look to for
salvation?
This incredible assertion is only topped by what he says
next.
In quoting John 10:16, which says,
“And other sheep I have,
which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall
hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd,”
...Consolmago writes:
“Perhaps it’s not so far-fetched to see the
Second Person of the Trinity, the Word, Who was present “In the
beginning” (John 1: l), coming to lay down His life and take it up
again (John 10: 18) not only as the Son of Man but also as a Child
of other races?” [iii]
-
Do Vatican scholars actually believe Jesus might have been the
Star-Child of an alien race?
-
Does Consolmagno and/or other Jesuits
secretly hold that the “Virgin Birth” was in reality an abduction
scenario in which Mary was impregnated by ET, giving birth to the
hybrid Jesus?
As incredible as that sounds, you should prepare for
the unexpected answer as this series unfolds.
All this would seem impossible theology if not for the fact that
other high ranking Vatican spokespersons - those who routinely study
from the “Star Base” (as local Indians call it) on Mt. Graham - have
been saying the same in recent years.
This includes,
-
Dr. Christopher Corbally, Vice Director for the Vatican Observatory Research Group
on Mt. Graham until 2012, who believes our image of God will have to
change if
disclosure of alien life is soon revealed by scientists
(including the need to evolve from the concept of an
“anthropocentric” God into a “broader entity”), [iv]
-
the current
Vatican Observatory director, Father Josè Funes who has gone equally
far, suggesting that alien life not only exists in the universe and
is “our brother” but will, when manifested, confirm the “true” faith
of Christianity and the dominion of Rome
When the L’Osservatore
Romano newspaper (which publishes nothing that the Vatican doesn’t
approve) asked him what this meant, he replied:
“How can we rule out
that life may have developed elsewhere? Just as we consider earthly
creatures as ‘a brother,’ and ‘sister,’ why should we not talk about
an ‘extraterrestrial brother’? It would still be part of creation”
[v]
and believing in the existence of such is not contradictory to
Catholic doctrine. [vi]
Brother Guy Consolmagno with Pope Benedict XVI
Such statements are but the latest in a string of recent comments by
numerous Vatican astronomers confirming a growing belief (or inside
knowledge?) that disclosure will be made in the near future of alien
life, including intelligent life, and that this encounter will not
challenge the authority of the Roman Catholic Church.
From the 70s through the 90s, it was Monsignor Corrado Balducci - an
exorcist, theologian and member of the Vatican Curia (governing body
at Rome) and friend of the Pope - who went perhaps furthest,
appearing on Italian national television numerous times to state
that ETs were not only possible but already interacting with Earth
and that the Vatican’s leaders were aware of it.
Furthermore,
speaking as an official demonologist, he said that extraterrestrial
encounters,
“are not demonic, they are not due to psychological
impairment, and they are not a case of entity attachment, but these
encounters deserve to be studied carefully.” [vii]
He even disclosed
how the Vatican itself has been closely following the phenomenon and
quietly compiling material evidence from Vatican embassies (Nunciatures)
around the world on the extraterrestrials and their mission [later
in this research we will disclose the secret alien files the Vatican
has been collecting since the 1950s].
For example, at a forum
concerning the enormous UFO flap in Mexico, he stated,
“I always
wish to be the spokesman for these star peoples who also are part of
God’s glory, and I will continue to bring it to the attention of the
Holy Mother Church.” [viii]
Whatever you make of his claims, Balducci
was a member of a special group of consultants to the Vatican, a
public spokesperson for Rome on the matter of extraterrestrial life
as well as UFO and abduction phenomenon, and his assertions have
never been contradicted by the Church.
Still, perhaps most intriguing was Catholic theologian Father
Malachi Martin
who, before his death in 1999, hinted at something
like imminent extraterrestrial contact more than once.
While on
Coast to Coast AM radio in 1997, Art Bell asked Martin why the
Vatican was heavily invested in the study of deep space at the Mt
Graham Observatory we visited. As a retired professor of the
Pontifical Biblical Institute, Martin was uniquely qualified to hold
in secret information pertaining to VATT.
Martin’s answer ignited a
firestorm of interest among Christian and secular UFOlogists when he
replied,
“Because the mentality…amongst those
who [are] at the…highest levels of Vatican administration and
geopolitics, know…what’s going on in space, and what’s
approaching us, could be of great import in the next five years,
ten years”. [ix]
Those cryptic words “what’s approaching us, could be of great
import” was followed in subsequent interviews with discussion of a
mysterious “sign in the sky” that Malachi believed was approaching
from the north.
While this could have been an oblique reference to
an end time portent, the Catholic prophecy of the Great Comet,
people familiar with Malachi believe he may have been referring to a
near-future arrival of alien intelligence.
(Interesting note from
the authors: When we asked Father Guy Consolmagno what he thought of
Malachi’s claims, he seemed actually miffed by the man, saying,
“I
have heard stories about the late Malachi Martin which make me
rather suspicious of statements that come from him. I was at the
Observatory in the 1990s, and he never visited us nor had anything
to do with us.”
This reaction seems consistent with how many other
Catholic priests despised Malachi’s willingness to disclose what
Rome otherwise wanted buried, especially the Satanic cabal within
the Jesuit order Malachi wrote about in his best-selling books.)
Yet, if ET life is something Vatican officials have privately
considered for some time, why speak of it so openly now, in what
some perceive as a careful, doctrinal unveiling over the last few
years?
Is this a deliberate effort by church officials to “warm-up”
the laity to ET disclosure? Are official church publications on the
subject an attempt to soften the blow before disclosure arrives, in
order to help the faithful retain their orthodoxy in light of
unprecedented forthcoming knowledge?
Writing for Newsweek on Thursday, May 15, 2008, in the article “The
Vatican and Little Green Men,” Sharon Begley noted that,
“[this]
might be part of a push to demonstrate the Vatican’s embrace of
science… Interestingly, the Vatican has plans to host a conference
in Rome next spring to mark the 150th anniversary of the Origin of
Species, Charles Darwin’s seminal work on the theory of evolution.
Conference organizers say it will look beyond entrenched ideological
positions - including misconstrued creationism. The Vatican says it
wants to reconsider the problem of evolution ‘with a broader
perspective’ and says an ‘appropriate consideration is needed more
than ever before.’” [x]
The “appropriate consideration” Begley mentioned may have been
something alluded to by Guy Consolmagno three years earlier in an
interview with the Sunday Herald.
That article pointed out how Consolmagno’s job included reconciling “the wildest reaches of
science fiction with the flint-eyed dogma of the Holy See” and that
his latest mental meander was about “the Jesus Seed,” described as,
“a brain-warping theory which speculates that, perhaps, every planet
that harbours intelligent, self-aware life may also have had a
Christ walk across its methane seas, just as Jesus did here on Earth
in Galilee. The salvation of the Betelguesians may have happened
simultaneously with the salvation of the Earthlings.” [xi]
This sounds
like a sanctified version of
panspermia - the idea that life on
Earth was “seeded” by something a long time ago such as an asteroid
impact - but in this case, “the seed” was divinely appointed and
reconciled to Christ.
The curious connection between the Vatican’s spokespersons and the
question of extraterrestrials and salvation was further hinted in
the May, 2008 L’Osservatore Romano interview with Father Funes,
titled, “The Extraterrestrial is My Brother.”
In the English
translation of the Italian feature, Funes responds to the question
of whether extraterrestrials would need to be redeemed, which he
believes should not be assumed.
“God was made man in Jesus to save
us,” he says. “If other intelligent beings exist, it is not said
that they would have need of redemption. They could remain in full
friendship with their Creator.” [xii]
By “full friendship,” Funes reflected how some Vatican theologians
accept the possibility that an extraterrestrial species may exist
that is morally superior to men - closer to God than we fallen
humans are - and that, as a consequence, they may come here to
evangelize us.
Father Guy Consolmagno took up this same line of
thinking when he wrote in his book, Brother Astronomer: Adventures
of a Vatican Scientist:
So the question of whether or not one should evangelize is really a
moot point.
Any alien we find will learn and change from contact
with us, just as we will learn and change from contact with them.
It’s inevitable. And they’ll be evangelizing us, too. [xiii]
But hold on, as this disturbing rabbit hole goes much deeper…
In a paper for the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and
Science, Father Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti - an Opus Dei theologian of
the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome - explains just
how we could actually be evangelized during contact with “spiritual
aliens,” as every believer in God would, he argues, greet an
extraterrestrial civilization as an extraordinary experience and
would be inclined to respect the alien and to recognize the common
origin of our different species as originating from the same
Creator.
According to Giuseppe, this contact by non-terrestrial
intelligence would then offer new possibilities,
“of better
understanding the relationship between God and the whole of
creation.” [xiv]
Giuseppe states this would not immediately oblige
the Christian,
“to renounce his own faith in God simply on the basis
of the reception of new, unexpected information of a religious
character from extraterrestrial civilizations,” [xv] but that such a
renunciation could come soon after as the new “religious content”
originating from outside the Earth is confirmed as reasonable and
credible.
“Once the trustworthiness of the information has been
verified” the believer would have to, “reconcile such new information
with the truth that he or she already knows and believes on the
basis of the revelation of the One and Triune God, conducting a
re-reading [of the Gospel] inclusive of the new data…” [xvi]
How this
“more complete” ET Gospel might deemphasize or significantly modify
our understanding of salvation through Jesus Christ is discussed in
the exotheology section of our upcoming investigative book "ExoVaticana",
but former Vatican Observatory vice director, Christopher Corbally,
in his article “What if There Were Other Inhabited Worlds” may have
summarized the most important aspect when he concluded that Jesus
simply might not remain the only Word of salvation:
“I would try to
explore the alien by letting ‘it’ be what it is, without rushing for
a classification category, not even presuming two genders,” Corbally
said, before dropping this bombshell:
While Christ is the First and the Last Word (the Alpha and the
Omega) spoken to humanity, he is not necessarily the only word spoke
to the universe… For, the Word spoken to us does not seem to exclude
an equivalent “Word” spoken to aliens.
They, too, could have had
their “Logos-event”.
Whatever that event might have been, it does
not have to be a repeated death-and-resurrection, if we allow God
more imagination than some religious thinkers seem to have had. For
God, as omnipotent, is not restricted to one form of language, the
human. [xvii]
That high-ranking spokespersons for the Vatican have in recent years
increasingly offered such language acknowledging the likelihood of
extraterrestrial intelligence and the dramatic role ET’s
introduction to human civilization could play in regard to altering
established creeds about anthropology, philosophy, religion, and
redemption is set to become more future-consequential than most are
prepared for.
And then there is that LUCIFER device at Mt. Graham, which the
Vatican denies being connected to but we shall illustrate otherwise
later in this series.
LUCIFER is curiously described on the Vatican
Observatory website as,
“NASA AND THE VATICAN’S INFRARED TELESCOPE
CALLED [LUCIFER] - A German built, NASA and The Vatican owned and
funded Infrared Telescope… for
looking at NIBIRU/NEMESIS.” [xviii]
Why has the Vatican Observatory website allowed this caption to
remain?
Nibiru and
Nemesis are hypothetical planets that supposedly
return in orbit close to the earth after very long periods of time.
They have been connected in modern myth with “Planet X” and most
darkly with the destruction of planets that some believe occurred
during a great war between God and Lucifer when the powerful angel
was cast out of heaven.
In the book of Job where the prophet details
how God destroyed the literal dwelling places of the angels that
made insurrection against Him (Job 26:11-13), it specifically
mentions the destruction of Rahab, a planetary body also known as
‘Pride,’ from which God drove ‘the fugitive snake.’
Are Rome and
other world powers using the LUCIFER device to observe something the
rest of us cannot see - something they believe represents this
ancient war (or worse, keeping eye on approaching end-times angelic
transportation devices/UFOs, something Father Malachi Martin hinted
at)? The latter theory is interesting in light of the demonic name
of the infrared device.
Infrared telescopes can detect objects too
cool or far away and faint to be observed in visible light, such as
distant planets, some nebulae and brown dwarf stars. Additionally,
infrared radiation has longer wavelengths than visible light, which
means it can pass through astronomical gas and dust without being
scattered.
Objects and areas obscured from view in the visible
spectrum, including the center of the Milky Way, can thus be
observed by LUCIFER’s infrared technology. [xix]
But what UFO
researchers have fascinated about for some time now is how infrared
technology can also be used to spot and track Unidentified Flying
Objects in the heavens that cannot be seen with other telescopes or
the naked eye. In fact, some of the most astonishing UFOs ever
caught on film have been recorded with infrared.
What this has to do
with the arrival of Petrus Romanus and especially the global leader
he will celebrate is beyond disturbing and ultimately imminent.
LBT engineer showing authors the LUCIFER device and
explaining how it uses Infrared to see...?
References
[i] Private pdf from Guy Consolmagno
to Tom Horn outlining the Vatican's position on the arrival of
alien saviors [to be provided free with the new book "ExoVaticana"
when it is released April, 2013]
[ii] Ibid 33-34
[iii] Ibid 37
[iv] http://www.mt.net/~watcher/ufovatican.html
[v] “Vatican Astronomer Says it’s OK to Think Aliens Exist,” USA
Today, May 28, 2008, http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-05-14-vatican-aliens_N.htm.
[vi] http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/believing_in_aliens_not_
opposed_to_christianity_vaticans_top_astronomer_says/
[vii] Richard Boylan “Vatican Official Declares Extraterrestrial
Contact Is Real” UFO Digest http://www.ufodigest.com/balducci.html
[viii] Paola Leopizzi Harris, “Monsignor Corrado Balducci says
Mexico is blessed with UFO Sightings” www.paolaharris.it March
28, 2006 http://www.delusionresistance.org/ufo/catholicism-ufos.html
[ix] “Comet and Father Malachi Martin” (ART BELL INTERVIEWS
FATHER MALACHI MARTIN: Transcript of the April 5th, 1997
interview with late Father Malachi Martin by Art Bell), Godlike
Productions, January 7, 2007, http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message326615/pg1.
[x] Sharon Begley, “The Vatican and Little Green Men,” Newsweek,
May 15, 2008, http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/lab-notes/2008/05/15/the-vatican-and-little-green-men.html.
[xi] Neil Mackay, “And On the Eighth Day - Did God Create
Aliens?” Sunday Herald - Scotland, November 28, 2005, http://www.sundayherald.com/53020
(site discontinued; see alternatively, from Signs of the Times:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/106410-And-on-the-eighth-day-did-God-create-aliens-).
[xii] “The Extraterrestrial is My Brother,” L’Osservatore
Romano, May 14, 2008, http://padrefunes.blogspot.com/.
[xiii] As quoted by article: Brother Guy Consolmagno, “Would You
Baptize an Extraterrestrial?: A Jesuit Priest Says the Discovery
of Life Elsewhere in the Universe Would Pose No Problem for
Religion,” Beliefnet, http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Science-Religion/2000/08/Would-You-Baptize-An-Extraterrestrial.aspx?p=2.
[xiv] Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti, “EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE,”
Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science, http://www.inters.org,
and http://www.disf.org/en/Voci/65.asp.
[xv] Ibid.
[xvi] Ibid.
[xvii] Open Minds Magazine, “The Vatican Extraterrestrial
Question,” by J. Antonio Huneeus, June/July 2010, Issue 2, 59.
[xviii] http://www.vaticanobservatory.org/VO-NEWS/index.php/videos/item/79-lucifer.html
[xix]
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4926827_infrared-telescope-work.html
Return to Contents
|
