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The American scholar David Fideler explains: "Putting on the rags of mortality, we have descended from the 'Fullness' (Pleroma) of Light, the timeless realm of perfection, and have forgotten our true nature, heritage and birthright. Our existence on earth is a sleep, until some type of call, messenger, or revelation awakens us to the re-cognition of our origin and true nature. This recollection represents the birth of gnosis within."(14)

The Gnostics recognised that the universe is peopled by many different orders of beings, among whom we humans are only 'mere beginners' compared to higher "Heavenly Hosts." The Gnostic scriptures, which survived the fires of religious persecution, speak of seven higher planes or heavens as well as seven lower planes. Terrible powers or forces of negativity called Archons (Prison Warders/The Intruders) act to keep humans Earth-bound and in illusion. He who rules over this world is the Adversary (Luciferic Consciousness/Satan), a being far below the Great God of Light (the Heavenly Father).

Didn't Yahshua (Jesus the Christ) himself say, "Ye are of this world, I am not of this world" (John 8:23); "The prince of this world is judged" (John 11:18); "Ye [His disciples] are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world," "I pray not for the world but for them which Thou hast given me, for they are mine" (John 17:9); "They are not of the world even as I am not of the world" (John 17:16).

Both the Bible and the Gnostic texts refer to angels (messengers) and heavenly beings that act as divine emissaries and helpers of humanity. In the Gnostic Mandaean creation myth the divine creative act is carried out with the aid of angelic helpers. These cosmic entities, whoever they may be, are recognised as real beings whose mode of consciousness is greater than ours. The Gnostics distinguished between the positive emissaries of the higher realm of Light and the negative beings ignorant of the Light. Due to the limitations of Earth-bound humans, helpers of Light are needed to draw us up. Living in the space age, is it that surprising that modern men and women recognise these forces as ETs and 'space brothers' coming in UFOs?

According to the ancient Ginza text of the Mandaeans: "The tribe of souls was transported here from the House of Life." Another verse in the Ginza poses the question: "Who has carried me into captivity away from my place and my abode, from the household of my parents who brought me up? Why did you carry me away from my abode into captivity and cast me into the stinking body?"

The Heavenly Father sends emissaries of Light and heavenly beings (positive ETs/The Harvesters) to remind sleeping humanity of their condition, responsibility and potential destiny.

The Gnostic Gospel of Truth declares: "If one has knowledge, he is from above. If he is called, he hears, he answers, and he turns to him who is calling him, and ascends to him. And he knows in what manner he is called....He who is to have knowledge in this manner knows where he comes from and where he is going. He knows as one who having become drunk has turned away from his drunkenness, (and) having returned to himself, has set right what are his own."

"The God of Light," proclaims an early Gnostic Manichaean text, "is without beginning." He sent His Word (Logos) into the universe to create this earth, the moon, the sun, the planets, and the Primordial Man. This Man was imprisoned in the nether world by the Prince of Darkness. A Manichaean writer told how Satan had actually attempted "to remove God from His position." In order to curb the power of Darkness, the God of Light "sent the power which we call the soul into matter." When this is removed or rises above it, matter dies.

The God of Light was thus drawn into a long conflict with the Prince of Darkness, who, now in control of the nether universe, seeks to retain his power over the light which he had imprisoned. In due course, the God of Light sent His Word, the Christ, to accomplish the redemption of the Elect. The Manichaeans, wrote Archelaus, taught that "the living Father...sent His own beloved Son", who "transformed Himself into the likeness of a man."

The Path of the Gnostics is the Way of Awakening and Liberation. "We know," states a Manichaean text, "what is said to have been before there was earth and heaven; we know why God and Satan fought, how Light and Darkness mingled, and who is said to have created earth and heaven; we know further why eventually earth and heaven shall pass away, and how Light and Darkness shall be separated from each other, and what shall happen thereafter."

The Gnostic always looks beyond the temporal and symbolic to the things that are unseen and timeless. This is how we discern the Cosmic Battle between the forces of the Heavenly Father and those of the Adversary. The struggle between the Light and the Dark, which precedes all Earthly struggles. 'As above, so below'.

"I am the voice of Awakening in the eternal night" proclaims a Gnostic hymn. Men and women with 'ears to hear' are stirring from the numbness of life in the world. These 'strangers and pilgrims' are renouncing the world and all that binds them to it. They respond to the Call to Awake, realising that to be children of the living Heavenly Father is to be free from society and not bound by its values.

"The Gnostics saw themselves as rebels, misfits in a malign system on a cosmic scale. And like rebels in society they felt compelled to act provocatively, to express their inability to submit and to attract others away from the system's stranglehold. They deliberately set about standing everything on its head, inverting all standards, beliefs and preconceptions."(15)

Behind all the mundane conspiracies and cover-ups in the world there is a vast cosmic conspiracy. Ultimately the conspiracy view of history aims to unveil the source of human suffering and pain. Conspiratologists search for the unity behind the mask of apparent complexity. They struggle to pinpoint and clarify those elements that poison the lifestream of history. The Gnostics have already unmasked the grand charade and exposed the ignorant 'god of this world', along with his Earthly dupes. They urge us to escape from the trap of the world order and open our eyes to the higher level of transcendence. As the eminent historian of ideas James Webb put it, "It follows that if the world takes any notice of the Gnostic, it will be horrified."

We must be reawakened to our true origin, where we come from, how we became bound on this plane, and how we can achieve liberation. Can we decode this ancient Gnostic message in today's language of ETs and UFOs? Only then will we appreciate the words, "lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh". For we will know the meaning of the Gnostic hymn:

Abandon sleep, awake, behold the light
Which is drawn near.
He has come to the world!
All the sons of darkness hide.
The light is come, and near [is] the dawn!
Arise brethren, give praise!
We shall forget the dark night.

NOTES

1. Brother Philip, Secret of the Andes, Neville Spearman, London, UK, 1961
2. "Is the 'new age' already here," Vision magazine, No. 6, London, UK
3. Jonathan Vankin & John Whalen, 50 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time, Citidel Press, New York, USA, 1995
4. David Icke, ...And the Truth Shall Set You Free, Bridge of Love, UK
5. David Icke, The Robots' Rebellion, The Story of the Spiritual Rennaissance, Gateway Books, Bath, UK, 1994
6. Prof. Revilo P. Oliver, Conspiracy or Degeneracy?, USA
7. David Icke, ...And the Truth Shall Set You Free, Bridge of Love, UK
8. George Hunt Williamson, Other Tongues, Other Flesh, Neville Spearman, London, UK, 1959
9. Ibid
10. Ibid
11. Dr. Michael Grosso, The Millennium Myth, Quest Books, Wheaton, IL, USA, 1995
12. Revelation 12:12, King James Version of the Bible
13. Brother Philip, Secret of the Andes, Neville Spearman, London, UK, 1961
14. David Fideler, Jesus Christ Sun of God, Quest Books, Wheaton, IL, USA, 1993
15. Jacques Lacarriere, The Gnostics, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, USA, 1989

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