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William Bramley
A common misinterpretation of the Adam and Eve story is that the "original
sin" had something to do with sex or nudity. This confusion comes from that part
of the story in which Adam and Eve eat from the "tree of knowledge of good and
evil" and immediately become ashamed of their nakedness. It was not nudity,
however, that shamed them.
Adam and Eve were mortified by what their nakedness re
presented. Ancient Mesopotamian records depict human beings stark naked when
performing tasks for their Custodial masters. Custodians, on the other hand,
were depicted as being fully clothed. The implication is that Adam and Eve felt
degraded by their nakedness because it was a sign of their enslavement—not
because being naked in itself is bad..
.......The ancient version is that an extraterrestrial society had come to
possess Earth and sought to exploit the planet's resources. To make the
exploitation easier, a work race was created: Homo sapiens. Humans were treated
as livestock and were frequently butchered when they became too numerous or
troublesome. To preserve Homo sapiens as a slave race and to prevent future
rebellion, spiritual knowledge was repressed, human beings were scattered
geographically into different linguistic groups, and conditions were created to
make physical survival on Earth an all-consuming chore from birth until death.
This arrangement was to be maintained indefinitely for as long as the Custodial
society possessed Earth. In contrast, the modern view is that human beings had
evolved accidentally from "star stuff" into slime, into fishes, into monkeys,
and finally into people. The modern view actually seems more fanciful than the
ancient one.
In the story of Adam and Eve we noted the appearance of a
snake. The serpent was said to be "God's" enemy, Satan, who had literally
transformed himself into a reptile. The Bible suggests that snakes are feared
and disliked today because of Satan's alleged transformation back in the Garden
of Eden. However, it should be remembered that the Biblical Adam and Eve story
is entirely symbolic. The snake, too, was a symbol, not an actual reptile. To
determine what the Biblical snake represented, we must go back once again to
older pre-Biblical sources.
When we do so, we discover that the snake symbol had two very
important meanings in the ancient world: it was associated with the Custodial
"god" Ea, reputed creator and benefactor of mankind, and it also represented an
influential organization with which Ea was associated.
[1989] Gods of Eden by William Bramley
According to the Epic, a Babylonian named Utnapishtim was approached by
Prince Ea, who opposed the decision to destroy his creation, Homo sapiens. Ea
told Utnapishtim that the other "gods" planned to cause a deluge to wipe out the
human race. Ea, who is described in other writings as a master shipbuilder and
sailor, gave Utnapishtim instructions on how to build a boat which could survive
the flood.
Utnapishtim followed Ea's directions and, with the help of
friends, completed the vessel before the flooding began. Utnapishtim then loaded
the boat with his gold, family, and livestock, along with craftsmen and wild
animals, and hoisted off to sea. Babylonian and Assyrian tablets relate that
just prior to flooding the land, the Custodians scorched it with flame.
Then they flooded the region by causing a long rainstorm and
by breaking the intricate system of dams and dikes that had been built in
Mesopotamia to control the erratic flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
The Gilgamesh Epic relates that Utnapishtim and his crew
survived the ordeal. When it was over, they sought out dry land by releasing a
series of three birds; if a bird did not return to the boat, Utnapishtim would
know that it had found dry land nearby on which to alight. Once back on solid
ground, Utnapishtim was joined by several Custodians returning from out of the
sky. Instead of destroying the survivors, a degree of leniency prevailed and the
Custodians transported the surviving humans to another region to live.
The tale of Utnapishtim should ring a bell with anyone who is
familiar with the Biblical story of Noah and the Ark. That is because the tale
of Noah, like many other stories in the Old Testament, is taken from older
Mesopotamian writings. Biblical authors simply altered names and changed the
many "gods" of the original writings into the one "God" or "Lord" of the Hebrew
religion. The latter change was an unfortunate one because it caused a Supreme
Being to be blamed for the brutal acts that earner writers had attributed to the
very un-God-like Custodians.
Early Mesopotamian writings gave us another famous Old
Testament story: the tale of Adam and Eve. The Adam and Eve narrative is also
derived from earlier Mesopotamian sources which described life under the
Custodial "gods." The "God" or "Lord God" of the Bible's Adam and Eve story can
therefore be translated to mean the Custodial rulers of Earth. The story of Adam
and Eve is unique in that it is entirely symbolic, and through its symbols it
provides an intriguing account of early human history. According to the Bible,
Adam, who symbolizes first man, was created by "God" from the "dust of the
ground." This idea reflects the older Mesopotamian belief that Homo sapiens was
created partially from "clay." Adam's wife, Eve, was also created artificially.
They both lived in an abundant paradise known as the Garden of Eden. Modern
versions of the Bible place the Garden of Eden in the Tigris-Euphrates region of
Mesopotamia. The Old Testament tells us that Adam (first man) was designed to be
a servant. His function was to till the soil and to care for the lush gardens
and crops owned by his "God." As long as Adam and Eve accepted their servient
status and obeyed their ever-present masters, all of their physical needs would
be met and they would be permitted to remain in their "paradise" indefinitely.
There was, however, one unpardonable sin that they must never commit. They must
never attempt to seek certain types of knowledge. Those forbidden forms of
knowledge are symbolized in the story as two trees: the "tree of knowledge of
good and evil" and the "tree of life." The first "tree" symbolizes an
understanding of ethics and justice. The second "tree" symbolizes the knowledge
of how to regain and retain one's spiritual identity and immortality
[1989] Gods of Eden by William Bramley
In Biblical days, human beings were also heavily propagandized as very sinful to justify the barbaric treatment humans suffered at the hands of their Custodial "God" and "angels." By extending this concept of sinfulness to the human method of procreation, every person conceived through human sexual intercourse was to be considered born in sin and therefore spiritually condemned. What a frightful dilemma this created! Every time a man and woman conceived and gave birth to a child, they had condemned a spiritual being; yet the human drives which produce children are strong. The religious teaching of automatic spiritual condemnation because of human procreation generated a powerful conflict between the drive for spiritual freedom and the physical drive to reproduce. The result was intense anxiety on the subject of sex and an increase in nonprocreative sexual activity such as homosexuality, autoeroticism, nonprocreative forms of intercourse, pornography, voyeurism, and abortion. The irony in this is clear. Those religions which have most strongly condemned the "inherent sin" in all human beings have also been those which have most vocally opposed nonprocreative sex. These teachings had another important effect. They helped reduce human resistance to engaging in war. It is easier for a religious person to kill someone if he believes that the victim is inherently sinful. [1989] Gods of Eden by William Bramley
We can safely conclude.....that "Jehovah" was not a Supreme
Being. He appears to have been a succession of Custodial management teams
operating over a time span of many human generations. To enforce human
obedience, those teams used their aircraft to perpetrate the lie that they were
"God."
The Custodial teams known as "Jehovah" helped the Brotherhood
of the Snake embark on a program of conquest to spread the new "one God"
religion. Moses, the man chosen to command the Hebrew tribes on their exodus out
of Egypt to the Promised Land, was a high-ranking member of the
Brotherhood.....During the trek from Egypt to the Promised Land, Jehovah
demanded unflagging obedience from the Hebrews. Many humans rebelled and Jehovah
reacted with extreme cruelty. Jehovah reportedly killed up to 14,000 Hebrews at
a time for disobedience. He used a variety of killing methods, such as spreading
diseases, just as other Custodial "gods" had done earlier in Sumeria.
When the Hebrew armies reached Canaan, Jehovah displayed a
genuinely psychopathic bent. To establish the Hebrews in their new homeland,
Jehovah ordered the Hebrew armies to embark on a campaign of genocide to
depopulate all of the region's existing cities and towns. Under the new
leadership of a man named Joshua, the first city to fall in Jehovah's seven-year
holocaust was Jericho. According to the Bible, the Hebrew army, numbering in the
tens of thousands, slaughtered every one in Jericho except, ironically, a
prostitute because she had earlier betrayed her own people by helping two Hebrew
spies.......The next target was Ai, a city with a population of 12,000
inhabitants. All of the citizens of Ai were butchered and the city was burned to
the ground. This savagery was perpetrated city after city.
.........The genocide was justified by saying that the victims were all wicked.
This could not have been the true reason because children and animals were also
slaughtered. It is hardly fair to massacre an entire city for the crimes of a
few; neither is it right to murder a child for the crimes of its parents. The
real crime, according to the Bible, was that the natives of the region had
become disobedient. The more obedient Hebrews were therefore elected by Jehovah
to wipe out the natives and replace them.
.........People who are familiar with Jewish moral teachings may be surprised at
the brutal behavior ascribed to Jehovah and the Hebrews. The most famous of the
Jewish moral teachings are, of course, the Ten Commandments, which were
reportedly given to Moses by Jehovah during the Hebrews' trek to the Promised
Land. After Moses' death, Jehovah and the armies of Israel clearly violated the
Commandments in a big way. Thou shalt not kill was transgressed when the Hebrews
massacred the inhabitants of Canaan. The Hebrews ignored the commandment Thou
shalt not steal when they robbed the dying cities of their precious metals.
Gods of Eden by William Bramley