book #35 of 2022: On the Path of the Immortals: Exo-Vaticana, Project L.U.C.I.F.E.R., and the Strategic Locations Where Entities Await the Appointed Time (2015) by Christian authors Thomas Horn and Cris Putnam. I finished this book a few weeks ago and I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. as many of you probably know, I grew up in the church and was…summarily unimpressed, probably largely because at least our version of Protestantism was just swallow it whole: doubts and questions mean you are a heretic. my family would pretend they understood everything and other church members might admit they didn’t, but that was no matter: understanding wasn’t important, feeling it was: and heaven help you if you didn’t feel it! as a natural born stoic, this left me with very little to grasp onto. enter recent world events that seemed like they were fulfilling Revelations line-by-line. if you’ve been following my reading over the last couple of years, you’ll note that I’ve been reading well outside of my usual range of anthropology, evolutionary biology, ancient history, world literature, mythology from an anthropological lens, and philosophy. desperate times…as they say. so I’m casting my net to include…anything and everything, basically no matter how far fetched, things two years ago I would’ve scoffed at, like such books by such authors, to try to comprehend what I’m observing: the seeming inexplicable. bcs the educationally sanctioned narrative seems incomplete…at best, much more likely, it seems, very intentionally constructed to mislead bcs any halfway serious reading of ancient history brings up far more questions than answers: comparative mythology, on the other hand, is a lot more consistent.
so, this book…it’s a lot to take in: I desperately wish it had an index! the authors attempt, beyond delving into a different interpretation of the Bible (they ponder whether the supernaturals described in the Bible are aliens) and its apocalyptic prophecy, they seriously consider some comparative mythology, particularly Native American lore and architecture, but also Sumerian, Mesoamerican, Hindu, etc., something I haven’t really seen Christians deign to entertain in the past. this book helped me in the sense that i was planning (and am still planning) to revisit (I’ve read the Bible several times, but all of them were before I was 16 and with zero useful interpretation, in my opinion) the prophetic books of the Bible: Daniel, Isaiah, and of course Revelations, etc, as well as some Jewish books that didn’t make into the Christian Bible: Enoch, Jubilee, etc. (which I plan to get to, too). the authors did a lot of that reading and selected much of the content of interest re: the apocalypse, which is my current area of interest in this reading focus. they discussed the Nephilim: the giants that resulted from satan’s minions, fallen angels (the watchers, which Jordan Peele referred to as the viewers in his film, Nope), getting with human chics and the flood, which many civilizations have a history of, was, according to these authors, an attempt to destroy the Nephilim, who were apparently abominations in god’s sight, though the authors think one or more giants survive…particularly Nimrod, who then built the Tower of Babel, which the authors perceive as an attempt to access the extraterrestrial (ET) world - a plan god wasn’t keen on and famously developed multiple languages among them to destroy their construction attempt. this book talks about the feathered serpent gods of mesoAmerica who are apparently the same as watchers (fallen angels) and undeservedly accepted the praise that was due god himself (apparently America is the continent of the serpent: Babylon, anyone?). the books also discusses portals through which ETs travel, as well as stargates, which the authors think is why the US invaded Iraq: they think Saddam Hussein was trying to resurrect a stargate there; and black holes and quantum physics and and and. (the book never mention god’s status as an ET or other.) the book also discusses the occult worship of Osiris/Apollo and the Catholic church’s alleged involvement (the Jesuits) in satanism and in attempting to bring the Nephilim and fallen angels back to earth. the entire last chapter talks about how the US was built not on Christian, but on occult symbolism (see the comments for screenshots of most of the last chapter); the authors also believe the idea that god is in everything and in all of us is a new age expression of satanism.
sometimes this book felt like an array of loosely related tangents and sometimes it felt like clearly the best interpretation of the Bible, and ancient history and mythology, I’ve encountered. I’m not sure where the truth lies. I believe I’ll be rereading it, likely before the end of the year, probably alongside the relevant source material in the Bible and in the Jewish sacred texts and maybe beyond (I’m currently reading a book on Sumerian mythology).
note: remember, what you believe is just that. from what I can tell, there’s a lot of reason to suspect that the people running us all into ruin do believe this stuff - and this is why I’ve read anthropology, history, and mythology my whole life: the fact that someone believes or believed it makes it relevant, interesting, and worth my attention, in the same way politics is, regardless of my own beliefs or impressions: it could still impact you/the world.