On the Origin of Man

The first thing I did out of high school in the late 60’s was to go to Catholic seminary. I thought I wanted to be a priest. It only took one semester of seminary to cure me of that delusion. The seminary I attended was run by faggots. When I attempted to tell my nisei Irish Catholic mother the reason why I dropped out, she rejected me completely. Other than the news that my mother was 100% clueless about both the eldest of her ten children and the Catholic Church, I gained one other valuable piece of information from that experience.

One of my instructors at seminary would have been a Cardinal and a candidate for Pope in a healthy Church. But in its diseased state, the Catholic hierarchy had buried him at the bottom of the seminary teaching staff in the hope of shutting him up. It didn’t work. The guy was brilliant and there was no way to shut him up. He had learned Hebrew for the purpose of reading scripture, and one day, he came up with this bolt from the blue: “The Book of Genesis wasn’t written by Moses. We know that because it literally has a different God from the rest of the Pentateuch (the five Books in the Old Testament that are reputed to have been written by Moses). The word in Genesis that has been mistranslated as “God” in all English editions of the Bible is [Elohim]. That word does not mean God; it is NOT identical to YAHWEH (The Name of God in the rest of the Old Testament). “Elohim” is the feminine plural of a root, [El] which does mean God, not only in Hebrew, but in all predecessors of Hebrew that we know about. What Genesis literally says is that the human race was created by a group of women, not by God (YAHWEH)!” At the time, I just thought, “You know what? The hierarchy was right about this guy!” But that was before studying Chinese in depth and learning about the incredible persistence of ancient roots in sacred texts. The entire grammar of the language and the entire genome of the people who use it, can both change completely before such linguistic roots will.

Later, in the early ’70’s, when I was studying classical Chinese at UC Berkeley, people occasionally floated through the Department with the news that, “We have found that the ancient Sumerian script, which was ideographic, was the predecessor of Chinese. …” At the time, I thought, “Right, uh-huh, just because it’s ideographic doesn’t mean it’s related.” In reality, I was in the depths of a life-and-death struggle with classical Chinese grammar, and I just had no free attention for this argument whatsoever at all.

Then, in the middle ’80’s, I ran into the works of the unutterable Zecharia Sitchin, a student of Semetic languages and their precedents in general, who not only restated with authority what I had heard at seminary and at Berkeley, but supported these far-out assertions with literally thousands of references to archaeological findings, and the huge mass of cuneiform tablets dug out of the tells of the Middle East, which have effectively overwhelmed planetary academic processing capacity. To take a small example:

In 1919, H. R. Hall came upon ancient ruins at a village now called Al-Ubaid. The site gave its name to what scholars now consider the first phase of the great Sumerian civilization. Sumerian cities of that period — ranging from northern Mesopotamia to the southern Zagros foothills — produced the first use of clay bricks, plastered walls, mosaic decorations, cemeteries with brick-lined graves, painted and decorated ceramic wares with geometric designes, copper mirrors, beads of imported turquoise, paint for eyelids, copper headed “tomahawks,” cloth, houses, and above all, monumental temple buildings.

Farther south, the archaeologists found Eridu –the first Sumerian city, according to ancient texts. As the excavators dug deeper, they came upon a temple dedicated to Enki, Sumer’s God of Knowledge, which appeared to have been built and rebuilt many times over. The strata clearly led the scholars bak to the beginnings of Sumerian civilization: 2500 B. C., 2800 B. C., 3000 B. C., 3500 B.C.

Then the spades came upon the foundations of the first temple dedicated to Enki. Below that, there was virgin soil — nothing had been built before. The time was circa 3800 BC. That is when civilization began.

It was not only the first civilization in the true sense of the term. It was a most extensive civilization, all-encompassing, in many ways more advanced than the other ancient civilizations that followed it. It was undoubtedly the civilization on which our own is based. ((My emphasis — he’s talking about a date which precedes the appearance of civilization in China by 2,000 years! — xp))

Having begun to use stone tools some 2,000,000 years earlier, Man achieved this unprecedented civilization in Sumer circa 3800 B. C. And the perplexing fact about this is that to this day ((writing in the middle ’70’s – xp)) the scholars have no inkling who the Sumerians were, where they came from, and how and why their civilization appeared.

For it’s appearance was sudden, unexpected, and out of nowhere. ((In other words, like the fossil record in its entirety, there is absolutely nothing in these findings that supports Darwin’s Theory of Evolution as the basis of human existence. If this had been the product of adaptation, we would have a record of stages leading up to it. -mp))

– From the 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin, Avon Books, NY: 1976.

He follows this with a long list of statements by scholars and archaeologists about the fact that they have no explanation for it. But Sitchin did find an explanation… Briefly, the story that Sitchin got by examining a massive amount of Sumerian material is that Man was created as a species of inferior worker-drone by an evolved species of human being who came to our solar system from afar, piloting a whole planet with which they corrected vibrational instabilities in the nascent solar system, and then systematically intervened in our planet’s history since then, at 3600-year intervals, since that is the period of the incredibly long eliptical orbit into which their planet then fell around the sun. This evolved race made their primary abode in Mesopotamia and is present in mythology as the pagan gods. Genesis was drawn from Sumerian records and is a vast over-simplification of a huge mass of information in them.

The motivation of the gods for being here was not all benevolent. They were advanced from present human beings, but by no means perfect. All of them had titanic egos. They needed to mine precious metals for their advanced technology, and the work was too heavy to be done by the lesser members of their race, and so they created man by genetic engineering, “in their own image,” by impregnating one of the primitive primates that had evolved on earth without them with genetic materials from the big god honcho Enlil. That resulted in the prototype called Adam. Eve was the “birth-goddess” Ninhirsag. What Ninhirsag did was to take genetic material from the prototype and to mass produce enough individuals, by impregnating a number of women chosen for the purpose, to start off the new race. Having created Man, however, they later repented of it, and tried to destroy us in the several ways that are chronicled in the Old Testament, including the Deluge.

Without asserting whether this is true or false, it makes a lot more sense to me that the two mainstream alternatives. And in my view, it is the archetypal basis of the “intelligent design” theory of human life which I espouse, and which is destined, in my never humble enough opinion, to enter mainstream culture and to dominate it. Even Geo. W. Warmonger Shrub-dude has publicly stated that he believes this. That is probably the ONLY thing that the President has ever said that I can agree with.

Sitchin wrote some seven books about what he has read in cuneiform tablets, and they explain a lot else that remains otherwise unexplained as well, including how our beautifully harmonic solar system, which seems to be a singularity in the heavens came about, and why the oldest, simplist, and most primitive Chinese characters, which we know only because they were scratched into oracle bones at a time when China had nothing like what we call “culture,” are so conceptually sophisticated.

So now we’re back to Chinese culture again, gang. Sorry for the side-trip. It happens.

Going beyond Sitchin, intelligent design, creationism, and Darwin’s theory of evolution, Meher Baba has said that He was Adam. That was His first Incarnation. He had the mixed blessing of being first, which meant that he had to tread the Path back to God without a Guru, and that, as he put it, the whole mess that the creation has become due to His action and to the action of those who followed him forth into human form “came around My neck.” So Adam became the Avatar, the ever-returning perfected Being, and Zoroaster, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed are numbered among the most prominent of His Incarnations.

If you look at the teachings of these great World-Teachers, one of the most prominent characteristics of them is Monotheism. ((the Buddha’s teaching is a case of crypto-Monotheism, please. Although the Buddha failed to mention God, that’s where His teaching takes you. Meher Baba said that He makes a mistake in every Incarnation, and that His mistake as the Buddha is that he exclusively taught Nirvana, but failed to mention Nirvakalpa Samadhi, the state of Divine Existence, that spontaneously dawns on the individual immediately after Nirvana, when real Nirvana is actually attained. -xp)) So it is Adam that has put an end to the worship of these people who actually did the work of creating Man. It went to their heads, and He just offed them.

As Lord Krishna put it so succinctly: “Those who worship the fathers go to the fathers, those who worship the gods go to the gods, and those who worship Me come to Me.” The purpose of this planet is not god-worship. They wanted that, but the true God intervened. The purpose of this planet is God-realization by individuals. We become what we meditate on, and we become what we worship. Therefore, please get on board the purpose of the planet by worshipping the Blissful Lord!

There is an active Sitchin cult, which tends to be more-or-less involved with the European conspiracy cultists, whose doctrines are just relentlessly silly, from my never humble enough POV. We needn’t worry about whether these meddling ‘gods’ are going to ride their renegade planet back into our midst. If that were going to happen, it would have happened by now. Our indigenous spiritual hierarchy has outranked them since Adam attained, and that hierarchy has told them, with Divine authority, and in no uncertain terms, to get lost, and they have long since taken their planet back out to from where it once belonged, and good riddance!

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Namu Amida Butsu
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