The Angel Experiment

The Firstborn Angels

Humans have always believed themselves the focus of God’s cosmic plan, but what if God actually made humans as part of his plan for angels, his firstborn creations? If angels came first, aren’t they self-evidently more important? Why would God spend much more time and effort on the less perfect, second-born humans?

Once God created angels, why did he need to make Adam and Eve at all? Angels were his priority, always first in his thoughts. Isn’t it possible that humans were created only because they were essential to the development of angels?

We, the members of the human race, are all intimately involved with angels, not in any spooky sense, but in a manner fundamental to the way our minds work. As will be shown in this book, we became conscious thanks to angels. They are now hidden from us in our unconscious, but are destined to emerge again in the near future to herald a new reality: that of super-consciousness, paving the way for God consciousness. Angel-Human hybrids will rule the world and usher in a Golden Age.

Most people are familiar with the concept of a Higher Self that acts as our guardian angel. According to some mystics, the task of this Higher Self is to raise us up to enlightenment. But what if the real task is for the angelic Higher Self to come to enlightenment via mastering the troublesome, primitive, human Lower Self? We assume that the Higher Self is complete and we are incomplete, but what if the Higher Self is also incomplete and coming to perfection through us, through overcoming all of the obstacles to perfection and enlightenment that we throw up?

Plato depicted the soul as a chariot, with a charioteer and two winged horses, one white and one black. The charioteer represents the rational aspect of the soul, the white horse represents spirit and energy, and the black horse represents desires and appetites.

If we consider the charioteer as the Higher Self and the two horses as the Lower Self then the Higher Self cannot travel to heaven unless it can work out how to direct the two wild horses. The charioteer’s rational faculties are not sufficient. He must learn to master the irrational, to step out of his comfort zone and his natural logical terrain. So it is with angels in their interactions with humans. Angels are ruled by their intellect, humans by their body.

Plato said that it was the natural tendency of the soul to strive upwards towards heaven, but the black horse was determined to pull the soul downwards into carnality and lust, into the material world. The white horse could support either reason or desire. If it supported the black horse, the soul fell to earth, became trapped in a physical body and its wings were destroyed, i.e. it lost its angelic character. If it supported the charioteer, the soul would soar into the heavens.

The whole of nature is dominated by the two conflicting forces of rising and falling, the heavenly and the earthly, the spiritual and the appetitive, intellect and stupidity. Gravity pulls us down. Levity raises us up.

The Cosmic Experiment

People imagine that we live in God’s Creation. In fact, we inhabit God’s Experiment. God created and destroyed a number of prototype earths because they did not satisfy him. The Jewish legend Haggadah says, Nor is this world, inhabited by man, the first earth created by God. He made several earths before ours, but he destroyed them all, because he was pleased with none until he created ours.

God is said to be perfect. If a perfect being created this world, why isn’t it a perfect world? Haggadah supports the idea of God as a scientist, an experimenter, someone who makes and unmakes worlds, in order to learn from his mistakes and arrive at better results.

God does not create perfection. Rather, he experiments with it. He retains his best experiments, and gets rid of his worst. God is dialectical.

God’s first living creations were the angels. However, they disappointed him because they were too perfect, made too much in his own image. Their free will was limited. They did not know how to be bad, to have a personality, to be individual. They were boring. God found it impossible to love his firstborn, and that caused him great distress.

What should God do with creatures that displeased him? Wipe them out, just as he wiped out bungled worlds? Having created immortal souls, God couldn’t then kill them, even if he wanted to. Therefore, he devised a new plan: to make the angels more interesting, to give them meaningful free will. As his instrument, he chose us. Human beings were designed as the vehicles through which angels could be corrected. Humans are an emergency repair kit for angels.

To make his experiment even more special, God did not produce humans as a brand new life form. Instead, he made humans from creatures he had prepared earlier: from brute animals without consciousness. Out of all the animals on which he might perform the divine experiment, God selected a particular group of apes ... the fifth ape.

God was interested in accomplishing two tasks: making his chosen apes into conscious humans, and perfecting angels via humans.

This is the remarkable story of God’s grand, cosmic experiment. It’s an experiment still in progress. And we are all its active participants.

The Era of Angels

Two souls, alas, dwell within my breast. – Goethe, Faust

Was there a time in human history when humans routinely interacted with angels? Religions are full of references to angels and demons. Are we to assume that all of the humans who believed without hesitation in angels and demons were insane, or delusional, or had enormously more vivid and fantastical imaginations than humans do now?

It was only a few hundred years ago that women were being regularly burned as witches. Between 1450 and 1750 in Europe, some 50,000 witches were executed. Are we to dismiss this as a cultural aberration, or is there a stranger truth?

Human beings have physically looked the same for many thousands of years. We need only glance at ancient statues to see how similar to us the ancients were. There is very little sense that humanity has physically evolved since ancient times. But what about mentally? How would we be able to tell from looking at Greek and Roman statues if the human mind was much the same then as it is now? Yet we can look at the writings of ancient humans and see that their conception of reality could scarcely be more different from that of modern science. This implies that they had radically different minds. If the humans of, say, two thousand years ago had been prototypes of Richard Dawkins, they would have been scientists, but with much less knowledge than scientists have now, yet with the same basic attitude. However, the humans of that period bore no resemblance at all to Richard Dawkins. Close to a 100% of humans were religious and spiritual, and had zero doubts concerning the existence of gods, angels and demons. Why were they so convinced of the reality of entities that are now routinely dismissed as absurd?

We know for a fact that humanity was once universally obsessed with religion. Today, most of humanity is still religious, but many people are now spiritual rather than religious per se, and a sizeable proportion is outspokenly anti-religious. Even many of the religious are lukewarm compared with the devout believers of ancient times. Most of Christendom in today’s world appears happy to pay lip-service to religion, but to live lives that show no real commitment to, and no real faith, in Christianity.

Christianity is seen as a way to live respectably and with some sort of moral code, but the average Christian seems more or less indistinguishable from any average, secular non-Christian. Surely the gap between them ought to be vast and instantly obvious. Either non-Christians are unwittingly extremely Christian in their behavior, or Christians are extremely unchristian in their overt behavior. How many people who profess to be Christian remind you in any way of Jesus Christ? How many of them remind you of petty, selfish, greedy, ruthless, nasty people who’d do anything to gain an advantage in life? Today’s Christians, by and large, are exactly the kind of people the Christian Bible denounces and abhors!

Are cultural changes responsible for all of this, or have substantive changes occurred in the human mind? To put it another way, is the human mind evolving unobservably yet radically, and could such evolution one day transform the human race? Could mental evolution, unlike physical evolution, happen rapidly, almost on a generation-by-generation basis? Is the internet and smartphone generation significantly different from the preceding generation? Does technology alter the human mind? Did wheels, gunpowder, books, phones, televisions, cars, planes, computers, and so on, all bring about far-reaching mental changes? Does the loss of religion’s stranglehold over the human imagination result from technological innovation that makes religion seem less magical and powerful?

This book investigates the proposition that the human mind was once highly susceptible and open to real angels and demons – and remains so in many people – but that this capacity has been lost or suppressed in many people, yet could be regained in the right circumstances. To put it another way, the interaction with angels has never ceased, but it has taken on a wholly different character. For most people, our old life with angels is now buried in the unconscious. But there are ways to bring it back into consciousness, and thus to herald a spiritual, angelic revolution.

The key figure in the hidden angelic history of mankind is none other than Jesus Christ, perhaps the most misunderstood individual in history.

Jesus was not a new type of Jew. He was in fact a representative of old Judaism, i.e. the Judaism that existed prior to the fall of Solomon’s Temple and the exile of the Jewish people to Babylon. Old Judaism was not monotheistic. It revolved around the God El, and his consort Asherah (the Queen of Heaven), the Council of Heaven, and the archangels and the heavenly host of angels. When El reigned supreme, Yahweh, the monotheistic God of post-Exile Judaism, was only a minor figure in the pantheon. Later, he was merged with El to become a single all-powerful God.

Israel features the name of El, not of Yahweh. According to some Biblical scholars, Israel and Judah were two very different things, and indeed became formally separate kingdoms. From 1050 to 931 BCE there was a United Kingdom of Israel under a single monarch. In 931 BCE, the Kingdom of Israel split into two parts: 1) the kingdom of northern Israel (Samaria), and 2) the kingdom of southern Israel (Judah). Samaria lasted until 722 BCE, when it was destroyed by the Assyrian Empire, and Judah until 587 BCE, when it was destroyed by the Babylonian Empire.

There can be little doubt that the two kingdoms had markedly different religious beliefs, which were the source of bitter conflict. Yahweh was the God of Judah, and El of Israel. Later Biblical writers then tried to create the illusion that they were one and the same monotheistic God, always loyally and faithfully worshipped by the Jews.

This book will take you on a journey through the evolution of human consciousness. It will refer to brain structures, technology, psychology, angels and Jesus, and show how we can all have enormously more powerful minds, all the way up to the Godlike mind of Jesus.

The key to understanding the mechanism for angel-human interaction lies in the fact that the brain is hemispheric. Each hemisphere can be regarded as a brain in its own right. Wherever you have a brain, you also have a mind. Incredible though it may seem, a human actually has two brains and two minds, but, naturally, only one of these brains and minds can correspond to I. What, then, is the other brain/mind? If I is our conscious mind, the other, the non-I, must be our unconscious mind.

But what is the unconscious mind? If it’s not I, how do we know that it’s our mind? Consider a second possibility: we are designed to accommodate two persons, not one. One person is the physical person, the other person is the spiritual person: the angel. The physical person (human) is our Lower Self. The angel is our Higher Self, interacting with us behind the scenes, so that we barely notice it.

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