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A significant number of people around the world, Jew and Gentile alike, are as fascinated by this topic. Indeed, long ago our holy Sages addressed this issue. Therefore, Torah Judaism does have legitimate knowledge as to what is really "out there." This book has been written to provide accurate Torah knowledge on this subject, to safeguard Jewish souls from falling victim to the vast amounts of misinformation on this topic that unfortunately lead them astray from a true Torah outlook on the universe.
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Introduction
In this the second half of the 20th century there has been an epidemic of strange, other worldly, other-dimensional experiences witnessed by millions of people from every walk of life and culture around the world. There have been sightings of strange lights in the sky, which have become popularly known as UFOs. A variety of different types of more or less humanoid entities have been seen around the world in association with these UFO's. These beings have come to be known as ET's (extraterrestrials). These "close encounters" as they are now called have become so popular that many movies, books and articles have been produced about the experience. In most cases, people want to believe that these UFO's and their inhabitants are visitors traveling through outer space, coming to visit us from another planet. The number of believers in this is growing in rapid fashion corresponding to the growing numbers of sightings and experiences. Many of those who believe aliens are visiting us from another planet also believe that these phenomena are not new. There are claims that these so-called aliens have been around since ancient times, and that their travels and activities have been recorded in some of the world's great literature, including the Bible. The Bible does speak of other worldly beings. These are the angels and the demons. Nowhere in the Bible is there a direct mention of any extraterrestrial connection. Yet, this does not mean that there are no references to them at all. Not all Biblical teachings have ever been made fully public to the Jew or to the gentile. Today, peoples of many nations study the written Jewish Torah as if it were there own. However, the Oral Torah has remained safely and exclusively in Jewish hands. This Oral Torah is the official and authoritative explanation of the written Torah and Bible. In the Oral Torah, many secrets have been kept about a great number of metaphysical realities. The guardians of the Oral Torah have been the Sages of Israel, better known as the Orthodox Rabbis and the Kabbalists. In light of these apparently modern phenomena of UFO's and ET's, we might ask, what are the views of the Sages of Israel on this matter? Is there any mention of extraterrestrial life and inter-planetary visitations in any of the vast resources of Torah literature? The Talmudic Rabbis have spoken on almost every topic in the physical and metaphysical universe. Are these UFO's something new? Did our Sages of old have knowledge of this, one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century? Accounts of strange lights in the sky and of meeting strange beings have been recorded in Judaic writings for millennia. What are these otherworldly visitations? Who are these "visitors" and where do they come from? I will discuss these 3
matters. However, I must state from the beginning, I am writing this material from the point of view of the authoritative sources of the holy Oral Torah, as documented in the works of the Rabbis and Kabbalists, the holy Sages of Israel. There are many modern attempts to undermine the authority of the Bible by applying to it strange new interpretations. I will not tolerate such religious blasphemy. I will, however, document for you what the true authorities of the Bible and the Jewish religion have to say about these otherworldly phenomena that today people are calling UFO's and ET's. I must here state unequivocally: G-d is NOT an astronaut, as Erik Von Daniken had stated in his book, Chariot of the Gods. Aliens did not give the Torah to us (G-d forbid to think) from another planet. Ezekiel's vision of the Chariot of G-d was not a sighting of a Biblical UFO, as many untrained in Biblical and Kabbalistic study try to claim. Devious characters that seek to undermine the Divine authority and legitimacy of the holy Torah, given to the Children of Israel by G-d (and not the aliens) at Mt. Sinai perpetrate all these attempts and others like them. First and foremost as a Jew, I must proclaim that whatever the truth be about aliens from other worlds, regardless of how advanced they might be technologically or spiritually, not even they (if there is a "they") have the authority or the right to (G-d forbid) speak against or act against the holy Torah and a Jew's Divine obligation to observe the commandments. Regardless of whatever "new" knowledge is yet to be revealed, "old" knowledge, that is eternal, is never abrogated. So, who are these "Aliens"? Are they really from another planet? If not, where do they come from? Are they friend or foe to mankind (Jew and gentile alike)? Although the holy Sages of Israel have recorded answers to these questions and more, for generations interest in other-dimensional and otherworldly beings has fallen by the wayside. The majority of Rabbis and Kabbalists have turned to the more rational philosophical understandings of religion and away from metaphysics and so-called "mysticism." Due to the present growth of awareness and contact with these otherworldly entities by vast numbers of people around the world, I believe that the time is right to reveal some of the deepest Kabbalistic secrets that explain what is really going on. The Sages of Israel have always possessed knowledge of supernatural and extraterrestrial realities. By this I do not mean that our Sages talk to little green men from Mars, but we have many incidents recorded in Kabbalistic literature where Rabbis had indeed met with otherworldly beings, in physical encounters. These encounters were not with demons or angels of the spiritual realms. No, the Rabbis were speaking with something entirely different. They were in touch with otherworldly, yet corporeal forces, learning from them as well as imparting wisdom to them. This was true throughout Biblical times, Talmudic times and is still true today.
In the 11th century Kabbalistic classic, Sefer Hasidim, The Book of the Pious (Sec. 530), a strong admonition is given that the one who has revealed to him secrets (from Heaven) has the obligation to reveal them. If not, then that person is held accountable to Divine judgment. In all due respect to the Sefer Hasidim, there are so many profound teachings within our holy Torah that the revelation of them all would dramatically alter the way the vast majority of people view reality. Nonetheless, what can be revealed is being revealed. Whoever has an open heart and mind will be able to receive that knowledge which I am imparting here. In light of the many social shifts in our modern world, it is time for the Torah to shine its light and be a beacon to G-d as it was meant to be.
Therefore, any worlds manifesting these realities are not going to be physical, as we understand the meaning of physical. Rabbi Horowitz now steps in with a significant point. In Chapter 3 he asks why should the number of worlds in the fourth Kabbalistic level, Asiyah, corresponding to the physical realm, be any less than the infinite number of worlds in the supernal realms above it. He continues by quoting the holy Zohar "in many places" and the Mishna that in the future the Holy One, Blessed Be He, is to place each and every righteous person as a governor over 310 worlds. Rabbi Horowitz emphasizes that these are physical worlds in outer space. The future being spoken of is the time after the Messianic age and the resurrection of the dead. The reward of the righteous is that they are to ascend to the stars and rule sections of the galaxy as the regents of the Holy One, Blessed be He. Rabbi Horowitz continues to bring evidence of other worlds from the Bible itself. With this proof text, he not only claims to prove that there are other worlds, but that they are also inhabited by beings. Rabbi Horowitz quotes from Judges 5:23, "cursed be Maroz, cursed be those who dwell there." The Talmud (Moed Katan 16A) records an opinion that Maroz is the name of a planet. And the verse says, "cursed be those who dwell there." This seems to imply that the planet Maroz is inhabited. Rabbi Horowitz concludes Chapter Three with the words, "According to my opinion, there are inhabited planets [in outer space] and this is also implied in the Tikunei Zohar." Accepting the given fact of other inhabited worlds, Rabbi Horowitz now addresses the issue of what type of beings are on these other planets. He begins by criticizing those who are of the opinion that the other planets are just like ours, with similar peoples of free will, similar animals, plant life and the like. He calls these beliefs lies and a waste. Those who believe them, Rabbi Horowitz says, are "simpletons who will believe anything." Rabbi Horowitz asks why would so many planets be needed just for our forms of life. Certainly, our planet is large enough to hold us all. Being that these planets are so numerous and distant from one another they must also be very different. No two can be exactly alike; each one is different from the other both generally and specifically. Rabbi Horowitz also says it is a fallacy to think that the planets are formed of the same types of matter as is ours. He gives an example of the sun (which in Judaism is also considered a planet). Can someone dwell on the Sun and not be burned, he asks? Would not the brilliant light blind a person? In addition, as an example, on Saturn Rabbi Horowitz asks, would not a person freeze to death there due to its cold nature. To again prove the point of the varying types of life that are in outer space, Rabbi Horowitz uses the example of the ocean, saying that just as sea creatures differ tremendously from land creatures due to the
different nature of their environments, so do the inhabitants of the other planets differ from us. Rabbi Horowitz then follows with one of his most important points. He acknowledges that these extraterrestrial beings are "ba'alei sekhel u'madah" (masters of intelligence and science). Yet, with all their intellectual potentials, Rabbi Horowitz claims that all extraterrestrials will lack one essential component that will forever set them apart from the human race. They lack "behirah," the ability of Free Will. Free Will separates mankind from any and every other species. It is Free Will that is the G-d given spiritual component that separates the human race from being just another animal species.
beginning Elohim created..." (Gen. 1:1). Elohim is referred to as the Left Hand of G-d, the source of Divine restriction and judgment. Yet, there is a power above and beyond the universe. This power, by the direction of the Divine Will, may for reasons known to Itself supersede the laws of nature, be they revealed or concealed. This power is called the Right Hand of Gd that intervenes in His universe. This is the Name YHWH. This is the Alef level. The YHWH/Alef level of the universe is by definition above and beyond the laws of the universe. It is a law unto itself, the true eternal Law. In order for it to be revealed, experienced and expressed within our universe of time and space, YHWH had to cloak Himself in an appropriate garment that could contain Him. This garment, which exists in time and space, is the house where the spirit of YHWH dwells. This garment, this house, is the holy Torah. The Torah is the exclusive domain and inheritance of Israel, the people of this planet, given to us by YHWH at Mt. Sinai. The Torah only takes the form of a book as it is revealed in this world. Similar to man, whose body is only the shell of the true human, so the book of the Torah serves to encase its soul, which is YHWH. From such a high source, the Torah reveals to the Jew many things beyond the limitations of our planet and our corporeal existence. As a Sage of the Torah, Rabbi Horowitz's view (which was also shared by the late Lubavitcher Rebbe) is that there are a countless number of inhabited planets in outer space, many of which may very well have highly advanced technological societies. Nonetheless, none of them have the potential of the spiritual heights unique to the human race, created in the image of G-d. While the Torah does acknowledge the existence of other planets and of extraterrestrial beings, there is no direct mention of these beings having a technology capable of allowing them to visit the earth. Nonetheless, the author of Sefer HaBrit does ascribe to them those abilities. Another modern author who has written on the topic of extraterrestrials from a Torah point of view is Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. His works are numerous and his Kabbalistic texts are now classics in English Judaica. The following is my translation of an excerpt from his Hebrew book Moreh Ohr (Moznaim, Jerusalem 1992) which clearly shows that the topic of extraterrestrials is of interest in Orthodox Jewish circles.
improvement and favor. Now there is not a shortage of those who receive improvement. He concludes that there is no proof from this view, rather that noting is proved or disproved, rather there is the possibility. After this he mentions what our Sages have said in the Talmud (Avodah Zarah 3B), that [HaShem] placed 18,000 worlds. However, truthfully this is not evidence. Perhaps these worlds are spiritual [in nature] and not physical. We already know that there are an infinite number of spiritual worlds, as the Ari'zal has said in Etz Haim, Sha'ar 3, Chap. 1. One might be able to bring evidence from the verse in Psalm 145:113, "Your Kingdom is the kingdom of all the worlds," which the Targum translates as "Your Kingdom is the Kingdom IN all the worlds." However, here too, one can say that the verse is speaking of spiritual worlds and not physical ones. Following the views of Sefer Ohr HaShem is [the author's] student, the author of the Ikkarim, who is quoted in Sefer HaBrit (Sec.1 3,1), "It is not said whether there are other worlds, because there could not be Free Will there. They would not have Torah or any Divine service. Therefore we do not touch this issue." It appears that this view is also accepted by others. There seems to be some minor evidence to support this view from Berakhot 31A where it states that all land that mankind was commanded to inhabit was inhabited, and that all land that mankind was not commanded to inhabit has not been inhabited. However, truly there is no proof from this for it is possible that this is speaking only of the land on this planet, and not of other worlds. Reference what is said regarding this in Sefer Kol Yehuda, commentary to the Kuzari 2, 82, 34A. That which comes and unites these two opinions is the Sefer HaBrit (Pt. 1, M3, Ch. 3) which writes that the stars are really worlds, and that they each have a place of habitation. Also, [it is stated] that the 18,000 worlds [referenced above] are physical planets. He brings evidence from the [Bible, quoting the] verse from Shoftim (Judges) 5:23, "cursed be Maroz, cursed be those who dwell there." According to what is written in Moed Katan 16A, Maroz is the name of a planet. And the verse says, "cursed be those who dwell there." This clearly implies that there are those who dwell in the stars. However, this too can be refuted. We can say that this verse speaks of the hosts of the star (i.e. the surrounding stars), as it is written in the Zohar, V'et'hanan 269A, relating to this verse. There it refers to the stars' assistants. However, according to the plain meaning of the matter, the view of the Sefer HaBrit seems clear. There in chapter 4, he writes about the stars, whether they are worlds, and if they are all equal to one another, and if creation there is as creation here. He brings down the example of the ocean, and points out how different life in the ocean is from life on the land.
He also writes there, "There is no doubt that there are no other people is our image and likeness who have Free Will, even if they are very smart and intelligent. For it is already known that it is impossible for there to be Free Will other than with the species of man who inhabits this earth." There is no place for Torah or Divine service other than in this world. Review there in depth. He brings his evidence from Berakhot that is mentioned above, that all the stars were created for the sake of Israel. What he has written that the dwellers in the stars have no Free Will presents a difficulty from the same place that he uses to bring his evidence. It says, "Cursed be Maroz, cursed be those who dwell there." However, if they have no Free Will, how could they be subject to punishment and cursing? This needs investigation. We can dismiss this by saying that it is possible that they are like the angels, who do not have Free Will, yet we see that they can be punished. Reference Sefer Hasidim 530. There in Sefer HaBrit it is written that there is evidence of inhabitants on the stars from the Tikunei Zohar. However, he does not state the source. It appears to me, however, that his source is in the Introduction to Tikkun 7 (14B), on the verse (Song 6:5), "worlds without end". If there are worlds without end, the stars too are infinite. For each star is called an individual world. Moreover, the worlds have no end. It is written there in the Tikunei Zohar that every righteous person has his own star, therefore each has his own [private] world. This is written in the Midrash (Shemot Rabbah 52,3) that each righteous person has his own world. It appears, according to this that the 18,000 worlds spoken of in Avodah Zarah correspond to the 18,000 righteous hinted to in Ezek. 48:35, "surrounded by 18,000," as is mentioned also in Such 48B. Truly this is what is written in Sefer Iyun Ya'aqov, commentary to Ayn Ya'aqov on Avodah Zarah, Siman 5. According to this, it appears that the stars were created to become the place of habitation of the righteous in the future. This is a profound thing! This implies that in the World to Come that comes after the resurrection, we will be traveling to the stars, in order that each and every righteous person will rule over his own planet. This also seems to be supported by what is written in Sanhedrin 92B, on Isaiah 40:31, "They shall rise like the eagle," meaning that the Holy One, Blessed Be He, will give wings to the righteous. It is also written in the Introduction to the Zohar 12B that in the future the Holy One, Blessed Be He, will give them wings to fly over the entire world. To return to our subject, in truth, there is great support for the views of the Sefer HaBrit from what is written in the Pardes, Sha'ar 2, Ch. 7, "we will ask one question that has confounded a number of the investigators of wisdom ... being that it is [G-d's] way to radiate His good upon others, why then did He not create millions and billions of worlds, being that He is able ... and create a number of
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worlds similar to our own. At first, this question will trouble the eyes of the enlightened, and they will be silenced. In truth, this is a really good question. It took a profound mind to even formulate this question." He there explains how it is impossible to have more than one order of supernal worlds. He explains there what his reasons are. Being that the order for all the supernal worlds is for the sake of the human species, according to the secret meaning of the verse (Ber. 1:26), "Let us make man in our own image." All this is so that He can guide mankind and to enable them to receive reward and punishment. Therefore, if there is no more than one order to the supernal worlds, there can be no more than one species that possess Free Will and are subject to to reward and punishment. In addition, it would not be appropriate for the creator to have more than one purpose. See what the Shefa Tal 1,3 has written on this. What comes out of all this is that there is only one species that has Free Will, Torah, reward and punishment, and that this is the purpose of creation. This is the species of mankind. HaShem has only given One Torah, and It is not in Heaven. It is however possible that there are many different life forms in the stars which are the planets, even life forms of intelligence and knowledge. They just do not have Free Will. However, the definition of Free Will is a very fine matter, so much so that it cannot be understood with natural wisdom. It can only be understood through faith in our Torah. Therefore, if we do discover other forms of life, our Torah has already taught us that they do not possess Free Will. The Rabbis and Kabbalists have never come out and directly said that they were in communication with beings from the stars. Therefore, Jewish literature while full of otherworldly encounters does not ascribe any of them as being overtly extraterrestrial. Just because the Rabbinic/Kabbalistic authorities acknowledge that there are beings on other worlds, this does not necessarily conclude that it is these beings and their spaceships that are being seen by millions of people worldwide. Other possible identities can be given to our visitors.
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From Biblical and Talmudic times, our Sages have identified our invisible neighbors as being the different races of the angels and another race called demons. The Sages of Israel have full knowledge of all non-corporeal entities, i.e., the angels and demons. Unlike the Christians who believe that all demons are fallen angels, Torah has always known demons to be a separate race different from any of the angelic races, and that they were created as such. Before I proceed to discuss the nature of demons, I must first discuss the nature of angels.
Angels
The great twelfth century law codifier Maimonides in his Laws of the Foundations of Torah (Y.T. 2:3) speaks of angels as being "creations which have form, but no matter at all ... they ... do not possess bodies or corporeal being, but rather are forms which are separate from each other." Regarding their corporeal appearances in the Bible, Maimonides clearly states that these are "metaphoric", and not to be taken literally. Maimonides explains (Y.T. 2:5-6) the nature of angels as follows: "Since they possess no body, what separates the form [of the angels] from each other? Their existence is not alike, rather each one is below the level of the other and exists by virtue of its influence, [in a progression of levels,] one above the other." Everything exists by virtue of the influence of the Holy One, blessed be He, and His goodness. Solomon alluded to this [concept] in his wisdom saying (Ecclesiastes 5:7): "Because above the one who is high there is a watcher [and there are others higher than them]." The expression "below the level of the other" does not refer to height in a spatial sense as [one might say], he is sitting higher than his colleague [but rather, in regard to spiritual level]. For example, when speaking about two sages, one of whom is greater than the other, we say, "one is above the level of the other." Similarly, a cause is referred to as "above" the effect [it produces]." Maimonides (Y.T. 2:7) proceeds to enumerate the ten species of angels: 1. The holy Hayot, who are above all others; 2. the ofanim, the wheel angels; 3. the er'elim, the great, exalted ones; 4. the chashmalim, ''the fiery beings which communicate'' (Ez. 1:27); 5. the seraphim, the burning ones, the reptilians; 6. the malachim, the messengers; 7. the elohim, the judges of the lower realms; 8. the benei elohim, the workers for the elohim angels; 9. the keruvim, the childlike angels; 10. the ishim, the humanlike angels who appear to mankind as human beings. This is not the time or place to become involved in detailed angeology. Therefore, I will only continue to discuss those aspects of those specific groups
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of angels that are applicable to our present topic. Maimonides and the other Rabbis and Kabbalists are quite clear that there is a direct connection between angels and the planets. Maimonides writes in his Laws of the Foundations of Torah (3:9) that ''All stars and planets possess a soul, knowledge and intellect. They are alive ... The knowledge of the planets is [however] less than the knowledge of the angels.'' The famous Bible commentator Nachmanides reveals even more than this. He states in his commentary to Deut. 18:9-12, that there are certain stars that are guided by archangels, and that these archangels are the souls of those planets. They are called the Princes of the Teli (Dragon). This Sage is saying something here that is quite profound: the planets are the bodies of the angels. Therefore, the relationship of an angel to a planet is like that of a human body to the soul within it. Both are one. We thus see that there is some aspect of physical manifestations for the angels. This relationship of the archangel to the planets is accepted by numerous other Rabbinic Sages and Kabbalists. Another question to ask is regarding the angelic hosts. Each of the archangels is known to have camps of supporters, i.e., lesser angels who serve the archangels in carrying out the service of G-d. Are these lesser angels inhabitants on these planets? Being that these planets are in fact the bodies of these archangels, these lesser angels most definitely have a connection to these planets. Are these angels being perceived today as extraterrestrial aliens? No definite answer can be offered to this question. One thing is apparently clear, there are some physical forms that certain angels appear in. Nowhere is this made more clear than in the Bible itself. In the Bible we have a number of angelic visitations. Yet, with very rare exceptions, all Biblical angelic appearance are rather underwhelming experiences. There is no sound and light show accompanying their manifestations. In Genesis 18, three angels come to Abraham, and they appear as normal men. They even sit down and eat with him. Two of them leave Abraham and proceed to Sodom and Gomorrah to destroy it. Upon arriving in Sodom they are met by Abraham's nephew Lot who recognizes them as special, but their appearance is still quite human. Later, in Genesis 32, there is the famous story of Jacob wrestling with an angel. But the Bible doesn't say that the entity is an angel. The word used to describe this being is an ish, a man. Again in Joshua 5, Joshua sees an ish, a man with a sword drawn in his hand. Joshua is prepared to do battle with him until this man identifies himself as leader of G-ds armies (Josh. 514). In Judges 13, Manoahs wife sees an ish elohim, a man of G-d, whose appearance was awe inspiring like an angel. Manoah himself later sees this man and innocently invites him to supper. Only upon offering a sacrifice to G-d and seeing this man ascend to Heaven in the smoke from the altar does Manoah understand that he was speaking with no mere mortal man.
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All of these instances make angelic-human interaction a very human affair. At no time in these events do angels appear as anything out of the ordinary. Maimonides has already addressed this issue. The type of angels being seen are called ishim, which Maimonides enumerates as the tenth and lowest form of angelic manifestation. But if angels, including ishim, have no set form or corporeal being, how then can they appear as human? Again Maimonides has answered this. The angels appearances are metaphor; the angels take on the necessary human form so as to accomplish their task at hand. Once they ascend again from the earth they remove their physical appearance in the same way we would take off our clothing before retiring to sleep. Who are these mysterious ishim angels who come and go in whatever disguise they so choose? Are they corporeal extraterrestrial aliens from another planet? According to the Sages of Israel, they are no such thing. Rather they are far above the corporeal world all together. According to Maimonides, they are non-corporeal beings that have their unique existence in another dimension, one that is very close to our own. The Master Kabbalist, Rabbi Haim Vital in his Kabbalistic classic Etz Haim (150,8) writes that the form of these ishim is a physical one, but far more pure and refined than that of the human body. Their bodies do not consist of the four elements of water, fire, air and earth, but only of the element of fire. This type of body is called the Haluka DRabbanan, today referred to as the astral body. In his commentary to the holy Zohar (within Ohr HaHamah, Terumah, 184A), he writes that these ishim angels exist in the form of men and that their place is a dimension beneath the ten levels of Heaven. This realm of the ishim angels is said to be called the Teli, the place of the Dragon. Rabbi Vital quotes as the source of his information the ancient Book of Enoch which he said was in gentile hands and that he retranslated it into Hebrew. This is significant, for he is the only Jewish source to validate the book today called I Enoch.
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The first and only source for knowledge of the Teli is the ancient Sefer Yetzirah. Originally taught by the Biblical patriarch Abraham and committed to writing thousands of years later by Rabbi Akiba after the destruction of the Second Temple, the Sefer Yetzirah is the oldest and most authoritative Kabbalistic text. In Chapter Six of this sacred text it is written that the Teli rule space like a king upon his throne. Many Rabbis and Kabbalists understand the Teli to be a code name for the Milky Way Galaxy. If the ishim/watchers are the dwellers and masters of the Teli, does this mean that they are the guardians of the Milky Way galaxy and thus, by definition, corporeal inhabitants of another planet? No, not necessarily. The ishim, like the higher Angels, may be non-corporeal entities existing above our time-space continuum. Then again, maybe not! Is it possible that these ishim-watchers are revealing themselves to mankind, and it is they who pilot the UFOs? This is definitely not the case. As all the literature about the ishim-watchers suggest, these servants are very busy performing their G-d given tasks. Ishim angels have no time for dealing with people as UFO encounter scenarios suggest. If the Ishim were to contact people in such a frivolous manner, their act would be a violation of the angelic laws which direct angelic-human contact. Any angel violating the law would be immediately removed from its post. Being that these angels are holy, they do not violate the spiritual laws of illegal angelic-human contact. When an angel legally communicates with a human, he is doing so as G-ds agent and will always announce that he has come in G-ds Name. Based upon the visitation accounts that are publicly available, none of the so-called extraterrestrials come in the Name of G-d nor do they have any knowledge of, or respect for, G-ds Torah. This is most revealing.
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be him on the day when he has to face the real Metatron and explain all the lies that he has perpetrated in his name. Mind you, the Archangel Metatron sits at Gds right hand. He is above all of the other angels, and tradition has it that he is not very forgiving. If there are entities out there pretending to be angels, who are they? This is the question that we must now answer.
Demons
As I mentioned earlier, Abba Benjamin said in the Talmud that if the eye could see we would go insane due to the amount of the spirits among us. I must now be more precise and confess that Abba Benjamin was not talking about benign spirits. He was talking about malevolent ones, the mazikin, the ones who cause harm to mankind. They are the ones whom we call demons. Like angeology, Judaism has a very detailed knowledge of demonology. Many texts have been written detailing who the demons are, what their hierarchy is, and most importantly how to recognize them. Jewish tradition has always differentiated between two different types of malevolent spirits. There are the demons who were created by G-d to be what they are, and then there is a second, more diabolical category. In Genesis we read of the benei elohim, the sons of G-d, a race of angel, which descended to the earth and corrupted themselves. These entities became the group that has become known as the fallen angels. Before I proceed to discuss the fallen angels, I must first discuss the original demons. In the Talmud, Avot 5:6, it is stated that the demons are one of the things that Gd created on the eve of the primordial first Sabbath. Legend says that because the Sabbath had come, and G-d ceased from his works, these demons were left only partially created. Our Sages say that these demons were left without bodies. This teaching introduces to us a problem. For the Sages to say that these demons have no body, we would understand this to mean that they are noncorporeal entities of a similar nature to the angels. But this is far from the truth, for the Sages have also taught something else most interesting about the nature of these demons. In Avot DRabbi Natan 37:3, it states that there are six known things about demons, three of which make them similar to angels and three of which make them similar to humans. It is said that demons can fly about, have access to knowledge of the future and travel around the world. It is also said that they can take on any appearance they so choose. They can see all, but are not seen. In all these ways demons are similar to angels. Demons are similar to humans in that they eat and drink like humans, they sexually procreate like humans and they die like humans. Now this poses a problem to what is mentioned above. How can non-corporeal entities without physical bodies, eat and drink, have sex and die. After all, death means separation of the soul from the body. When the
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Sages said that the demons were left not completely created, they had a very profound teaching in mind which they hinted to us by saying that the demons have no bodies. During their process of creation the demons, similar to humans, started in embryonic form, soul and rudimentary body together. When the primordial Sabbath came, which was not so much a physical time as much as a level of evolutionary development when the work of creation was considered complete, these demons were left with bodies which were not completely formed by human standards. Of course they had some type of physical form. How else could they eat, drink, have sex and die? It is just that their physical form is less complete than the physical form of mankind. This is something that angers them considerably. They have never forgiven G-d for this. To this day these demons are jealous of mankind and hate us. They have continuously caused us all kinds of harm on an individual and collective basis. This is why our Sages call them Mazikin, those who cause harm. Like angels, these demons appear and disappear, they can know the future and get around. Yet they have appetites for food and for sex, and they can die. Their major activities are directed against their mortal enemy mankind, whom they continue to deceive in innumerable manners. Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah of Jerusalem, one of the greatest Kabbalists of this century (died 1942), has written one of the most revelatory works of how these demons act today and deceive people in the most malicious ways. In his work Minhat Yehuda, Rabbi Fatiyah enumerates a number of personal experiences which he witnessed how demons appeared to people in dreams and while awake in all kinds of forms with the intent of deceiving them for some unknown devious purpose. Rabbi Fatiyah was an expert in exposing these demons and casting them out. He has recorded the procedures for doing these things in his work. One other point, the Sages have taught in the Talmud and Midrash that the place where these mazikin demons reside is in the subterranean depths under the earth. More on this subject will be discussed later. Unfortunately, these mazikin demons are not the only invisible enemies of mankind that inhabit the earth along with us. There are two other more devastating forces. The first of these forces I have already mentioned above. These are the fallen angels.
Fallen Angels
In Genesis 6:2 we read that the benei elohim (the sons of G-d) saw the daughters of men, for they were good, and they took for themselves wives from any that they would choose. This is a most strange event! These benei elohim are supposed to be non-corporeal angelic entities. Why would they want to become physical, with all the limitations of consciousness and angelic abilities that come with it. Most of all, what on earth would attract them to human women? In many ways these angels are far above the human on the physical evolutionary
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scale. For them to desire a human female is the equivalent of a human wanting to marry a gorilla! What on earth happened?? Who are these benei elohim? According to some Rabbis the benei elohim is merely a reference to the sons of Seth, and the daughters of men refer to the daughters of Cain. But not all the Rabbis accepted this. The Kabbalists understood this very differently. The holy Zohar, Baal HaTurim, Rabbi Yitzhak Dmin Acco and others teach that the benei elohim is a reference to the fallen angels, led by Shamhazi and Azael. The holy Zohar (Z.H. Ruth 92A) teaches that the benei elohim are the angels who rule the night. Elsewhere in the Zohar, ancient Midrashic sources quoted by the historian Josephus and others, as well as in works unearthed in the Dead Sea Scrolls (ref. E.J. 5, 1526), these benei elohim angels are none other than the watchers mentioned in Daniel, of whom we have spoken above. Jewish tradition teaches us much about these angels and why they fell. It must be understood that the creation of the Adamic race was not met with overwhelming support from the Heavenly angels. Living above time and space they knew that Adam was destined to fall from his high stature, and that G-d would forgive him and eventually choose Israel to receive His holy Torah. To put it bluntly, this angered many of the angels. One of them went so far as to cause the fall of Adam and Eve. This was his attempt to prove to G-d that He was mistaken in creating man. We will discuss this one fallen angel, the Nahash serpent, later. Many of the angels approached the heavenly throne and boldly, if not foolishly proclaimed, L-rd what is man that You know him, the son of man that you think of him. (Ps. 144:3). The Holy One, Blessed Be He, responded to those angels saying that if they were to descend into the physical realm upon earth they would sin even more grievously than man. Shamhazi, Azael and other angels wanted to prove G-d wrong. They left their home in the spiritual abode. They abandoned their posts as watchers of the night. They secretly descended to earth to prove a point. The only problem was that they were dreadfully mistaken. G-d was, of course, right. The first thing that happened to these angels was that they experienced human lust. Unable to overcome it, they cohabitated with human women who bore superhuman children whom the Bible (Gen. 6) calls the Nifilim, the fallen ones. It is these bastard children who caused the destruction of old earth by the waters of the flood. Jewish tradition (Yafeh Eynayim, Gen. 105) teaches that Shamhazi recognized his wrong and repented, even though G-d has still not forgiven him. Azael on the other hand, along with the other fallen watchers, joined the forces of the mazikin demons and together continue to plague mankind. The Nifilim, as the Bible teaches, survived the flood and lasted until the days of Moses (Number 13:33). Physically they were giants, the smallest were over ten feet tall. Goliath, who fought with young David, was of the last of this fallen race.
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The Bible (Is.45:7) is quite clear that it is G-d Himself who created evil. Our Sages have revealed to us profound insight as to why G-d has done this. In the holy Zohar it is asked, what good is a torch during the daytime? What value has righteousness if there is no possibility of wickedness? Where can there be room for reward and punishment if there is no opportunity to earn either one? How can mankind be said to have free will if he cannot willingly choose to receive G-d's blessing or reject it? The purpose for G-d's creation of evil is clear. Something cannot exist outside of the context of its opposite. We would not know what good is unless we could compare it to bad. We would not know love, if there was no hate. We would not know day, if there was no night. G-d's wisdom is truly profound. Evil had to exist so that good could exist in contrast to it. Yet in the beginning, the place of evil was outside of the soul of man. And this brings us to the Garden of Eden.
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points. Gen. 3:1 states that the serpent was very wise and, that like Adam, he was a cut above the rest of the animals in that he too could talk. Due to the serpent's wise nature and his beautiful human-like appearance, it is no wonder that he was not considered a threat by Adam and Eve. The serpent was Adam's "trusted" assistant. Jewish tradition teaches us that it was the serpent who helped Adam with all the work in the Garden. But then, along came Eve. It is interesting to note that the serpent did not originally attempt to deceive Adam. It is also very interesting to note exactly what the serpent said to Eve to get her to eat of the forbidden fruit. Before I comment on this, I wish to divert for just a moment to note an interesting observation.
Reptilians
The serpent, even though he was of humanoid appearance, and beautiful at that, he was nonetheless still reptilian. He was a reptilian humanoid. Many extraterrestrials are described in somewhat the same fashion, as being reptilian humanoids. This has become so well known that it has become a part of popular culture when portraying enemy aliens invading earth from outer space. I also remember watching once a public television series on the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs, according to Rabbi Yisrael Lifshitz's Mishnaic commentary Tiferet Yisrael, were creatures in one of the seven primordial worlds prior to our own. In this PBS special was a most peculiar segment. The question was asked: if the dinosaurs would have survived, what would they have looked like today? The show then screened a model of a reptilian humanoid saying that this is what these beings would look like today. I found that to be a most curious segment. Why would someone ask such a question in the first place? How did they come to the conclusions that they did? I can't say that PBS was suggesting anything. I just saw more in their investigation than most others would have. Is it possible that some of these creatures from the fallen worlds of the seven kings did survive in corporeal form? Is it possible that there are advanced, highly intelligent reptilian beings? The answer to this second question is a definite, yes! There are spiritually highly advanced reptilian creatures, the race of angels called the Seraphim, as mentioned by Maimonides. Though the name Seraph connotes fire and burning, the name clearly also refers to the Hebrew word for reptile, which is seraph. Can we postulate and say then that these Seraphim angels are really evolved dinosaurs? I would not be so fast to jump to that conclusion. G-d still has a number of secrets hidden in His treasure chests of Torah. Maybe there were holy remnants from the primordial worlds of the Edomite kings. Who knows? We still dont know everything, yet. All that can be said is that Jewish tradition teaches us that the dismembered head of Esau was buried in the cave of Machpelah in Hebron, which is the burial cave of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. This special cave is said to be the interdimensional vortex that leads back to the Garden of Eden. The holy Zohar (1, 128B) teaches that more than
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Jerusalem, Hebron is the center of the world. This is why Hebron is so hotly contested today in Middle East politics. The importance of Hebron does not seem to be known only to the Rabbis and Kabbalists. Robert K.G. Temple, in his book The Sirius Mystery (Destiny Books, VT. 1976), also asks some interesting questions regarding its importance to the ancient Northern Semitic Hititte tribes who were in Hebron in the days of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. Using historical and archeological data, Temple shows that the Hititte people were not indigenous to the Hebron area. He ascertains that they had come to Hebron on a "divine mission," to safeguard it, because it was known as a powerful oracle center. Unlike the Zohar, Temple however claims the spirits of the oracle are really extraterrestrials. Another interesting point that Temple mentions is that the Hititte oracles involved the use of severed human heads, and the "magical" element that the Hittites claimed was to be found within them. He also references the Rabbinic story regarding Esau's head being buried here. What, you might ask, does this have to do with dinosaurs and angels? The answer to this lies in Judaism's understanding of the significance of having Esau's head buried alongside the body of his father Isaac. According to the Kabbalistic teachings, not all of what was created in the worlds prior to our own was evil and thus destroyed. There was a remnant. The best was spared. The best are always referred to as the "head." Esau (Edom), Jacob's evil twin brother, is always the symbolic name given to the primordial worlds of evil prior to there being the world of good ("a king in Israel" as the Bible puts it). The "head of Esau resting in the bosom of Isaac" means that there were survivors from the ancient worlds, and that they too are holy. Were the survivors of the pre-adamic civilizations (the kingdoms of Edom) transformed into the Seraphim angels? I have no source that I can quote to validate such a statement, therefore I cannot confirm or deny this. Whether Esau's head is physically buried in Hebron or whether it is just a symbolic legend also cannot be factually ascertained. What I can say is this: it is known throughout the Bible, Talmud and Zohar that evil always attempts to imitate good and masquerade as it. In this way evil deceives people, by making them believe what they are doing is good. This is what happened to Eve and what still happens today with people being taken in by deceptive cults.
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and Eve were deceived. To this very day, in most cultures world wide (with the exception of the Chinese and the Kabbalists), the dragon is still viewed as a symbol of evil. Even the Talmud (A.Z. 42B) states that the image of the dragon is idolatrous. Its original form in holiness has been forgotten due to the deception done by using its visage.
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"experimentation", I begin to wonder if there is more a demonic source for these events than an extraterrestrial one. Another point that needs to be mentioned here is where is the location of the Garden of Eden. It seems to be implied in the holy Zohar the the real Garden of Eden was not on the physical face of this earth. First of all, Adam who originally was an astral being, without a physical body, dwelt in this place. After the fall, the Zohar said, Adam was cast out, or really cast UP from level after level of the seven levels of the earth. The holy Zohar teaches us that subterranean worlds exist beneath our own.
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In the fifth subterranean level called Nishiyah, the Zohar (Z.H. Ruth 109A) teaches that the dwellers there are all male, and that they have no females. The Zohar (1, 254A) also teaches that the dwellers in Nishiyah have no noses, only two slits through which they breath. These beings are said (ibid.) to be of small stature. These descriptions sound very similar to the malevolent alleged extraterrestrials called the grays. The Zohar says that in one realm called Arka there dwell a people with two heads. One of them was spotted by the Sages Rabbi Hiya and Rabbi Yosi (Zohar 1, 157A). They witnessed him come up from an underground cave and held a conversation with him. Stories like this abound throughout Jewish literature. One thing is certain, the Sages were not joking. They believed that there are subterranean worlds, and they believed these worlds to be inhabited by a number of different types of life forms. The Rabbis and Kabbalists believe that the mazikin demons and the fallen angels today have their domains in the subterranean depths beneath our earth. Maybe these dwellers in Nishiyah are the mazikin demons, I cannot say for sure. One point must be made clear: these other-worldly creatures of whom we speak may not be corporeal within our world. Remember, demons can see, but cannot be seen. However, they may be corporeal in the context of their own worlds. Other worlds (planets) and other dimensions may not be so far removed from one another. They really might be one and the same thing. Throughout Jewish history there have been numerous records of mans contacts with the demons. From King Solomon's famous struggle with the King of the demons, Asmodeus, to present day possessions presented in the writings of Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah, the Rabbis and Kabbalists have always known, as it says in the Tractate Berakhot of the Talmud (quoted above), we are not alone! We now have a number of options to help us recognize who our visitors may be: extraterrestrial visitors from another planet, angelic watchers, fallen angels and demons. Each of these entities have specific identifying characteristics when they interact with mankind. It is now time to delve into some modern UFO and so-called alien abduction literature to see what is going on, and, if possible, identify who is doing what to whom.
tales so that we can separate them from the other materials that need to be viewed in a light of seriousness. One book out there entitled Stranger in the Pentagon is written by a man who claims that he is touch with an alien from Venus named Thor (the thunder god in Norse mythology). Thor claims to be coming to earth with a message from Yeshu (Jesus Christ), mach shmo, who is presently living on Venus. The message (need you ask) is that the people of the earth need to convert and become Christians, or Jesus will come with an army of flying saucers and wipe out all the non-believers. This type of nonsense needs no response. There is another man who has written a book claiming that the aliens from outer space are all beautiful blonde-haired women. He even produces a photograph of one. (She looks like a model). If the aliens are all beautiful blonde women, the human race is in trouble. Men have always had trouble with their evil inclinations, and an alien race of women might be too much for human men to handle. These claims are best relegated to the fairy tale storybooks. The sad thing is that the authors and countless readers believe these tales of foolishness as the truth. This sad state of affairs reminds me of the words of P.T. Barnum, of circus fame. He was known to say a sucker is born every minute. Now, lets get serious. There are three occurrences associated with UFOs which need to be examined. Fist, strange lights and flying crafts have been seen in the sky by millions of people, from all walks of life, at all times of day and night. Second there is a strange plague of animal mutilations where animals, usually cattle, are found dead in the fields with certain parts of their anatomy missing, apparently surgically removed by a means which baffles doctors. Many times the animals blood is completely drained, and other carnivorous animals will not touch the carcasses. These events are definitely strange. A full examination of animal mutilations will again take us out of the topic of this work. However, I find it no coincidence that many of these animal mutilations are very similar in performance to certain blood rituals performed in Satanic, black magic ceremonies. Unfortunately, these animal mutilations cannot be dismissed as the works of some secret Satanic societies simply because of the technological methods used in the mutilations. Whoever has this advanced surgical technology must have knowledge of and interest in Satanic ritual. Just as surgical technology cannot be learned anywhere, or imitated, so too is Satanic ritual very precise and intricate. One cannot just imitate it. One must learn it from a qualified, intimate source. To think that the similarity between animal mutilations and Satanic ritual is mere coincidence is as illogical and foolish, as it is dangerous. However the most upsetting of UFO phenomena revolve around another set of suspicious events. The third and strangest of all claims, again by a large number of credible people, is that they were somehow rendered helpless and taken aboard one of these UFO crafts. While aboard they are allegedly subject to all kinds of medical
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experiments. Most times these medical experiments have to do with sex. Men and women have claimed to have been forced to have sex with aliens, as well as with other strange men and women. Numerous women have claimed to have become pregnant through these experiments. Many times these women claim that the aliens come and remove the growing fetus from their wombs. The number of these reports makes these claims alarming. And they are not going away. The number of reports from credible, rational, sane men and women is growing! Let me proceed to document sources and details regarding these matters. I will then attempt to correlate them to the material that is found in Jewish sources and try to offer an understanding, based on authoritative Torah sources, as to what is really happening to these people.
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their works, I do not wish to even recite their titles or provide any quotes. The nonsense that these two authors have spread is fine entertainment (in a perverted sort of way) for those who seek science fiction. However, I wish to deal with reality, and not fiction. Therefore the works of these two authors, those similar to them, and their so-called proofs must be dismissed by any serious and knowledgeable researcher. And why? Simply because they make wild allegations based on faulty interpretations that are clearly so false to anyone with knowledge in the field of the Bible. The focus of this work is to cover the Torah views of our subject, not to critique others. I comment on these works so that you my reader can know that Rabbis and Kabbalists alike have no respect for those who wish to unpreparedly enter into our area of expertise and foolishly misinterpret things in such a faulty manner and then expect to receive some type of credibility. We cannot and will not extend to them any such credibility. Those who do not accept the Divine nature of the Holy Bible certainly have no business misinterpreting its holy message, which, yes, does come from a source above mankind. We know the source is Holy G-d. Does He communicate with mankind through a race of extraterrestrials that we have come to call angels? This we will discuss. Whatever the answer, the authority of the Bible is in no way lessened. Anyone who questions this will answer to the L-rd of mankind, who is also the Lrd of any extraterrestrials. And if they dont know it, maybe it is mankind's job to teach them. As I mentioned above, the Rabbinic and Kabbalistic Sages teach that after the Messianic age, when mankind has been perfected, we will travel to the stars and be G-ds regents throughout the galaxy. Maybe the extraterrestrials need us more than we need them. It is certainly possible. Until such a time, we still have many questions left to ask and answer. As I mentioned above, strange lights in the sky have been witnessed around the world throughout recorded history. Even the historian Josephus reported that prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in 68 C.E. there was an army of strange lights in the sky over the city. He said that they looked like an army of angels awaiting orders to defend Jerusalem. Alas for Jerusalem, those orders never came. At dawn the lights disappeared, and Jerusalem was left to her fate. Associating these lights in the sky with UFOs did not however start with the science fiction writings about aliens from outer space. In the late 19th century there were numerous documented reports of air ships allegedly spotted by many, over many portions of the United States.
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manifestations. The air ships and their inhabitants appear to be very well suited for the 19th century. Vallee quotes a report from the Houston Daily Post dated April 28, 1897. The report speaks of a heavy object dragging along with a rope attached which got caught up at a railroad crossing. The report continues, On looking up they saw what they supposed to be the airship. It was not near enough to get an idea of the dimensions. A light could be seen protruding from several windows; one bright light in front like the headlight of a locomotive. After some ten minutes, a man was seen descending the rope. He was near enough to be plainly seen; he wore a light blue sailor suit and was small in size. He stopped when he discovered parties at the anchor (which was what was caught), and cut the rope below him and sailed off... (Dimensions, Ballantine, NY, 1988, page 41) Another sighting just weeks before was witnessed by the entire town of Fontanelle, Iowa. The April 13th, 1897 edition of the Chicago Chronicle reported, The airship was seen here at 8:30 tonight, and was viewed by the whole population. It ... moved very slowly, not to exceed ten miles an hour. ... the vibration of the wings could be plainly seen. ... the working of machinery could be heard, as also the strain of music, as from an orchestra. (ibid. pg. 41) Remember these reports were made years before the Wright brothers flew the first plane at Kitty Hawk. At this time, air ships were supposed to be limited to the science fiction writings of the likes of Jules Verne. And since when do we have reports of UFOs playing orchestra music? In the April 22, 1897 edition of the Houston Post there is actually reported a close encounter with one of the crew of the airship. A Mr. John Barclay had witnessed the airship and gives a rather thorough description of it. And then, the night was bright enough for a man to be distinguished several yards away, and when within about thirty yards of the ship he was met by an ordinary mortal. ... the following conversation ensued. Mr. Barclay inquired: Who are you and what do you want? Never mind about my name, call it Smith. I want some lubricating oil and a couple of cold chisels if you can get them, and some blue stone. ... Here is a ten dollar bill: take us and get us these articles and keep the change for the trouble. After procuring the items, Barclay asked Smith From where he was and to where he was going. He replied, From anywhere, but we will be in Greece day after tomorrow. He got on board, when there again the whirling noise and the thing was gone, ... like a shot out of a cannon. (ibid. pg. 42,43). The fact that the man refused to give his name is reminiscent of the Biblical angels who responded in similar manner when their names were asked. But here is where the similarity stops. These airships make a lot of noise and seem to need operating parts similar to 19th century technology. And though the ship takes off like a shot out of a cannon (which by 19th century standards might still be sub-sonic) it will still take two days to get to Greece. A modern airliner travels
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this distance in a fraction of that time. No angel, demon or UFO has ever appeared so backward. There are no little gray men reported here. Rather the ships and sightings sound like the realization of something out of a Jules Verne novel. Maybe Vernes character, Captain Nemo, really did exist. Whatever the truth may be regarding these incidents, one thing is clear, they do not seem to be extraterrestrial by late 20th century standards. The technology that todays UFOs and their inhabitants allegedly display is far more advanced than our own. If we do ascribe to the 19th century airship sightings an extraterrestrial dimension, then we must conclude that the aliens are advancing in their technology alongside the advancements made by mankind. Such a coincidence is highly unbelievable and suspect. If these incidents were not due to extraterrestrials or a real live Captain Nemo, then what were these mysterious airships, and where did they really come from? No one can really say, although Jacques Vallee believes that these encounters are not extraterrestrial, but rather from somewhere much closer, possibly a parallel dimension right here on earth. Then again, even in those days the US government did have secret projects. The works of both Einstein and Tesla were known at that time. It is known that in the mid-1890s, Nicola Tesla had a working model of a radio controlled robot submarine. Who knows what else he invented? Who really knows what was going on?
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shattering ordeals. We cannot dismiss the significance or reality of these episodes simply because we choose not to believe. I know that many are afraid to believe that these occurrences could be real for the frightening conclusions that would then have to be drawn. Nonetheless, I believe these episodes are real. Just what they are, however, is something that the Torah can shed some light upon. Whatever the truth may be, we must take these matters seriously. Abductees relate an enormous amount of information regrading their captors. The most frightening information is how helpless they are when taken and subjected to these experiences. Many abductees claim that the aliens were using them for breeding purposes. In other words, many felt they were being treated like cattle, with no regard for their morality, feelings and human dignity. The abductees walk away with a feeling that these aliens are conducting wide scale breeding experimentations on the human race for some concealed purposes. While I do not know the agendas of alien races, the sexual manipulations that these women have been subjected to sounds very similar to cases of demonic attacks that are described by Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah in his book Minhat Yehuda. Rabbi Fatiyah was a master at detecting the presence of spirits and demons and an expert in the art of exorcism. However, he also knew that people many times make up or imagine things to be that are just not true. He never simply accepted someones word that they were in contact with a spirit or demon. In order to ascertain their credibility, Rabbi Yehuda would test them to see if the person really was having an other-worldly experience or not. He relates (Minhat Yehuda, page 42) the tale of one married woman with children who claims that a male (demonic) lover would come to her, appearing out of thin air any time that she was alone, day or night. The demon was quite physical and by sheer force of will could make the woman submit to having sex with him anytime that he wished. She felt completely helpless to resist him. This sounds very much like the details of an abductee experience with one of the socalled aliens. There are numerous tales told in Jewish folklore around the world of women who are kidnapped by demons and taken to live with them in their subterranean homes. There they are raped and forced to bear and raise for their demon masters mixed breed half-demon/half-human children. While most of these tales are told with a moral in mind so as to scare people into acting with righteous conduct, nonetheless their moralistic nature does not negate that something quite real and other worldly has happened. As a matter of fact, in researching this work a Hasidic Rabbi friend of mine in Brooklyn revealed to me that among the Hungarian Jews there is a known list of families whose women were allegedly raped by demons and then gave birth to half-human/half-demon children. Among these Jews it is forbidden to intermarry with any of these suspect families.
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In all tales about demons, their subterranean homes are said to be quite opulent. The holy Zohar (1, 254B) reports that this same opulence belongs to the race of noseless small creatures living under the earth that I mentioned above. Aliens always claim to come from a place that is opulent, utopian and void of problems. I cannot state from this similarity that the aliens are truly the subterranean demons in disguise, but it does raise the possibility. One of the most detailed Kabbalistic texts on demonology is the Tzefuni Tziyuni by Rabbi Menachem Tziyuni. Written over six hundred years ago, the Tziyuni, as it is popularly called, is perhaps the best source of information about how demons live, how their society is structured and just what it is they want from mankind. After studying Sefer Hasidim, and the works of Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah, Rabbis and Kabbalists have been in an excellent position to recognize demonic activity whenever it would rear its ugly head. There are a number of similarities between UFO abduction experiences and known demonic activity. Before I draw any conclusions, allow me to document for you the words of the Rabbis and put them alongside the experiences of the abductees. Throughout David Jacobs book, Secret Life, mention is made of the peculiar interest that these so- called aliens have shown towards human sexuality, specifically to get humans, mostly human women, to perform acts of intercourse. Why, we must ask, would aliens from another planet be interested in sexual intercourse with females of what to them would be a lower species. It would be similar for a human to want to have sex with a gorilla. Does this sound familiar? Did we not earlier mention that the Bible relates the story of the benei elohim (sons of god) coming to earth and taking human wives? In Genesis 6:2 we read that the benei elohim, the sons of god saw the daughters of men, for they were good, and they took for themselves wives from any that they would chose. Is it possible that demons today are still doing the same thing? Why would the demons want human women? The answer to this I have already introduced. I have previously mentioned the teaching from the Talmud, Avot 5:6, that the original demons were created bodiless, and that since then they have been trying to get bodies for themselves. In Avot DRabbi Natan 37:3, we have learned that demons participate in sexual reproduction. Can they then sexually bond with and reproduce from humans, male and female alike? The Sefer Hasidim and the Tziyuni (as well as all other Jewish sources such as the Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, Hesed LAvraham) answer with a frightening yes! Both the Sefer Hasidim and the Tziyuni give examples of this, and why and how this occurs. In order to comprehend this we must delve into the holy Talmud to understand the origins of human-demonic cross breeding.
thirty years, he begot in his own likeness and his image, and he named him Seth. It is said Adams separation from Eve lasted the whole of this 130 years. During this period, female demons came to Adam and male demons to Eve and bore them hybrid half-human, half-demonic children. This is why the verse specifies that Seth was in Adams likeness and image, something the hybrid children were not. These humanoid demons are those that plague mankind. It was in this way that the original non-body demons were able to acquire bodies for themselves. The master Kabbalist, the Arizal, in the Shaarei Kavanot (Derush Pesah 1) reveals that these demonic souls incarnated into human bodies three different times, first as the generation of the flood, second as the people who built of the Tower of Babel, and third as the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah. It was to trace these descendants of Adam that the Bible relates these episodes. Regarding these spirits Maimonides writes, And [Adam] begot [a son] in his own likeness and image. You know that whoever is not endowed with this form [i.e., the human form] ... is not a man, but an animal having the shape and configuration of man. Such a being, however, has a faculty to cause various kinds of harm and to produce evil that is not possessed by other animals. For he [the demonic human] applies the capacities for thought and perception, which were to prepare him to achieve perfection that he [the demon] has not achieved, to all kinds of machinations entailing evils and occasioning and engendering all kinds of harm. (Guide, 1:7). The Tziyuni (49B) writes that the demons are still practicing their special breeding program to this day. He goes on to say that the children of such unions, who are essentially demonic in nature, are given the positions of rulership. These hybrid children enable the demons to become physical. Therefore, breeding with humans is greatly sought after. Does any of this sound similar to the abduction experiences? It most certainly does! One other point which may be significant. David Jacobs records in Secret Lives (page 51) that at the beginning of the nighttime abductions, the Beings enter into the room through a light source coming from a window. ... Although abductees frequently report going directly through walls and ceilings, the Beings appear to seek out a window. The Sefer Hasidim (Tzavaah 20) writes that it is the nature of demons to travel through windows. Jacobs also mentions (page 50) that some abductees experience these so-called aliens in the form of a menacing animal. One abductee said she saw a wolf in her bedroom one night. The wolf was standing squarely on her bed looking in her eyes. Other abductees have seen these so-called aliens as a devil. The she-demon Lilith is said to commonly take on the appearance of a wolf. (Hebrew Myths, page 68).
False Appearances
If the abduction experience is truly of demonic and not of extraterrestrial origins, why then do these beings go to all the trouble to make people believe that they
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are from outer space? Why dont they present themselves in some other more acceptable form? Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah answers this question for us without ever knowing of the modern, so-called extraterrestrial phenomena. In Minhat Yehuda (Miqetz 47) he writes about what powers the demons have.: There are demons who are called Shedim Yehudain (pious demons) (Zohar, Bamidbar 253A). These have a different way about them. They make themselves appear as the ancient [Biblical] prophets, or as the Talmudic sages. There are those who make themselves appear as the judges of Israel and as great famous rabbis who have passed on to the other side. They all appear with great beards and crowns upon their heads, like the righteous and the pious. Sometimes they say that they are Abraham, Isaac or Jacob, or Elijah the prophet or the like. [These demons] can do even greater things than this. They can show to a person the image of the heavens, the image of the throne of glory, and the angels of heaven. [These demons] are careful not to frighten a person. Rabbi Fatiyah reveals to us that it is the way of demons to present themselves in whatever form that people will find acceptable so as to have less of a spirit of resistance. Demons can appear as angels, holy men and the like. They can show people an image of Heaven or of the Heavenly throne. Uneducated human beings, not knowing the spiritual reality of things, will easily be duped into believing that a demonically produced cheap copy of the original is the real thing. We do not know what real aliens look like or act like. So if a bunch of demons were to come and say that they were aliens from another planet, how would the average person be able to tell the difference between the truth and the lie?? Wouldnt the amazement of being involved with a close encounter of the third kind excite a person to want more. Little do they know what it is that they are involved with. As Carl Jung has properly pointed out in his Flying Saucers, A Modern Myth, mankind has always looked for salvation from the skies. Extraterrestrials are just the newest form that this psychological projection has taken. Another interesting point is that any and all encounters that people consciously have with these so called aliens is always a positive and uplifting experience. Abduction experiences are quite the opposite. For one, they are all in repressed memory. No one remembers anything clearly until hypnosis is performed and the unconscious mind is allowed to release its terror. Why are all the alien encounters that can be remembered friendly, whereas the ones which involve sexual and medical experimentations are always erased from the conscious mind, as if by some form of mind control, which is exactly what the abductees in Jacobs book feel they were subject to? It is the unconscious mind that connects us to our soul, that spark from G-d within us. It does not forget, and it is not deceived. When going into the unconscious realms, all of a sudden these alien encounters become depraved, immoral and monstrous. Abductees speak of screaming within themselves, but of
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being totally powerless to stop the proceedings, which include the manipulations of their bodies. The case for identifying alien abductions as really being demonic activity seems to have some serious validation. But this only creates more problems than it solves. The Rabbis and Kabbalists teach us that demons can come in all shapes and sizes. Therefore, we can perceive them in whatever form we so choose. This might explain why some people are seeing rather human looking aliens, the likes of which Rabbi Horowitz tells us do not exist. Are they demons in disguise? Personally, I cannot definitively say. I have not participated in any sightings of humanoid so-called aliens. However, from the reports that I have read, they are most definitely suspect. And for sure, the people who are claiming these extraterrestrial visitations know nothing about the ways of the demons. It would be the easiest thing in the world for demons to deceive such uneducated simpletons of the spiritual worlds. If the aliens are really demons, and the demons live in subterranean caverns beneath the surface of the earth, does this mean that the UFOs are coming to us from the subterranean realms? I am not the first to ask this question. Dr. Raymond Bernard Ph.D., in his book The Hollow Earth (Citadel, NY 1969), devotes an entire chapter to this subject. He says that the UFOs are coming from humanoid subterranean civilizations who are concerned about surface mans detonation of the atomic bomb. According to the Jewish sources that I quoted above, there are such human-like races living under the earth. Most likely they have some form of technology which is appropriate for their needs as our technology serves us. Are these human-like beings the fallen angels of whom we have spoken of above, whom the Zohar teaches now live underground? If they are not one and the same, then perhaps they know of one another or are somehow aligned with one another. After all, if there is an inner earth then its surface is not as big as the earths surface. The fallen angels and their demonic cohorts, who very possibly are behind these abductions, live and commune together down there. It is not too far an assumption to then say that if there are other civilizations beneath the earth, maybe the fallen angels and demons also attempt to plague them as they do mankind? Regarding matters of this nature, we have no answers, we can only speculate. If the so-called aliens are the ones performing animal mutilations, the fact that they are really demons would certainly explain why the mutilations are in correct satanic ritualistic form. If the aliens are truly the half breed children of humans and demons, it would explain how they can be physical and non-corporeal at the same time. Most abductees ascribe this ability to almost all the aliens that they have encountered.
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One way to ascertain the origins of the so-called aliens and test them for demonic origins is to interpret the communications and information they are allegedly giving to mankind. Whether in abduction experiences or in the now famous close encounters of the third kind, where aliens meet consciously and willingly with humans, the aliens are talking a lot, most specifically and curiously about religion and spirituality. Almost all people receiving this information believe it to be far superior to anything that we on earth have heard, or listened to, before. I believe it is important that I document what is alleged to be alien teachings on spirituality and religion. As always, I cannot ascertain the legitimacy of these accounts. I can only write what others are claiming that the aliens are teaching. I admit, the credibility of many of these sources is greatly suspect.
analyze them from a Torah point of view. I might not be able to definitively prove or disprove that the source of these teachings are alien. However, by holding them up to the light of G-ds true and unwavering Word (Torah) we can, at least, ascertain the truths or falsehoods that are being taught.
Cult #1
I start with one of the more famous of the UFO contactees. His name is Claude Vorilhon. He claims to have met a group of aliens called the Elohim, the Hebrew name for G-d. He claims that they gave him the angelic name of Rael, which I am sure he does not know is Hebrew for the evil of G-d. (Ra - evil; El, short for Elohim-G-d). This so-called angel name alone makes me suspicious and reminds me that the true name of Satan is Samael (which is the poison of G-d). Also remember that the elohim is the name of a race of angels. Vorilhon has created a new religion (cult would be a better word) which, according to Richard L. Thompson in his book Alien Identities (Govardhan Hill, 1993), as of 1990 has 30,000 members. The symbol of this new group is the Jewish Star. There is just one twist. Inside the Jewish Star is the symbol of the Swastika, the symbol of Nazi Germany. In the eye of any Jew, and righteous gentile, this is an arrogant and offensive thing to do. But Vorilhon does not stop there. According to James R. Lewis, in his book The Gods Have Landed, New Religions From Other Worlds (State U. of NY, 1995), in order to become a member of Vorilhons group, the Elohim have instructed him that each initiate must first send a letter of apostasy to the church they were baptized in. This is one of the ways that Vorilhon was given to demythologicalize the Bible. According to Vorilhon, the Elohim (or the Raelians) are small humanoid creatures with pale green skin and big almond eyes. This makes them sound awfully similar to the gray aliens who are conducting the abductions and sexual experiments. Vorilhon says the Raelian Elohim deny the existence of G-d and the existence of the soul. He says that the Raelian Elohim created mankind in a laboratory using DNA manipulations. Vorilhons job is to preach to the world the new truth with the hope that the world will be prepared to receive these Elohim when they come here openly in the year 2025. Not only do the Raelian Elohim want to come to Earth, they wish to open an embassy here. And of all the places on earth, where do you think these Raelian Elohim have chosen for their future embassy? Washington? Rome? Tibet? No!! These so-called aliens want to be in Jerusalem!! They deny the existence of G-d, and the G-d given Divine soul, yet they want to be in Jerusalem. I wonder what will happen when they find out that Israel will not welcome them. Will they be among the nations that G-d has prophesied to come against Jerusalem in the last days (Zech. 14)? Will these aliens be a part of, or the cause of, the final battle of Gog and Magog, commonly known as Armageddon? Who knows? I personally do not extend much credibility to Mr. Vorilhon and his Raelian Elohim. Based on the little of his teachings provided here, I can dismiss him and his group as having no legitimacy
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whatsoever. Nonetheless, this does not mean he is not in contact with something! I just fear that the something talking with Mr. Vorilhon is of more earthly origins, and of a demonic nature. I am not concerned about his so-called aliens interest in Jerusalem, but I do find it an interesting point. Mr. Vorilhon is not the only one allegedly in touch with aliens who claim to know the truth behind the Bible and the true origins of mankind. Another interesting character is Eduard Billy Meier. His story is most interesting. He is the one meeting up with the blonde hair, blue-eyed, model- gorgeous, female aliens; and boy, do they have a story to tell!
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As a Rabbi, I find this teaching most interesting and dubiously familiar. Again, whether this teaching is coming from a real live extraterrestrial, demons in disguise or whatever, the teaching reveals the spiritual level of its speaker. This spiritual level was the same as that of Pharaoh, King of Egypt, who in the Bible opposed Moses and denied the existence of YHWH. A deeper explanation of this is necessary for it reflects directly upon Rabbi Horowitzs views, discussed earlier, how extraterrestrials would differ from humans by not having free will.
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In the book Derekh HaShem, The Way of G-d, one of the best introductions into Judaism, written by the 17th century master Kabbalist Rabbi Moshe Hayim Luzzato, it is written that G-d controls His universe similar to the workings of a human government. Everything proceeds in accordance to a system of cosmic law and order. The angels are G-ds messengers carrying out the details of His edicts. However, G-d has His own agenda for His universe and at times has intervened in His world in ways which are over and above the natural path. G-d does this to awaken within man the reality that we are not just animals subject to the laws of nature, but as humans we are under G-d, who like G-d can rise up above the natural influences, and become holy. While we acknowledge the laws of nature, the Torah teaches us that we are not limited by them. G-d is a G-d of miracles. A miracle is a suspension of the laws of nature for a time. G-d can suspend anyone of His laws when He so chooses. G-d is above the laws of nature and teaches Israel to be so as well. Jewish survival throughout two thousand years of horrible persecutions is certainly one of these miraculous supernatural events, just as supernatural as was the giving of Torah at Mt. Sinai. G-d intervenes regularly in human history above and beyond the laws of nature to teach us how to act above the laws of nature as well.
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step forward, but rather a spiritual step backward. These ideas of Semjase are most appropriate for a demonic entity. And if they are the views of a real extraterrestrial, then the words of the Rabbis and Kabbalists found in the holy Talmud and elsewhere most certainly ring true. The righteous human, after the era of Messianic maturity, is destined to travel to space and rule over many worlds. It would seem that even the technologically advanced aliens have much to learn about spiritual reality from the Torah of the Jews from the planet Earth. It seems that Semjases views about the universe are shared by other so-called extraterrestrials in their communications with people. Thompson points out in his chapter 11, UFOs and Religion: There are a number of reports of UFOrelated communications that directly mention some idea about God. To my knowledge, these practically all present a pantheistic or impersonal conception of the Supreme. Impersonal conceptions describe the Supreme as an ultimate force, energy, or state of being that is the source of all phenomena but is devoid of all personal attributes. In a way, this description is somewhat similar to what the Kabbalah teaches about G-d in His ultimate sense as being the Ayn Sof, the Without End. As such, G-d could very well be described as impersonal and as a force, energy, or state of being. However, this is where the comparison ends. For the Ultimate existence of G-d is manifest in the universe through the ten sefirot, which are a series of Divine emanations of the Ultimate Light. These emanations act as filters to enable the entities in these the lower worlds to receive a portion from the ultimate light, which is the source of all life. It is G-d in His ultimate Nature as the Ayn Sof that is truly G-d, and thus quite above the laws of the universe He has created. Therefore, He can channel His ultimate light into whatever vessel of manifestation that He so chooses at the time. This is the meaning of Divine providence and free will. G-d in His ultimate grace chooses to be a personal G-d and thus allows for each of His subjects to come to know Him personally as the Master of the universe, instead of just knowing a cold and calculating universe where there is no force of mercy and justice. Thompson writes that these aliens teach a pantheistic conception of the universe which identifies G-d with the universe. The Bible (the Ten Commandments) teaches us, You shall have no other G-ds before Me (Ex. 20:3). Literally, this verse states, You shall have no other G-ds upon My Face. What this means is that one is forbidden to view anything else in the universe, including the universe itself, and call it G-d, who is the Creator of the universe and, therefore, above it. I find it interesting that these so-called aliens seem to have a religious agenda which is specifically geared towards taking people away from the Biblical truths, all in the name of receiving a higher wisdom and knowledge. It was this same rationale that the Serpent in the Garden used to get Eve to eat from the forbidden tree. She too was told that this would take her closer to G-d. As we know, it was
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the opposite of the truth. Rabbis and Kabbalists have always been weary of socalled new truths that offer to take us to a higher level if we only are willing to abandon the old truths.
Anti-Semitic Aliens?
These so-called aliens claim to be responsible for the human race as we know it, for they claim that it was they who genetically manipulated early humans. Thompson claims that these stories are told with the specific intent of getting the listener to repudiate any conceptions of a personal God. Thompson states quite matter of factly that some of these alien teachings, specifically attack the foundation of particular devotional faiths - notably Christianity. While I am certainly not a defender of Christianity, the attacks against Christianity are really attacks against the Bible, and the Bible is Jewish!! Therefore, these attacks are de facto very much against Torah and Judaism. I will definitely rise up to meet this challenge (which is why I have written this present work). Another interesting point that Thompson brings up is the similarity of the alien religions with the teachings of Hinduism and the eastern religions. This similarity is the entire gist of Thompson's book. Yet even he is honest enough to admit, at least in regards to Meier and his Semjase connection, that there might be something other than an extraterrestrial connection. Thompson writes (pg. 401), The philosophical points brought up by Semjase are certainly not new in human society, and one wonders where Meier really got them. All of these points are well known in India, and Meier is known to have spent time there. It could be that he was simply expounding from the mouth of Semjase ideas that he picked up in India. I do not believe it to be a coincidence that alleged UFO religious beliefs just so happen to coincide with modern pop-culture, New Age beliefs, all of which are a bastardization of Hindu religious beliefs coupled with western occultism. As a matter of fact, most occultists of this and the last century all claimed to be in touch with ascended masters from other planets. A mind empty of knowledge and faith is one that craves being filled. Sometimes the craving is so great that rationality and healthy skepticism are pushed aside. Such is the case, I believe, with the people who listen to and believe in this occultic, eastern religion, New Age UFO hype. It does not surprise me that the UFOs and their aliens are expressing the same alternate religious views that their so-called chosen messengers would have espoused with or without their alien connections. While many people listen to and take seriously what these New Age UFO messengers have to say, the serious UFO-extraterrestrial researcher recognizes the New Age hype and dismisses these teachings for what they are: a way to gain notoriety and make a large amount of money. This fringe element of the UFO phenomena does not do UFO investigation the serious credit it rightfully deserves.
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However, the interest in alien concepts on religion does not seem to be limited to the fringe elements among those interested in UFOs. Rather well known in UFO circles today is Bob Lazar, a man who is documented to have worked for secret projects for the US government. Of course, he is a man of controversy with quite a story to tell about his personal experiences and eye witness accounts of alien technology that he was given permission to examine. Yet through all the tales, true or false he also claims to have seen secret government reports on religion, supposedly revealed by the aliens to their US government contacts.
circles in Israel, this is common knowledge. This is only one of the smaller miracles that Baba Sali was known to perform. To the Christian this might remind him of the story of Jesus who, in the Synoptic Gospels, passed out a small amount of fish and bread, which stretched to feed thousands. Whether that story is true or false, who can say. But regarding Baba Sali, his miracles occurred in our lifetime. The witnesses are here to prove it. And, to the best of my knowledge, and I do know Baba Salis family, he was never abducted by aliens, nor was he genetically manipulated. He himself attributed his abilities to having lived a righteous and holy life before G-d, and having the faith in G-d be the prime motivational factor in all of his life. So, with all due respect to Mr. Lazar, the secret agencies in our governments and the aliens, those who submit themselves to G-d and His Torah, and not only study it but live it, will accomplish great deeds, including miracles. Getting back to the topic of extraterrestrial religious teachings, it is interesting to note how most of these fringe element UFO extraterrestrial contactees are receiving their information. It is not coming through face to face contacts with these UFO's and their occupants. No, the contactees are claiming that they are receiving this information telepathically or through the act of channeling wherein which a spirit of an extraterrestrial takes over the contactees mind and body for a while, and then communicates, be it through writing or through speaking. Meiers work with Semjase came in this form, as does that of many of the "New Age" UFO teachings. It is just interesting to note what this procedure is, what it accomplishes and just who takes it seriously.
The opening Mishna (teaching) of Sefer Yetzirah outlines the technique G-d used to create the universe. Using a play of Hebrew words, the text says that G-d created the world by a means that implies a combination of Thought, Sound and Mathematics. The text proceeds to introduce the concept of the ten sefirot of nothingness. The word sefira(ot) comes from the Hebrew root safar for that which is counted. Yet, it is also related to sefer which means book, sippur, which means story and sapar, the speaker, or teller of the story. All in all, the term sefira(ot) comes to connote delineation, separation, boundary and context. For all things, in the corporeal or noncorporeal world, physical or spiritual, are not limitless existences. For only G-d is limitless and without end. Everything in creation has its boundaries and parameters. This is what separates the creation from its Creator. G-d in His infinite state is far above the ability of any power in His creation to fully perceive. In order for G-d to be perceived by all of His creation He developed a system of delineations which act as filters, so as to siphon His ultimate light into a form that can be received by each creation according to its needs. This group of filters are ten in number and form, a type of spiritual DNA pattern that underlies all existence, be it corporeal or non-corporeal, be it good or evil. These ten filters or boundaries which limit and thus give form and context to G-ds ultimate light are the sefirot. Now, the sefirot are not G-d. It is a grievous sin to think that they are. The sefirot are vessels and nothing more. Yet, it is in reference to these vessels that the Bible speaks in the verse where G-d is said to create man in our image and in our likeness (Gen. 1). This explains why this verse speaks in the plural. It is referring to the image of the ten sefirot. Sefer Yetzirah emphasizes at length that the sefirot are not physical entities, nor have they any type of recognizable form. Rather, the sefirot are said to be like a bolt of lighting, seen for a fraction of a second, felt for a long while after. The essence of the sefirot is so sublime that we can only capture a reflection of their essence, but never their true nature. Without getting into too much detail of the full array of the sefirot I will summarize and say that the sefirot, sub-divide, manifest and work within four separate and distinct areas of influence in creation. These four are, from above to below, the realms of the spiritual (Divine), the mental, the emotional (astral, the realm of energy) and the physical (corporeal world of matter). It is these four worlds which Rabbi Horowitz made mention of in Sefer HaBrit mentioned earlier on.
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It is for this reason that G-ds Name is so holy that it is never pronounced. For the Name YHWH is much more than a mere name, it is much more than just a simple formula. G-ds Name contains within it not only the pattern of the theoretical universe, the Name also conceals the power source through which the forces of the universe are activated. One who therefore knows G-ds Name knows G-d Himself, and through this relationship can come to use the powers of G-d to manifest mastery over the natural laws of time and space. One who accomplishes this level of union with G-d is called a Master of the Good Name, better known in Hebrew as a Baal Shem Tov. This was the popular title given to Rabbi Yisrael Ben Eliezer, the founder of the Hasidic movement, but by no means was he the first or the last to have earned this title. When Moses parted the Sea, he showed mastery over the forces of matter and was thus their lord. The forces of matter are the realm of space. Through G-ds holy Name, Moses was a Baal Shem Tov. Joshua is recorded to have commanded the sun to stay still over the battlefield, which it did for a period of 24 hours. This showed his mastery over time, especially since the sun did not stop anywhere else in the world. The rest of the world continued to have normal day and night. This was a real feat, an unbeatable miracle! Joshua was able to use the holy Name to transport the entire battlefield into a parallel dimension where the laws of nature would act in accordance to the will of Joshua as dictated by the holy Name. Thus Joshua too was a Baal Shem Tov. Even in our day, as Baba Sali performed his own miracles, he too manifested his mastery over the laws of nature and was a living Baal Shem Tov. In every generation there are those whom G-d has blessed and revealed to them His Name, and thus His true power. They alone are the true agents of good upon this planet, among the human race. The power of G-ds Name is not to be underestimated. Being that G-ds Name is so tremendously powerful, it is the favored tool in Kabbalistic circles for meditation. Through the practices of Kabbalistic meditation, many of which were spelled out for the nations by the patriarch Abraham in his Sefer Yetzirah, one can become personally aware of and experience all the worlds and dimensions in the universe, for they are included with G-ds Name. One who has set out on this spiritual journey will encounter many different types of entities, from all different places of origins. As ones mind expands and merges with G-d, ones consciousness grows, bringing to ones conscious mind the knowledge of many things, especially the differentiation of good and evil, and the sacred and the profane. As one comes closer to G-d, through performance of the correct meditation techniques and rituals, one naturally separates from that which is far from G-d. This act of separation is the acquisition of holiness. For holiness, Kedusha in Hebrew, means separation.
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It is in this position of holiness/separation that the aspiring Kabbalist comes to recognize the things that G-d has created in His world and the place of each of these things. A Master of the Good Name who is an expert in these matters is impossible to fool. Without delay he recognizes that which is from G-d and that which is far from G-d. A real Baal Shem has the ability to expose and distinguish between any spiritual entity be it angel, demon, spirit, human or extraterrestrial.
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such an explanation is known to be false because of the experiences that are achieved through practicing the Kabbalistic prophetic techniques. The sefirotic reality that is outlined in Sefer Yetzirah when properly grasped, explored and experienced enables the practitioner to become a Baal Shem. With such mastery one is required to become a citizen and participant in the other dimensional worlds. The Baal Shem at this level has mastered a sort of spiritual technology. While present day technology seeks to manipulate and bend the laws of time and space through physical devices that use physical means, spiritual technology relies exclusively on the innate and unconscious power of the mind. The mind of present conscious man is only a small and pitiful remnant of what is left after the fall of Adam in Eden. Originally, the mind of man, using the Talmudic term, was able to see from one end of the world to the other. In other words, Adam, (collective mankind), ruled over the entire universe of space and time. Indeed, the Sefer Yetzirah speaks of G-ds universe as being divided into three general realms, olam (space), shana (time) and nefesh (soul, i.e., consciousness). A Baal Shem reunites himself with the lost parts of Adam. He becomes rectified man. He becomes what man was meant to be: the receptacle of G-ds light in the realm of the corporeal. Sefer Yetzirah consists of six chapters, five of which deal with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and their astrological and biological correlates. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet are of paramount importance, for as the Bible teaches, G-d created the universe by speaking it into existence. What G-d spoke was words. Words are made up of letters. Letters are made of sound. Sound is the base, primordial energy that manifests as both energy and matter. The knowledge of the Sefer Yetzirah enables the one who learns it to master the building blocks of creation, the same forces that G-d Himself used when He created the universe. Yet, all this knowledge begins with Chapter Two. Chapter One speaks of the sefirot and how they are the vessels of G-ds ultimate Light. One must never forget, especially at the level of the nullification of energy, matter, time and space, that there is a master Director and L-rd over all. It was to teach this lesson that Abraham wrote the Sefer Yetzirah. In a generation infested with idolatry, similar to today, no one knew their spiritual right from their left. Talk is cheap. Abraham provided something much deeper and real. As always, some listened, others did not. Regarding our topic of aliens, as Rabbi Horowitz pointed out, these aliens would not have free will. In other words, they would not know YHWH, the true spiritual level that is beyond creation. Creation would seem to be a first cause to them, the ultimate mystery, something which can never be fathomed. Yet, for the Jew of planet earth, the recipient of Divine knowledge from beyond the universe, the universe both revealed and concealed, is simply a brother/sister creation, equally subservient and dependent upon the true Master of the the universe.
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While these aliens might not have knowledge of the supreme reality of G-d, they nonetheless can have knowledge far advanced of the human in his fallen state. Aliens might be very well aware of the inter-dimensional four realm reality that I have described above. If they do not know all four levels, which they cannot, they can at least know two or three. In other words, aliens, like angels and demons might have penetrated the veil that separates corporeal from non-corporeal reality. In no way does this make such entities any more spiritual or any closer to G-d. Similar to this is western culture man; with all his technological advancements, he has still not elevated his spiritual level in the slightest. On the contrary, it seems that the growth of technology has led to a loss of spirituality. Is there a connection between the two? In order to address this question I will only bring up one point. In the Bible it is taught that after Cain was banished from before G-d, as punishment for killing his brother Abel, his first act was to build a city. This was the beginning of urbanization. Urbanization (a form of technology) thus began as an act of rebellion against G-d. The Tower of Babel, another technological marvel, was appreciated even less in Heaven. As more technology has been introduced into western society, the more secular and less religious society has become. Technology in the wrong hands, therefore, becomes a very dangerous thing. According to a number of sources, governments around the world have successfully experimented with the latent powers of the human mind. By this I mean ESP, astral travel and the rest of parapsychological powers. As I mentioned above, the realm of the parapsychological delves into the noncorporeal realities that exist beyond human consciousness. Notice that I did not say that the psychic realm exists outside the human mind, for it does not. Do not make the mistake of thinking that the human mind is limited to the physical brain, and thus entrapped exclusively within the human body. Even Carl Jung has documented scientifically that the human mind extends far beyond the limitations of the conscious mind. He has proven that there is a non-corporeal aspect to the mind. This realm Jung calls the collective unconscious.
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Before one gets to the level of the collective outside of the limitation of the personal conscious self, there are other realms that must first be traversed. This is the realm of the individual unconscious, which Jung calls the shadow and the Kabbalists call the klipot (the shells that surround the fruit). It is at this point that the prophetic Kabbalistic path begins. According to the teachers of Kabbalistic meditation (Rabbi Haim Vitals Shaarei Kedusha, Shaar HaGilgulim and the Etz Haim), prior to any successful ascent beyond the realms of corporeal matter and consciousness, we must first completely rectify the world that we wish to expand beyond. Being that we all start as physical human beings, it is the physical world that first needs to be rectified. The meaning of rectification is to prepare a place for G-ds light to shine unhindered. In the physical world this can only be accomplished by the performance of correct action. It is correct action, in other words doing the right thing, that creates the proper environment for G-dliness to manifest in human society. It is for this reason that G-d gave to all mankind, through Adam and Noah, the seven universal laws, and to the children of Israel, who are a nation of priests and a light unto the nations, G-d gave the 613 commandments of His holy Torah. I now provide a stern and serious warning. No spiritual ascent can be successful unless one is properly prepared to make that ascent. Without the performance of proper action, one cannot create the proper mind set that is conducive and open to safe passage through the unknown territory of the astral realm. This piece of information is not exclusively Kabbalistic. Most other religious/mystical paths teach the same thing, that it is forbidden to move to the next step prior to completing the step that one is on. Even Jung acknowledged this. It is for this reason that the mystical path and successful individuation psychotherapy take a long time to master. First the person must do what is required, required by the laws of nature, the laws of self, and the laws of G-d. Only in this way is passage in the astral plane secure and safe, without worry of harm from non-corporeal entities that both live and travel there. Just as there are dubious people who seek to manipulate and deceive others, so too in the astral plane there are both native entities and visitors who seek to deceive people who dare to enter the astral plane unprepared. Proper training in astral passage consists of first knowing what there is to encounter, how to recognize these, how to deal with them and be protected from them if necessary. The British occult writer Dion Fortune has written an entire book on this topic entitled Psychic Self Defense (Weiser, 1992), a guide to defending oneself at the astral level. She based her work almost exclusively on Kabbalistic sources. Make no mistake, we all have connections in the astral level. But being that these connectionsare non-corporeal, the astral is experienced with the non-corporeal component of consciousness, which is the realm of the individual unconscious.
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The astral plane is inhabited by the entities and images that we experience through the right brain. The Rabbis and Kabbalists teach that every thought, word and action creates either an angel or a demon. Jung also agrees with this, yet he states this in more scientifically acceptable terms. Jung states that whatever is pushed out of the consciousness of a person takes on an autonomous existence in the unconscious. In other words, those things that pop up in our heads, and in our dreams, even if we have created them (especially if we have created them) have a life of their own. This reminds me of the Kabbalistic teaching that when a person has a seminal emission not achieved in holiness, that demons can become impregnated with the vital energy within that semen and bare demonic non-corporeal souls. These hybrid human/demonic entities haunt their father or mother and suckle from them as would a child of flesh and blood. In the same way, there are components of our conscious, or within our unconscious mind, that act in this manner. For this reason people have irrational fears, or sometimes feel a presence around them. Our own personal demons or angels are quite real and quite self-created. They are most definitely not harmless figments of the imagination. Yet these are not the exclusive inhabitants of the Yetziratic astral plane. There is still another group of images that can invade the unconscious mind. These are the thought forms that come from other corporeal beings, be they other human beings or possibly extraterrestrials. We know that certain people have certain vibes to them, some people feel good to be around, some the opposite. These vibes again are not figments of the imagination but are very real impressions being made upon the right brain. It is the left brain and its corporeal rationality that has a hard time interpreting these impressions. Impressions are received in a pictorial form through which the right brain communicates. These impressions are received by us and we apply to them a form and image which is compatible and in alignment with our left brain rational abilities of comprehension. This area of pictorial impressions is what Jung calls Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, which he has shown to differ from one racial group to the next, all in accordance to the racial collective memory and history which is inborn in each individual. It is amazing how much similarity there is between the Kabbalistic teachings and Jungs Analytical Psychology. Jungs writings reveal his sizable knowledge of Kabbalistic teachings. I wonder how much he borrowed and relabeled psychology. Though I do quote Jung, I assure you my sources of information on these matters of the mind and the unconscious are from authentic bonafide Jewish (Haredi) sources, specifically the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Abulafia and Rabbi Haim Vital. I simply mention Jung so as to help make the psychological correlations necessary so people will understand that what I discuss here is not simply religion or mysticism, but legitimate science as well. Archetypal entities, and it is correct to call them entities, are non-corporeal. They exist by their own set of natural laws in their own dimensions. And although their
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dimensions are not physical, they are quite real. It is in this dimension of the astral plane that the more pure form of matter exists. This is the level of the haluka drabbanan (the Rabbinic cloak) which is the astral body. The Rabbis and Kabbalists teach that this astral body is built of and nourished by the physical deeds that we do. Again, this explains the importance of correct action on behalf of mankind by obeying the laws of G-d.
from another. How would you be able to differentiate? The sheer idea of manipulative visitors upon the astral plane, who can take any form or image and make themselves look like whomever they wish, or like whatever their receiver wishes to see, is the ultimate form of evil, repressive mind control, wherein which the person does not even know that he/she is being influenced. Such influences have always been there from the native inhabitants of the astral plane. We call these entities the Yetzer HaTov and the Yetzer Hara, which are the angels (inclinations) of good and evil respectively. According to the holy Zohar, these are not simple psychological dispositions to do good or bad, but rather they are actual angelic and demonic entities who are always with a person, influencing him in one way or another. It sounds like Abba Benjamin (quoted above) was correct. If we really could see what was going on with the multitude of spirits around us, we would go crazy. This is where correct actions play such a pivotal role. Since the results of correct action create our astral body, only when our astral body is complete and healthy are we then able to properly assimilate the astral experience and then ready to move on. If this does not occur, we become stuck. We are thus doomed until we learn those lessons which are necessary for our souls.
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Talmud states that we are to imitate the actions that He performs here in the world. As He is righteous so must we be, as He is merciful so must we be etc... What we must do is that which G-d has commanded us to do, be it the seven universal laws for the gentile nations or the 613 commandments for the Jew. These G-d ordained actions place us in the proper proximity to receive the flow of His abundant existence. It is all very simple. In order to receive the right thing you have to be in the right place, period. That is all there is to it. When a person is in the right place, spiritually speaking, he is psychically in the right place to open the unconscious mind to the pure higher influences that flow down from the higher realms, inhabited by the Higher Self (the Neshama soul) which stands perennially before G-ds holy Throne. When people have telepathic and channeled communications with entities which they claim are other than expressions of their own unconscious, we need to discern and confirm the true source of information prior to deciphering the information so as to ascertain its value. People who claim to be receivers of information must be examined in their actions, feelings and beliefs so as to ascertain their proximity to G-d. Only in this way can we test whether the information received is valid. We must remember that the source of telepathic and channeled information is the unconscious, i.e., a source beyond our conscious mind. If this information was coming from the conscious mind, then it is the person himself who is the source of the information, not some nebulous other. Since information from the unconscious travels through what we call the astral plane (Olam HaYetzirah), and the astral plane is a very busy place full of angels, demons, personified human thought and emotion, astrally projected human souls and possible extraterrestrials, it becomes essential that we be able to properly ascertain who is saying what and why. This is very important!! Just as there are malicious people who take advantage of less savvy individuals and dupe them because the simple people are unaware of deceptive ways, so are there astral beings and others who use the astral plane to continue to dupe and deceive, each for their own malicious purpose. Much so-called alien communication is occurring through alleged telepathic and channeled means. Yet, every one of these messages is in outright contradiction to G-ds revealed word in the Bible. Some people that I know take objection to this and challenge me to prove that the Bible is truly G-ds Divine word. I must, however, dismiss these objections because spiritual truth cannot and will not be proved in nonspiritual ways. Such an attempt is an insult to both G-d and man. G-ds word is Divine. It is carved into the soul of every person, each according to the source of that soul. One thing, however, is very clear. G-d is not a man that He should be deceitful (Num. 23:19). In other words, G-d did not say one thing at Mt. Sinai just to contradict Himself thousands of years later by either Him or His angels speaking to some would-be prophet of today (or of two thousand years ago). Many have come forward to reinterpret the Bible so as to make it
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read how they wish. The Rabbis and Kabbalists see through these malicious deceptions and condemn them for the evil intent which they truly contain. Regardless of the conscious sincerity of the people contradicting G-ds word, they are in contact with and giving expression to outright evil, even if they completely believe the opposite to be true. G-d exists above time. To Him thousands of years do not exist. G-d is with us in the present. G-ds present is also thousands of years ago at Mt. Sinai. For us, that is the past. G-ds past, present and future exist equally before Him. This is the reality of the fifth dimension of Divine insight. Therefore it is written, I am YHWH, I do not change (Mal. 3:6). When someone comes and channels, or otherwise receives a message supposedly from G-d or from an extraterrestrial who claims to bear G-ds Name, we should immediately recognize the deceptive nature of such communication. Those receiving such communication must develop greater spiritual sophistication to ascertain the true sources of what they are dealing with. Just as malicious people use physical means and cause great harm to others, be it physical, emotional or spiritual harm, there are others, be they angels, demons, personified human thought and emotion, astrally projected human souls and even possibly extraterrestrials, that can cause grievous spiritual harm to people by removing them from the natural flow of G-ds abundance. I offer this warning because I know there are a lot of good sincere people out there who are being deceived and have no way of knowing how to tell the difference between their spiritual right hand from their spiritual left.
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drive them away by reading aloud from her Bible. This sounds more like demonic activity than friendly extraterrestrials. Why else would they be afraid of the Bible? The woman proceeds to relate how she was taught an occult ritual to help battle negative entities. Are we to conclude that the aliens are negative entities, and possibly from earthly origins? The author of this article is not the first person to suggest this. Laporte mentions another article where it is claimed that interdimensional entities, connected with the earth, were using the dragon power something that is a part of all energy, but not a specific energy, at fault lines to materialize into and out of our world. Again, this does not sound extraterrestrial, at all! Laporte continues to tell more of the story. The woman relates that late one night she heard a disembodied guttural growl come from the middle of her room. Looking around, she confirmed that she was alone. She cast a circle of white light around herself (the above mentioned occult ritual) and went to sleep. Later she awoke suddenly and with terror. Though she was wide awake, she was paralyzed, and she heard again the disembodied voice. She fought as hard as she could just to slowly turn her head, where just outside the circle of light that she visualized around herself she could see a floating alien head, human in appearance, swirling in an emerald-green energy. She started to mentally chant In the Name of G-d I command you to return from where you came and dont return. Each time that she did this the floating head grew smaller and smaller until it finally faded away completely. When it was gone so was the paralysis of her body. The woman concludes by saying that she jumped out of bed to notice that the time was 3:00 AM, what she calls the magic witching hour which is the same time that many UFO and paranormal events occur. Many were said to be able to successfully terminate negative close interactions in this religious manner. This sounds like a scene from a horror movie, yet this woman claims this is what her extraterrestrial experience was like. Both Laporte and this woman seem to realize this type of alien encounter appears very much to be an alien encounter of the demonic kind. Laporte relates further examples. He tells the episode of Emily who would be paralyzed by these entities, she would resort to an intense mental struggle to free herself from them. Furthermore, she learned that if she could move even a toe or finger she could break the paralysis and the creatures would instantly vanish. He further tells of Lori Briggs and her episode when one night, white skinned, large headed small humanoids suddenly materialized in her bedroom. They proceeded to transport her through her bedroom wall to a hovering craft. Laporte relates still other peoples experiences. One night in the mid-1980s Melissa awoke paralyzed. Standing near her bed was a dark, but indistinct, human sized figure . . . she began calling on the chief warrior against all dark spirits - the Archangel Michael - to protect her. Immediately the dark shape vanished. Jean described an extraterrestrial as Almost like an electronic force, trying to pull me out of my body. She confided in her grandmother who
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confessed that she too had problems with similar visitors. Jean found out her grandmother combated the intruders via the use of prayer. As can be seen by these examples, the so-called extraterrestrial abduction phenomenon definitely has a demonic element to it. Maybe these abductions are not being carried out by aliens, but by demons disguised as aliens. Or are aliens the ones disguising themselves as demons? Maybe the interdimensional demons actually do inhabit another planet and are thus both extraterrestrials and demons. Whatever the truth may be, these entities are bad news for human beings, and they are evil. The forces of evil are always vanquished by the forces of good. There is no greater force of good than the power of the living G-d. These examples clearly show that the power of faith in G-d seems to override the advanced technologies of these so-called aliens. Would this be the case if these people were dealing with real physical entities using real physical technological devices? Laporte answers no, that real entities would be unaffected by such trivial things as prayer and Divine invocations. But even Laporte recognizes a higher power and a spiritual technology operating in these circumstances. Laporte gives people the advice that they should pray to G-d, use a banishing ceremony and use a religious artifact to wave off an attack. He then concludes by going directly into the practices of magic to outline a technique of psychic self defense very well known to every practicing occultist. Laporte teaches the use of the ceremonial dagger. Being that I do not wish to support or encourage the use of magical ceremonies, I will not describe the ritual usage of the dagger. However, Laporte does describe in detail how the dagger is to be used. This shows that Laporte obviously has knowledge of occultic magic. The question is: why does occultic magic have an effect upon alleged extraterrestrials? The answer to this I have already proposed many times throughout this work. There are negative, evil entities out there from whatever source, and their intent is harmful to mankind. At this point it doesnt matter if they are from another dimension or from another planet. What matters is that we recognize that these experiences are real. What matters is that these experiences are not new. What matters is that the Rabbis and Kabbalists know very well how to deal with these situations. Being that there is obviously malevolent intent on the part of these invaders, whoever they are, I outline here the Kabbalistic order of night-time protection used to provide, for those who need it, the ability to stand up against these dark forces.
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body) is actually visible to them. This is how these malevolent entities recognize which victims to assault. Therefore, proper sexual behavior is of paramount importance. It is a subject covered in great depth in Rabbinic and Kabbalistic literature. The laws of proper sexuality are incumbent equally upon Jew and gentile alike. Learning from the lesson of Adam and Eve, the Rabbis and Kabbalists have recognized that when men and women are not united in holy matrimony, improper sexual actions occur. The worst of all these is masturbation. For even though there is no physical partner, the mental image which is fantasized over during that despicable act becomes enlivened through the energy release of orgasm. As such there actually is an impregnation on the astral Yetziratic plane. These entities then seek out human bodies to inhabit. It is these souls who are the scourge of mankind. We are required by G-ds law not to create such children. Therefore, masturbation is a great evil which must be avoided at all costs. Similarly, when participating in sex with a partner, mental fantasy can cause serious spiritual damage. There are actual reports in Kabbalistic literature about children who, when born, have the appearance of the fantasized partner instead of the biological one. Spiritual birth is much more powerful than physical birth. These teachings might be scoffed at by the skeptic and the so- called rationalist. But it is specifically that category of people who are careless in these matters and thereby cause the above mentioned damage. The Talmud, Zohar and the Shulkhan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law) all outline correct sexual activity in and out of bed. Most important are the prayers recited at bedtime. For the Orthodox Jew, the Kriyat Shema Al HaMitah is a familiar prayer service. Though there are different traditions as to which prayers should be said, all traditions agree as to the reason for their recital, to keep away unwanted nocturnal spiritual forces. The following prayers and Psalms have a very powerful effect to create an envelope of spiritual protection so that one will have naught to fear in the night. These prayers are also good at all other times as well. For those of you who wish to have the full order of the night time prayers in accordance to the Kabbalistic tradition, I refer you to the number of Sephardic (oriental) and Hasidic prayer books that are available, mostly through Jewish bookstores in Brooklyn, NY and in Israel. What I am going to outline here are the bare minimums that one need recite for spiritual protection. What I present here is not Jewish law, but Jewish tradition. There are specific laws for the recitation of the bedtime prayer, and it is important that every Jewish person who is reading this and does not know these laws seek out a competent Orthodox (Haredi) Rabbi to teach you these things. The righteous gentile will find what I relate here to be sufficient. During any time of danger one of the greatest spiritual weapons is the recitation of Psalms. Psalms have been known to have an effect even at the most perilous times of war or plague. Even if the so- called aliens are true extraterrestrials and
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not just some malevolent spirits, Psalms will actually work against whatever technology they might have. Psalms can even be effective against man-made technology. Israeli soldiers tell many stories about outright miracles that occurred during the Arab-Israeli wars, all due to the reading of Psalms and other Kabbalistic prayer rituals. There is even a Hebrew text called Shimush Tehilim The Magical Use of Psalms, outlining how Psalms are used for a variety of different purposes. An unfortunately poor translation of this text is available in English under the title The New 6th and 7th Books of Moses and The Magical Use of Psalms by Migene Gonzalez-Wippler (Original Pub. NY 1982). I acknowledge the book but do not recommend it. Too much is lost in the translation, and it ends up being a book on magic instead of anything holy. Regardless of other peoples attempts to reveal the secrets of the Psalms, I will outline here the age old Jewish order of Psalms, which, when recited sincerely at bedtime, will certainly protect even the most fallen of souls, all with the help of Almighty G-d. I am going to relate the older traditions of these prayers which today are recited in the Hasidic circles (Nusah Sefard). The Sephardic order of these prayers include kabbalistic material which is beyond the scope of this present work, therefore I will not be including them. I will be recommending selections from The Complete Artscroll Siddur - Etz Haim, Nusah Sephard. It is available through Jewish bookstores everywhere. Spiritual protection is not only defensive, it goes on the offense as well. One of the best ways to protect oneself from negative entities, be they physical or astral, is to remove sources of negativity from within ones soul, mind and unconscious. This can be achieved by having a complete spirit of love and acceptance towards others who might have personally harmed you in any way. G-d is truly the great judge, and Torah teaches that He repays to each and every one their just rewards. We, however, are not G-d. We must surrender all into His Divine (allegorical) Hands. Therefore, the first of the bedtime prayers is a general prayer of forgiveness for those who have harmed us. This prayer was formulated by the master Kabbalist, the Arizal in the 1570s. This is the prayer: Master of the universe! Behold I freely forgive every one who has aggrieved or vexed me, or who has sinned against me, either in my body, property, honor, or in anything else belonging to me: whether by compulsion or choice; whether ignorantly or with forethought; whether in word or in deed, during this life time or in any other; I especially pardon every son of Israel, and I pray that no human being whomsoever may be punished on account of me. May it be acceptable in Your presence, L-rd my G-d and G-d of my fathers! that I may sin no more; and whatever I have sinned before You, please blot out through Your abundant mercies; but not through means of severe bodily afflictions. May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be acceptable in Your presence, L-rd, my Rock and Redeemer.
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In the Jewish tradition this is followed by a night time prayer and then the reading of the Shema Yisrael prayer. The prayer book can be consulted for the texts of these prayers. What follows next are the Psalms which are recited specifically against demons and negative entities, whatever they may be. Two Psalms are recited. The first and strongest of them is Psalm 91. This Psalm calls upon Gds protection and upon angelic guardianship. It is said that the forces of the darkside have not the power to overcome the recitation of this Psalm. Israeli soldiers have successfully used it in battle. Rabbis and Kabbalists have used it in other times of crises with miraculous results. The second Psalm to recite is Psalm 3. If someone simply desires spiritual protection at night, these two Psalms and the above prayer are enough. If this is too much then at least recite Psalm 91. Another prayer to recite at bedtime or any other troublesome time is this:In the Name of Adonai, the G-d of Israel, may Michael be at my right, Gabriel at my left, may Uriel be before me and Raphael behind me; and above my head the Divine Presence of G-d. Though there are a number of other scriptures that can be recited for reasons such as lucid dreaming, what I have listed here is sufficient for the purpose of protection. I remind my Jewish readers that they are required by Jewish Law to recite the Shema Yisrael prayer and to follow other laws. These laws can be found in a number of different books on Jewish Law, available at your local Jewish bookstore.
The fourth dimension of time is also dual in that there is always past and present. The moment of the present never really exists. For once it comes, it is gone. Once the future arrives, it is immediately the past. How long does the present last for? A second? Less? How much less? The present can never be measured. For in the time it takes to measure, the present is already in the past. The fourth dimension of time is therefore twofold, adding a seventh and eight dimension. I now mention last what the Sefer Yetzirah mentions first. There is a fifth dimension. This is the dimension of morality, the realm of good and evil. Eastern religions recognize this in what they call karma, the laws of destiny. In Hebrew we call this ones mazal. The Kabbalists reveal that ones mazal is really ones higher Neshama soul that exists in the non-corporeal realms. Ones Neshama-higher soul exists in the dimension which we can call mind or if you will, consciousness. Ones soul can travel in one of two directions, towards good or towards evil. Good and evil then are the ninth and tenth dimensions. It is they that underlie all the previously mentioned dimensions of time and space. (Instead of the word Neshama, the Sefer Yetzirah uses another word nefesh which also means soul.) It is important to understand that the forces of good and evil are universal and thus cosmically valid. There actually is a real good and a real evil in the universe, and it is not just limited to the moreys of modern man, nor is it limited as we are to planet Earth. Our being aware of the universal existence of good and evil is essential, for we are new travelers in corporeal outer space. We are yet infants in the inter-dimensional non-corporeal universe. When we come in contact with others, whomever they may be and from wherever they may come, we must be aware that like us, they too exist in five dimensional reality. These other beings, like us, travel in the fifth dimension. In other words, these other-worldly beings, be they from another planet or another dimension, have within them the inherent natures of either good, evil or both. They cannot have neither. For everything in the universe is five dimensional. Everything, no matter how inanimate, has within it good and evil. Even a force such as electricity, which we would define as neutral energy can be used and harnessed in good ways and in bad ways. The energy itself is neutral. When consciousness (a thinking mind, i.e., a soul) is applied, even the inanimate takes on a character from the fifth dimension. It is, therefore, extremely important that we recognize this potential in other- worldly beings wherever and whenever they be met. While I have documented the Jewish beliefs in angels and demons and other inter-dimensional subterranean forces, this does not mean that the present day extraterrestrial phenomena are definitely limited in cause to one or more of these forces. In many circles there is great speculation about the possible involvement of government forces (be it the US government or others). This is a matter which needs to be discussed in great detail. Unfortunately, I do not have the necessary contacts in the secret intelligence communities to reveal what the US
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government knows about these phenomena and how much they are a part of them. One thing I believe is clear - the US government knows a lot more than it is willing to admit. This brings us to the necessity of secrecy, be it on behalf of governments or on behalf of ancient Kabbalistic societies.
which I have written. For the price of human blood the evil one would reveal to the Nazis secret technologies. Could something like this really happen? Would other-worldly entities be so willing to entice man to lead him to his doom? And what is all this talk about human blood? Anyone familiar with ritualistic black magic and satanism knows that the dark forces always require sacrifices of human blood. It seems that these demonic forces somehow are nourished from the energy that is in the blood.
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initially at a loss to offer an explanation. A wall of secrecy fell around these phenomena. The UFO generation had begun. Government involvement and coverup began along side of it. Judaism acknowledges the existence of extraterrestrials. The US government does not. Judaism looks at the phenomena of alien abduction in a very suspicious and dubious light. The US government denies the legitimacy of these phenomena regardless of the source. The US government has long been accused of covering up what it knows about extraterrestrials. The question that must be asked is not why is there a coverup, but rather what is so devastating that it needs to be covered up? From a sociological point of view, it is known that when a militarily stronger culture comes into contact with a weaker culture the results of the meeting are disastrous for the weaker culture. The weaker culture is completely absorbed, usually at the cost of many lives. It is alleged that the US government is aware of extraterrestrial civilizations and that there is cooperation between our government and the governments of the aliens. The aliens have allegedly offered the government advanced technology in return for permission to work and study on US soil. To many, this sounds like the plot from a science fiction movie. To others, this sounds like reality and the truth. As a Rabbi and a Kabbalist, I cannot say. What I can say is that it certainly is possible. I know that if I were in a position of political power and I came across an advanced civilization that had the technological power to destroy my country, people and way of life, I most certainly would not want to create panic by admitting that such a threat existed. I most certainly would do my best to guard such a secret until there was something that I could do about it. Part of the secret of the extraterrestrials might be their true source of origins. What if the aliens that the government has allegedly discovered are none other than the demonic elements that exist inter-dimensionally here on and beneath our own planet. Do not doubt that this could happen. For this is exactly what happened with the Nazis. They conjured mighty demonic forces that did help their war effort and revealed to them secrets of technology. How else do you think that Germany, in the extremely short period of 20 years, rose from national bankruptcy to being one step away from complete world domination. All this growth came at a terrible price.
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money. Money means control. Control decides who rules the world and whose way of life dominates. Control decides whose beliefs are to be accepted and whose standard of living is the best. Control in the hands of immoral people leads to the destruction of all civilization. Such has been the case throughout human history. As in every empire that has ever risen, once the moral base was corrupted the society soon caved in under its own weight. When control is wavering, instead of addressing the legitimate needs of the populace, an immoral leadership imposes even tighter controls thinking that this will maintain order. Eventually a dictatorship and police state is born. This is a highly unnatural form of living for human beings. Original thought and expression cannot be stifled. When this is attempted rebellion occurs, both physical and psychological. Eventually the reality dawns that dictatorial societies and the people they control are totally irreconcilable. One of them has to go, either the oppressive government must fall or every single individual who doesnt fit into it must be killed. Usually it is this second option that controlling governments choose. Eventually this leads to either the complete extermination of the populace, or the populace becomes wise to its imminent destruction and takes the necessary steps to overthrow the oppressive regime. This is how it has always been throughout human history. We can take it for granted that there is much, much more going on than any of us will ever know. But is all of what is going on devious and dangerous? Some radical fringe elements in the UFO world have claimed that the US government has been taken over by the aliens and that we are all secretly under their control. (Sounds like a good science fiction movie.) Given the lust for power in our modern world and the race for the technological advantage so as to be safe from enemies, is it possible that the US government would have entered into a pact with the proverbial devil so as to achieve its objectives? This might not be as absurd as we might think! If there is something strange going on, it would certainly explain the necessity for paranoid security measures of absolute secrecy. Life is truly stranger than fiction. I wouldnt be surprised if some of the worst case conspiracy scenarios have within them some elements of truth. However, to maintain my objectivity I must still remain impartial. I will address these matters with a healthy and detached skepticism. It is alleged by many in UFO circles that the UFOs are not really from outer space but are secret Nazi projects continued from secret bases. This might not seem as far fetched as it sounds. At the close of WWII top Nazi military and scientific officials mysteriously disappeared. Nazi intelligence was highly sought after by British, American and Russian intelligence agencies. It had long been known by the Allied powers that the Nazis, towards the end of the war, were experimenting with bizarre types of technology based upon the works of Nicola Tesla and others. These technologies were said to use high concentrations of electromagnetic fields which could be mechanically increased by some means using brain wave power amplification and direction. Being that these forms of
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technology are to this day very highly classified, it is next to impossible for a layman such as myself to give a working definition of what was, and is, going on. Coupled with this psychotronic technology, the Nazis were experimenting with horrible forms of genetic engineering, using Jews as human guinea pigs at a special location, Block 10 in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The resulting Nazi technologies have never been found, yet few believe that they were destroyed by fleeing Germans.
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Soul Power
Think of this: the power of the human soul, the Neshama, transcends the limitations of the physical world. The Neshama soul is connected to the human body through the nefesh, the life force assigned to it by G-d. If the soul lies dormant and the natural forces of the body dominate, then the persons level of consciousness is similar to an animal. When a persons allotted nefesh energy is used up, the Neshama soul departs and the body dies. The soul then gives account for its time in the body. If the soul overcomes the power of the body, it can then enhance both body and soul with a surge of nefesh/libido/orgon energy. The power that the Neshama soul can then manifest is supernatural. Is this science fiction or science fact? It has been documented scientifically that the human body is surrounded by an electromagnetic field that can be manipulated with direct effect upon the body. It is this electromagnetic field that is nefesh/libido/orgon energy. This is the field of human brain waves. It is the technological doorway into human consciousness, i.e., the soul. The latent powers of the soul, all the interdimensional supra-rational, extrasensory abilities able to be tapped through technological means, would this a blessing or a curse? It is probably both, it all depends on who uses the power. The potential of this technology boggles the mind and actually makes the best of our modern weapons technology, including nuclear arsenals, quite obsolete. Soul power, when amplified, has complete control over the body and all its functions, as well as over weaker souls who do not emanate their own source energy but remain dormant, living under the bodily influences. This psychotronic technology could be used for mass mind control, including the ability to manipulate everything that the eye can see and the ear can hear. Through the control of the electromagnetic fields that correlate to brain wave patterns, science may be able to get into the human mind and at the unconscious level, tell it and make it believe anything that the programmers wish for it to believe. Science fiction, you say? You are obviously not a Kabbalist. The secrets of mind control and the manipulation of electromagnetic brain wave fields through conscious discipline and direction is exactly what anyone who has ever manipulated matter has ever done. Previously I spoke of the Baalei Shem Tov, those people who through their bond with G-d were able to replace physical reality with one of their own creations. Granted these things were miracles, but technically speaking, when G-d performs a miracle through His servants, He sends down His energy from Heaven and it manifests here upon the earth. Did you ever stop to ask just what it is scientifically speaking G-d was doing. The Sages make it quite clear that G-d acts through the laws of nature that He Himself has created. So what laws of nature does He use to manifest a miracle? It is a manipulation of the electromagnetic fields which manifest as brain waves, which are the vessels of our higher soul, whose power, connected to or disconnected from G-d, is nonetheless very awesome and quite able to reshape physical reality, as a potters thoughts become manifest as he shapes his clay.
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Science fiction, you say? You obviously do not know the Kabbalah! You have obviously never experienced the sleeping powers of your own mind! Now, what if these latent powers were tapped by government forces who, shall we say, might not have the G-d given morality to use them in a holy fashion. We could have the creation of a real Frankenstein's monster holding the ability to destroy the human race. Lets say that electromagnetic generators are developed that send out electromagnetic pulses of similar frequency to human brain waves. These EM frequencies could be received by the human brain which, left undeveloped without meditative disciplines, still responds to unconscious impulses and the corporeal brain, as opposed to the higher powers of the noncorporeal mind. The brain then leads the person to see whatever is being projected, hear whatever is being projected and believe whatever is being projected. An entire artificial reality is thus created which is quite real to the person under such an influence. Such an EM field from an orbiting satellite could be directed at large masses of human population. Minds could be controlled by the millions, and no one would be the wiser. It is believed that this was the type of psychotronic experimentation the Nazis were performing towards the end of WWII and that the Russians, British and Americans have been experimenting and using ever since.
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occultic practices, the Nazis became allied with mighty demonic forces who, according to Kabbalistic teachings, exist in the subterranean realms beneath the earths surface. It is clearly documented in a number of places that the Nazis very much believed in Inner Earth and spent a great deal of time and effort to find it. It is alleged that they found it, along with its demonic civilization. It is said that this is where the Nazis fled to and, along with the fallen angels and halfhuman/half-demonic entities, formed a new power alliance intending to conquer the surface of the earth. This is truly beginning to sound like Armageddon (Gog and Magog), and I have always believed the Biblical prophecies that say it will come. The Western powers are said to be very aware of this but are unable to match the Nazis new found technologies. The Allies had won the war, but their enemies were far from defeated. It is said that only at this time did Britain, Canada, and then the USA decide they had a lot of catch up to play. Whatever Nazi intelligence agents and, especially, scientists could be found were scooped up, by both Western and Communist countries. Everybody knew that the Nazis had something that they wanted. It was only after this sequence of events occurred that UFO sightings became a prominent affair. More so, until this time, alien abductions were unheard of. Demonic abductions had been around for the longest time, but people knew what they were. Today we do not have demons, we have extraterrestrials. Are people simply ignorant of who is who, or is it possible that their brain waves are being shortcircuited with an electromagnetic pulse ray, possibly of Teslian design, that is causing their brains to register audio and visual impressions put there by an outside force. While it is wise to remain skeptical, it is foolish to remain in denial. The idea of a Pentium processor chip would have been laughed at by people only 20 years ago. What do we laugh at today that will be common tomorrow, or in another 50 or 100 years, or more. There is so much that we dont know! There are reports of other secret types of technology. The Star Wars project of the 1980s was said to include much of this electromagnetic pulse ray technology as well as a form of refined microwaves. Another form of state of the art technology, extra low frequency radiation sound pulses, also gets thrown into this not so science fiction menagerie of secret weapons. With all this talk of secret technologies, secret Nazi bases and secret wars with hybrid human/demons, one thing is definitely true, there must be some truth underlying these wild stories. In other words, while we do not know the whole truth, it is still quite naive and dangerous to be complacent and say that nothing sinister is going on behind closed doors. Such denial and fear will lead to the same type of docile behavior that led most of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazis not to resist their torturers. Human imagination is quite fanciful. It can conjure up almost anything. We need but go to a local bookstore to see how many books of fiction there are. It has always been hard to distinguish between fact and fiction. Even during the
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1940s when rumors had reached the US and England that there was a holocaust going on in Germany, most chose to dismiss these rumors as not being substantiated by fact, as well as being too outlandish to believe. In May of 1945 the rumors ceased and the reality became known, all too late for anything to be done. Yet, human imagination flies and soars like an eagle, ever blurring the separation between fiction and fact.
Hungry Aliens
The scenarios of government coverups do not end with the involvement of the Nazis. There are stories out there which are much more wild than that. According to one author, John H. Andrews, in his book The Extraterrestrials and Their Reality (1989 Prescott AZ.), the US government is working hand in hand with these demonic type aliens and has actually signed a treaty with them. In turn for giving these aliens bases of operations on US soil, the aliens are sharing technology with us. There is only one problem. Andrews claims that the aliens have broken the treaty and are actually kidnapping human beings and eating them as food, this as the US government watches helplessly. Andrews goes into detail as to how the aliens kill their human victims and process their bodies. He even describes their methods of eating. Again, this sounds like a good plot for a science fiction movie or, better yet, an episode for the Twilight Zone. (This topic has as a matter of fact been a TV series and an episode of the Twilight Zone.) What can I say? I want to cover all types of allegations in this work. Andrews book is one of the more outlandish. We can all sit back and laugh, but when I think of the animal mutilations and their curious similarities to ritual satanic sacrifice, when I hear about people, especially children, disappearing by the thousands never to be seen again, and when I see an uprise in satanic activity and all out assault on religious values, I wonder, what is really going on in our world and what activities are going on right under our noses? Again, there is so much that we do not know. For certain, government intelligence agencies are never going to let the public know anything until it is already over and done with.
ancient Jewish midrash, the Book of Enoch and elsewhere, it says regarding the benei elohim angels who came down and took the daughters of men, that they taught mankind different things. In other words, the fallen angels provided advanced and previously unknown technologies to the antediluvian race before Noah. Enoch 1 (7:2) says, they taught them magical medicine, incantations, the cutting of roots, and taught them about plants. This seems to be a reference to medical technologies. The text continues, And Azazel taught the people (the art of) making swords and knives, and shields, and breastplates; and he showed to their chosen ones bracelets, decorations, (shadowing of the eye) with antimony, ornamentation, the beautifying of the eyelid, all kinds of precious stones, all coloring tinctures and alchemy. ... Amasras taught incantation and the cutting of roots, and Armaros the resolving of incantations; and Baraqiyal astrology, and Kokarerel (the knowledge of) the signs, and Tamel taught the seeing of the stars, and Asderel taught the course of the moon as well as the deception of man. It is interesting to note what is placed here together: military technology, womens cosmetics, chemistry (alchemy) magic, astrology, astronomy and the art of deceit. The one thing that all of these have in common is their ability to manipulate people. I find it most interesting that womens cosmetics is included in this list as having demonic origins. The purpose of cosmetics is to be seductive. Sexual seduction is simply another form of control, and as we learn in the Bible (Num. 25:2,3), sexual seduction was used as a form of warfare. It is taught that this advancement in technology is what led to the destruction of the world by the flood. If there is a technology transfer between modern governments and whomever, be it aliens or fallen angels, will our destiny be the same as those who previously had received such technologies? Again, the image of Armageddon comes to mind. Governments do have the legitimate need for and right of security and secrecy. As a Rabbi and Kabbalist, I am privy to information that is sensitive and not to be divulged. I recognize and have a healthy respect for intelligence agencies. There are a lot of secrets out there, some good and some bad. Not everything about government is evil and suspect. Not everything about government is pure and good. In the real world of human affairs, where the real war between the forces of good and evil do battle, the sides are not so clearly demarcated as black and white. There are all too many shades of gray out there. Whether we like it or not, there is much to mistrust about governments as well as about those who wish to cast suspicions on government. As I said this is one of those gray areas. Nothing is clear. Yet, one thing is sure regarding the entire UFO phenomena, be it strange lights in the sky, animal mutilations, so-called abductions, secret technology exchanges and whatever else there may be, the governments of the US and other nations know more than what they reveal. Whether right or wrong, good or bad, it is what it is, a governments right to maintain order. There is definitely a government coverup; of what, that remains to be seen. Let us do what our US currency suggests, not to put our trust in government, but rather, In G-d we trust.
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The UFO phenomena covers a wide variety of topics. I do not claim to have done all of them justice. Still no one can say if what today people are experiencing are true extraterrestrials. Most reports seem to imply or confirm that the majority of close encounters are of a very negative type. This makes me suspect that these phenomena are demonic and not extraterrestrial. Whatever these experiences are, they are not good, regardless of their source. There seems to be a lot of bad out there, just as there is in our society. So what can be said? Are the aliens really demons, angels, fallen angels, interdimensional entities or something else? In UFO and extraterrestrial encounters there seem to be two types of aliens, one good and the other bad. I have already spoken about the bad so-called aliens and who they may possibly be. Yet, this does not mean that there are no good aliens out there. If there are good aliens, then where do they come from, what is their relationship to us, and to G-d? In order to answer these questions I must delve into one of the greatest of Kabbalistic secrets, the pre-adamic human civilizations.
Pre-Adamic Civilizations
One of the most controversial teachings among Kabbalists is the doctrine of the Shemita(ot), the cosmic Sabbatical epochs of pre-adamic times. According to many of the great Rabbis, Adam was not the first human to have walked the earth. These Rabbis teach that there were full pre-Adamic human civilizations that had arisen and were eventually destroyed. Among the earlier generations of Kabbalists, prior to the Arizal, the doctrine of the Shemita was written about by all Kabbalists, including the Arizals Kabbalistic teacher, Rabbi David Ibn Zimra. These Kabbalists taught that not only is the source for doctrine of the Shemita to be found in the Oral tradition, they went directly into the simple and plain words of the Torah text to show that the history of time is not fully told in the Bible. In the very beginning it is written, In the beginning G-d created the Heavens and the earth (Gen, 1:1). Immediately, the following verse states, And the earth was without form and empty (Gen. 1:2). The Kabbalists have noticed that the prophet Isaiah has written (45:18) that the earth was not created empty, revealing an apparent contradiction between Genesis and Isaiah. Yet, as it is known to every true scholar of Torah, there is no contradiction between what Genesis says and what Isaiah says. Something, however, is definitely missing. For when G-d created the earth it was not empty upon its creation as per Isaiah. How then did the earth become empty as related in Gen.1:2? This leads us to the inevitable conclusion that something is missing; not that part of the text is missing (G-d forbid), but rather something has been intentionally left out of the narrative. This is glaringly obvious to any student of the Bible. I have even spoken to one ex-Christian minister (now an Orthodox Jew) who, upon learning about this anomaly, had mentioned that he had heard of this before from reading Christian Biblical commentaries. So it seems that we have a mystery, the secret solution of
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which, of course, is known to the Rabbis and Kabbalists. Earlier in this work I mentioned the Midrash (Gen. R. 3:7) which posed the question of what was G-d occupied with, prior to His creation of our world. The Midrash relates that G-d was busy building and destroying other worlds. The Kabbalists have always had profound insight and understanding into the nature of these pre-adamic worlds. Much of Kabbalistic literature discusses these worlds in great detail. But one will not be able to just open a book and read about them. Before I proceed, I find it necessary to provide you with the following introduction into the methodology of Kabbalistic study. Without this understanding, Kabbalistic teachings will never be fully comprehended.
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to the right place. The opposite is, of course, true. If the right thing is learned in the wrong way, then the wrong way will make the right thing work in the wrong way. Since the days of the Arizal (1570s) Kabbalah has been allowed to be made public to those who meet the stringent criteria required to study it. The schools of the Kabbalah have, therefore, grown dramatically for there are a good number of worthy students out there. Yet, just because Kabbalah is now allowed to be made public does not mean that all of the Kabbalistic teachings are passed to every student, nor does it mean that all the secrets are revealed. I assure you that among Kabbalists the vast majority of true knowledge still remains hidden in small private circles, each of which is guarded like the inner circle of the best intelligence agencies in the world. These Kabbalistic inner circles have been around since Talmudic times (and before). They are the ones who truly know what is going on in the world. They are the ones chosen by G-d to have the power to influence the course of human events. Through these secret groups of Kabbalists is fulfilled the verse, For the L-rd YHWH does nothing unless He has revealed His secret to His servants, the prophets. (Amos 3:7). There is, of course, that group which I call the dark Kabbalists who serve a different master other than G-d. They too have power to shape the course of human affairs for their own purposes. And so the battle continues, the battle between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. This battle, at times, becomes rather intense, and only the strongest can fight it and survive. Spiritual warfare is fought with much higher stakes than physical war. For in physical war, all one can lose is ones body (ones life in this world). In spiritual war, one can lose ones body, ones mind and ones soul. Kabbalists are very selective about whom they choose to groom as a spiritual warrior of holiness. Not just anyone need apply. Only the very few can accomplish the necessary tasks. Therefore, not everyone who studies Kabbalah is a real Kabbalist. Yet, even the real Kabbalist does not object to the endeavors of such students. Better they be where they are, than somewhere else. It is not unheard of that a student of the books of the Kabbalah will be chosen and taken inside behind the veil. This is how Kabbalists recruit today. As the Mishna in Avot says, The work is much, the workers are few, and the Boss is pressed for time.
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sides, so too does Kabbalistic study contain what is easily given to the layman and what is reserved exclusively for those who are brought inside. I was given the impression that the subject of the Shemita was one of these inside subjects. A detailed review of the doctrine of the Shemita is far beyond the scope of this work. I will therefore summarize only those points which are applicable and appropriate here. It is written in the book of Leviticus that, for six years you shall plow your fields, but the seventh year shall be holy to HaShem, in that year you shall do no work. It is also taught by our Sages in the holy Talmud (San. 98A), six thousand years shall the world last, then for one thousand years shall it remain desolate. Our Sages have learned from the secret meaning of the verse in Leviticus that the days of our world, i.e., our civilization, will be measured in the same way as is the Biblical Sabbatical year. Six years shall we labor, and in the seventh shall we rest. So our civilization will grow for six thousand years, and then for a thousand years shall it remain desolate which means to be left alone to rest. After this time it is said that G-d renews his creation. The Bible proceeds to speak about the Jubilee year. We are instructed to count seven times seven years and then to proclaim a Jubilee, a year of complete release. The Kabbalists have revealed that just as our civilization will last for the Sabbatical period of six thousand years and one thousand years of desolation, so will there be seven cycles similar to this, corresponding to a cosmic cycle of Sabbaticals and Jubilee. Therefore, according to this calculation, human civilization will rise and fall seven times, each for a period of six thousand years, with a rest period of a thousand years between. Now arises the question, which Sabbatical are we in today? Many Kabbalists look back to the verse in Genesis and notice the discrepancy. They answer the problem of the emptiness of the land (Gen. 1:2), when this was not the way it was created (Is. 45:18), by saying that we are not in the first Shemita. The earth was indeed created full. It only became empty as a result of the previous civilization. They are the ones who left the land empty and desolate. According to many of the Kabbalists, therefore, we are in the second Shemita. Although they say we are in the second Shemita, they do not exclude the possibility that we are in the third, forth or fifth, but rather conclude that we are definitely not in the first. They say we are in the second, meaning we are in at least the second.
Pre-Adamites
Rabbi Yisrael Lifshitz, the author of the authoritative commentary to the Mishna, Tiferet Yisrael, addresses the topic of pre-adamic life in the introduction to the eleventh chapter of Tractate Sanhedrin. Drawing upon what was the scientific discoveries of his day, and the Darwinian conflict on creationism and evolution, Lifshitz points out that the Torah does acknowledge the existence of dinosaurs.
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These were the creations of the prior Shemita, he says. Not only this, but Rabbi Lifshitz goes further to say that Adam was not really the first human being, but that there were countless people before him, which he calls pre-Adamites. This controversial view of Rabbi Lifshitz has placed his commentary and other written works on the taboo list in certain Jewish circles which considered his revelations not in accordance with the spirit of Judaism. But nothing could be further from the truth. There are some Kabbalists such as Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah who, in his Beit Lehem Yehuda (2,66A), wrote questioning certain aspects of the doctrine of the Shemita. Yet even Rabbi Fatiyah, in Minhat Yehuda (pg. 222), expounds on a section of the Zohar which speaks of the pre-Adamic parents of Adam. He even states that Adams parents copulated on the spiritual plane, that his mother conceived and gave birth to Adams body which, as I referenced earlier, was completely astral. Where Adams parents came from, Rabbi Fatiyah does not say. But he makes it quite clear that they are individual beings and not simply an appellation for G-d. The Talmud in Hagigah 13B speaks of 974 pre-Adamic generations. One of the early Kabbalistic classics, the Maarekhet Elokut, states specifically that these generations refer to the pre-Adamic Shemita cycles. There are a great number of both earlier and later generation Rabbis, Hasidic masters and Kabbalists who have spoken quite openly about the doctrine of the Shemita. Rabbi Shmuel Lifshitz in his Anafim Shatul Mayim commentary to Sefer HaIkarim has said [I] open my mouth like a talebearer to reveal hidden secrets. However, in all written works taught in the name of the master Kabbalist the Arizal, there is no overt mention of the doctrine of the Shemita or of the preAdamic civilizations. It is thus assumed by certain secular scholars (ref. Enc. Jud. 10, pg. 583) that the Arizal did not hold the doctrine of the Shemita to be true. Again, nothing could be further from the truth. Though my readers who are not Orthodox Jews will not recognize the following names, they are still important for me to document for the sake of my Orthodox Jewish readers. This is only a partial list of those Rabbis and Kabbalists, from the earlier and later generations, who held that the doctrine of the Shemita is correct and true: 1. Sefer HaTemunah, 2. Sefer HaKana, 3. The RaMBaN, 4. Rabbeynu Bahya, 5. Rabbi Yitzhak DMin Acco, 6. Recanati on the Torah, 7. Tziyuni on the Torah, 8. Maarekhet Elokut, 9. Shatul Mayim on Sefer HaIkarim, 10. Sefer Livnat HaSapir of Rabbi David ben Yehuda HaHasid (sefardi),
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11. the author of Shoshan Sodot, 12. The Radbaz, Rabbi David Zimra (the Kabbalistic teacher of the Arizal), 13. the Techelet Mordechai, 14. Rabbi Lifshitzs Tiferet Yisrael, and 15. Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Eichenstein of Zidatchov in his Ateret Tzvi commentary on the Zohar HaRakia. This is only a partial list. My orthodox Jewish readers will recognize that these names are giants in the world of Jewish learning, they are the pillars upon which our holy traditions rest. To say that all these giants of Torah are incorrect is to both dishonor these Rabbis and the Torah itself. The legitimacy of the preAdamic worlds has never been questioned in authoritative Torah literature. Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Eichenstein, in his commentary Ateret Tzvi (126B) on the book Zohar HaRakia, states that even though the Arizal was silent on this matter, he definitely ascribed to the doctrine of the Shemita and that G-d forbid anyone would disagree with the holy Sages of Israel. The only disagreement among the Kabbalists appears to be regarding which cycle of the Shemita we are in now.
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Divine Will, also referred to as the first sefira, Keter. At this level it is said that all ten sefirot came forth from the holy Mouth, encased together in one vessel. This was the primordial beginnings of the differentiation of light and its container, the vessel. This initial creation was the creation of form. For prior to this, all existence was exclusively G-ds light. Nothing independent of G-d could manifest, for it had no form through which to manifest. Form, therefore, had to be the first creation, for without it, there would be no differentiation, and nothing would be able to maintain an independent identity. Without form, nothing in creation could be recognizably different from the Creator. This then was the first creation, or world. It is called the Realm of the Bound (Olam HaAkudim). The second creation to manifest from the Primordial Man is said to have come forth from his Eyes. However, the light of the Eyes of Adam Kadmon did not shine out of the Eyes, but rather shone from below the Waist. Many reasons are given to explain why this occurred, but these are not relevant to our present discussion. It was at this level that G-ds ultimate light diversified into what we will call the shades of color. This was the creation of diversity. The duality of force and form, soul and body, was thus firmly established. In this realm, the light of G-ds ultimate Being was able to exist within the arena of creation without it overwhelming creation and thus nullifying it. This was accomplished through the formation of vessels, which would act to filter G-ds ultimate light. These vessels are the primordial forms underlying all creation. These vessels are the sefirot. One thing is certain, whenever diversity exists, all existence within the diversity must have its proper place so that all aspects of diversity can become manifest and perform their given function. When all is one there is never any conflict, for there is nothing to conflict with. With the creation of diversity, there arises the potential for conflict. If one claims or usurps the place, role or identity of another then the two struggle. This is an given feature within any dimension of diversity. In order to do away with disorder, there has to be the creation of order. Yet, before order can be established, it must be defined. In other words, order must remove disorder, which by definition means that disorder must proceed the creation of order. And so it that we find, that prior to the creation of light, the world is void and empty, and prior to their being a King in Israel (order) there are Kings in Edom (chaos). This is speaking about the Kabbalistic secret of the creation of evil, the breaking and disorder of the primordial vessels, G-ds creation of chaos. It is out of chaos that order is born. The Kabbalists teach that when the sefirot came forth for the first time, each in its own unique vessel, the vessels themselves were not in their proper order. The light of G-d shone forth, expecting to shine into each and every vessel, but when the vessels were not in the right place to receive the light, they no longer had the ability to survive by themselves. The vessels therefore broke and shattered, scattering their pieces over all of creation. This was the creation of the primordial chaos. As the prophet Isaiah
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(45:18) has said, G-d creates evil. Evil was created so that good came come forth from it. The Bible itself subtly hints at this. The first act of creation was the creation of light, but where did the light come from? The Bible is clear, the light came forth out of the darkness. The darkness existed prior to the light, and the light was created to illuminate the dark. The number of vessels that were shattered was seven. Thus Gen. 36 speaks about seven Kings who reigned in the land of Edom (the realm of darkness) prior to there being a King in Israel (the realm of light). These seven prior worlds existed long before Adam. Adam was to be the one who was to restore order to the universe. Adam was the symbolic King of Israel. This is mankinds collective destiny to this day. Yet, there is more to tell about the seven primordial kings, for these worlds of chaos were the previous cosmic Sabbaticals spoken of above. Many modern students of Kabbalah, even within the Orthodox circles, have never penetrated into the true heart of the teachings of the Arizal and Rabbi Haim Vital. For Rabbi Vital details the falling of the primordial Kings by saying that each one came forth, reigned for a while and then died. He is quite clear that there was a fall in the lowest of the sefirot, Malkhut, which is the force that manifests corporeal reality. The energy of the sefirat Malkhut (Malkhut dAsiyah, Etz Haim, 50:1) is that energy described above as nefesh, libido, orgon energy. Many of the Kabbalists today teach that the fallen Kings were spiritual worlds, totally non-corporeal. This, however, cannot be so, for Malkhut is corporeal. If the original King of Malkhut had fallen, then there was a King, i.e., a physical realm, that had arisen and fallen. Many modern Kabbalists wish to object to this point, yet the evidence is quite clear, Rabbi Vital documents that the King of Malkhut had fallen. Therefore the breaking of the vessels occurred in the physical world, as well as in the spiritual. This is important for me to show, for many Kabbalists do not believe that the fall of primordial Malkhut to be physical. This are unfortunately mistaken. In order to understand the relevancy of the fallen Kings to our topic of extraterrestrials, I must delve deeper into the exact meaning of the fall.
Sefirotic Interactions
It is known that the sefirot are a type of spiritual DNA. In the process of their emanations, each sefirah builds upon the others that have proceeded it. Each individual sefirah has within it all of the others. Each individual sefirah is thus a micro-pattern for the whole. The pattern of the sefirot divides them into three columns, referred to a the right side, left side and center. The sefirot are energy. The energy is intentionally polarized into right and left columns, representing primordial male and female energy. The two are always in a constant state of friction. The center is where they meet and merge. Kabbalistic activity requires the Kabbalist to activate the powers of the supernal male and female, right and left sefirotic columns, and to unite their energies in the center column. As with all union of male and female, there is the passion of bonding, this is the ecstasy of the prophetic Kabbalistic meditative experience. As with all union of male and female, there is the impregnation, gestation, and eventual birth of life. This is the
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role and function of the sefirot. They are collectively called the Etz Haim, the Tree of Life. This pattern is their state of order, however, prior to their order was their chaos. Originally when the first arrangement of sefirot emanated from the Mouth of the Primordial Man, the first three sefirot, which form the first triad, corresponding to the brain, came forth in proper order and arrangement. A problem then arose. The following seven lower sefirot, those which correspond to the body, instead of emanating in the form of the columns, as previously described, and as did the first triad, emanated one after another in a straight line. This rigidity of form did not allow the light within the sefirot the necessary movement to maintain life. As each sefirah emanated forth, not in its correct polarity, be it right or left, the light within the vessel was too strong for the vessel to handle. Not being in their right place weakened the vessels ability to properly serve as a body for the light to shine within it. The light therefore withdrew. The vessel, being left empty, collapsed and died. This then was the fall of the seven Kings. One point that Rabbi Vital makes which must be emphasized here. The breaking of the vessels occurred at the micro-pattern level, as well as on the grand scale. In other words, each of the ten sefirot had within them ten sefirot, the top triad of which remained intact and did not die, but the bottom seven of each of the ten fell and died. So within the original pattern of the sefirot, there was both order (the upper triad) and chaos (the lower seven). G-d allowed the lower seven to come forth in this blemished manner, knowing that they would die. In this way, G-d created the chaos, which we would come to know as evil and darkness, so that He could blessedly create order and rectification. The seven lower sefirot within each of the sefirot therefore fell and died by the deliberate act of G-d. These are the worlds that G-d created and destroyed prior to our own that are mentioned in Genesis Rabbah.
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as we say elu velu divrei elokim hayim both are the words of the living G-d. Therefore, according to the Rabbis who held that the pre-Adamic civilizations did exist, the question must be asked: what happened to the them? Where then did they go? There is not one book in print that I have found that even attempts to offer an answer. Yet, this does not mean that there is no answer. The answer that I am about to give I must present as my own opinion. The Talmud (Hagigah 13B) speaks of the 974 generations before Adam. Many, as referenced above, interpret this in to be quite physical, and not simply noncorporeal. There are a number of sources that speak of pre-Adamic humans. Although their civilizations were created in imbalance and therefore fell into chaos, we have nonetheless learned that there was a remnant. This surviving remnant corresponds to the head of Esau buried in the lap of Yitzhak. Esaus head is buried in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron, the same cave which is the vortex doorway to the Garden of Eden and the astral plane. This realm is the home of the Ishim angels. As we have learned above, the Ishim angels are the only group of angels that have some type of humanoid form. Although they are astral beings, they seem to be quite able to appear human at any time. When an Ishim angel appears as a human, he is quite indistinguishable from any other person, until he so decides to reveal himself. There are two people of whom we know from the Bible (and more from later sources), from this Adamic race, that have ascended above and joined the ranks of the Ishim. These, of course, are Enoch and Elijah. Both have ascended above and became angels. Enoch became Metatron, of whom we have spoken of earlier, and Elijah became Sandalphon. In the words of the Talmud and the Kabbalists both Enoch and Elijah were originally angels who incarnated and were born as men. They ascended above death and returned to their previous abodes. Rabbi Moshe DeLeon, a master Spanish Kabbalist of the 12th century, and a codifier of the Zohar, is reported by Rabbi Moshe Cordevero (Pardes 24:14) as saying that Elijah was never born as a man, but rather he descended to earth as an angel (parentless) and returned in the same way. Rabbi Cordevero quotes a section of the Zohar that says the opposite of Rabbi DeLeon. Sefer Likutei Shikha UPeah 23B states that Enoch-Metatron is the head of the Ishim. We thus see that there is a direct relationship between translated human beings and the Ishim angels, who are the princes of the Teli, the rulers of the stars. Enoch was rewarded for his righteousness, as was Elijah. Both did not taste death, but rather ascended on high and joined the ranks, and leadership of the Ishim angels. It is possible that these Ishim angels, the ones who are so similar to human beings were in fact, human beings, who like Enoch and Elijah were rewarded for their righteousness and have ascended above to rule the stars. This should not surprise us, for as Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan quoted above, the reward of the righteous of our world is to, after the resurrection, travel to the stars and rule there. The resurrection seems to be a prerequisite for our intergalactic
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travels and ascension to interdimensional authority. Enoch and Elijah's translation into bodies similar to the Ishim angels are the bodies that are given to the resurrected. Thus the bodies of the resurrected and the bodies of the Ishim angels are identical. Thus they are of one and the same race.
The Resurrection
The resurrection is not something that is in the far-off distant future. Rabbi Abraham Azulai writes in his Hesed LAvraham 27A that with the advent of the Mashiah (the true Messiah) the righteous of the land of Israel are to be translated similar to Enoch, Elijah and the angels. This translation was originally published in my work Yikrah BShmi. "Know, that it is an accepted tradition in our hands, that on the day that King Mashiah will come with the ingathering of the exiles to the Land of Israel, there will be found in the Land only seven thousand of the children of Israel. On this same day, the dead of the Land of Israel shall be restored to life. On that same day also, the walls of Jerusalem shall be removed, and rebuilt from precious stones and pearls. Then, at the time, the dead of the Land of Israel shall be restored to life, they shall be new spiritual creations. Also, the seven thousand who shall be left alive at that time, they too shall be new creations, all of them with spiritual bodies, similar to the body of Adam prior to his sin, and the body of Hanoch, Moshe our teacher and Eliyahu. They shall all float in the air, soaring like eagles. This shall be seen by all the people ingathered from the exile." Notice that Rabbi Azulai uses the metaphor of the resurrected beings soaring like eagles. This is the same metaphor used by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, in the name of the Zohar, that speaks of the resurrected beings traveling to the stars to govern alongside the present governors, the princes of the Teli, the Ishim angels.
and holy. They live in the non-corporeal realm of the Teli. They are what we will be. They were what we presently are. All of G-ds universe thus proceeds in cycles, even as the doctrine of the Shemita teaches. These pre-Adamic translated humans, who are now the Ishim angels are very much involved with humans affairs. They are very much our guardian angels. They are very much our watchers. G-d has placed them to be responsible over us. In Kabbalistic meditations there are specific formulas which are used which enable us to communicate with the princes of the Teli. These formulas have never been published, but Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, in his commentary to Sefer Yetzirah states that the formula is in manuscript in the most secret of Kabbalistic manuscripts, Shoshan Yesod Olam, a guide to Kabbalistic magic. Corporeal extraterrestrial entities and non-corporeal astral entities (angels and demons) many a time are one and the same thing. At some point intergalactic reality crosses the interdimensional line, merging two realities together as one. The apparent separation, therefore, between the corporeal and non-corporeal (the physical and the astral) very much needs to be redefined. With the present growth in modern quantum physics and chaos theory, this is beginning to occur. Kabbalists, however, have been aware of these things all along. Although I relate this information as my personal opinion, I do so because I do not have a written authority to which I can point that will unquestionably validate these views. Nonetheless, I assure you that I am not the author of what I have written here as my opinion. These concepts and teachings were given to me by a source, which due to Kabbalistic secrecy, I am not allowed to divulge. If you insist upon written sources than you may dismiss what I have written here. If you know better, then you already know. I cannot say anymore.
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below it, Beriah, the source of the human soul. In other words, every truly human soul has a spark of the Divine in it. It is this spark, which the Kabbalists call the Yehida, which bonds us and unites us with G-d. All of this is true of Beriatic entities, which are called Neshamot, or souls. The level of the angels, however, is quite different. They are not Beriatic beings. They are Yetziratic beings. Souls manifest the mind level (Binah) of the realms. Angels manifest the astral level which corresponds to the heart level (Tiferet) of the realms. Souls, therefore, emanate from a higher source than do the angels. Do not be deceived by appearance! Presently our Neshama souls are imprisoned in the Asiyatic corporeal world, and therefore the angels who inhabit the astral plane appear to be superior to us. For the moment, while we inhabit our physical bodies, angels are indeed superior to us, in many ways. But this is not the normal state of affairs, nor is this a permanent state of affairs. When Enoch ascended above and became (or returned to being) Metatron he was placed as Sar Olam, the Prince of the World. Throughout Kabbalistic literature, it is taught that Metatron is the lord over all the angelic forces. He is said to rule over the entire Yetziratic astral plane. Are we to view this as a promotion and evolution above being human? To become an angel may be a promotion over being trapped in a physical human body, but it is certainly not a promotion over being a Neshama soul! This is where the Arizal has revealed to us a great secret. Regarding Metatron, the Arizal states that only his body exists in the Yetziratic astral plane. Metatrons head, however, exists in the Beriatic realm. Metatron, therefore, traverses two worlds, Beriah and Yetzirah. His physical manifestation is in the Yetziratic astral plane. Metatrons consciousness exists in the Beriatic realm of mind. Enoch, therefore, did not did not become a member of an angelic race when he became Metatron. On the contrary, he returned to being a fully human Beriatic Neshama soul. This is truly a level above the Yetziratic astral plane entities, the angels. This was G-ds purpose all along in creating the human race, to manifest a race of Beriatic beings, who would be above the previously existing angelic races. Enoch-Metatron ascended on high, not as an angel, but rather as a Neshama soul. In English, we do not have a proper vocabulary to describe the differences between Beriatic entities (fulfilled souls-Neshamot) and Yetziratic entities (angels). We unfortunately lump them all together. It is important for us to realize that, in spite of our spiritual handicaps that come along with being physical, there are many different astral and spiritual realms above us. Maybe in our present state we cannot tell the difference between one from the other. Nonetheless, this does not mean that they are not there. Enoch-Metatron ascended on high and fulfilled his human destiny. He became the ruler over the Ishim angels. If these Ishim angels are truly evolved humans, similar to Enoch, Elijah and others, then they are not really angels, in spite of the fact that we refer to them as such. They are really Neshamot souls, fully rectified, pure and holy. The reward of the righteous, when the Mashiah comes, is to become fulfilled humans. These will be
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"like the angels", but they will not be angels. They will be Neshamot, a step above the angels.
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dimensional significance. It is to be a time heralded by miraculous occurrences and major changes in life as we know it. The human race is to rectify the sin of Adam. When this is accomplished all results of the sin of Adam will be gone. We will not only achieve the level of Adam as he was in the Garden of Eden, we will also achieve the level that was Adams original destiny. Mankind will no longer have an evil inclination. Women will no longer have menstrual cycles, nor will they have pain in childbirth. Death itself will cease to exist. Human spiritual consciousness will expand to cosmic proportions. Knowledge will be inborn. There will be a full integration of the levels of the soul. The Neshama soul will manifest fully through the nefesh life force, unleashing previously unknown psychic powers and revelations. In other words, the era of Mashiah is to be a wondrous time, a true human utopia, wherein which the human spirit will reign supreme answering to none other than G-d. Human potential will literally soar to the stars, and beyond. All this wonder, however, is only to come at a price. As with a the birth of a child, the time of labor immediately prior to the birth is the time most racked with pain and suffering. So prior to the coming of the Mashiah the world is to be racked with tremendous upheavals both in the realms of nature, as well as in the inner psyche of mankind. The pre-messianic period, like labor, is a time of tremendous changes. The Kabbalists view our present generation as being in the midst of the "birthpangs of the Mashiah". We are today experiencing upheavals in every walk of life. All this is being orchestrated by the Holy One, Blessed Be He, so as to prepare us for the dawn of a new world. However, the Kabbalists warn us, the new world will only be built upon the ashes of the old one. It is for this reason that in our generation there is so much evil, perversion, repression and lies. The forces of darkness know that their days are numbered and they are making an all out assault on the forces of good. The forces of evil are trying to bring down with themselves all who would be toppled. G-d, on the other hand, allows this evil work to continue, for in His blessedness, He recognizes that the temptations of evil only make the forces of good to grow stronger, purer, more refined and committed to the cause of holiness and righteousness. In this way, the righteous will be strong enough to inherit a new world. The righteous will usher in the dawn and rebirth of the human race.
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deception. He will attempt to reverse the order of creation, and call what is evil, good, and what is good, he will call evil. Any spiritually minded or religious person can see the beginnings of this in our society today. In spite of however bad the immediate outlook might appear, Jewish prophecy makes one thing quite clear, the righteous of this world are not to be acting alone, they are to receive help, from above. The government of Armilus is to be all powerful. No human force will to be able to stand against it. It is for this reason that G-d is to personally intervene in human history and send His Mashiah, accompanied by an army of angels (Ishim), who are to defeat Armilus using powerful spiritual "technologies". The Bible (Zech. 14) is clear that in the final war, the enemies of Israel are to be wiped out in a most supernatural manner. One point, however, that I hold to be most interesting is, what will be the worlds perception when CNN and the international media broadcast the advent of Mashiahs angelic army descending out of the sky? Will the world view the Mashiahs army as an invasion from outer space? Armilus will most assuredly use his weapon of deception to make us believe the opposite of the truth. Will he convince the world that the savior of mankind is some kind of evil extraterrestrial out to enslave us all. The Bible speaks of the entire earth uniting to wage war against the Mashiah. What better lie could be perpetrated so as to deceive the entire world and unite them to do evil. In light of this scenario, the extraterrestrial connection becomes all the more important for us to understand. Another messianic prophecy speaks of the Third Holy Temple descending ready built out of Heaven to rest upon the temple mount in Jerusalem. Will the coming of this massive structure be interpreted as the landing of a great UFO mothership, the type portrayed in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind? The Third Temple is said to presently exist in the third heaven, which is one of the astral planes. In order for it to descend to earth, it must translate from being non-corporeal to being corporeal. Again, we see here that the interdimensional bridge is easily crossed. All in all, the coming of Mashiah is going to be an exciting and a very literal earth shaking event. Pre-messianic prophecies and traditions are quite numerous. For those who wish to review original source material, I recommend the book When Moshiah Comes (Targum/Feldheim NY, 1994) by Rabbi Yehudah Chayoun. This text is a translation from Hebrew and is probably the best source of information on the subject in English. Messianic scenarios are still be written today. Many modern Kabbalists are receiving revelations about messianic things to come. Though these prophecies do not relate directly to the topic of UFOs and extraterrestrials, they still make mention of the interdimensional (and possibly intergalactic) angelic interventions. I have decided to include here some material from a Rabbi Meir Menachem of Betar. No one seems to know who he truly is or from where he received his information. His name might possibly be fictitious, for there is no Rabbi by that
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name in Betar today. I cannot validate his time table, nonetheless, in my opinion, his material is well worth our time to review.
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marked by an earthquake n East Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives will split, leaving a wide rift. 5. War of Gog and Magog (Armageddon). The countries of the north, east and south - namely Russia and its republics, Iran, Sudan and others (possibly Turkey) will join a group of 70 nations as Russia initiates the war of Gog and Magog. This war will begin after Rosh Hodesh Shevat 5760 (January, 2000). The attack will begin by air, dropping soldiers and artillery down on the mountains of Israel in an attempt to take over Jerusalem and seize control of the country. They will be met by G-d with a cataclysmic earthquake, shaking the mountains, causing them to panic and to shoot each other. It will be accompanied by giant hail stones, driving flooding rains, culminating in a plague killing them down to the last man. There will be no survivors, all that will be left is to bury them. They will be buried at Shar Hagay. It will take seven months to bury them all - because the numbers will be so great and they will be scattered in the mountains and the valleys, carried away by the floods. They will all die before Purim (March 21, 2000). A clean up operation will be launched to purify the land. It will be completed before Succot. Following this, the period of complete repentance out of love will be concluded on Purim with Eliyahu HaNavi (Elijah the prophet) renewing the covenant between Israel and G-d as mentioned in KeTavo/Nesavim (Deut. 30) reaffirming Israel as the nation that belongs to G-d. 6. Return of prophecy. Prophecy will officially return to Israel about Purim, 2000. That is when the complete repentance will have been completed. 7. Installation of Mashiah. On Rosh Hodesh Nissan (April 6) 2000, Mashiah will be coronated as king over Israel. He will prepare an altar on the Temple Mount for the first Korban Pesah (Passover sacrifice). The entire nation will participate. After the holiday, building of the temple will begin. 8. Completion of the Temple. The Temple will be completed on Tisha bAv 5760 (August 10, 2000). 9. Decent of the Heavenly Temple. On the 15th of Av (August 16, 2000), the Heavenly Beit HaMikdash (Temple) will descend from the sky and be superimposed over the earthly one. 10. Nations pay homage. On Succot 5761 (October 14, 2000) all the nations who came against Israel in ships will have to appear in Jerusalem to celebrate Succot. If not, they will not have rain. Succot symbolizes G-ds umbrella of protection over Israel. The nations challenged G-d by going to war against Israel. On Succot, G-d showed His Hand. Also the nations came to rain destruction and terror on Israel - their rain will now depend on their recognition of G-ds providence.
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Conclusions
The world around us is very strange The definition of what is normal is changing rapidly and ever so drastically. Our definitions of reality and fantasy are being challenged on an almost daily basis. The innovations in technology are mind boggling. Who would have thought one hundred years ago that we would have actually landed a man on the moon? Today, we dont even consider space travel to be anything special. Less than thirty years ago, the thought of being able to instantaneously hook up via home computer to people, classrooms and libraries around the world was unheard of. Today, this is common. The revelation of all these new technologies are all part of G-ds greater plan for mankind. They are also a fulfillment of the prophecy in the holy Zohar (1, 117A) which spoke of G-d opening the gates of the supernal wisdom. With all this new knowledge we must be careful and even skeptical. We must test all new knowledge and weigh its value in light of proper moral considerations. Only in this way can we avoid the danger of "worshiping" the discoveries of science and technology as mans ultimate salvation. While human sophistication has definitely grow, we are nonetheless, still naive about a great many things. The holy Rabbis and Kabbalists have always recognized mans limitations in understanding the world around him when he does not acknowledge the Author of creation. With the recent advent of computer technology the Torah been subject to the greatest of all scrutinies. Many still ask the old questions, "is the Torah truly of Divine origins?" "Can this ever be proved or disproved?" For the Torah faithful Jew, such as myself, such questions are outright offensive. We live by faith, and care not what science can prove or disprove. Yet, modern computer analysis of the Torah has uncovered a most shocking discovery. There are secret codes concealed numerically within the arrangement of the letters in the Torah text. These codes are prophetic in nature and have revealed shocking truths about events - past, present and future. No one would have known that the Torah codes existed if it were not for 20th century computer technology. Statistical analysis has proven that these codes are no mere mathematical coincidence. There is a very legitimate sub-level of teachings and knowledge concealed within the Torah. Now this poses a dilemma. There certainly was no computer technology 3,500 years age when Moses received the Torah on Mt. Sinai. How then did the Torah codes get there? I am sure that some of you believe that extraterrestrial aliens put them there. However, as a Rabbi and Kabbalist, I know that the Torah codes were not placed there by any extraterrestrial alien. The codes were placed in the Torah by the Creator of aliens and humans alike, the Holy and Living G-d. Today, through the Torah codes, scientists have proven the the holy Torah is definitely from an intelligence far beyond that of mortal man. But we Rabbis and Kabbalists have always known this. This is why we have kept the faith for the past 4,000 years of Jewish history.
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What then can be learned after a review of all the material that I have provided here? According to Judaism, there definitely is life in outer space. But, so what? According to Judaism, there is also life in inner space. As we grow in sophistication and in understanding the world around us, we must expand our knowledge to include the realities and workings of the non-corporeal astral realms. Regardless of whatever explorations we might pursue, be they in outer space, under the seas, or under the earth, the true final frontier will always be the inner space of the human mind, the doorway to the human soul. For it is only the human soul, with the spark of the Divine as its source, that can truly lead us in the right directions through our multiple dimensional existences as dual corporeal/non-corporeal beings. We are coming into a new age, and the passageway into it is most precise and narrow. There is so much confusion surrounding us as we are bombarded with the so many new things. People, Jew and gentile alike no longer know where to turn for the answers that give life its meaning. We are so inundated with the new that we have forgotten the old. More so, we are subtly taught that whatever is old is obsolete and useless, and in need of replacement. This is how religion, Torah and Judaism are viewed by many today. So many people believe that the Bible and Jewish Law are no longer applicable in our modern technological society. How devastatingly wrong are the ones who believe this! G-ds wisdom, concealed in His Torah, is only now beginning to be revealed. The concealed wisdom has waited these thousands of years for us to develop an intellect that could grasp them. Well now that time has come. The UFO experiences of people today are all part of G-ds plan to make us aware that there is a greater world surrounding us, more than what the eye can see. Many of the UFO stories are nonsense. Many UFO sightings are really secret military projects, which the government has every right to keep top secret. Many close encounters with extraterrestrials are really encounters with other inter-dimensional beings, most likely of a demonic nature. Some sightings, stories and encounters are the fantasies of deluded minds. Some sightings, stories and encounters might very well be of real extraterrestrials who have a G-d given right to be here, to conduct whatever business it is that G-d has given them to do. No matter what the source is, no matter what the truth, there is still only One underlying reality beneath all these phenomena. When we look out upon our universe, and explore everything there is to be explored; once our minds have examined all things and we rise to be true masters of the physical universe, we will find as the last and most ultimate discovery that which the ancient master Abraham found some 4,000 years ago there is only One true existence and only One true reality. This reality is the consciousness of the universe. It is above and beyond the universe as the soul is above the body. This reality is the true Being and awareness of all. This reality is above the universe itself. Above and beyond, while at the same time, below and within. This reality is G-d, the one and only true source. G-d, who is never
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removed from us, no matter where we go. G-d who is ever guiding our footsteps back to our true spiritual home. There is only one thing left to learn. King Solomon said it best, so with his words shall I conclude. "The end of the matter, when all is said and done: Fear G-d and keep his commandments: for that is the whole duty of man. For G-d shall bring every work into judgment, even every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be bad." (Ecc.12:13,14)
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