The Shrouded Beast, Part 2

For the purpose of exploring the claims of religion, let’s assume that there is a physiological mechanism for reincarnation. That’s what it comes down to, after all, because the existence of gods and immortality depends on that. If not for that, there would be no religion as we know it. With that in mind, let’s riff on the history of religion and the implication of its central claim.

To begin with, let's imagine that the physiological mechanism for reincarnation was created by a talented geneticist of unknown origin. Imagine that it's a structure in the brain that records memories in DNA, that can be planted after death in a uterus, like an egg, and fertilized to create a new life. It carries our identity, consisting of all of our memories, from birth do death. It was known originally as the soul.

The elohim about whom the Bible was written knew that the source of their existential advantage was being able to "eat" from the “Tree of Life,” and therefore they forbade their mortal companions to ever eat from it. The eloah, Lucifer, taught them how to do it and with that knowledge, they created heaven and hell, and thus the world we know was born.

The patriarchs of the Bible are said to have lived hundreds of years, with the oldest of them living almost a thousand years. Functionally immortal, they were elohim by definition. Assuming a physiological mechanism for the reincarnation of an individual, they must have lived many lives in the open, keeping their identities intact throughout the centuries. With their demise probably came the end of their ability to live in the open. Perhaps Methuselah is still around, doing this or that as who knows who.

With the knowledge of the elohim, the ultimate reward and punishment was introduced to the world as gods, angels and devils, representing the ultimate in privilege and privation. God is the angel in charge of the process. Angels are those who have been reincarnated and allowed to keep their memories. Devils, or fallen angels, are those who have been reincarnated without being allowed to keep their memories. The process of being made a fallen angel is known as being sacrificed.

Imagine having lived for centuries in community with other immortals, only to have your memories taken away one life. The immortal is effectively replaced with a new person. There is much of the immortal that continues to exist, but with the connection to the immortal memory severed, there is little meaningful continuity. When the Bible talks about infants being sacrificed, this is what it means.

Jesus was “sacrificed” as an infant, but John the Baptist was able to restore his immortal memory. When Jesus brought Lazarus back from the dead, what he actually did was restore his immortal memory. After Jesus was executed, he was given a new life, without his immortal memory. He’s probably still around in that purgatory doing this or that as who knows who.

If reincarnation is a physical fact, one has to consider that much of the conflict throughout history has actually been about controlling the information and consolidating its power. In this world, he who controls Heaven and Hell is God. Perhaps it was a mistake for Lucifer to teach humankind how to eat from the tree of life. But why make a species able to be reincarnated, to create a kingdom of privilege and privation? Perhaps it was the elohim who were mistaken, because it is their exclusivist, supremacist example that humankind emulates to this day. They surely knew how precarious their secret advantage was.

If reincarnation is a physical fact, how could such a thing be revealed, administered, and implemented worldwide? Who gets to live again? How would it affect our species, would we go extinct from boredom of life?

What do you think?

The Shrouded Beast

Religions are the epitome of disinformation, but they do inadvertently outline the contours of that which they obscure.

If the general claims of religion are to be considered rationally, mainly that gods exist and reincarnation is a possibility, then one has to consider the possibility that Homo Sapiens is a genetically modified species of unknown origin, most probably of extraterrestrial origin. The existence of gods, which are essentially immortal beings, (originally presenting as people), with the ability to offer immortality, is at least evidence of an information advantage being exercised.

For a pre Judeo-Christian example of the miracles described in the Bible, look up the story of Jamadagni, Renuka and their sons. It illustrates a man-god with the power to bring people back to life, with or without the memories of their previous lives.

If the general claims of religion are true, then it is the conspiracy of conspiracies that ultimately orders this world, and a life to live is the ultimate commodity. This presupposes that there is a physiological mechanism for the reincarnation of an individual, not in the same body, but as a new person—to literally be born again, (in heaven if you were allowed to keep your memories).

The story of Jesus the Christ is interesting in this context because he was offering forbidden information about the process to his followers.

As for who he actually was, I believe that he must have been Antipater II, the first born son of Herod the Great—the man-god of the ancient Jews, who had him nailed as an adult to the intersection of mundanity and divinity as a warning to usurpers.

I imagine that Antipater, knowing that he was going to inherit Herod’s throne, began to tell people what his kingdom was going to be like. That didn’t go over well with religious authorities who got the Roman authorities involved and insisted that Herod have him executed.

It’s the only actual event from that time period involving a “king of the Jews” who was sacrificed by his father for the sake of power. It explains the authority Jesus had as a child, and it explains the information gap in the life of Jesus between childhood and adulthood: Antipater was banished with his mother, Doris, from Herod’s court for most of his life.

I propose that the person responsible for the turn of events that led to Antipater’s execution was Costobar, the husband of Salome, who also was executed by Herod. The Bible story remembers him as John the Baptist. Perhaps the root of the conflict was a competition between the followers of the Idumean deity, Qos, and the followers of Yahweh, who were willing to oversee the destruction of their own Temple over it.

Not only was the Temple actually destroyed, but there was indeed a schism in Judaism that led to a new religion, (that Rome eventually gained control over).

Look at all of the people who were involved. It is the juiciest nonfiction story of that time.

Christianity is a product of the long and bloody process of Iron Age information control. It can also be called Roman Judaism. My fundamental assumption is that there’s nothing in the Bible that can be relied on factually, and that is by design. I imagine it as a story that people heard that was gradually, over centuries, “corrected” through violence and cooption to become the myth we know today. The point was very much to deflate the political power of the actual story and turn it into a vehicle for control.

The Romans succeeded in mythologizing the facts out of the story and turning it into a religion of superstition, but they were not able to change the contender’s focus on eschatological fulfillment, or sully the exquisitely sapient character of its tragic messiah.