In the Beginning

Since this is my first blog (Ever), I figured it would be best to start at the beginning. That of course would be the Old Testament’s “Genesis.” Here I will offer an analytical view of our supposed “First People.” The focus here is not on religion itself, but the creation story of Christianity/Judaism. In Genesis Chapter 1, it states:

¹ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

⁴ And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so.

⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.

¹⁰ And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called the Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.

¹¹ And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

¹² And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

¹³ And the evening and the morning were the third day.

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

¹⁸ And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.

¹⁹ And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

²¹ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

²³ And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

²⁷ So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

³⁰ And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so.

³¹ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”

From there it goes on to state that God created Adam from the Dust of the Earth. An interesting part of the story comes next:

¹⁸ And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

¹⁹ And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.

²⁰ And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Basically it is stating that God wanted to create a “Helper” for Adam and so began creating every animal, creature, insect, etc. After he created one, he brought it to Adam and had him name it. After naming it, Adam was basically to decide whether each creature could be a suitable helper for him, but alas, after every living thing was brought before Adam, he did not find a suitable helper. This is actually a strange one to believe even for a Christian. Can you see Adam kicked back, completely naked, and laying against a tree as God shows him a cricket and says, “How about this one?” In which Adam replies, “Nope.”

Then God pulls out a Black Widow and asks, “This one?” Adam thinks for a second and says, “Nope.”

God then reaches in his pocket and pulls out an Earthworm and asks, “And this?” in which Adam replies, “No thank you.”

God stops and begins to wonder what on his creation could be a suitable helper and mate for Adam. He reaches around his back and pulls out a Jackal and says, “Hold on Adam, I think I have it this time…. Ta-Da! Adam, what do you think about this one?”

With one eyebrow raised and stunning confusion, he can only respond with, “Seriously God? What is wrong with you? How am I supposed to mate and be content with a jackal?”

God looks embarrassed and asks, “Are you sure you don’t want this one?” and Adam simply states, “No.”

It is kind of ludicrous to think God and Adam sat in the Garden for years on end while God shows Adam every single life-form on this planet, asking him, “And this one?” With Adam only being able to reply, “No God, show me another.”

Creation of Eve

Moving on; Adam named and examined every living thing and still couldn’t find one suitable to help him. Because of this, God had an idea and knocked him out, and with the precision of a plastic surgeon, began to slice open his chest. God proceeded to steal one rib from Adam and created Eve. On a side note, ever since I was a little boy, I always wondered if Adam spent the rest of his life missing a rib or if God replaced it for him. It would be kind of odd for Adam to be missing a rib, but if God replaced his rib, then what was the purpose of taking it in the first place? I later found out why God stole his rib instead of creating Eve in the fashion He made Adam, but still can’t find any historical data on whether he was forced to live with a missing rib. 

 

Since God made the first woman from a piece of Adam, he stated that she was of Adam and should be treated accordingly. This meant of course that Eve (Woman) is subservient to Adam (Man). God then had Adam get to tilling the land and all of the beautiful trees and plants sprung up and bloomed, creating the beautiful and complete, ‘Garden of Eden.’ There were two trees of significance that God placed in the Garden. One was the “Tree of Life” and the other was the “Tree of Good and Evil.” God told them not to eat of the fruit from the tree of good and evil or they would die. In reality, the Bible really needs to explain why God would put this tree there in the first place. The only answer I have heard is that it was to test Adam and Even with temptation, but that sounds like the type of thing a sadistic mad-man would do and not the creator of the Universe. Since Eve was an ignorant woman, (Christianity’s view on women) she was approached by a serpent who ssssssaid, “Eat it!” in which she replied, “No!”

The serpent said, “Look woman, you will be like God if you munch on this fruit.”

She then replied, “Oh… Okay then… Hook it up Serpent!”

She then proceeded to eat a piece of fruit and said, “OMG Serpent, this is the bomb! I think I will go and manipulate Adam into eating this apple as well!”
 

The Event that Sentenced Us to Hell

Eve MADE Adam eat some apple because of course without the manipulation of woman, man would never do something he isn’t supposed to. On a side note, the symbolism of this aspect of the story goes back to the “Sacred Feminine” and relates how woman once gave knowledge to man. Unfortunately the Bible represents this with negativity and horror instead of showing the profound implications it holds. Once Adam took a bite of apple, he looked down and realized he had no clothes on and said, “Shit! I’m butt ass naked out here!!” and Eve did the same. They both ran to some fig trees and sowed some leaves around their genitals. What doesn’t make sense about that is that Eve would have realized she was naked and known good and evil before she enticed Adam to eat the apple. So why does the Bible claim the apple did nothing to her until Adam ate of the tree as well? Next, God came merrily prancing around in the garden and said, “Adam!! I’m not playing hide and seek with you again! Where are you?”

Adam replied, “Help! I’m naked! Can you get me some pants?”

God lost his temper for the first time (Which would later become a trend with him) and became irate, “What the hell do you mean you’re naked?! Who told you that?!”

Adam told God that he and Eve ate some forbidden fruit (Even though God is omnipotent and should have already known). God then said, “Dammit Adam, I told you to not to eat the fruit or you would die. Now you are like me and know the difference between Good and Evil. You can also think now and philosophize which is of the Devil.”

Adam’s response should have been to ask God why he decided to place a beautiful tree in the center of the Garden and then tell him he can’t touch it. Next, Adam should have asked God why he even made this tree in the first place. How would God like it if Adam found a beautiful, young virgin with her menstrual blood poured all over an altar? (Old rituals actually centered on the menstrual blood and sacrifice of virgins. I am not being sarcastic here) How would God then like it if Adam told God he wasn’t allowed to accept the sacrifice, but instead would have to look at her every day of his existence without being able to kill her? I don’t think God would appreciate that very much; especially if the consequence for playing with his sacrificial victim was for his kind to be sentenced to an eternity of torture in Hell. The Judaic God appears to be pretty sadistic, but that’s another story. What I am getting at here is that Adam and Eve ate some fruit and from there, all of mankind was destined to suffer in life, experience torture during childbirth, and then burn in hell… FOREVER!!

Modern Depiction of Lilith

Children of Lilith

What most people don’t know since they don’t study their religion is that Eve was not Adam’s first wife. The original story has him with Lilith (Or Lilitu). God created Adam from the Earth and then created Lilith from the Earth as well to be his equal partner in life. Adam insisted that Lilith be subservient to him and is even quoted as saying, “Lie beneath me woman.” (Actual quote and one I like to use when the occasion presents itself!) She was upset with this and stated that they were equals and would be treated no differently. Lilith decided to pronounce the divine name of God, ‘Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh,’ which is never to be vocalized or pronounced. When she spoke His name, it gave her such power that she grew wings and flew away into the Heavens. She is even said to have slept with the archangel Samael after this point. God dispatched three angels to bring her back to the Garden of Eden but she refused. The angels informed her that if she didn’t go back, God would kill 100 of her offspring every day.

Babylonian Depiction of 'Lilitu'

At this point Lilith began afflicting pregnant women and newborns. To have the children needed for God to kill, she became a Succubus Demon of sorts (She is the first demon) and would molest/rape young men who slept alone. She would become impregnated during her nightly encounters thereby spawning her race of demonic children for God to murder. This was her punishment for defying God and Adam. God saw his mistake (Since God makes mistakes of course) in making a woman equal to a man and that is when he knocked Adam out and made a subservient woman from his rib. One question I have is why God needs to steal body parts in order to make a woman. Why not just create her like the rest of the Universe? I suppose it is the symbolism of woman being created from the body of man. This makes her ‘of man’ and not equal ‘to man.’

Analyzing Genesis chapter one brings up a couple of issues. The first is that God named the sunny part of the Earth, ‘Day.’ That is fine and all, but God didn’t speak English back then because there was no English. How can any statements like that be said in the Bible without using the original Hebrew word? One interesting thing about the word ‘Day’ is what symbolism and numerical value is hidden within the word. If the ‘D’ is laid on its side, it becomes the sun rising over the horizon. ‘A’ is the 1^st letter of the alphabet while ‘Y’ is the 25^th. 25-1=24, so in the word ‘Day’ you have the sun rising followed by the number 24. In other words, ‘Day’ consists of 24 hours and is the part of the hours that has the sun out. Someone devised that nifty little word with that meaning and I really want to know who.

In verse 14, God is stating that the lights in the firmament of the heavens are there to divide day and night and to be used for signs, seasons, days, and years. What he is saying is that he created Astrology and Astrological influences which doesn’t make any sense because Astrology is of the Devil according to the Church. Obviously this isn’t true and the Bible has a couple verses in which it states that God created Astrology. In verse 15, it states that God made two lights. The greater light is to rule the day, the lesser light to rule the night. It then quickly states, “he made the stars also.” Seriously?! God “made the stars also.” That is just ridiculous to claim that God spent all of this time creating the Earth, Sun, Moon, and life on the planet and just snapped his fingers and created trillions of galaxies, all containing hundreds of billions of stars, of which, most of have multiple planets swinging around them. That is insanity, but we shall continue.

Verse 26 is by far the most important and most telling line in Genesis. It states “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” People have read the Bible over and over and for some reason have never noticed this line. It says that the GODS (Plural) created Man in THEIR image after THEIR likeness. The word Elohim is the Hebrew name for God and actually can be used as a singular or plural noun depending on the context of the words around it. In this case, since God is being referred to as plural, the actual name of God means “Gods.” This inevitably leads me to ask who the Gods are that created us. One other thing to point out (From a lecture Jordan Maxwell has given) is that God (or the Gods) say they want to MAKE man like them. It doesn’t necessarily say that they created man. It can be used in a different context saying they are taking man and MAKING us like them.

The last verse in this chapter of Genesis that I want to point out is number 28 in which God states, “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it” Did you notice the that God told them to “replenish” the Earth? According to the dictionary, ‘Replenish’ is defined as such:

What Happened Before Adam & Eve?

verb (used with object)

1. to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.

2. to supply (a fire, stove, etc.) with fresh fuel.

3. to fill again or anew.

So go ahead and take a look at the first definition and then read the third. What it states is that to replenish something is to renew it AGAIN. This obviously implies that the Earth was once a nice, fruitful, and plentiful planet before Adam and Eve were created. It implies that some type of event could have happened in which everything was wiped out and now must be replenished or made whole again by Adam and Eve. What is this portion of history on the planet we have no knowledge of? What was happening before Adam and Eve and how was it destroyed? Basically, what the hell does it mean, replenish?!

Another inconsistency is in the story of Cain and Abel. The Bible states that there was sibling rivalry between the brothers and as a result, Cain killed Abel. The consequence of this event was the banishment of Cain from the Garden of Eden. He was sent out on his own but that doesn’t add up when you look at what the Bible actually says:

¹⁴ Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, [that] every one that findeth me shall slay me.

¹⁵ And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

¹⁶ And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

¹⁷ And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Qabalistic Tree of Life

When Cain spoke to God after he murdered his brother, he made note to tell him that he was afraid of the people outside of the Garden. Basically the other people are viewed as heathens and animals and he was afraid for his safety amongst them. God told Cain that he will go out amongst the other people with a mark on him to identify that he is from the Garden. From this point on, any who inflict vengeance on Cain will have it brought on themselves multiplied by seven. No one asks why Cain or God would believe that the other people would want to inflict vengeance or violence upon him. Since they would have no knowledge of him murdering his brother, why would they want to kill him? Could it be that they want him dead because he is FROM the Garden? If so, what does that imply? An interesting side note is verse 24 which states: “²⁴ If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.” Looking at the numerology of this sentence, you have the number 777 which is of course the Kabbalistic number for the Tree of Life. 

Cain set out to find his new home and settled down in the land of ‘Nod.’ The word ‘Nod’ is the Hebrew root to the word ‘Wander.’ The Bible is stating that Cain was forced to wander the Earth in a nomadic fashion. In the land of Nod (Or wandering the Earth), Cain meets a woman who becomes his wife and they have a son named Enoch. Cain decides to settle down and build a city which he names after his son. So this is fine and dandy except for the fact that the Bible says that God created the Earth, the Garden of Eden, and Adam & Eve who then have two children. It says nothing about a completely different population of people living outside of the Garden. Could it be that there was already a civilization on Earth before the Garden? Look at all that I have just written and then really analyze Genesis.

What the Bible seems to be implying is that the Earth was already here and filled with people. Some catastrophic event happened that destroyed the planet while some people still survived. The ‘Gods’ took two people and fashioned them after themselves. After cordoning off an area they termed, the “Garden of Eden,” the Gods set these two people inside its boundaries. Adam & Eve were instructed to stay in the Garden and not eat of this mysterious fruit which would give them God-like knowledge or they would be severely punished. After a creature came in and opened their eyes (Symbolically), this new species now had the capacity to think with the wisdom of the God’s which it appears is a big no-no. If you notice that the people outside of the Garden all have the same thinking capacity as post-fruit Adam and Eve; it gives credence to the idea that Adam & Eve were an experiment of sorts who were made differently from the humans already on the planet. Since they were put in this Garden and not allowed contact with the outside world, maybe the Gods were trying to make a different type of human to suit their purposes. As far as the Gods being literal, Genesis even states that ‘God’ (Singular) was walking around in the Garden and Adam could hear his footsteps (Jordan Maxwell’s research again).

This leads to the questions of; who were the Gods? Why were Adam & Eve kept separate from the other humans on the planet? Why weren’t they allowed to think or have wisdom? Were the other people a remnant of a previous and lost civilization? None of these questions can be answered without continuing in the study of the Bible. It is obvious that the mainstream interpretation is extremely flawed and if one was to ask these questions to a religious authority, it would be “Poo-pood” away and the individual would be told not to think about it and just have faith. Genesis seems to be telling a very different story of modern man’s creation. Although I believe the exoteric interpretation overall isn’t accurate; I do believe that an aspect of the truth is hidden within those passages.

The Bible could be interpreted as referring to some type of alien species when it speaks of God and his angels. This could be true and it also might not be. I don’t know; I wasn’t there. That sums up a good majority of my philosophy when it comes to history, religion, and basically anything that occurred in a place or time that I wasn’t at. With current events, although I am not everywhere experiencing things first hand, there is a lot of factual information and testimony from others who were. As for anything in the past, there is no way to know anything with certainty. Just because a book was written or a journal found from a time period hundreds or thousands of years ago doesn’t mean that what was written is what happened. I could write a lot of things down in journals and books. Civilization could be destroyed, and someone far in the future could find my writings, but what they gleam about current events might not be exactly how it went down.

This is where I will end this lesson. This article is my first of many that are to come. I hope any who have read this also enjoyed it and learned something. All I want to do with my life is continue gathering knowledge and attaining wisdom through my research. It brings me much pleasure to share what I have learned with those willing to listen. I have no intention of trying to change people’s belief systems and if someone is offended by my work, then don’t read it because it isn’t for you! Thanks for your time.

With Love,

-          Craig Dumas (a.k.a. Shaman Skat)