PART IV: ORIGINS
by Anthony Forwood (2011)
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30: Connections
We’ve seen in the last chapters
that at about 30,000 BC there were two distinct races of the hominid species living on Earth – Neanderthal man and his more evolved cousin, Cro-Magnon man – and both inhabited the western European continent and elsewhere. We’ve also seen that
Neanderthal man went extinct, for whatever reason, after only about ten
thousand years of co-existence with Cro-Magnon man. We’ve also seen that
Cro-Magnon man arrived on the scene with an already established and very
sophisticated artistic talent that’s out of place with our current
understandings of the progressive cultural development of the human race. We’ve also seen that the
legendary Atlantean civilization and its final demise at around
9,500 BC is concurrent with the establishment of Cro-Magnon man in Western
Europe and parts of Africa. And we’ve seen how the
legends of the Bible – the early gods, the creation of the Adamic race, the eviction of Adam and Eve from Eden, the interbreeding between the gods and humans and the resultant
race of giants, the barbarism of humans,
the Flood event, and the extermination of certain peoples by the chosen Israelites – have strong parallels with most other
ancient legends from other cultures around the world. Virtually all of these
legends also say, in one way or another, that a great civilization of god-like
beings once existed on Earth long before our own, and
started our earliest human civilizations. Many of these legends,
in particular the ones that go back the farthest in time, also tell of the
amazing technology and abilities of these beings. Other legends,
mostly from smaller isolated cultures that arose at a later period, tell of
these beings having survived a great cataclysm that destroyed their civilization.
At the time that Darwin’s theory of evolution was first introduced in the mid-nineteenth
century, the findings of archeology were just beginning to reveal the remains of
our human ancestors. This theory wasn’t created with the idea that it would
apply to humans, but it quickly dawned on scientists that it was just as valid with our species as it was with any other living organism. This
created a great deal of consternation at the time, because it was still popularly
believed that man was a special creation brought about by a divine power, and
so the idea that we were once apes – as was being quickly revealed by the new
science of archeology – was just not acceptable to these ardent believers in
religious doctrine.
Previously, starting in the
Middle Ages, the interest in all things
ancient that centered on the weird and wonderful eventually came to be termed
‘antiquarianism’, and the collectors of
these things were those who had the wealth and inclination to seek out and
purchase such rare oddities for their private collections. This included Popes,
cardinals, kings, rich merchants, and
adventurous explorers. These collections sometimes ended up in museums, but it
can be assumed that many of these collections have never seen the light of day,
and remain hidden away in private chambers where few even know of their
existence.
It should be noted that those who
had the greatest ability to acquire these relics of our past were those who were most commonly
involved with secret societies as well, and this leads us to wonder if
perhaps certain secrets about our past that are still popularly
questioned and guessed at might be revealed within these secret collections. We
might even wonder, given what has been revealed in this text, whether there has
been a certain amount of purposeful manipulation of our newly developing
understanding of our past that such hidden archeological finds would give evidence to. After all, the main institutions of our
modern society that decide on what is fact and what is not were all established
by these same interested parties who first sought to possess these relics. It’s
very possible, and even likely, that these decision-makers looked to these
relics with a thought to their own growing domination of what was to be
believed and what was not, and the control and power that such dictated beliefs
might afford them.
Such control and power would have
been even greater if they already had some inkling of the truth of our past
through secret ancient knowledge that had already come into their possession
and allowed them to see these relics for what they really were, while presenting
them to the public – if they chose to present them at all – in a distorted
manner that would still hide certain truths. In particular, if they knew that
the current human race derived from a god-like race as we see depicted in our ancient myths and legends, and they wished to
present themselves at some future date as the descendents of these gods while the rest of us are of an inferior race
(thus justifying their superiority), then it would be necessary to control any
evidence to the contrary. The power of the Church, through its clergy as
well as its most ardent followers, fought hard against the newly emerging
scientific findings that promoted as fact our materialistic evolutionary
history. It is often nothing more than the strong convictions of a respected
authority that leads a whole population to believe something when no physical
evidence exists to prove those convictions, and in the area of our human
evolution, many clergymen and
ardent religious followers were in the past very active in the formulation of
ideas surrounding the interpretation of what has been found in the Earth that stems from our distant past. Because of
such men (and women), whole cultures have been destroyed and their histories all but lost, in the desire to establish
certain other beliefs about our origins. After all, this is
exactly what the Crusades were all about, and we cannot deny this today,
even if we can somehow forgive it.
Many theories have been raised
over the years regarding the true facts of our origins, and of these, some have
continued to have a certain appeal while others have eventually been rejected,
only to be replaced by others that seem to better fit the evidence. Catastrophism is one such theory, which is the belief that
our planet has gone through a series of catastrophes over the ages, with the biblical Flood being one of these. This theory is an attempt
to make sense of the biblical legend of the Flood in connection with newly arising scientific
findings. The discovery of human bones and artifacts amongst the bones of animals that seemed out
of place, and marine specimens that were often found on the tops of mountains
and in desert regions, led to this theory. For a time, this theory kept
religious believers satisfied, but the weight of the greater truth of other
possibilities soon forced this theory to be replaced by another, called ‘Uniformitarianism’. This newer theory was
based on the idea that the Earth is perpetually going through changes at a slow
but uniform rate, and the upheavals of the past were no worse than we regularly see
today. This has more or less remained the consensus belief up to the present
time, since it can be used to explain so many things in relation to the fields
of science that deal with our planet and our origins.
But this does not by any means
dictate that it’s the most accurate explanation possible. There are many ways
to perceive things that are complex, and the more we look at something, the
more detail we perceive, and the more complex it becomes. Thus, our study of
our past reveals greater and greater complexity that can be perceived in a
greater number of ways. It is entirely up to those who control the decisions
that govern how we perceive things whether one view or another will be the
prevailing belief.
Evolutionary theory is but a corrupted version of a greater truth.
Yes, we do evolve, but it doesn’t
necessarily have to occur through random mutation. It’s quite possible, as
we now know, for non-random mutation to occur, and that specific genes can be mapped and purposely altered or turned
on or off. The only thing that leads us to conclude that this could never have
occurred in the past, and perhaps even caused our own creation, is our belief
that no civilization as capable as our own has ever existed, simply because we
see no evidence of one.
Scientists are often too quick to
accept something as evidence of a favored theory, and to ignore any
evidence that doesn’t fit that theory. The Darwinian theory
of evolution is the favored theory of today, and anything
that doesn’t fit into it is considered an anomaly. Atlantis didn’t exist because no significant evidence
of it supposedly exists beyond Plato’s writings about it, and
because we can’t conceive of an entire continent being swallowed up by an
ocean. The fact that Cro-Magnon had unexplainable artistic skill seems to be an anomaly. The Great
Pyramid is supposed to have been a tomb for a pharaoh, even though there is
nothing to indicate it was, and a great many things about it that suggest it
was something else entirely.
From what has been presented so
far, it can be seen that Atlantis may have actually been the origin of the modern human species, and only later did the
surviving inhabitants of this crumbling continent migrate to other lands,
beginning our own first civilizations. These survivors brought with them some of their knowledge and culture, but in their flight from the
final upheaval that sank their homeland, they had to abandon
so much more. All of what they left behind was lost to the ocean waters or
buried under the earth, and they were left to live in a harsh environment with
little more than their individual knowledge, skills, and ingenuity to survive,
and try to begin to build their civilization again. The myths that survive and which have been preserved in
their various translations, those of Egypt, India, and Greece, are the remnant memories
of a very ancient time, spanning different cultural ages over tens of thousands
of years. The survivors of the biblical Flood were representative of the Atlantean survivors, a chosen race, which, in its
earliest form, had been the creation of the gods, the Adamic race that was later expelled from Eden after having attained higher knowledge through
a non-random mutation. Eden may have been
located in Atlantis rather than Africa, and Homo
Heidelbergensis may have stemmed from the
original worker-being that the gods had created to work their mines. Adam would have originally been of this species,
but then underwent certain genetic changes, and this resulted in his expulsion
from the sanctuary of the gods. Although this legend is portrayed in the Bible as a punishment for Adam’s sinful
transgression, this may just be a distortion of the true historical events, and
it was that the Adamic race – who later evolved into Cro-Magnon man – was allowed to leave the nest, given the
fact that he could now better fend for himself than his brethren who didn’t
undergo a genetic change. These latter would evolve into Neanderthal man, and would have had a head start in
populating the lands beyond Eden, as we see in the archeological record. The biblical Flood event was the last upheaval in a series of events that spanned thousands
of years, and it wasn’t until this last one that the Adamic race left the
Atlantean continent, the gods themselves
having departed elsewhere. Noah is representative of the first Cro-Magnon to
arrive from the sunken continent.
The unexplainable advancement of
the art of Cro-Magnon man 50,000 years ago is an anomaly equal to
the unexplainable knowledge the Sumerians held in 5,000 BC, as well as the unexplainable
architectural abilities of the earliest pyramid builders. We see a degeneration of
knowledge and skills with all three of these, rather than a progressive
development, and this strongly suggests that these abilities are but the
remaining achievements of a lost civilization of high attainment, such as the legendary
Atlantis. It seems more fitting
that we should view Cro-Magnon man as being more intellectually advanced than
we’ve given him credit for. After having been thrown into either a sudden or
progressive hardship due to planetary upheavals and at the same time facing an ongoing ice age, he only appears to
have been less advanced than he actually was. Modern man would be in a very
similar state if our civilization were suddenly rent asunder and most of the
population and all that we had achieved were wiped out, while the survivors had to face living off the land in the
extremely harsh environment of an ice age. Since there were no longer any of
the conveniences that we were used to, we’d be left dependent on the knowledge
and skills we each personally had that might be useful to our situation, which
would probably be very little. Reading and writing would quickly become
forgotten skills when there was no easy means to write. New generations would
be virtually illiterate, and the only method of passing on knowledge would be
orally. Although the original survivors might be intelligent enough to be able
to reestablish some sense of order and use their individual knowledge for
improving their situation, they wouldn’t be able to pass on very much to the
next generation and anything that wasn’t passed on would be lost. All but a few
of the simpler technologies of the earlier civilization would be able to
be copied, using whatever materials were at hand to fashion them, which would
be very few. Much of what these early survivors of a cataclysm might leave behind for us to find so many
thousands of years later would therefore appear to be quite primitive to later
civilizations such as our own, and almost indistinguishable from the
achievements of the less advanced Neanderthals in all but their skill. It would
be up to the original survivors, few and scattered as they were, to preserve
whatever knowledge they were able to, in whatever manner available, or it would
be completely lost and future generations would have to relearn it all over
again. A great deal of knowledge was thus lost, and each separate group of
survivors would only be able to use and preserve what they could of the
knowledge they held between them.
Given that certain groups of
people have always held secret knowledge that might provide them with a clear and
unadulterated description of our true history and origins, if these people were
also in control of what will be the prevailing belief of scientific fact, they
would be in a position to mislead the public regarding the truth. But why would
they do this? The reader should now be coming closer to understanding the
answer to that question.
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