The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics and Ancient Texts

by Joseph P. Farrell

  Author Stephen Quayle interprets this theory against the twin backdrops of the planetary anomalies on Mars and elsewhere, and against the backdrop of catastrophism:

  Exactly how the ancient Earth became “without form and void” is hard to say. But there are several events that appear to have taken place which would have done the job, and thus, might have been employed by God to wipe the face of the Earth clean. Interestingly, both of these had the capacity to throw up massive amounts of sort and ash, thereby blocking the light from the planet, as is suggested by the “darkness on the face of the earth.”

  The method, of course, is

  The most likely ‘suspect” ... one or more comets...575

  Mars and other planets show the evidence of massive meteoric bombardments of their surfaces.576

  As has been seen, however, a scalar weapons technology would also certainly be capable of manipulating weather, blacking out the light of the sun, and causing plasma- and explosion-generated craters on other celestial bodies. In any case, as Quayle points out, “Since Mars and other planets, as well as the planet-sized moons of Jupiter and Saturn also exhibit this destruction, one might also speculate that these worlds and moons might also have been inhabited by angels, or even space-faring giants.”577

  Regardless of whether or not one accepts Quayle’s interpretation in its narrow biblical application, it is clear that it does fit the wider Mesopotamian and Egyptian context that we have examined in conjunction with the Sumerian and Edfu texts, and in that context the biblical “war in heaven” would appear to be another version of the great cosmic war in the pantheon those texts describe.

  1. A Chronological Outline Emerges

  Putting these observations together with Van Flandern’s Multiple Exploded Planet Hypothesis, the Sumerian Enuma Elish, and the Edfu texts, one has a “primordial revolt” occurring somewhere between shortly after the initial creation and 65,000,000 years ago, with the explosion of the large planet in the asteroid belt, with the resulting evidence of a massive catastrophe that occurred at approximately that time that exists in the K/T geological boundary layer.

  After this, a “second creation” occurs which repairs the damage. It is important to note that both the “Gap Theory” and the Edfu building texts, with their emphasis on the creation of a second “island” at the Rostau, both maintain more or less the same sequence of events.

  Following this, there is a period in which there is a civilization that appears to exist on Mars, the Earth, and possibly the Moon, and then a second, smaller planetary explosion ca. 3,200,000 years ago, according to Van Flandern. This event, it will be recalled, did not leave sufficient geological evidence of its occurrence on the earth, and thus Van Flandern was led to modify his initial theory and to posit that it was the explosion of a much smaller celestial body. But as will be recalled, I posited an alternative explanation for the relative absence of such a layer as the K/T layer for this event, and that was that it may be possible that this more recent event occurred when the exploding planet, and the earth, were at their farthest distance from each other. In this case, such damage as would be recorded in the geological data would be of a more random and sporadic nature, as the earth subsequently moved through the “debris” field of this explosion.

  Another point should be observed, and that is the presence within the Great Pyramid’s remaining limestone, of small fossils dating to about 5,000,000 years ago. This would tend to indicate the very remote possibility that, while not built in time for the 65,000,000 years event, it may have been very remotely possible for it to have been built in time for the event at 3,200,000 years ago. However, most of the other chronological data concerning the Pyramid would definitely exclude this possibility, since they indicate the structure is only thousands of years old, and possibly pre-dates the Flood event at 10,500 BC, by some unknown number of years.

  Sometime after this second planetary explosion, we have the possibility of a third event, the “Flood event” ca. 10,500 -15,000 years ago.

  As noted previously, the explosion of a large water-bearing Saturn-sized planetary mass, which may have been home to intelligent life, would have had two possible confirmations: (1) such life would likely have been, by human standards, of very large, or “gigantic” stature; and (2) the explosion of a water-bearing planet of that size would have concussed its nearest neighbor, Mars, with a shock wave of water and debris that would have scoured the hemisphere of that planet that faced the exploding planet, and inundated the other hemisphere with a truly planet-wide deluge. This shock wave would have reached the earth in a dissipated form, causing similar wide-spread planetary damage.

  In any case, viewing the texts in this light against the backdrop of Van Flandern’s Multiple Exploded Planet Hypothesis highlights one fact about the cosmic war, if one ascribes both planetary explosions to that war, and that is, the war was cosmic not only in its breadth in space but for its duration in time.

  This scenario would also imply the following types of corroborating evidence:

  1. The presence of anomalous features on the planets Mars, and the Moons of Jupiter and Saturn, suggesting an artificial origin since the texts as studied in pervious chapters indicate the involvement of these planets in the war and its resulting destruction;

  2. The presence of anomalous features on the Earth’s Moon suggesting a similar artificial origin;

  3. Moreover, these features, if their artificial nature is established, should in turn indicate a common cultural origin and technology, i.e., they should be similar in appearance;

  4. Following the suggestions of the Mesopotamian and Biblical traditions, there should be evidence of the chimerical, giant offspring of the unions of the “gods” and humans, a point already explored in chapter four;

  5. There should also be evidence of the antiquity of mankind on earth prior to the standard theories of human origins, and/or evidence of the presence of intelligent life on earth in great antiquity;

  6. There should be evidence of the existence of a weaponizable physics capable of wreaking planetary-wide damage and of destroying a planet in its entirety, a point which has already been argued; and finally,

  7. There should be evidence of intentional destruction on the surfaces of the above planets, or at the minimum, evidence of anomalous patterns of destruction on those planets.

  This list does not change significantly if one takes the alternative dates of the scenario, based on the event of 3,200,000 years ago being the main event. If, however, one takes my suggestion that the event at 3,200,000 years ago was the main event, as Van Flanden himself initially proposed, and that a K/T-like boundary layer is missing from the earth simply due to its distance from that explosion, then the above chronology is modified accordingly. In this case, while the celestial mechanics become much more improbable, the scenario would seem to square with the chronology suggested by the mythological texts which always seem to imply human observers to the events, and early mankind begins to emerge circa this time frame according to the standard theories.

  Either way one wishes to view the chronological problem, however, one thing should now be abundantly clear, and that is that the ancient traditions of a cosmic war and the implications of the Multiple Exploded Planet Hypothesis fit together with enough exactitude to allow this set of corroborative evidence to be constructed. The likelihood of the cosmic war hypothesis consequently increases with the fulfillment of each of the seven above criteria of corroborative evidences.

  But one serious question remains.

  2. Angels and Plasma Life?

  This serious question is the clear implication found in the Mesopotamian, the Egyptian (Edfu), and the Biblical traditions that the “gods” are “spirits”, i.e., incorporeal and non-material in nature. They are, in short, a very different form of intelligent life than the humanoid “giants,” Nephilim, and humans themselves, that we have discussed thus far. And as I have observed elsewhere,578 the problem is compounded by the fact that in the Mesopo
tamian and Biblical traditions, these “gods” or “sons of God” marry humans and sire chimerical offspring from them.

  Traditionally, Christian theology has maintained that the angels, and by implication demons, are beings of “light” and thus not inhibited by the normal constraints of space and time. They are, so to speak, a sort of “hyper-dimensional” life form able to “slow down” long enough to manifest themselves corporeally, materially, and locally, and thus presumably, to sire offspring of humans.579 This whole approach has often been sarcastically portrayed in the popular imagination as a debate on “how many angels can fit on the head of a pin,” when in fact its profound character as a speculation in theoretical physics and its implications for alternative life forms has gone entirely unnoticed.

  But the theological conjectures of an earlier age might not be so easily dismissed. In fact, they find rather strange corroboration from the plasma physics community, for the famous quantum and plasma physicist David Bohm once noted that the behavior of electrons in plasma gave him the impression that they were somehow alive, since they exhibited the kind of self-organizing properties in plasma that one normally associated with life. More recently, an even more suggestive connection between plasmas and life appeared to have been demonstrated by physicists who were able to create plasmas that grew, replicated, and communicated information to each other.580 This fulfills three out of the four main criteria that many list for the presence of life. The major distinction between such plasmas and ordinary life is that ordinary life requires the presence of inherited material from the parent to the child. This is eerily reminiscent of the statement by Christ in the New Testament that angels neither marry nor are given in marriage. One is permitted to speculate that perhaps plasmas are able to communicate or imprint information almost totally on another plasma. By implication, this would enable them to do so in any interface with more organically based life. In the case of the evil intentions of “fallen angelic ‘plasmas’” this would manifest itself as an habitual inclination toward evil, recalling our speculations concerning an impressed dynamic of evil on the Tablets of Destinies, explaining their consistent and persistent association in the texts with the cosmic war in the pantheon.581

  B. More Miscellaneous Clues:

  1. Serpent Gods and Dragon People

  Lucifer is, of course, usually understood by the Judeo-Christian tradition to be the serpent referred to in the Genesis three account of the fall of man. His description as the “wisest” and “most cunning” of all the creatures - as well as his promise to mankind that if it but eats of the “forbidden fruit” of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil - has led some commentators to draw parallels between him and the “civilizing” and “wisdom” gods of other cultures, the gods who taught mankind the arts and sciences of civilization. The Mayan-Aztec god Quetzlcoatl, who is credited with teaching them their civilization, is said to have been a bearded white man, but is also, as is well-known, depicted as a “feathered serpent” or a “winged serpent.” Similarly the Incan Viracocha was a bearded white man, and also a “feathered” or “winged” serpent. The Egyptian “wisdom god” Thoth, who is also credited with building the Great Pyramid, is also associated with a lizard, the salamander. Even the book of Revelation refers to Lucifer as a “dragon” or, to put it differently, a “feathered serpent.”582

  In ancient Egypt’s mythology the flying serpent is not only a symbol of immortality, it is also an ambiguous symbol both of the source of good and of evil, a dialectic recalling the serpent’s temptation of mankind in Genesis three to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Not surprisingly, these feathered serpents or dragons are also said to have sired a chimerical offspring with mankind.

  The Book of Dzyan...(states that) the Sarpa or Great Dragons were the Fifth Race to inhabit the world. The Fourth Race was a race of giants who had lived before the Deluge but were wiped out by that catastrophe. The book relates how the serpent gods or dragons redescended after the Deluge and instructed man in the arts of civilization. These serpent-gods had a human face and the tail of a dragon: they founded divine dynasties on Earth and are believed to be the ancestors of our current civilization, the Fifth Race of the Book of Dzyan. The leader of these gods was called “The Great Dragon.”583

  Like the giant offspring of the Nephilim described in the Old Testament, the Book of Dzyan also describes the “reptilian-human” offspring of this fifth race as practicing cannibalism.584

  Egyptian art often depicts the slaying of an evil serpent in terms starkly reminiscent of the Christian theme of St. George slaying the dragon.

  Egyptian Winged Serpent Motifs585

  Egyptian Slaying of the Serpent Motifs586

  The Egyptians also depicted “serpent vehicles” in the Pyramid texts, carrying Osiris in the underworld in a “boat” and then to the stars.

  Egyptian “Serpent Vehicles” Carrying Osiris, from the Pyramid Texts587

  These feathered or flying serpents and dragons are also associated with the notion of kingship itself, appearing in the Egyptian pharaoh’s headdress or ureaus.588 Similarly, the ancient Emperors of China claimed descent from the “Celestial Dragon,” since dragons were “present at the Creation and shared the world with mankind.” Moreover, in China “the dragon was linked with the development of man” and who “taught him the essential arts.” Indeed, “the first humans were believed to have been created by an ancient goddess...who was herself part dragon and part mortal.“589

  2. Dragon Treasures

  Another strange connection of dragons with this unfolding story is the motif that one often associates with dragons: their underground existence, guarding hordes of treasure and precious gems. So pervasive is this theme in the lore of dragons from around the world that it compels an obvious question.

  Gems have a central theme in the legends of dragons. They had a compulsion to hide and protect these precious stones. Sometimes the possession and protection of these jewels was the all-encompassing purpose of existence. Were these “stones” the “power crystals” of the Sumerians which gave extraordinary power to the owner?590

  Given the fact that there are so many other persistent motifs that connect these various legends, from Nephilim and Anunnaki to “dragon” or “serpent gods” and their chimerical offspring, to Lucifer the “serpent” lost stone of power, the lapis exilis, one would have to answer this with a tentative yes.

  We may now assemble the “catalogue of clues.”

  C. Summary: A Catalogue of Clues

  A broad mythological context has now been assembled from which to view the cosmic war that, when viewed with the evidences presented in part one, constitute a prima facie case that this war was literal and real and not merely a metaphor for the explosions of planets brought about by collisions between celestial bodies, as various schools of catastrophism would have it. Among these the following points should be stressed:

  1. The broad outlines of this war involved the planetary systems of the Earth-Moon, Mars (and by implication its satellites Phobos and Deimos), Jupiter and its satellites; Saturn and its satellites, the now missing and exploded planet(s) and its satellite, which was probably Mars, and the Sun itself.

  2. This hints at the existence of a civilization based at least in part on those worlds, and, if one takes LaViolette’s Pulsar hypothesis into view, based elsewhere in the galaxy as well.

  3. This civilization is suggested by the associations of the following gods with the various celestial bodies under consideration:

  a. Mars and satellites with Nergal, and possibly Ra and Thoth and other wisdom gods, since there are indications of serpent-reptile themes in association with Mars. The war is one of rebellion, and this associates well with the characters of Nergal, Lucifer, Enki, (An)Zu and others from various traditions;

  b. The Moon with Thoth and other “Moon gods”;

  c. The Sun with Ra-Marduk and other “sun gods;”

  d. The missing planet, “Tiamat” or Krypton, wi
th a primordial rebellion;

  e. Saturn with Chronos from Greek mythology, and therefore with the wars against the Titans or Giants;

  f. The close association of Saturn and Mars, as observed by De Santillana and Von Dechind;

  g. Jupiter with Marduk in some versions.

  4. As noted in part one, the recent images of the Cydonia “Face” are not only capable of the dual-aspect and Sphinx-like interpretation first suggested by Richard Hoagland in conjunction with the Viking images of the object, but are even more suggestive of these characteristics, and not less so. As was seen, one aspect depicts a humanoid-like face complete with a “gemstone” or “serpent-like” feature in the Mars Face’s “headdress” reminiscent of the pharaonic uraeus’ serpent motif, and consistent with the “stones of power” motif from Sumerian texts and the “stone of exile” associated with Lucifer’s crown in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

  As a result of this constellation of relationships, we may observe that the war appears to have been, at the minimum, between the following parts of this ancient civilization: on the one hand, Mars, the missing planet “Tiamat” or Krypton, and possibly some areas of the Moon and the Earth; and on the other hand, Jupiter, Saturn, their satellites, the Sun, and parts of the Moon and the Earth on the other. Earth and the Moon would, therefore, appear to be divided between the two factions, and thus possibly be one point of contention between them, and perhaps even the central point.