Who
Wrote the Reptilian Agenda?
Phenomena Magazine
Monday, April 18, 2005
By: JOHN LASH
In a Collector's Edition entitled "Secrets of the Da Vinci
Code," published by US News and World Report, there is
a brief interview with James Robinson, general editor of the
Nag Hammadi Library. In response to Dan Brown’s reference to
the Nag Hammadi texts as scrolls, Robinson points out: “They
are codices – books with individual pages. They are actually
the oldest example we have of leather-bound books.”
Amazingly, whatever the significance of their content (and
we have just barely begun to comprehend what that might be),
the Nag Hammadi Codices (NHC) are rare original artifacts, the
earliest surviving examples of bound books. A close reading
of these arcane materials shows that Gnostics were deeply concerned
with alien intrusion into human affairs. The entities they called
Archons appear to be identical to the ET’s of modern Ufology.
Both Grey and Reptilian types are explicitly described in the
codices. I would estimate that up to one-fifth of the core material
in the NHC concerns the Archons, their origin, methods and motives.
The Sophia Mythos, the Gnostic creation story, explains that
the Archons arise due to an anomaly in the cosmic order. “The
world system we inhabit came about by a mistake.” (The Gospel
of Philip) This startling line alludes to the Gnostic theory
that the solar system was produced by the impact of the goddess
Sophia upon lifeless atomic matter, but the Earth was formed
from Sophia’s divine, alive, self-aware power. Odd as it sounds,
this view is totally compatible with modern astronomy. We know
that the solar system at large is dominated by inorganic chemistry
and does not support life as it occurs in the biosphere, where
organic chemistry is the norm. Gnostics would argue that this
is so because the Earth is the embodiment of Sophia, while the
solar system is the product and habitat of the Archons. The
observation of this difference between the inorganic and organic
aspects of our solar system led James Lovelock to formulate
the Gaia Hypothesis.
So, the earliest surviving books contain a description of Alien
intrusion, but what about the earliest known writings? Archeologists
tell us that cuneiform writing was invented in Mesopotamia around
3200. The cuneiform record gives us the most extensive repertoire
of stories about human prehistory. Cuneiform texts such as Atrahasis,
Enuma Elish, and Enki and World Order, present stories of a
non-human race called the Annunaki, “those who from heaven to
earth came,” as Zecharia Sitchin translates that term. Sitchin
is known for densely researched books on the Annunaki, whom
he identifies with the Biblical Nefhilim, “the Watchers” of
the Book of Enoch. These are alien entities who “came into the
daughters of men,” as Genesis says.
The story of the Annunaki describes how an alien race intervenes
deeply in human evolution. Sitchin and others accept this plot
as if it were an actual record of events in prehistory. Cuneiform
tablets describe how two Annunaki leaders, Enki and his half-sister
Ninhursag, produced a hybrid, slave race from the indigenous
ape-like peoples of the planet. Hence, an alien “interbreeding
program” is central to the Annunaki narrative. It is an indisputable
fact that this story is written down in the oldest surviving
records, but is the story itself a fact?
Both the oldest writings and the earliest books tell us the
same story. Isn’t this amazing? To my knowledge, little or no
attention has yet been given to this odd “coincidence.”
However, there is a world of difference in the way the story
is treated in these two sources. The cuneiform record tells
the intervention scenario as if it were (pre)historical fact,
a set of events that really happened. In the NHC, the story
of the Annunaki (Archons) is introduced in a cosmological perspective,
and then it is analyzed. In other words, the Gnostics had a
view of the cosmic origins of the Annunaki, and they also took
a critical approach to intervention. The cuneiform record is
just a story, without critical commentary. The description of
alien interbreeding occurs in both cases, but the NHC tell us
the attempt failed:
“The Archons came to Adam. When they saw Eve talking to him
they said to each other, ‘What sort of creature is this luminous
woman?’ … Now come, let us lay hold of her and cast our seed
into her, that she may become soiled and unable to access her
inner light. Then those who she bears will be under our charge…
But Eve, being a free power, laughed at their decision. She
put mist in their eyes [and escaped them].” (The Origin of the
World, 116)
This is one of several NHC passages that show Eve outwitting
the Archons. It presents a mythological event, and comments
on the outcome of that event. In the Gnostic view, the Archon/Annunaki
do attempt to interbreed with humanity, but fail. Other texts
describe how Eve leaves her “phantom image” which the Archons
defile, but they are unable to actually access her body, i.e.,
human genetic structure.
The “Reptilian Agenda” is a modern interpretation and extension
of the Sumerian cuneiform story, but it ignores the Gnostic
version of that story, and the critical commentary. Sitchin’s
weak points are his inability to present a convincing case for
the origin and motives of the Annunaki, and his failure (or
refusal) to describe their physical appearance. Most ET theorists
who follow him assume the Annunaki are Reptilians: for instance,
R. A. Boulay in Flying Serpents and Dragons (an excellent book,
by the way, and more deeply researched than Sitchin in some
ways). The entire Reptilian Agenda stands or falls on how we
view the cuneiform accounts, the oldest version of the alien
intrusion plot.
But who wrote the cuneiform stories? The answer is, scribes
in the service of the Sumerian theocrats. This answer is not
complete, however, because scribes write things down, they do
not originate what they write. Who then originated the cuneiform
intervention stories taken down by scribes? I propose that it
was soothsayers and advisors in the service of the theocrats.
No ancient court was without a psychic channeller, if not a
whole team of them. If we assume the critical distance of the
Gnostics, we can understand how psychics advising the theocrats
would produce a story to fit the need of their masters: specifically,
the need to see themselves as descendents of “gods” and, at
the same time, as slaves )albeit privileged ones) to a higher
race that claims to have produced them. This message is schizophrenic,
and as such it is totally consistent with channeled material
and the mentality that produces it.
If the cuneiform stories are the product of psychic channeling
in ancient times, the Reptilian Agenda, the modern elaboration
of those stories, needs to be entirely reexamined in the light
of Gnostic Archon theory. The first step in confronting the
Reptilian menace, whatever it is, is to set the story straight.
