1. How do the institutions of religion, government, and the economy shape the development of Rome?

2.How did ancient civilization (Rome/Greece) interact with each other?

3.How did imperial structures affect the society of Rome?

4. How did the rule of law evolve throughout the rise and fall of ancient Rome?

5. How is the treatment of conquered people and peasants related to the progression of governmental institutions?

6. Why did ancient Rome fall?

7. How did Roman culture develop?

8. How did the Romans influence the modern world?

9. How did the ancient philosophers influence the development of the modern world?

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In fact it is said in the Rig Veda

Neither being (sat) nor non-being was as yet. What was concealed? And where? And in whose protection?…Who really knows? Who can declare it? Whence was it born, and whence came this creation? The devas were born later than this world’s creation, so who knows from where it came into existence? None can know from where creation has arisen, and whether he has or has not produced it. He who surveys it in the highest heavens, he alone knows-or perhaps does not know. (Rig Veda 10. 129)

Swami Vivekananda on Evolution :

There seems to be a great difference between modern science and all religions at this point. Every religion has the idea that the universe comes out of intelligence. The theory of God, taking it in its psychological significance, apart from all ideas of personality, is that intelligence is first in the order of creation, and that out of intelligence comes what we call gross matter. Modern philosophers say that intelligence is the last to come. They say that unintelligent things slowly evolve into animals, and from animals into men. They claim that instead of everything coming out of intelligence, intelligence itself is the last to come. Both the religious and the scientific statements, though seeming directly opposed to each other are true. Take an infinite series, A—B—A—B —A—B. etc. The question is — which is first, A or B? If you take the series as A—B. you will say that A is first, but if you take it as B—A, you will say that B is first. It depends upon the way we look at it. Intelligence undergoes modification and becomes the gross matter, this again merges into intelligence, and thus the process goes on. The Sankhyas, and other religionists, put intelligence first, and the series becomes intelligence, then matter. The scientific man puts his finger on matter, and says matter, then intelligence. They both indicate the same chain. Indian philosophy, however, goes beyond both intelligence and matter, and finds a Purusha, or Self, which is beyond intelligence, of which intelligence is but the borrowed light

THE TAO OF PHYSICS

This idea of a periodically expanding and contracting universe, which involves a scale of time and space of vast proportions, has arisen not only in modern cosmology, but also in ancient Indian mythology. Experiencing the universe as an organic and rhythmically moving cosmos, the Hindus were able to develop evolutionary cosmologies which come very close to our modern scientific models.

CARL SAGAN’S COSMOS

The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang

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The Jewish Philosophical and theological world was closely linked to the Arabian intellectual tradition. The writings of Jewish authors were originally written in Arabic. Many, later translated to Hebrew and Latin. Beginning with Arabs and Jews philosophers who lived in an Islamic land, namely, Andalusia (Spain) for a long time, the intellect were educated in Arabic language. I studies Muslim, Jewish and Christian philosophers, for example in Islam I was fond of  al-Kindi, al-Ghazali, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn Rush (Averroes), In Judaism, Moses Maimonides, and Saadiah Gaon, and in Christianity, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Because I believed that the best human state is to be a philosopher, because wise men of the world are philosophers. They dealt with every question through reason until proved true. For them, reasons of things are gathered from things around them. In the early years of my studies at the university I was fond of studying theories and their application. When philosophy pumped up in my mind one day, I was in a group discussing the relation between the two R’s (reason and revelation).

From Aristotle (384-322 B.C) to Al-Razi  (865 – 925), and Saadiah Gaon, or Saadiah bin Joseph (882-942), the Jewish philosopher, who wrote in Arabic in the 10th century, to Ibn Sina-Avecinna (980-1037)  to Ibn Bajjah-Avempace (1090-1139), who  was the first Muslim philosopher in Spain, who paved the way for both Jewish and Muslim philosophers, namely,  Ibn Rushd (Averroes) 1126-1198, and Maimonides (1138-1204) in logic and Mathematics.  

On the Christian side, the Latin translation of James of Venice in the 12th century and especially those of William of Moerbeke (1215-1285) at Paris proves fundamental to Christian assimilation of philosophy, these translations were used later by Thomas Aquinas  (1225-1274)

On the Jewish side, Maimonides in the 12th century, born in Cordova was educated in philosophy by Arab Teachers, he sought to reconcile Aristotleism and Judaism in his “Guide of Perplexity” to help those who are perplexed with conflicts between knowledge and the center of Jewish revelation.  

Maimonides translated Averroes’s commentaries from Arabic to Hebrew, then later translated to Latin, Where it became available for Europe philosophers.  

Geronides or Levi bin Gershom in the 14th century, his “Super Commentaries” on Averroes was famous,  he was an Aristotelian more than Aristotle himself, For many analysts, his book became the primary source.  

The line of Jewish philosophy continued with Joseph Caspi, Moses of Norbonne, Judah Messer Leon and Elijah de Medigo in the 15th century,  

Jews and Muslim philosophers in that period fought parallel battles concerning the study of philosophy especially in the subject of the  two R’s. Moses Maimonides in his “treatise on Logic”  referred the debate between superiority of logic over grammar, portraying logic as universal grammar and distinguishing between generally accepted religious  opinions,  traditions and universally as necessary valid ones.

Al-Ghazali (1059-1111) can be viewed  as anti-philosophical, but in fact, he was not opposed to philosophy per say, but rather challenged the philosophical approaches of those who in uncritical way accepted too readily certain Greek philosophical positions. For example, Aristotelian theses concerning the natural world by affirming that God knows only universals, not particulars, and maintaining that the world and soul are eternal.

Saadiah GAON,  (882-942) the 10 century Egyptian expert in Jewish Law, Hebrew grammar and the translator  from Arabic and commentator on biblical books, introduced dialectical theology into the medieval Jewish community, but the challenges faced the Jews in that period, were from both internal and external forces, From within was the perplexity due to the Karaites, (from Qar’a, read) Jews who rejected the authority of the oral rabbinical tradition, and considered the role of rational judgment of religion. The external, however were coming from both Muslims and Christians and Plutonian circles. His  book “Doctrines of Beliefs” to enhance Jewish belief. He provided “Attributes of God” like Muslims who made “the 99 Best God’s  names” Both  al-Ghazali and Saadiah  denunciated the Christian Trinity, and defended the four Aristotelian arguments about: Creation-nihilo, but opposed Aristotle’s theory of eternity of the world. For him, philosophy became a necessary instrument in facing these perplexities. The main conflict between philosophy and theology in Islam was similar to the Jewish experience in terms of the two Rs  and reached their highest intensity when philosophy, is taken in its strictest sense, referring to the Platonic Philosophy in the earlier medieval conflicts, that led to the philosophy of Aristotle when his non-logical works become translated into Arabic and Latin. 

Al-Kindi,(d. 870) earlier, however, a Muslim philosopher, began at Baghdad,  where the translations of Aristotle’s “Metaphysics”  and “On the Heavens” made and became available other philosophers east and west.

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The term “metaphysical” simply refers to something that is outside the presumed limitations of physical reality. I never know how much of the bible to take literally but I do know that walking on water, rising from the dead, feeding thousands with one fish, virgin birthing, escaping bodily destruction from fire, making the blind man see, plopping down instant human beings and turning water into wine definitely pushes the boundaries of our perceived reality. I would call these activities metaphysical.

Notice that I said “perceived” reality. It is what we decide based on what appears to be. Research has recently shown us that particles and energy can be interchangeable because they are really forms of the same essence. In other words, thought energy is transmitted by actual little electric ions. The higher we are tuned to spirit vibrations, the quicker our intention gets across and in so doing it bypasses heavier, slower methods of moving these ions around. So there really is a scientific explanation for many of the miracles we find in the bible.

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Do you see what this discovery means? It reconciles science and religion which have vehemently opposed each other since the beginning of time. It explains material things in spirit terms and spiritual things in material terms. I guess I call it metaphysical Christianity.

Within this understanding we are recognizing an energetic force and we are attributing good things to it such as kindness and love and healing and beauty. This force can be broken down into a comprehension of tiny electric ions which are moving in a life enhancing direction. We are at liberty to hop on at any point of the belief spectrum, but no matter where we choose to identify ourselves, there is still a reality-based explanation for our conviction.

Fundamentalists hook up to their viewpoint by way of intense, non-intellectual emotion. That’s fine, ideas can be feelings and don’t have to have words. Metaphysicists hook up to theirs by way of scientific explanation. That’s fine too, because actually ideas and feelings are two vehicles which lead to the same understanding. Both lead to the experience of faith.

Energy and particles. Interchangeable substances. In fact, we could even do away with the word metaphysical because the phenomenon we are referring to is actually all physical. Or is it that that everything begins and ends in the spirit, so the manifestation is really just a byproduct of that great mystical power? Mystical? That word is not in the bible either, but so what? We have merged the two populations of science and religion and so we have made the world into a more integrated and harmonious place.

A few clips from the movie “I Heart Huckabees” that relate to the holistic metaphysical position which the movie supports.

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Here is something else to ponder, if you want to compare events in the bible to what we know today.

How would the people from biblical times describe the vision in the picture above?

This is an example of how the star in the east could have come about, when all the time it was an aircraft, never seen in the skies in these times, a simple case of mistaken identity, due to lack of knowledge.

It might not be exactly how we would describe it in this day and age if it were to have taken place yesterday, but it gives one example of how reporters could translate it to the newspapers, given our knowledge now.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, each give their account of events at the time of Jesus conception, birth and early life, and regardless of the many translations of these gospels, plus the description of four different men of these times, there is a strong indication that the phenomenal occurrences that happened were influenced by superior beings from another planet.

If we take a look at some of the important factors described by these four individuals, we should see how much easier it would have been to prove the existence of space travelers if they had the technology of the world we live in today. If they had the same knowledge as people from the twenty first century or, if the events we are going to look at happened in this day and age everything described would be more clear cut, although the fear of God would still he present. This was the time of King Herod and in his domain so with the prophecies about this new born child’s future threatening his ruler ship he ordered its death. The Wise Men who, had been guided towards the child’s birthplace by what has been accepted as a star, told Herod of the birth, of the importance of the child, of their intention to visit him and present him with gifts.

There are no stars in the sky capable of guiding anyone to a particular place on earth’s surface in such a way, (although sailors in the early days before, the compass was invented used stars for guidance, it was not in the same way as this event recorded in the bible) so my assumption is that the bright light was a small craft or power pack used by an “angel” within earth’s atmosphere which would give the appearance of a star to the more primitive people of that era.

The people around the Middle Eastern countries in these times knew something exceptional was taking place but could not fathom exactly what; making them create the mystique that has been deciphered from the scriptures. The Wise Men were so called in my estimation, because they understood what the light meant, although not what it was, but they had accepted the existence of God hence the reason they were chosen. They had been told of Herod’s plan to kill God’s son, (through mental telepathy) which they describe as a dream, and would most likely have appeared to them as such with God and his crews not wanting to reveal too much of their powers. They disobeyed Herod’s wish for them to return and tell him of the whereabouts of the child, taking another route home.

At the same time an angel (which we have established are God’s crew carrying messages to earthlings from the spaceships above) warned Joseph to flee to Egypt with Mary and the baby, as Herod was going to kill all the boys of two years or under, making sure the baby who threatened his dominance would be exterminated. Joseph and his family had been sent to a land that was well known to God’s crews, to await Herod’s death, the news of which would be relayed to him in the usual way by an angel. This was another strange occurrence Joseph had come to accept proving his belief in God’s existence, although not fully understanding, had complete faith in his guidance, taking Jesus to Nazareth where he would spend his early years. All these events had been foretold by the early prophets, so they came as no surprise to the more intelligent people of the time, one of whom was John or John the Baptist as he was to be known, as it was he who was chosen to baptize God’s son.

John had already been telling the earthlings about God and his crews from Heaven and as their spaceships had been present (although disguised) in the skies, and, they had been influencing life on earth for some time it stands to reason the news of them was beginning to spread, just as they had planned. They wanted their existence to be known, but could never make the earthlings fully understand where they came from and why they were so advanced compared to them, When the myths and mystique grew around them they used it to their advantage as it created the required effect, gaining the attention of the people towards the warnings about earth’s demise and the safe haven of Heaven the space travelers had to offer.

John the Baptist had the sense to realise what was taking place, he had heard of the prophecies that had been ignored before and knew of “the wrath of the Gods”. It says in Matthew Chapter three verse sixteen that after, Jesus was baptized by John, “the heavens were opened and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove.” And a voice from Heaven said this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. More reason to believe spacecraft were in the skies above, or would you rather believe in a mystical character floating on vaporized water with feathered wings rather than the more logical explanation of people inside spacecraft, hovering above the earth. I can understand people of two thousand years ago thinking the ridiculous, but it puzzles me why in this day of space travel, primitive as it is, earthlings still believe in the myths of angels with harps and feathered wings floating on clouds.

We have updated the Bible into modern language, but still hold on to the myths and evade the reality. If a true translation were to be written, the events after the baptism of Jesus would read like this, “after the baptism, as Jesus came out of the water, God who had been watching from the spaceship revealed the presence of the craft by sliding back the door underneath it allowing the inner lights to beam down to earth where he then descended from in his smaller craft (used only in the inner hemisphere) to where they were, while transmitting the message through the loudspeakers saying, THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED”!

These were the only moments the armada above could be spotted and as the witnesses did not understand fully what they were looking up into, they tried to express it the only way they knew, providing us with the mystique that we have come to connect Heaven with. Jesus was then led out into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil where his allegiance to his father GOD would be tested to the limit, proving he was without the sinful worldly nature the earthlings possessed even though he was part earthling. When you read through the Bible, you begin to realise why it was interpreted in this way through the years, with present day man still wanting to pretend that he is the only intelligent life in the Universe. A power such as I am unfolding to you now is better thought of as being a spiritual, unrealistic force rather than face up to the fact that they are real and can reappear in our skies at anytime! It’s this fear of the unknown that makes man reject these things, but if he began to accept them for what they really are, they would realise it is only the devil’s ships they have to fear, as they will have a big say, as to where our destiny lies, (the planet Heaven or the planet Hell!)

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Carrying on in the same theme from last week, you might like to set your mind working on other instruments, mentioned in Ezekiel that resembles some of the technology used in our world today.

If you read these chapters and look at it with the knowledge we have today, the gadgets and ways of communication seem more familiar,than strange, because it is items we use in everyday life.

Take a look.

In Chapter five it verifies that God and his crews centered their earth mission in Jerusalem, a place they helped create and will become more relevant later. We have to remember that Ezekiel was chosen as a prophet and his job was to warn what was, or is, going to befall earth when the last days approach and what we have to do to survive these horrific events, also that we can be punished by God before this if, we continue to disregard his existence.

Chapter six is explaining that when the word of the prophets reach other countries their stories will become distorted through time and distance and as there is no positive evidence of their existence, false Gods will be invented to worship. Was this not the case with the Vikings and other races I have mentioned in this book? Only in years to come, when God returns with his crafts and the earthlings see the proof first hand, will they realise that God and his crews the Bible tells of are, travelers from a PLANET called Heaven and they do exist. Although most religions on earth make God out to be all good, belies the fact that he is only going to save and reward the ones who deserves it. We tend to forget the punishments handed out to unbelievers in the Bible and the terrible atrocities brought to bear on them by the supreme God.

Chapter seven reminds us of this in no uncertain terms, where in Verse Four states, “and mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee, AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD.” Verse seven goes on to tell of how in the last days, when the evil that will end earth’s existence begins, God’s ships will be there to save us, but only once they judge to see if we are fit to live the rest of our lives on their planet Heaven, or if we will be banished to the Devil’s ships and taken to Hell.

Try Verse Eight onwards for confirmation and bring to mind that we have to answer for the way we conduct ourselves down here. The God we have been brainwashed into believing in is more human that we have been taught not, a ghostly vision. The human element is there although, evolved on a different planet, the likenesses are the same as us here on earth after all we were made in his likeness. God from Heaven evolved from the same matter as we did its only their abundance of knowledge, accumulated over the billions of years start they had on us, plus their ability to utilise every useful morsel in the universe by reaching them first that makes them the superior race of all the stars within and out, with our vision. Even so we are told not to be afraid of them because they don’t mean any harm to the good of earth. It stands to reason that if they have perfected life up in their own planet, they won’t want evil, pollution or disease carried back to upset the tranquillity of Heaven.

Evil and the devil’s presence are still on earth and the rivalry between the planets of Heaven and Hell still goes on although the dispute between God and the Devil is over as each has their own planet now. The Devil is still attempting to lure people to his planet to assist in the running of it, whereas God has perfected his planet and when the good go there, they will experience that perfect life promised to us by him.

Chapter Eight gives us the impression of a vision taking shape among shimmering laser lights where a journey of virtual reality begins, if you just picture a computer today, with each press of the mouse, unfolding chambers leading through each phase until your goal is reached or, the story told, then you should be able to understand Ezekiel’s attempt at describing his virtual reality experience, even though the computer used would be far superior to anything we have on earth today. It goes to prove, for every new invention we come up with here, the Gods have already perfected it long ago. All through Chapter Eight, verses begin with “he said unto me” or God guiding Ezekiel through his journey of virtual reality, instructing him on how to use the complicated device, showing him the events God wished him to see. Even at the beginning of Chapter Nine it says “he cried also in mine ears with a loud voice saying,” which could be God’s equivalent to our earphones, although a much more sophisticated version, (like an implanted micro-chip) or simply mental telepathy would be a more likely answer.

Virtual reality helmets could be used for various things, but still run on the same basis that we use them for on earth. It carries on into Chapter Ten when we have a description of the space craft again and in Verse Ten, “as for their appearances they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.” A reference to the gyroscopic power source situated at each corner of the craft used by the crews traveling to and from the mother craft in the sky above perhaps, or just a jet engine.

Verse Sixteen of Chapter Ten would confirm this if the events were described by someone from this century, instead of a person from so far back in time. “And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them, and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth the same wheels also turned not from beside them. Just to give more credence to my theory I will have to stress the fact that these visions, called angels, have wheels which when depicted in paintings or in imaginations, do not have wheels! Now, do you agree that it is time to look at them through different eyes?

In Verse Twenty One where we read again, “Every one had four faces apiece, and everyone four wings and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. Ezekiel’s descriptions of these events are difficult for us to understand but would that not be the arms of the man under the wings of his power source? This seems to be a clear indication of craft like this being on the earth, if not, what else would it have been?

When we think of visitors from another planet we should not always think of them as warriors with all the doom and gloom, portrayed by the cinema, they are after all just like us, and although there is plenty violence on earth we also have our light hearted moments, as will they.      The description of the spacecraft could be made more difficult for us to understand if they had transfers or murals covering outer bodywork the way truckers of today have, or if some of their craft were moulded in the fashion of creatures faces similar to the way some vehicles on our roads appear to have a face and personality. This would make it harder for earthlings of days gone by to describe the strange features on the craft and, if faces of creatures from far off planets were painted on them it is easy to see how Ezekiel would have been confused with this vision before him never, seen on earth, until that moment. There has never been anything on earth resembling these descriptions, other than then, when we were being visited by our friends from Heaven.

Try as I might I just cannot get the full picture of these flying machines or, the actual way they are propelled, but when we get our chance to see them it will all become clear.

If I were to see them, at least I would have a better idea of how they worked, and would be able to understand their purpose, and capabilities, not being awestruck by their presence like the poeple from the past.

If any of us saw them we could describe them better, so why do we find it hard to believe, that it is machines that are being talked about instead of thinking about feathered flying people, and communications, and visions coming from thin air?

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In my last post I was trying to give an example of how things would have been described by people from these time, and how they used the only items around them to try to explain events they were witnessing but had no concept of what really was going on.

The words and descriptions that were used then would take on a completely different form, as we now know more about the universe, and have built machines that can fly not only inside our atmosphere but go out into space, albeit not too far.

It might come as a shock if another craft from another part of the universe landed here today, but we would understand more about it and be able to describe the event in a more logical way.

What I am trying to say is the events recorded in the Old Testament by Ezekiel would have been more explicit if  they had the knowledge we have today.

I will give you an example by showing you another excerpt from “unfeatheredangels” (Which quotes the bible)  and then have you try and picture what Ezekiel is trying to describe in todays terms.

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CHAPTER NINE
UNFEARTHERED ANGELS
“Ezekiel”, holds the key to my theory and when we can crack this code, we will know the secrets and mysteries of the skies and of course unfold the truth of our own destiny. If ever anyone was trying to describe aircraft or power packs attached to men, Ezekiel is, giving a more intriguing and believable insight to the crafts from Heaven than any other report we have read, even in comparison to the latest sightings in our era.

Chapter one verse one, (the last two lines,) “The Heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.” If the mother ships were camouflaged by clouds, or the space station was large enough to be observed from earth it would only be a case of the doors of the spaceship or station, being opened creating the illusion of the Heavens opening to an earthling, with God emerging from it on some kind of small craft. That is the scene we should picture today, not some ghostly figure emerging from thin air as we have been led to believe.

A spaceship ten miles long and two miles wide is a massive construction when compared to aircraft on earth, but the planet Heaven as we have established is massive in comparison to earth so it could follow that any human forms, or man-made objects from Heaven would he much larger than earth. Imagine an object of that proportion appearing in our skies at cloud level, its apparition blending in with the clouds and a large hatch opening from underneath allowing a person from within to stand at it, with the interior lights shinning behind him showing him in silhouette.

Is that not the description the Bible gives when God appears from Heaven, and is the Bible’s account of these events not the way a man from two thousand years ago or more would have described such a frightening occurrence? Nobody seemed to pick up on the connection in the Bible between the colossal structures built at the time of the Pharaohs and the fact that God was on and around the earth at that time. The reason for this is that they are too busy looking at the mystical side of things and not the practical side. They don’t seem to want God to be a person who evolved like their selves albeit, in a much larger form, they want to look on him through the same eyes as our less technically advanced ancestors.

The people chosen by God to foretell our destiny (Ezekiel being one) were shown images of events about to happen, some imminent at that time others had not occurred even yet but will happen in the very near future. Ezekiel also had the privilege to see first hand the different types of craft used by God’s crews.
I am going to quote most of chapter one of Ezekiel and translate it in the way it should be translated in this day and age. Starting from verse four “ And I looked, and behold, a great whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud and a fire unfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst, thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

” VERSE FIVE “Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.” SIX “And every one had four faces and every one had four wings.” SEVEN “And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.” EIGHT “And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

” NINE “Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; and they went every one straight forward.” TEN “As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side; and they had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.” ELEVEN “thus were their faces; and their wings were stretched upwards; two wings of every one were joined to one another, and two covered their bodies.” TWELVE “And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went and they turned not when they went.

” THIRTEEN “As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps; it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth lightning.” FOURTEEN “And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.” FIFTEEN “Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.” SIXTEEN “The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.” SEVENTEEN “When they went they went upon their four sides; and they turned not when they went.” EIGHTEEN “As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

” NINETEEN “And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.” TWENTY “Whither soever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.” TWENTY ONE “When those went these went; and when those stood these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.” TWENTY THREE “And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other; every one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.” TWENTY FOUR “And when they went I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host; when they stood they let down their wings.”

It should not take much imagination of people from the twenty first century to see what is really being described in these verses of Ezekiel; it would take more of an imagination now, to interpret them in the way that has been handed down to us, as if they were monsters or creatures unknown to us. Nevertheless here is my version without quoting all the Chapters.

Engines and rotor blades create whirlwinds as I have already mentioned and the cloud and the fire would be one way of describing the exhaust trail they leave especially if you have never see an example of this before. They appeared to look like men because they were men with power packs which would be one of their methods of getting around earth and going between there and their ships or space stations. The four faces and four wings are easily explained when you visualise the small flying machines we use in today’s world.

The very description of the visions in this chapter is exactly how I would expect someone from these times to describe the flying machine attached to the man who flew across the English Channel that I mention in this book. The description of wings in the bible when moving never flap, ( under the firmament were their wings straight) they always make loud noises and cause a draft (whirlwind) and the spirit that was in the living creature and in the wheels mentioned, was the engine or the power source. The creatures appeared and disappeared like a flash of lightning which would be fast, with a trail off the jet engine or power source attached to their bodies. In these times there should be no doubt from anybody what the machines are and there should be no doubting that we are not alone in the universe.

What else could these things be that are being described in Ezekiel other that flying machines, machines that would be described in a very different way today if we seen them with our own eyes.

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I have used an excerpt from “unfeatheredangels” this week to remind you where the idea of feathered angels came from, and to give you time to think how you would describe a vision such as an angel today if it were to fly about with wings. We know now that wings are not all made with feathers, and that man can fly, so why hold on to myths?

Chapter Thirty Seven of Ezekiel makes me realise the importance of having our remains kept buried and untouched until  Gods return to make their promise of everlasting life a reality. Not so very long ago mankind would never believe such a feat possible and when reading the Bible wondered, just how it could be carried out if at all. With each advancement man makes in medicine, each promise of  God becomes more understandable.

I used to wonder, how we could live forever! How was it possible to come back from the dead? God has shown Ezekiel, who in turn is telling us that it is possible, through his demonstration of bringing an army back to life from a pile of dried bones, and I quote, “the hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones.” Note, Ezekiel never traveled by donkey which was the main means of transport then, he traveled by some kind of craft which he describes as “the spirit of the Lord”. Verse five, “thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, I will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live.”

The chapter goes on to describe how God brings a pile of bones back from the dead, in a way that is almost possible in today’s world with our advances in D.N.A and cloning. Archaeologists think they can desecrate graves without repercussion of people who lived hundreds of years ago, but it makes you wonder if in the future, when, “the dead in Christ shall rise,” that the harm done at that time might make a difference then! Probably not, as nothing seems to be impossible to God but we should still give it some consideration when excavating the graves of our ancestors as they in their form now, might be looking down on us and watching the way we deal with their remains.

God has shown Ezekiel by this deed that they have the means to overcome any obstacle, standing in their way. They have allowed secrets to unfold, to the chosen few and through the prophets tried to warn mankind, just how powerful and advanced their nation beyond the stars has become. Before we leave Ezekiel, bear in mind that the paintings hung around our art galleries and palatial buildings of cherubim s and angels with feathered wings and human faces have brainwashed us into believing, they are the true images of the power packs or small craft God and his people used while carrying out their duties on earth. In reality, a cherubim was a type of spacecraft the angels (as they had come to be known by) used to travel between earth and the mother ship above.

The angels were messengers of god who would have looked as normal as we do but by their use of the cherubim s, (small aircraft used within earth’s atmosphere) they have been depicted with feathered wings, in Greek legend and such like philosophy from the vague descriptions given in the Bible. At the time, when the first images of these angels were being brought to life in paintings or statues by famous artists of the past, birds were the only known thing to man that could fly, so it stands to reason that the images conjured up in their minds of people flying, would have to be with bird like wings even though the wings depicted could never support in flight, the weight of the bodies they are attached to.

If engines and mechanical flight had been invented on earth at that time, a truer definition of these marvels would have been depicted, but sadly the myth of angels and cherubim with feathers gripped the imaginations of their primitive minds and even when man has reached the moon we still hang on to these myths.

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