Published in Phenomena Magazine Thursday, May 11, 2006
Genesis 5:1 In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he
him.
The ‘Face’ in the Cydonia region of Mars has been shrouded in controversy since
its discovery by Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar during the Viking
programme analysis in 1979. Reaction was unanimous that the rock structure in
question did in deed resemble a humanoid face and, when associated with the
numerous other anomalies in the Cydonia region, clearly showed artificial
creation. JPL’s subsequent ‘re-rendering’ of the image into a flat and distorted
sand dune has only made amateur Mars observers question other oddities further,
e.g. the Glass Tunnels, the foliage, the vehicle tracks, the 3000 foot long oval
space craft parked on top of a cliff in the East Ophir Chasma footage.
But what does such ‘science-fiction’ have to do with God? To answer this, we
have to take a Von Daniken-esque step into the realms of Creation Theory and the
mythologies of the World’s religions. Australian Aborigines credit the Grey-like
Wondjina as rain and cloud spirits who are part of their Creation Myth; one of
whom was later to become the Milky Way. The Babylonian Annunaki and the Dogon
Nommos – both amphibious, both extra terrestrial… I could go on but it would
only be covering the work of other more prestigious exotheologists. What is of
concern to us is a couple of observations which, when connected to such
conundrums as Iapetus’ Buckyball construction and highly visible ‘seam’,
Europa’s potential for harbouring a complex self-contained eco-system mirrored
in our own oceanic thermal vents (without forgetting that many ancient
civilizations worshipped amphibious gods from the stars), Ganymede city,
‘artifact’ reflections in the helmet visor of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean or
even the Apollo 10 ‘Castle’, should make us consider whether the return of the
Judeo-Christian God and the Fifth Angel’s unleashing of Abaddon et al is really
such a good thing after all.
a) God said ‘Let there be light’
By this we can only deduce that before saying the Word everything was dark,
therefore God was in darkness; a Being of Darkness. It is worthwhile considering
what Chaos Magick has to say about the fundamental principles of the Universe
when compared to those of Humanity’s super-ego: Chaos reigns. There is no good
or evil, only chaos. The morals that we inflict upon ourselves are those we have
learned – over the thousands of years that Man has existed as a plethora of
societies – and are not those of the Universe. In fact, modern morals are not
even those appreciated 1000 years ago (read any Saga or Epic for comparison).
The current belief (falsely held by societies using linear time systems relating
to the births or deaths of mythological deities) that as we are in the 21st
Century we should be aiming towards a greater unity, greater understanding of
ourselves and love for one another, is delusional. While Man as a whole holds a
monotheistic, extraterrestrial deity to be unfathomable, all-loving and
all-wise, we are safely cocooned on our planet and unconcerned with what may lie
in the reaches of space. Abstract God created us therefore it is our duty to
obey Abstract Him utterly.
b) Revelation 15, 16 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve
him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell
among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall
the sun light on them, nor any heat.
The image of God on His throne, with adoring attendants shuffling golem-like in
the gloom, and the wanton destruction brought about by the Seven Angels, reminds
me of nothing less than the descent of some enormous Independence Day armada,
with God at the helm of an HR Giger pyramid. 3000 or 4000 years ago, an ignorant
desert dweller would have staggered and dropped to his knees at the site of such
creatures and their technology; he would have worshipped without question any
who represented such an immeasurable chasm of advancement compared to a life of
sand, goats and tents. Now, if such a Being did appear and threaten us with
absolute destruction if Humanity failed to worship in the required method, would
we grovel or would we open up a can of whoop-ass on Him?
Science Fiction and Horror have presented us with myriad possibilities to the
motives and physical appearance of Superior Beings from the Stars. On the one
hand we have the Benefactors – Star Trek’s Vulcans or ET; on the other we have
Independence Day or HG Well’s War of the Worlds where Humanity is to be
eradicated without question. We also know of tales where Man is little more than
a fast-food stop on some eternal galactic cruise, or where we are guinea pigs in
some incomprehensible scientific experiment. HP Lovecraft was the first to
suggest that we, Homo sapiens sapiens, are pretty much an insignificant blot on
the history books of much older – and infinitely more terrifying – beings. To
summarize the underlying moral of his tales concerning the Cthonic : “You really
don’t want to open that Pandora’s Box; you won’t like what you find there.”
HR Giger’s and Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ was similar to Lovecraft’s ideal in that
there’s no point in trying to reason with the creatures – our only interaction
will be as part of their diet or breeding cycle; insanity is imminent. Returning
to les objets d’aliens that are apparently scattered around our solar system and
no longer confined to such dreamy locations as Beta Proximi or Sirius B, we may
conclude that God – that Being who has promised to pay us a visit in the near
future and boil us alive, as a prelude to a reasonably descriptive list of
nastiness – is a touch more ‘real’ than ethereal. If NASA and JPL ever do come
clean on what the various anomalies deposited on neighbouring moons and planets
actually are, then we will have the chance, first hand, to see what else ‘God’
has been up to apart from creating Us. We can only hope that there aren't any
more ‘camera’ problems’ when photographing Cydonia so that we may see – and make
up our own minds – of just what lies down there or what the lights moving in the
Glass Tunnels actually are.
And what will really keep us awake at night, shivering under the covers, is that
we will know that God – the one responsible for so many accounts of unrivalled
butchery in the Bible – is a corporeal entity and is currently residing not too
far away.
The question we must face is how will we receive Him the next time He visits?
