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A Brief Account of the True
Nature of the UFO Entities
by
Gordon Creighton
This article, which appeared
originally in FSR 29/1 (October 1983) is reprinted now at the request of a
number of readers, and to remind all our readers of what lies ahead for Mankind.
Ever since its publication, the article has been treated throughout the world
with total silence, and there is a general agreement among all Ufologists on
both sides of the Atlantic never to give it a mention.
FSR Consultant Dr Richard F.
Haines expected me to print his comprehensive REVIEW OF EXPLANATORY HYPOTHESES
FOR UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA, and I promptly did so. (FSR 32/2 - 1987.) But
it might be noted that he did not deem it necessary to include the slightest
reference to my work in his survey, even as a minimal gesture of courtesy.
Four of the leading experts in
Ufology in the world have written me privately to say that they think I am on
the right track. Only one of them - Ann Druffel - has had the guts to say so
publicly.
EDITOR
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One of the more curious features
of the followers of the various religions is that, being so dogmatically certain
that in their own particular little faith they already possess the whole Truth
about all things in Heaven and Earth, it almost never occurs to any of them to
look elsewhere and find out what the followers of other religions may know or
may have discovered. This is certainly a pity, for study of all the great
world-religions -- and notably Islam -- would yield valuable clues as to the
true nature of the so-called "UFO Phenomenon" and would rapidly
eliminate much of the fatuous "Space-Age Mythology" that has been
spawned in such profusion over the last three decades.
Islam knows, in fact, of the
existence of THREE entirely separate and distinct species of intelligent beings
in the Universe, and indeed can furnish surprisingly precise details regarding
their natures and roles and activities.
ANGELS, MEN, AND JINNS
The first category is of course
that of the ANGELS or Messengers (Greek: ANGELOS; Hebrew: MALACH; Arabic: MALAK).
These are high beings created of LIGHT.
The second category, however, and
the one with which we are here concerned, is the category of those beings
(CREATED BEFORE MAN WAS) who are referred to collectively in Arabic as AL-JINN
*1*. Although there is some dispute about it among Arab grammarians, most of
their lexicologists seem to hold that the word derives -- as Arabic words almost
invariably do -- from a verb-root, namely JANNA, "TO HIDE OR TO
CONCEAL" -- indeed a very fitting derivation for the name of these
creatures.
The third category are MEN, with
bodies created according to the QUR'AN, of CLAY, or, in other words, this being
poetic language, they have physical bodies assembled from the mineral and
chemical elements of our PERIODIC TABLE -- the "PLANETARY BODY", as
Gurdjieff used to call it.
Whereas the bodies of Angels are
of light and the bodies of men are of the gross elements of the Earth, the
bodies of AL-JINN consist of what is variously translated as "ESSENTIAL
FIRE" *2*, or "ESSENTIAL FLAME", or "SMOKELESS FIRE"
*3*, or "SMOKELESS FLAME", and it is specifically stated in the QUR'AN
(Surah XV, 26 and 27) THAT THEY WERE CREATED BEFORE MANKIND WAS. (Some scholars
have speculated that these might be the "PRE-ADAMIC MEN" whose
existence is hinted at here and there in the "Holy Bible.")
There has been much debate among
modern students of Arabic as to precisely what these terms "MIN NARI AL-SAMUMI"
*2* and "MIN MARIJIN MIN NARIN" *3* can conceivably mean in modern
parlance, and some scholars have concluded that, in using these terms, the
Prophet Muhammad (the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) was there
attempting to describe what Western occultists have tried to describe by such
terms as ETHER, or maybe the so-called ETHERIC OR ASTRAL PLANES. (I have also
seen it suggested that some sort of PLASMA is indicated.)
(Needless to say, such concepts
as ETHERIC PLANE and ASTRAL PLANE have no meaning for modern Science and, so far
as I know, apart from Dirac, the physicists have abandoned their speculations
regarding the existence of an ether.)
THE SOURCE OF THE JINNS
Wherever it is that the JINNS are
thought of as being normally located, it seems highly likely that the source of
many of them, at any rate, is not very distant from us, and some Muslim scholars
who have become aware of the current Western research into the so-called
"UFO Phenomenon" and have reflected awhile upon it have concluded --
and I think correctly -- that maybe the best way we can start to visualize these
matters is by thinking of the JINNS AS BEING VERY CLOSE INDEED TO US AND AND YET
AT THE SAME TIME SOMEHOW VERY FAR FROM US. IN OTHER WORDS, ON SOME OTHER
DIMENSION, OR IN SOME OTHER SPACE/TIME FRAMEWORK, "RIGHT HERE', OR MAYBE IN
A WORLD OF ANTI-MATTER RIGHT HERE, OR OCCUPYING AS IT WERE SOME OTHER UNIVERSE
THAT IS HERE, BEHIND ALICE'S MIRROR: "A MIRROR-UNIVERSE ON THE OTHER SIDE
OF THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM" AS IT HAS BEEN NEATLY PUT BY SOME
INVESTIGATORS.
The QUR'AN, however, is not clear
on this, and admittedly it looks as though it is very possible that some of the
JINNS could be fully physical and what we call extraterrestrials, while other
species of them are of an altogether and finer sort of matter, corresponding to
what various UFO investigators have tried to indicate by such terms as "ULTRATERRESTRIAL"
or "METATERRESTRIAL".
In thinking about these ideas, we
might bear in mind the theory of the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky
regarding the possible existence of other, more subtle, levels of matter on
which the elements of the Periodic Table of our own chemical world are repeated
-- and, if I understand him aright, repeated more than once, on more than one
level. The early writings of Dr. Meade Layne in the USA about the "DENSE
ETHERIC WORLD" from which he maintained that the UFO entities and their
craft originated should also be borne in mind. (His book, THE COMING OF THE
GUARDIANS, was published in 1958, and may prove one day to have been very
important indeed.) Certain of the benevolent JINNS may well be our
"Guardians".
That there is some close
affinity, or some link of destiny between JINNS and Mankind seems certain, for
although the vast majority of the JINNS are DEVILS, SHAYTANS *4*, nevertheless
we are assured in the QUR'AN that some among their many species are
"goodies" and are capable of salvation. For it is specifically stated
that Muhammad was sent as a Messenger to both Mankind and the JINNS so that, in
the Final Days, some of the JINNS will enter into Paradise, while the rest of
them will be cast down into Hell. Their revelation to IBLIS *5*, the Top Devil (
= "Satan") is in general somewhat obscure. In the QUR'AN IBLIS is
certainly described as a JINN, but elsewhere in the QUR'AN he is also described
as an ANGEL. (Surely the explanation is that IBLIS is that same high being,
originally of Angelic status, who rebelled against God and is named in the
Christian texts as "LUCIFER?")
Had we the space, much more might
be said about the JINNS and their doings, but only a brief account of their main
characteristics can here be given. Their principal features, as listed below,
are as I have gathered them from all the Muslim written and traditional sources
that I have been able to consult over the past 15 years. The reader can see for
himself the parallels with the reported features of UFO entities and can draw
his own conclusions. I hope I do not have to labour the point, space being
precious.
THE CHIEF CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE JINNS
1. In the normal state they are
not visible to ordinary human sight.
2. They are, however, capable of
materializing and appearing in the physical world. And they can alternately make
themselves visible or invisible at will.
3. They can change shape, and
appear in any sort of guise, large or small. (See for example, Ahmad Jamaludin's
excellent report, A WAVE OF SMALL HUMANOIDS IN MALAYSIA IN
1970, in FSR Vol. 28,
No. 5). Ahmad Jamaludin is a Muslim, and he knows, of course, what it is that we
are talking about.
4. They are able also to appear
in the guise of ANIMALS. (Yetis? Pumas? Loch Ness Monsters?)
5. They are inveterate liars and
deceivers, and delight in bamboozling and misleading mankind with all manner of
nonsense. (See the average Spiritualist SEANCE for examples of their activities,
and also the usual "communications" from UFO entities in
close-encounter cases.)
6. They are addicted to the
abduction or kidnapping of humans. (The Scotsman Robert Kirk, who wrote
"THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH" in 1691, evidently "knew more than was
good for his health", and was killed by them.)
7. They delight in tempting
humans into sexual intercourse and liaisons with them, and Arabic literature
abounds with accounts of this kind of contact by mankind with both the
"goodies" and the "baddies" among the JINNS. There are also
even a considerable number of accounts of encounters between the
"goodies" and famous Muslim saints. For example, the book MANAQUIB AL-ARIFIN
*6* has a number of very significant references to contacts between such higher
beings, and JALAL AL-DIN RUMI, Islam's greatest mystical poet, who lived from
1207 to 1273.
(I often wonder which category of
JINNUS it was that was encountered in Brazil by the farmer A.V.B. See my third
article on "A.V.B.", POSTCRIPT TO THE MOST AMAZING CASE OF ALL, in FSR
Vol. 11, No. 4, August 1965.)
IN OFFICIAL ISLAM -- AND THIS
CANNOT BE OVER-EMPHASIZED -- THE EXISTENCE OF THE JINNS HAS ALWAYS BEEN
COMPLETELY ACCEPTED, EVEN LEGALLY, AND EVEN TO THIS DAY, IN ISLAMIC
JURISPRUDENCE. THE FULL CONSEQUENCES IMPLIED BY THEIR EXISTENCE WERE WORKED OUT
LONG AGO. THEIR LEGAL STATUS, IN ALL RESPECTS, WAS DISCUSSED AND FIXED, AND THE
POSSIBLE RELATIONS BETWEEN THEM AND MANKIND -- ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO
QUESTIONS OF MARRIAGE AND PROPERTY! -- WERE SERIOUSLY EXAMINED BY JURISTS, AS
THE GREATEST AND MOST AUTHORITATIVE WESTERN SOURCE, THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM,
CONFIRMS.
Stories of sexual commerce
between JINNS and mankind have been of perennial interest to Arab readers, and
it is important at this point to mention that in CHINESE literature (and in
China the Han population are not Muslims -- only certain of the smaller minority
peoples of the North-West and Far West are) there is also a considerable
tradition of this sort which awaits examination by Ufologists.
(Note: concerning this
"smaller minority" Han people of China who are Muslim, see the Dropas
articles. Could there be a connection? -- 20kWeb)
The great Arabic literary
catalogue known as the FIHRIST *7*, compiled in the year 373 of the Muslim
Calendar (= C.E. 995) by Muhammad bin Ishaq bin Abi Ya'qub al-Nadim al-Warraq
al-Baghdadi, lists no less than sixteen works dealing with this theme. (Compare
also the European occultists' records of sexual contact between men and female
SYLPHS, as well as the copious mediaeval Christian records relating to INCUBI
and SUCCABAE.)
Most Westerners will discount all
this talk about the JINNS with the usual argument that the Arabs "are
barbarians anyway". Let me therefore point out that, in C.E.995, when the
FIHRIST was written, the brilliant civilization of the Arabs was incomparably
higher than anything elsewhere in the world except for China and that Christian
and Western RENAISSANCE owes its origins as much to our contact with Islam (the
Crusades) as to the early percolation of Greek learning to the West.
As a matter of fact quite a lot
of the philosophy and the literature of the Greeks reached us first, not in
Greek at all, but in the Arabic translations secured from Cordoba and Toledo in
Spain in the 10th and 11th centuries, when the Muslims still held most of Spain.
It is only in the last few
centuries, and particularly since the Industrial Revolution and the growth of
modern materialistic Science, that the West has forged ahead. But in 1200 C.E.
Muslim Science was in the lead, particularly in such fields as Medicine,
Mathematics, and Astronomy, and it would be grossly impudent to assume that our
current "superiority" over them has anything permanent about it.
8. THE JINNS are wont to snatch
up humans and teleport or transport them, setting them down again -- if indeed
they ever do set them down again -- miles away from where they were picked up,
and all this is the "twinkling of an eye". (See my first article on
TELEPORTATIONS, about the Spanish soldier who, on October 25, 1593, was suddenly
taken from Manila in the Philippine Islands across the Pacific to Mexico City.
In FSR Vol. 11, No. 2, 1965).
9. The Arabian tradition asserts
that, throughout all known history, there have been a few particular human
beings who, through some strange favour, have "been in league with the
JINNS" or "had a compact with the JINNS" -- to such a degree that
the JINNS have endowed them with what we regard as "preternatural
powers" -- ie., PSYCHIC POWERS.
These humans have consequently
become known as wonder-workers, soothsayers, and MAGICIANS. (Either "white
magicians" or "black magicians", depending of course upon what
sort of JINNS they were in league with.)
Here again, compare the European
tradition about individuals who have discovered how to collaborate with the
KINGDOM OF THE SYLPHS or the FAIRIES. For example, there is the case of the
"working partnership", not more than seventy years ago, between a
SYLPH and a highly successful Parisian dealer in rare old books. The SYLPH made
its contribution by acting as the "scout" and finding out where and in
whose possession the rare books were. All the dealer had to do then was to
approach the owners and offer to buy!
10. Along with all these displays
of prowess by the JINNS there goes, finally, a tremendous TELEPATHIC POWER and
the ability (to use an age-old term) to "CAST A GLAMOUR" over their
human victims. Our UFO records are already full of evidence of this.
How much of what we see happening
today, at the highest levels of international politics, as well as in ordinary
human affairs, can be attributed to this subtle control and interference in our
lives by insidious and unseen forces! Indeed, this is one of the prime reasons
for the parlous state in which man finds himself. Some recent reports from UFO
investigators hint at alien plans to provoke war here and drive the Gadarene
Swine (mankind) over into the abyss. The present-day Christians, who generally
seem to have very little sense of curiosity, are apparently quite happy to pass
their days in total ignorance of all this. But a careful study of the New
Testament (AND ONLY IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK!) will show clearly that nothing of
what is said above was unknown either to the Teacher and Healer Jeshu of
Nazareth or to his principal followers -- particularly Paul. (Incidentally,
Christians may like to know that in Islam the full name and title of Jeshu of
Nazareth is ISSA, SON OF MARY, WORD OF GOD.)
Long before the rise of
Christianity or Islam there were of course other great Teachers (Messengers) who
perceived clearly the situation in which mankind finds itself. One of these was
Zarathustra (Zoroaster) in the old Iranian civilization of the Achaemenidae --
about 600 or 700 years B.C.E. The great religious text left by Zarathustra is
the AVESTA, which tells us much about the Demonic Forces, referred to under the
blanket term of AHRIMAN, the Enemy of Light. Mankind, in this teaching, is seen
as a special creation of ORMAZD, the SUPREME SPIRIT, who is locked in permanent
conflict with AHRIMAN.
THE SOUL OF MAN IS THE OBJECT OF
THE WAR, AND MAN HIMSELF IS THE BATTLEFIELD.
DR. RUDOLPH STEINER
In our days, there has probably
been no teacher who saw and understood all this more clearly than the great
Austrian Dr. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), founder of the Anthroposophical
Society.
"Clairvoyant" from
childhood, Steiner [claims he] saw into the other worlds and planes and saw
deeply into the human heart, and no books or teachings are so relevant as his
are to the crisis of mankind that is now upon us. His lectures throughout 1917,
for example, show clearly that he foresaw, in their totality, the political,
social, and military results and the police-state tyranny which would inevitably
follow from the Russian Revolution, just as the "Lady" of the
Apparitions at Fatima in the same year also did.
Steiner foresaw what would result
in the world as a whole from a materialistic science run mad: the development of
"test-tube" man, "biological engineering" and other horrors;
the deliberate creation and development of living monsters; and the soul-less,
God-less, dehumanized, computerized, insect-like chromium and plastic slave
world of "1984" that may now be at hand.
According to Steiner, a
tremendous and crucial round in the battle was fought out in the last thirty
years of the 19th century and on the Inner Planes, between the Forces of AHRIMAN
(the term he took over from Zarathustra) and the FORCES OF LIGHT.
These latter are conventionally
known to Western (Christian) tradition as the Cohorts of Michael. Steiner said
that the fight ended in a complete victory for the LIGHT, but that, as a
result of it, a great many of the powerful demonic beings had been actually cast
down upon the planet Earth, with the consequence that their presence and
their influence now impinge more than ever upon the prospects and the destiny of
mankind.
STEINER TAUGHT THAT THE COMING
YEARS WILL SEE INCREDIBLE UPHEAVALS, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH THIS GREAT BATTLE
WILL BE CARRIED FORWARD, TO ITS CONCLUSION, INSIDE EVERY HUMAN HEART. See Rudolf
Steiner: DER STURZ DER GEISTER DER
FINSTERNIS: (THE OVERTHROW OF THE SPIRITS OF DARKNESS), Series of Lectures, 1917.
The objective of the Forces of
Darkness is to take over the stream of human evolution, to merge with it, and to
divert mankind from the evolutionary development "planned" for it. The
end result of this would be new creatures in which those qualities that
represent the highest that we know would have been eliminated.
Smart-alecky modern man of the
Pop Age, the "Trousered Ape" as he has been called, has of course no
use for all this sort of "rubbish", and immense numbers of our species
have discarded all belief in the existence of demons, along with any belief in
the Great Power that rules the Universe.
(Sophisticated folk nowadays know
that the world was not created by God, but by Karl Marx. And they know that
Lenin and successors are His Prophets.)
There is a delightful passage in
C.S. Lewis's SCREWTAPE LETTERS, where the Senior Devil, talking to one of his
underlings, makes a profoundly important remark: "OF COURSE, OUR GREATEST
TRUMP-CARD IS THE FACT THAT EVERYBODY *KNOWS* WE DON'T EXIST." (Or words to
that effect.)
Similarly, the vast majority of
mankind KNOW that JINNS and UFOs and UFO entities don't exist. And what a nice
advantage that is for the entities!
But what if HOMO SAP (so-called,
self-dubbed) were in for some big shocks in the near future? What then?
With the recent advance of
Science, man has rapidly become aware of the vastness of the Cosmos and of the
probability that there exist out there innumerable other physical worlds
inhabited by intelligent beings, some of which, for all we know, may be (as we
dearly hope) identical with men, with our tastes and our values, our hopes and
our fears.
It is natural that some among us,
surveying the impasse into which we have got ourselves, might well be tempted to
look up to the stars in the hope that someone wiser than we are might arrive one
day from there and give us all the easy answers.
If there be any truth in the
ancient story that the inhabitants of Magonia, unlike men, do not possess the
possibility of developing immortal souls, and therefore are anxious to acquire
such by mating with us and mingling their life-stream with ours, what moment
could be more propitious to them for achieving their purpose than now?
Can't you just hear the message
of their Captain?--
"WE ARE FROM TAU CETI, AND
WE COME TO BRING YOU SALVATION AND SHOW YOU THE WAY OUT OF YOUR PROBLEMS. WE
WILL GET YOU OFF THE HOOK!"
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Vangard Notes..
This is one of the most
interesting papers I have seen in awhile as far as UFO's and ancient beliefs.
The book "1001 Nights" goes into much detail regarding the Jinn and
their abilities and aims. They are extremely mischievous and take great pleasure
in teasing mankind.
Years ago, during my magical
studies, I found many intriguing legends, traditions and superstitions relating
to beings or forces which COULD BE CONTROLLED OR DIRECTED BY MAN.
Indeed, that is the basis of the
higher forms of CEREMONIAL MAGIC. Talismans, amulets and spells also influence
these entities to various degrees. I firmly believe that there are specific
geometries and patterns which can be so combined and projected as to cause
changes in line with the will of the operator.
Unless you have experimented in
the magical area, you do not have the right to cast aspersions or make decisions
based on your own prejudices or beliefs. The basic Gnostic teaching is to know
FROM DIRECT EXPERIENCE.
This file offers a most
interesting "alternative" to the UFO phenomenon which I think is
refreshingly original. Note that it is directly in line with the thinking of
John Keel and Jacque Vallee. Although without the mystical overtones of some of
the more outrageous Persian tales.
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