Because these humans were close to Jesus, part of his entourage in fact, they were assumed to be close to God. The typical response to any relatively unknown phenomenon clicked in - fill in the blanks. Thus we have stories of how the angels came to be, fallen angels, ranks of angels, and variations on their appearance, their personalities, and exploits of angels that grew every time they were retold. There are merely spirits, and such descriptions of angels is a way of describing good and evil, the compassion and pulling toward others that characterizes those in the Service-to-Others, or the pulling toward the self characteristic of those in the Service-to-Self. There are angels among humans who have never left this Earth. They think of others intensely. They sacrifice themselves. Are these not angels?
ZetaTalk: Adam and Eve
Note: written by Jul 15, 1995
The myth that mankind was once pure in innocence or fell due to awareness of their sexuality is utter nonsense. The myth makes no sense at all, other than in the context of sexual repression. Is Christianity about sexual repression? To a great extent, yes, as control over the sexual practices of the flock gives the religious elite great leverage. The sex drive is constant and strong, and when the flock is made to feel guilty about this and tries to buy out from under any impending punishment, this in turn makes the religious elite rich. This is the crux of Catholicism. Anyone who doubts this need only listen to the lectures given school children in Catholic schools and to the anguish poured forth in confessionals. We listen to both, and we know. Why was this nonsense about Adam and Eve perpetrated? Early man had some sense that they were genetically engineered, having seen their makers, and passed this along in myth and legend. Early Christians adopted this legend and changed it to suit their needs. End of story.
ZetaTalk: Pyramids
Note: written on Oct 15, 1996
There has been endless speculation about the Giant Pyramids and the pyramid shape in general, as the reason ancient pyramids were built is unknown. The reason the shape was chosen is so simple that it has been overlooked as being too obvious. The shape endures through earthquakes, and great height is easier to attain than with a rectangular shape as sheer walls where heavy object must be lifted, rather than dragged, is avoided. Where the giant hominoids from the 12th Planet had, at times, the assistance of levitation from aliens in the Service-to-Self that they often were allied with, they did not always have this assistance, so ease of construction was a consideration. Primarily, the ability of the pyramid to endure over thousands of years made it the shape of choice. The Giant pyramids, as we have stated, were astronomical devices to assist those left behind to mine Earth in determining when the next passage of the 12th Planet was nigh.
Pyramid cults have sprung up that claim almost magical results from operations done under a pyramid shape. This is nonsense, as beyond air circulation under a roof or the ability to drain rainwater, the shape of the roof is irrelevant. Do light rays or radio waves consider the shape of the wall or roof then encounter, avoiding some shapes and being altered by others? The material a shape is composed of may matter, but not the shape, all claims to the contrary. For those who claim that health improved or plants grew faster or whatever, under a pyramid shaped roof, we will point out that the health of mankind is greatly subject to psychological influences, and the eye often sees what it wishes to behold.
ZetaTalk: Dinosaurs
Note: from the Feb 2, 2002 Live ZetaTalk IRC session.
Dinosaurs were related, and when a virus mutated, this affected them all. The dinosaur survived to become the current reptiles because, as with any infection, there are some who have resistance. All became sickly, and the smaller ones needed less to eat than the larger, and thus prevailed. There has been an intense discussion on tt-watch about this matter, based on our statements, where it has been determined that the dinosaurs died out gradually, not suddenly as a meteor winter would have caused. At the same time, the discussion questioned how many species of dinosaurs could be similarly afflicted by a single virus. Specialization in species is a concept understood by man, as he sees frog populations worldwide affected by the recent earth changes, such that they appear to be dying out. Coral reefs likewise appear fragile, subject to pollution damage. The issue is not so much how hale a creature is, as how vulnerable. The T-Rex was huge, had evolved to a large size, as had the herbivores of those days.
Today, large whales migrate around the world in the oceans, and elephants rumble through the jungles, so this size should not be that surprising. Yet the mammoth is extinct, in spite of living in great herds only millennia ago. Mankind likewise could be wiped out by the AIDS virus, as it is routinely fatal with few proving to be immune. A virus mutates, as the AIDS virus has such that a vaccine cannot be developed effectively against it. Ebola has likewise mutated and migrated, afflicting mankind now increasingly. One might look back and say, in a hypothetical future, that man numbered 6 billion, had technology, but they all died out! Those large dinosaurs that had immunity to the virus were nonetheless weakened, and struggled for food in this condition. Smaller creatures who reached a bit of food made this go further, and struggled forward to reproduce and pass on their immunity. Thus, just as the last of the mammoth died because they were weakened from having to migrate back to the grasslands, and the young among them failed this migration, just so the large dinosaurs passed.
ZetaTalk: Ural Map
Note: written on Jun 15, 2002
Reputedly an ancient map of the Ural Mountains were discovered, estimated age to be 120 millions years. We estimate, based on when the makers were present, more akin to 90 million years ago. In that the Ural Mountains are on a solid old plate, always remaining above sea level, it is probable and likely that their shape would be the same over the eons, for Earth. Is this a true map, and who would have drawn this? It is indeed real, although the age is not quite as estimated but more recent. The map makers were not Homo Sapiens, or even hominoid. As we have stated, Homo Sapiens is not the first intelligent creature on Earth to be capable of forming souls. Prior to the dieoff of the dinosaurs, there was another race, reptilian, that had been engineered to this level. These reptilians were peers of man. What you might term their hands were dexterous, as are lizards on your Earth today. It was the handiwork of these creatures that was discovered.