~ STAR OF WONDER ~ What did the Three Wise Men really see over Bethlehem?

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By Love Reporter Ted Harrison

 

 

 

What Did the Three Wise Men Really See Over Bethlehem?

Over 40 years ago, a Swiss hotel manager produced a book that was to launch him as a bestselling author and turn an obscure and eccentric theory into a widely discussed, if unorthodox, take on human prehistory. Erich von Däniken’s book Chariots of the Gods argued that the gods of human religion were not supernatural beings from a world of spirit, but visiting aliens from advanced extraterrestrial cultures (see FT, 169:30–37 and passim).

The evidence cited was wide-ranging. Von Däniken (below) identified several ancient artifacts and drawings as models and images of astronauts. He claimed mysterious lines in the deserts of South America were extra­terrestrial airports and he also quoted from religious scriptures.

At first glance, the opening chapter of the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel certainly seems to give cred­ence to the theory. It contains a curious and enigmatic descript­ion of a close encounter between the prophet Ezekiel and what was described as “the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord”.

I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north, an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The centre of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man… As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about as the creatures went. Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creat­ures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

The mainstream explanation, to be found in Jewish and Christian teaching, is that Ezekiel’s vision is “perhaps the closest anyone comes in the Hebrew Bible to offering a description of God”. [3] But if, in fact, Ezekiel had seen a flying saucer and its extraterrestrial crew, then the ‘God was an alien’ hypotheses start stacking up.

And the Ezekiel vision is by no means unique. Other passages in the Bible can be interpreted in a similar manner. What about the Prophet Elijah’s sudden ascent to the heavens, leaving behind just his clothes: “As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.”[4] Could this have been an early alien abduction? (1)
Footnotes

(1) Perhaps not abduction, but maybe return.

 

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/4849/star_of_wonder.html

 

 

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Love your fractal pictures,

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Love your fractal pictures, could the space craft. just be worm holes like the fractal? Sending light to the earth from the planet cycles? I guess they will have to wait and see.... ;0)