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Angels, Men, and Jinns
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
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. 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", or
"ESSENTIAL FLAME", or "SMOKELESS FIRE", 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" and
"MIN MARIJIN MIN NARIN" 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, SHAYTANS1, 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, 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?")
1 Note: both words, GOD and SATAN, are plural. Keep
this in mined when studying the bible and other sacred texts. -- Webmaster
Inquiring-Mines.com)
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 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.
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.
The great Arabic literary catalogue known as the
FIHRIST, 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 aka
FALL 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!"
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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