Looking beyond the Veil

David Icke on Archons, Gnosticism & The "Reptilian Agenda"

Since my 30's I have looked to the eastern traditions, especially Advaita Vedanta within Hinduism and Buddhism  for answers. However, in recent times I have also being looking at Christianity as it provides a solid counterweight to the prevailing materialistic paradigm which has brought us to where we are today.

It has brought me to look at values of Love and forgiveness which abound in the New Testament. It has also brought me to examine the questions of Good vs. Evil.

I remember a story of someone who lent a copy of the New Testament to an Indian Hindu to read. His response was "very nice but I could not find the religion in it"

I have always seen religion as a spiritual path, one that is oriented towards Enlightenment - a deep understanding of the fundamental nature of Reality.

Every religion has two levels according to Alan Watts in his book the Supreme Entity: an Essay n Oriental Metaphysics and the Christian Religion. There is the level of religion which really acts to provide something like what my uncle used to call "somewhere to hang one's hat" - something that when taken away destroys cohesion in society as well as its moral integrity while at the same time creating huge levels of confusion in the population.

Then there is the esoteric teachings that are contained in all religions (including Christianity) and point to the same basic teaching.

In this regard the language of Christianity is of the shepherd looking after his sheep.  It is about (on the positive side) integrity and cohesion but also (on the negative) about Control of the population.

I have been, in recent days, reading David Icke's book "Everything you need to know but have never been told".  The first thing I found was reference to the "lizards" that he has been laughed at for so long.  Of course it is nothing like the way in which his media detractors present it.  His book is full of esoterica and a mystical view of life that I could partially relate to as well as be confused by (numerology, mythology and symbolism are not really my thing"

What has been most useful is Icke's discussion of Gnosticism, in particular a group of texts called the Nag Hammadi Library texts. To me this is a kind of Buddhism within Christianity.

For one it points to the reality of "All That Is" or Infinite Awareness of itself - the Force that moves all things, as Icke expresses it: 

"He is an incomprehensible one, but it is he who comprehends All. He receives them to himself. And nothing exists outside of him. But All exist within him. And he is a boundary to them all, as he encloses them all, and they are all within him. It is he who is Father of the aeons, existing before them all, There is no place outside of him."

Gnostic texts refer to "upper Aeons"  ('the Silence) and "lower Aeons" and that between the two is a curtain or veil. Just like Vedanta or Buddhism the Gnostic gospels say that what we experience as reality was created by error.  This is the Gnostic version of "the Fall".

Within this realm is included Jehovah, the Jewish God, God the Creator as well as the Devil or Satan, and all the demons.

This is described well in the following talk:

The strength for me of this understanding is that it transforms the more mundane assumptions of ordinary Christianity and posits an Ultimate Reality that is Consciousness while it conceives of a false reality that has been created to fool people and so has a concept of Evil Forces without turning it into a spiritual battle between Good and Evil.  Also, importantly it replaces the Shepherd looking after his sheep, the intermediary of the Priest and replaces it with a comtemplative approach of finding Ultimate Truth or Enlightenment. No one needs to wait until the Final Judgement to be saved.

Here is a general discussion of the Nag Hammadi texts.

And here is David Icke again on how he was awakened: