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Genesis of the Grail Kings: The Explosive Story of Genetic Cloning and the Ancient Bloodline of Jesus

Before we leave the Garden of Eden (called Edem and Paradise in the Greek translation), it is necessary to free our minds of the fearful satanic dogma which the Christian Church has attached to the incident with Eve and the serpent. Nowhere in the Genesis account is there any mention, (direct or indirect) of Satan’s involvement, and yet it has become common practice for the Church to portray the serpent as an emissary of Satan, or even as Satan himself. This has been done in an attempt to support the Church’s self styled concept of Eve’s Original Sin - a concept (developed and promoted by St. Augustine) which, like so many doctrines of the early bishops, emerged from an unhealthy sexual paranoia. Not only did the Christian bishops reinterpret the story of Adam and Eve, they also had the story rewritten so that a few verses of Genesis became great biographical books, and it is from these spurious works of fantasy that the familiar portrayals of Satanic involvement have emerged.

In the Hebrew Bible, as in mainstream Judaism to this day, Satan never appears as western Christendom has come to know him. The Christian perception of Satan is that of an evil imperialist whose despicable horde wages war upon God and humankind. But this Satan character was an invention of the post-Jesus era, a fabulous myth with no more historic worth than any figment of a Gothic novel.

In the Old Testament, “satans” (though rarely mentioned) are portrayed as obedient servants or sons of the gods (the bene ha-elohim) who performs specific functions of strategic obstruction. Hebrew root of the definition is STN, which defines an opposer, adversary or accuser, whereas the Greek equivalent was diabolob (whence, diabolical and devil), which relates to an obstructor or slanderer. Until christian times, the word “satan” had no sinister connotation whatever and, in the olden tradition, members of a straightforward political opposition party would have been called satans.
Quoted from the book Genesis of the Grail Kings: The Explosive Story of Genetic Cloning and the Ancient Bloodline of Jesus by Laurence Gardner

If you exercise the power, you should hide yourself. More power you get, more secrecy you need. You may be the worst human being on earth to do everything bad you can think of… If other people don’t know where to look, you’re safe. If you go out of traditional satan belief, if you free your mind of the “fearful satanic dogma”, you may ask, is satan really bad? Who says? When? Where? Why? How?

Did you see the movie “The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)“? That’s the sum of my thoughts.

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