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- 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
- 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
- comphrehensive 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
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- 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 suprisingly 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 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.
-
- 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 *1*. Although there
- is some dispute about it among Arab grammarians, most of their lex-
- icologists 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.
-
- 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" *2*, or "ESSENTIAL
- FLAME", or "SMOKELESS FIRE" *3*, 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" *2* and "MIN MARIJIN
- MIN NARIN" *3* 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 abou 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, SHAYTANS *4*, 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 *5*,
- 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?")
-
- 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 *6* 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.
-
- (I often wonder which category of JINNUS it was that was en-
- countered in Brazil by the farmer A.V.B. See my third article on
- "A.V.B.", POSTCRIPT TO THE MOST AMAZING CASE OF ALL, in FSR Vol. 11,
- No. 4, August 1965.)
-
-
- 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 *7*,
- 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 preceived 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 that 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 teach-
- ings 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 in-
- fluence now impinge more than ever upon the propects 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), Series of Lectures, 1917. (Available only in
- German.)
-
- 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!"
-