Was Adam created by the “Devil”?
What if creation itself was defective, not because the creator used defective materials or defective design, but because the workmanship of the creator was defective? Is this heresy or secret truth?
From the Fountains of Freemasonry
In Freemasonry, God is described as the Grand Architect of the Universe (GAOTU) and Yahweh is described as the demiurge. Demiurge is derived from the Greek work dēmiurgós, which means public worker. Freemasonry derived the concept of dēmiurgós from the Gnostics, who also described Yahweh as Yaldabaoth. Does this mean that Freemasonry recognizes 2 Gods? If so, which God created man? The answers to these questions can be gleaned from sacred scriptures of Judaism.
Artistic rendition of Yaldabaoth or Demiurge or Yahweh. PHOTO CREDIT: Emily Orr.
Ein Soph versus Yahweh, and the Two Heavens
In the sacred esoteric text of Judaism, the Holy Zohar, Yahweh is relegated to a deputy status to a powerful “God” called the Ein Sof (sometimes spelled as En Soph or Eyn Sof). Nurho de Manhar writes in the Book of Light, “In the beginning was En Soph”. This is a commentary on the Hebrew phrase, Bereishit bara Elokim, which are the first 3 words in the Hebrew Bible; and they translate to “IN THE BEGINNING God created”, and then continues “et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz” which translates to “the heaven and the earth”.
This means that the God who created the heavens in Genesis 1:1 is the Ein Soph. However, in Genesis 1:6-10, God created the heaven and the earth using speech e.g Genesis 1:6 God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide between water and water." So did the En Soph create the heaven again, or was it another God who created the second heaven? If a second God did it, what happened to the first heaven? Still, who is Yahweh? Is Yahweh the false creator of the Gnostics? Or is Yahweh is a real creator as the Christians, Muslims, and non-Kabbalistic Jews say? This also relates to another question, who is the devil and when was he created?
GAOTU and Yahweh
The answers to these questions are provided in the mystical texts of Gnosticism and the Zohar. The Zohar states that the Ein Sof created the blueprint of the universe, and the Kabbalists explain that this blueprint was later written down as the Torah, and for this reason, not a single letter or part of a letter in the Torah can be changed because it will mean that the Torah is incompatible with the World just like what happens when the design plans of a completed building are manipulated.
According to the Gnostics of Old, the Supreme Being designed the blueprint of the universe just like an architect designs the plans of a building. Then, the architect gives this plan to the builder – in this case the public worker of demiurge. When the demiurge was created is a topic for another day, but it can be gleaned from the Sumerian myth of Creation which was foundational to Babylonian religion that worshiped Marduk.
Tiamat dreamt of Enki, and Marduk was Born
According to the Sumerian myth of creation, there were only 2 gods in the beginning of time – Tiamat and Absu. When Tiamat and Absu fell asleep, they dreamt dreams that caused creatures in their dreams to escape from the dream and materialize as cosmic gods, and these cosmic gods got a self-proclaimed leader called Enki. Enki killed Absu, which forced Tiamat to create a new army of gods called the anti-cosmic gods to battle Enki and his army of cosmic gods.
Among the anti-cosmic gods, a leader was chosen and his name is Satan. But before they could fight, Enki had copulatory relations with a female being described as a whore, and this whore became pregnant and gave birth to another cosmic god called Marduk. Marduk would later kill Tiamat and create the heavens and earths from her dismembered remains. Marduk needed a being to rule over the earth. To this end, he created man.
This created man could not become alive until the blood of a god was injected into his system. This led Marduk to kill one of the top leaders of the army of anti-cosmic gods called Kingu, and then put Kingu’s blood into man. For this reason, the wise Hammurabi declared that human life is sacred and the act of shedding human blood was an act against the gods because man is part-god because his blood comes from the god.
Back to Marduk, he demanded that man must show “total compliance and worship” and he should not inspect into how he was created nor what existed before man came into being. To this end, Marduk created institutional religion staffed by priests, but some of these priests know the truth and sought to work with other gods to free man from the darkness imposed by Marduk i.e they wanted to enlighten the world.
Marduk and Mark of the Beast
This myth of Sumerian creation can be found in the imagery of the Apocalypse of John in the Book of Revelations. In Revelations 13:1-5, a beast arose out of the sea and was given power, authority, and the throne by a dragon, and the beast spoke blasphemies. This beast would carry the “Whore of Babylon” One of the earliest Greek commentary of this verse describes the sea as the primeval chaos, and the early Christian Mystics interpreted the beast as Marduk who usurped power from Tiamat (the dragon) after killing Absu and blaspheming against both Absu and Tiamat.
In Revelation 13:11-18, a monster appeared on the land and forced people to take the mark of the beast, and then concludes with “Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast(monster), for it is the number of a man: His number is 666”. According to the Oxford Bible Commentary, this monster represented the priests of the beast who forced people to worship the beast and mark themselves as worshipers of the beast. In the Sumerian Myth, Kingu’s blood boiled in man and ignited the black flames of the anti-cosmic gods, and to put out this black flame in the body, Marduk’s priests required their congregants to enter into water to extinguish the black flame, and this was the origin of water baptism. If related to Revelations 13:11-18, it’s evident that the beast is Marduk and the monster is his priests, while the mark of the beast is water baptism. The number of the monsters is 666 because it represents the men who have been appointed to keep man away from the true god.
Whore of Babylon is the Whore of Enki being carried by her Son, Marduk. IMAGE CREDIT: Wikipedia.
However, this does not answer how man was created?
Yahweh and Marduk
Cyrus the Great worshiped Marduk as the God of Gods (i.e God of all Cosmic Gods because Satan still ruled the anti-cosmic gods), and he told the Jews that Marduk had told him to free them so that they can build the Temple in Jerusalem. However, in Isaiah 45 states:
“This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus” which means that Yahweh anointed Cyrus as the Messiah, and in 45:7, the Lord states “I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.” and continues in 45:13 “I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness: I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price or reward, says the Lord Almighty.””.
The names Lord Almighty as applied to Yahweh is quite similar to the title God of Gods applied to Marduk. So, is Yahweh the Marduk of the Babylonians, or did Jews take Marduk and gave him the local name Yahweh? According to Biblical scholars, the Torah was written after the Jews were freed from Babylon, while the Babylonian Talmud was clearly written in Babylon. What is clear is that the Apostles knew about Marduk and represented him as the Beast, which also means that Jews knew about Marduk.
To be safe, it’s best to compare the account of Biblical creation to that of Sumerian creation. In Genesis 1:1, heaven and earth existed, but a second heaven and earth was created in Genesis 1:6-10, with the waters being separated (just like Tiamat was separated by Marduk) to create heaven and earth.
According to Freemasonry and Judaism, the Ein Sof designed the first heaven and earth, but it was Yahweh who created the second heaven and earth as well as man, which explains why Man could not live until Yahweh blew His spirit into man’s nostrils. Just like Marduk used the blood of the god Kingu to make man live, Yahweh gave his spirit to make man live, and thus Adam started to live after he acquired the spirit of Yahweh.
Imperfect Adam and Incomplete Creation by Yahweh
If man was created perfect, why does he excrete waste substances, why do people die, and why are people ashamed of their natural body odor to necessitate bathing? Most importantly, for man to live, he must kill. To eat food, one must must kill plants and/or animals. Both plants and animals have to be subjected to pain and death for humans to exist. Basically, for the human species to survive, it must kill another species.
This means that the world is created on the principle of death and regeneration. Those who understand this gain power and those who do not are destroyed. The noble labor of farming allows for more plants to grow to feed animals and humans, which is better than letting the existing few plants to live for eternity. However, in Genesis 2:15-17, it states “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”” This is before man made sin, but already Adam was required to work, which means that the work of creation was not complete.
This implies that Yahweh rested without completing the work of creation but expected Adam to complete the work of creation by working the garden. However, how can one complete a work without knowing what needs to be done? How can one know what needs to be done if one is not allowed to acquire knowledge (or “eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”)? Did Yahweh, like Marduk of the Sumerians, fear that man will learn of the Ein Sof, and therefore stop worshiping him?
Is Yahweh – the Creator of Man – the Devil or Marduk?
In Isaiah 45:7, Yahweh says that he creates both evil and good. One of the fundamental teachings of Ecclesia Yesod is that good and evil are inseparable, just like the Zoroastrian priests of old said that the holy fire produced the evil smoke.
However, Zoroastrian have the good God called Ahura Mazda and the evil God called Ahriman. Still, if good and evil are inseparable, then Ahura Mazda is inseparable from Ahriman, which indicates that there exists a supreme being above them who is above both good and evil. This same logic applies to Yahweh, if He creates evil, then there must exist a supreme being above Yahweh who is above good and evil, or how else can Yahweh know good from evil, or what prevents Yahweh from describing good as evil and evil as good? There must exist a Supreme Being who designed the laws that Yahweh follows to differentiate between good and evil. This supreme being has been described as Ein Sof.
Ein Sof designed man but never created him. It was the demiurge or Yahweh who created man. But Yahweh also created evil? What do we call the being that creates evil? It is called the devil. It can therefore be concluded that Yahweh is the DEVIL who created evil like lies and ignorance. It is for this reason that Jesus said told the pharisees in John 8:44 “You belong to your father (Yahweh), the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies”.
However, why include this strange phrase: “He was a murderer from the beginning”? The first murder recorded in the Bible was done by Cain and Jesus was not accusing pharisees of worshiping Cain!!! However, if the Genesis account of creation was borrowed from the Sumerian Myth of Creation, then it is evident that the phrase “He was a murderer from the beginning” refers to Marduk, and Jesus Christ was simply stating that Yahweh was Marduk who was the Devil.
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