Farewell to the Annunaki Michael Ledwith

“It was with some horror that I looked back at my first acquaintance with the great deal of literature that comes to us from Sumer, Babylon and Arkadia because I realised the first time I went into a lecture hall in October 1964, at that stage we were exposed to a fascinating journey through the medium of a book by James Pritchard called Ancient Near Eastern text (ANET). There were many things that puzzled me in ANET. There were all these fascinating stories to study and a fascinating language to look at. And it is also the same year I began to study classical Hebrew and by coincidence the book we were studying in classical Hebrew was the book of Genesis, the first book in the Hebrew Bible. There were similarities between some of the texts in Pritchard's book that came from ancient Mesopotamia and some of the texts in the Bible. There were at least 20 major parallels between the account of Genesis in the book of creation and the account of creation in one of the most famous of the Sumerian Tablets called the Epic of Gilgamesh. What did this mean, where did these things fit together? It was many years until I came to find the missing link through reading the works and having personal contact with Zacharia Sitchen and others who have worked in this area.

“A lot of this material we were studying in 1964 came from the discovery of the library of King “Ashurbanipal” which was discovered by Austen Henry Layard from 1849 onwards. That discovery was from the ancient city of Nineveh which is in modern, Iraq just across from that city that has been the source of so much trouble, modern Mosul . In the 1840's and thereabouts certain researchers were digging up the mounds underlying the city's of today and a colossal amount of artefacts have been found. There are probably a quarter million inscribed tablets from those excavations of ancient Mesopotamia. The library of Ashurbanipal was destroyed by an attack from his former enemies 600 years before the birth of Christ. In the fire that ensued many of the clay tablets were baked which assured of course their preservation. Unfortunately there was a lot of other literature in that collection, whether it was on wood or skins that perished. However we are left with an enormous amount of literature which opens a fascinating door to our origins, history, cultures, civilization and religious views of the wars of god and men. We owe a great deal to the researchers who collected all these remains in ancient Babylon, people like Hormuzd Rassam, who discovered the tablets that became known to us as the Epic of Gilgamesh or George Smith who died of dysentery in the desert at the age of 36 and who was the one who first translated the Epic of Gilgamesh. We owe a great deal to these and many other researchers and archaeologists who paved the way in sometimes extremely difficult circumstances to bring these treasures up from the ancient past to light and help us to have a better understanding where we are placed in that great panorama of history.

“One thing that did occur to me very forcefully as I pursued these texts, was the conditions in which the human race appeared were very far from ideal. We were in fact created not only as slaves to work in the gold mines, it appears we were in a much more inferior situation even than that, because we were in act created to be slaves of a previous slave race. There wasn't much love or justice or harmony at work in the situation that we first emerged on this earth.

“My interests have been in the way ancient texts can shed light on the present condition. I am convinced an awful number of the burdens which we labour under at this time have come from that very remote origin of ours that has been buried in the far distant past.

“Everything that we have welcomed into our minds by way of attitude doesn't stay in the mind, it doesn't stay as thought because every attitude that we have ever entertained gradually filters down into ones physical embodiment, it filters down into the neural networks of my brain, it filters down into my very DNA. All of my genetic inheritance from however long the race has been here, (one quarter million years approximately), all of the inherited attitude that my ancestors have held are now ensconced in my DNA in terms of attitude, expectation and outlook on life. We have at first site a prospect of mind boggling complexity to deal with. However thanks to the findings of all these researchers we have a much clearer understanding of where we stand.

“If our origins are not of the most ideal circumstances then surely we have to confront the fact that we are still wrestling today with not just our own maligned and ill directed thoughts we are also inheriting the shadows of all the struggles our ancestors had.

“One of the most interesting sites in modern archaeology is a place called Gobekli Tepe which is in South Eastern modern Turkey. It is a very interesting modern archaeological site. Probably 9 – 10 000 years old. It is about 10 miles South East of old ARFU or ODESA where the twin brother of Jesus once was, and King Abgar the fifth. He had with him Jesus's two and a half year old son, James. When they fell into despair at the court of the King Abgar, Thomas took Jesus to a cave about 10 miles South East and that is where the gospel of Thomas, that very famous document found in 1946 in Egypt, was written.

“Some of the archaeological remains in Gobekli Tepe show something quite extraordinary. In an adjacent site called Cayonu we have some startling evidence confronting us because in Cayonu is revealed a horde of human skulls, found underneath an alter like slab, stained with human blood. Some have concluded that this is an indication of the practice of human sacrifice. Other archaeological evidence has suggested that some people were killed in huge dent pits while children were buried alive in jars, or roasted in large bronze bowls. Cayonu is civilization but certainly not civilization as we would wish to know it. If these kinds of practices were resorted to, in much the same geographical area as the ancient Mesopatamian texts, it tells us something about the humans related to their gods. How their gods regarded human beings and what they needed to do in order to placate them. It is not very encouraging.

“About forty years ago when I was contemplating the authors of the book of Genesis, I could see in my minds' eye Jewish desert dwellers, maybe 2500 – 3000 years ago, telling stories in the south of ancient Israel around their camp fires about how the world began and about how the first people ever emerged. Those stories were passed onto future generations. They described a situation of the origins of the human race very similar to the desert that they inhabited at that time. And when they found the promised land it was of course a place of great contrast to that. Four of Five centuries later, in about 4 – 500 miles to the East in what is present day Iraq some anonymous writer, set about a great task in terms of enormous difficulty for the Jewish people. He wanted to write a primary history of the Jewish people. He may have been a priest. The Jewish people were suffering greatly. We know that this writer had two different texts of Jewish history available to him. These two texts came from very different places. One text used the term for god, Elohim and the second text which was probably more ancient used Yahweh . We are told the priest moulded these two traditions together to produce the early chapters of the book of Genesis and struggled to make sense of apparently contradictory accounts of GOD .

“I began to look at the book of Genesis with a fresh eye. I began to see that the authors of Genesis were trying to hold ideas about GOD that were basically contradictory. The authors were faced with a dilemma. How could the world be a mixture of good and evil if the being that created it was all good? It may be as some gnostics believe that GOD did not create the world and then it can have a mixture of good and evil.

“When we look at the actual text of Genesis, in Genesis 2 : 4 – 25 (These numbers are not even because we did not have numbering in the Bible originally, they were put in apparently by a French printer when the printing was invented. If the job was done more satisfactorily we would have neater divisions than we are working with today. )

“In this chapter there are six elements taken up for examination. First of all the relationship between GOD and the first human beings, they had a fine relationship, everything is perfect. They are walking together in the cool of the evening. And if you ever visit the Middle East today you will know as the sun goes down many of the people in the little towns and villages will walk down the main street. The next element that Genesis 2 takes up is the woman. Woman relates to man perfectly. The phrase used is ‘two in one flesh'. The original meaning of that phrase is that they were in a situation of absolute equality. The man and the woman are of the same flesh, there is no superiority or subjugation involved. The third element is the animals. The animals are brought before the man and the woman and the man names the animals, giving them a name that corresponds to the insight of their nature, indicated your lordship over that creature. The earth was a place of abundant fertility and work was easy. The sixth element related to life. Everybody wants to live as long as possible in as human a state as possible. And that primordial desire in the first man and woman was acceded to by creator. He gave them the gift of eternal life.

“The author of Genesis creates the opposite scenario for us in chapter 3 : 6 – 24. It is the opposite. When god is coming along man and woman are ashamed and they hide. The woman is subjugated to the man, she is drawn against her will to the man. The serpent has risen up and appears to be in a situation of dominance over the humans. The earth is now called ‘cursed', and work ‘painful toil', ‘in the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread,' and with regards life ‘unto dust you shall return.' And because people die, the human race has to be renewed, so the institution of child birth is brought in and the woman has to give birth in pain.

“What do we have in this very intriguing first couple of parts of Genesis? We have the original state an ideal state in chapter two and chapter three we have the fallen state and very much the state that human kind is familiar with in this world today.

“And in between we have the explanation of how the ideal state was replaced by the fallen state. And that explanation is in chapter three. 1 – 7.

“The explanation is the serpent came and tempted people. The serpent said, ‘if you eat this fruit you will be like god.' The woman was desirous of getting that knowledge of the tree of good and evil, which god had forbidden, so she took it from the serpent because she wanted knowledge in heaven and then she gave it to her husband. They discovered they were naked. god comes along and here we have the first lesson. They are ashamed and god realises that they have eaten the fruit of good and evil. This is the first lesson we have to accept personal responsibility . Once we start blaming, once we start pointing the finger, then there is really no hope for us in terms of personal evolution. The basis of all evolution of a spiritual kind is to accept personal responsibility, one of the hardest things of all.

“Now we know that GOD made the world perfect but it was wrecked by the way HIS creatures behaved. The blame for that collapse to the fallen state had to be laid at the feat of human beings. We are in a position where we can only expect to be punished and then we have to make up to GOD for all the injustices, insults, infidelity that we have perpetrated since the Garden of Eden. And now it is all placed on Jesus Christ who came here to suffer and die for our sins. Jesus depicted as GODS only and innocent son came here to die for our sins to protect us from the vengeance of god for all the offences committed since the garden of Eden.

“A very inspired pope 1500 years ago, Gregory the Great , said that the narratives in Genesis, the creation narratives talking about the ideal state are actually a prophecy. So the perfect state is actually a state in our future. So not only is Genesis 2 a state from our past but also our future. In other words from that fallen state we need to rise up to that ideal state in the future.

“How do we ascend?

“Let us look at the Garden of Eden where all this drama was said to have taken place. The consensus of archaeologists is that the Garden of Eden was not in Mesopatamia but it was actually in the South Eastern part of Lebanon, near Rashaya El Wadi in Lebanon. The Sumerians who first wrote about this place, called it ‘Kharsag.'

“Let's look at the book of Genesis again. Here we have Michaelangelo's painting of the origins of the world. Or ‘Bara el o Him et eshman el harash' in Hebrew.

“We see that Hebrew text with its 27 characters from right to left, and I am told that if you block out those 27 letters from the first chapter of the book of Genesis on a graph, because every Hebrew letter has a numerical value; if you plot those letters on a graph you will get that triangle which is a very sacred symbol. Obviously the people who wrote this text seemed to know something or other. There was in the Hebrew culture of that time a tradition, that if you were writing about something prominent like the origins of the human race, the origins of the world, the convention was that it began with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ALIF, or A. If we look at Genesis as we have it today, it does not begin with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet it begins with the second letter, B, which means ‘in' in Hebrew.

“Let's do an experiment and add A to the first sentence of Genesis. Something remarkable happens. That addition of the first letter changes the meaning of the entire sentence. It means the father ABA, ‘the father of the beginnings, created the gods, the heavens and the earth.'

“And all of this developed in later times into Sumer, Mesopatamia, and the Akkadian Empire. Genesis speaks of that as “Shinar Shine-ar” which is the land of the kingdom of Nimrod in GEN 10 and 11. And up to about 100 years ago nobody knew anything about Shine'ar, and then archaeologists started to discover cities far more ancient such as Ur, Erech, Akkad. Apparently Shine-ar was the cradle of the civilization of the human race.

“One of the most ancient of the cities was Ur, and in the centre of that city was the great Ziggurat. There is a slight embarrassment of course because the father of the Jewish nation Abraham, coming from Ur, would not have been a Jew he would have been an Arab.

“The Sumerians always said that their incredible knowledge was taught to them by a people called the Annunaki, in the Bible Anaki in the book of numbers and the book of dueteronomy. They are the same people as the Anak in the Egyptian texts. And the Nephilim were part of the Annunaki.

“Here is a problem because if these beings were the Annunaki and if our god, on the record as the head of the Jewish tradition, of the Islamic religion and the Christian religion is the kind of being described in the Hebrew record. The god of the old testament is on record of having commanded, waging war, killing innocent children, committing genocide, mutilating corpses, raping virgins, selling into slavery, wife thievery and human sacrifice. “The utter destruction of people was perpetrated at the behest of the lord god.” The god of the old testament is presumably a member of the Annunaki who passed himself off as the creator. Just like that phenomenon of the CARGO CULT in World War two in Papua New Guinnea where the primitive people who were out in the jungle and never had any contact with civilization saw an American aircraft passing over and the Americans taking pity on them occasionally dropped in a crate of books for their enjoyment. When the war was over and the flights stopped, the people in the jungle began to make shrines to the gods with aeroplanes. They put parachute around them, they built idols, made out of wood in the shape of aircraft and offered sacrifices in order that the gods would come back. This is very similar to what happened to us.

“The god in the old testament records showed no mercy. “The lord god that deliver them before thee smight and utterly destroy them. You should make no covenant with them. You should show no mercy to them. Put to the sword all of the men and as for the women and the children, the livestock you may take these as plunder for yourselves and you may use the plunder that the lord your god gives you from your enemies. Do not leave alive anything that breathes.”

“In Judges they took what Micah had made as priest and mentor to Laish, “A peaceful and unsuspecting people. They attacked them with sword and burnt down their city.”

“What kind of morality does this being have? In Numbers 3 : “Now therefore he said kill every male being, and kill every woman that has known a man by lying with him, but all the woman and children that have not known a man by lying with them, keep alive for yourselves.” Of 32 000 virgins they sacrificed 32 to the lord their god!

“In Judges chapter 2 : “Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin. They found the people living in Jabesh, Giliard, 400 woman who had never slept with a man and they took them to the camp in Shiloh.”

In Judges 21 : “400 virgins captured, proved to be insufficient so the men hid in the vineyards and kidnapped the daughters of Shiloh as they come out to dance and celebrate. “

And one of the most horrifying features that we do come across is in Judges 19 : “A group of sexually depraved men beat on the door of an old mans house. The old man offers the guests his virgin daughter and his guests concubine or wife. ‘Behold here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out and do with them what seems good to you. The mans concubine is ravished and dies. The man then cuts her body into 12 pieces and sends one piece to each of the 12 tribes of Israel.”

The mutiliation of corpses : When David married the daughter of King Saul, the King asked for 100 foreskins of dead philistines. Not to be outdone David brought him 200… Samuel 18 :

In Joshua 5 : “Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel.”

Selling into slavery : Job : 3 “The man sent his sons and his daughters into the hands of children of Judah and they shall sell them to the saviads for the lord has spoken. “

Sexism : Corinthians : “A man is not to cover his sex for he is the image of the glory of god. And woman is the glory of man because man did not come from woman , but woman from man.”

“Woman should remain silent in the churches, they are not allowed to speak and must be in submission as the lord says. If they want to enquire about something they should ask their husbands at home. It is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.”

Here we have a description that is rather horrifying to us today of what the lord god of Israel and of Christianity, and of Islam is like …

Genocide : In Deuteronomy : 2 – 3, Joshua 6 : 8 : 10 and the first book of Saturn ….

“Wanton destruction towards innocent people who stood in the way, a complete lack of morality, a complete lack of any of the standards by which we hope a civilized society would live by today. Obviously it was believed that these were the actions of the lord god the creator of mankind. Nowadays those list of attributes would land you before a court of human rights. Here we have a big problem and here is where we must ponder the first humans. How did the first humans relate to their creators?

“All of the thoughts and attitudes we have in our minds according to neural science and quantum physics end up becoming physical in our bodies. And they are passed on from generation to generation. Somehow or another they are still there and that is going to impede my spiritual evolution, my spiritual empowerment and my ability to reach to what Jesus put before us : “You will do all the wonders that I did, and greater indeed than these will you do.” As said in the gospel of John.

“We have not reached this yet, there has been an intense inferiority and insecurity. The Annunaki came here to this Earth after a terrific war in their native quadrant. They came here to a place they called KI, which was their name for this Earth. They are actually the Anunna that came to ki. They were powerful they seemed to live for an immensely long time. They were supremely confident and they used us as slaves. They had an enormously advanced technology, where the early humans were completely in a state of ignorance. The early humans were prone to sickness and death. The Anunna never seemed to be sick, never seemed to die in total contrast.

“Remember that the human race was subjected five times to procedures to try and exterminate them entirely at the behest of Enki. There was plague, famine, drought, the flood, and then a procedure to prevent them having children, to keep their numbers down. During these periods of cataclysms the Annunaki disappeared and abandoned humans. So, we have a profound legacy here which has entered into our physical embodiment. It is still affecting us today in the ways we think about GOD, in the ways we think about the supernatural, about the ways in which we imagine our own powers to be about the ways in which we relate to the creator god.

“If there are seven planes in the distance, as Ramtha teaches, then we must exist on the six planes above this as well otherwise we could not exist in this one. It would be like hanging a garment in the closet where the rail is on zero and the garment hangs down those seven ladders. It cannot hang in the closet unless it is connected to the rail. That means in terms of this simple analogy that you and I and everything else indeed that is on this plane must exist right the way back to point zero and the other six levels are unseen like the levels of an iceberg. There are six unseen levels that go to make up you. And that is where we have to begin to understand GOD. What we begin to realise is that there is only one being and that is me and you. The journey, putting it in blunt terms is ‘I have to realise that GOD is me.' Quantum physics backs this up, whatever exists in our mind it is we who attracted it there and it is we who keep it there. When we accept responsibility we can change the quantum field at a very profound level.

“If you believe in reincarnation then you know you are going to live again, there is no death. We are going to come back. I saw a cartoon recently which I greatly enjoyed. The cartoon of a little boy maybe five or six years old and his grandfather: And the little boy said, when I was your age I didn't believe in reincarnation either. Reincarnation is not the answer because if we come back with no memories it is a burden of a different kind.

“All of us are doing this work because we believe we can better the spirit of humanity.

“The Annunaki left a lot to be desired in the way they treated us with some honourable exceptions like Enki. Maybe that is not the whole story? We certainly had evidence of a change in situation when the Annunaki withdrew and to the best of our information, it occurred about 4000 years ago. From what we can tell, after the Annunaki withdrew, from physical positions of power, the humans who had been installed as kings and human interpreters of the Annunaki, once the Annunaki were gone they began to function like kings or rulers and as an independent priesthood shortly afterwards. And now a change began to happen because even though when the Annunaki were hear there is no real evidence that the human beings regarded them as gods. They felt them extremely superior with obviously an immensely advanced technology. However they were not regarded as far as we can tell by the humans at that time as supernatural beings. But once the Annunaki had withdrawn it looks like a movement to supernaturally idolize those people began. Just like Papua New Guinnea. The ones who had positions of prominence were the ones we would call today the priests, the spiritual interpreters were teaching the people that if they did the rituals set out by the priests, and if they made offerings to the departed Annunaki then they would come back and rule the earth again. I have often wondered if this is the origin of the famous belief of the second coming.

“We have considerable evidence from the TORAH, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. And in the early years while the Annunaki were still here, they were certainly treated as reverence as extraordinary individuals. It was only later under influence of the priests that they were regarded as supernatural and this was the origin of magical thinking in the world, particularly of matters beyond the realms of the physical.

“About 9500 years ago the humans did not know which way to turn. When the Annunaki came back the humans desperately needed their help, guidance and assistance to recover. But, when the Annunaki finally withdrew, giving back atmosphere of subjects of total dependency which the humans had developed, then of course this was a fertile breeding ground for the origins of magic and superstitious thinking in relationship to GOD and in relationship to destiny.

“This has stifled human development and the expansion of human consciousness into the powers and abilities that it is ought to have. It is only when we become aware can we address these issues and remove them. Therefore we need to counteract all such beliefs such as the desire that the priests have instilled, about expecting or hoping for a life in heaven with the extra terrestrials, and all of that supernatural thinking that has permeated all of religions today.

“In time the administrators of this system became just as vulnerable as the founders. And they actually could fail. In other words at the time that the extra terrestrials were regarded as marvellously powerful, but still part of the physical and natural universe, that time had gone before they departed. And that is the era that the great resurgence of religions came to the fore and the origins of the main religions we see in the world today had their place.

“If we look at the situation of the human beings and the kings and the priests, we had terrific insecurity and inferiority, terrific ignorance about how reality actually was, and how the physical mind relates to the beyond. We had terrific lack of empowerment in the face of mortality and sickness and this colossal sense of abandonment by GOD.

“We are told in quantum physics today, that the world we experience is dictated by the ways in which we humans are. The teachings of Ramtha are not a religious teaching but an extremely practical and enlightening teaching. If in quantum physics the world we experience is dictated by how the brain views it, we know there is something behind the brain that calls the shots as well. We call it the mind. The mind is the activity of the spirit acting on the physical object of the brain. The mind directs the brain. In the phenomenon of the orbs, everybody sees them, but few see them consciously. The brain takes in the images of the orbs, but we don't see them consciously. Why, because the brain filters out 90% of what comes in through the eye. The information that comes in through the eye is too rich for the brain to process. So it concentrates on the practicalities. If we can communicate to our brain that we want to see orbs, perhaps by photographing orbs an hour every day for a year, the brain will eventually get the message. And it will say this person must be interested in these entities. So we will begin to see orbs. Likewise many of the advancements you and I need to make to advance into that spiritual harmony, it is the same kind of process of reprogramming. If we were wise we would look at our heritage, not just when we were with the Annunaki, and we were at the prey of the priests and the kings, and the twists on reality that they produced to worsen the problem. And that has left an impact on our minds. The world we experience is dictated how the brain sees it, and the brain is controlled by the mind. We as a result of these unfortunate experiences in terms of our human origins, which has very little love or care or concern that is involved. And of the humans after the departure of the extra terrestrials, who instituted into us systems of belief in magic and supernatural, instead of the real thing. They have left their traces in our minds.

“Our thoughts and attitudes do not remain our thoughts and attitudes, they quickly become physical and are passed on from generation to generation. We still have the thoughts and attitudes from the time of the Annunaki in our genes today.

“We can get rid of them, but not by ignoring them. I call the problems we face from that great history, the four diseases of the mind . They come from our experience of the Annunaki but we have added to them enormously. The first issue we need to address powerfully is the need for approval. This is putting the power within us outside of us. The need for disapproval is the flipside of the same coin. The second disease of the mind, is the lack of self knowledge. We really need to come to terms with what we truly are. Pretence that there is something other than what we actually are utilises an enormous amount of spiritual energy. The energy is freed up. This has more to do with physics than religion as it is out of the supernatural. The third great disease of the mind is the tendency to blame. We know from quantum physics that the world we experience, is there because we have generated it. The day we realise that! Nelson Mandela quoting Marrianne Williamson in his inaugural address said “The things that scare us most is not our poverty stricken condition and our powerlessness. It is the suspicion of the real power that we actually do have.”

“The fourth disease of the mind is the religious mentality. This goes right back to the priests and the kings. Religious mentality has been able to weave those three diseases into a colossal machine that keeps the system alive, powering the engines of failure and guilt and fear, endlessly. We need to address these four diseases.

“If we look at French researcher Anton Parks and his description of the 24 alien races that worked here in addition to the Annunaki we see we evolved from an unfortunate history of war, pillage, conflict, jealousy, hatred, inferiority, guilt and fear. We have a big burden to overcome but it is time we overcame it. Jesus Christ came into this world 2000 years ago to help us do that. He came to teach us how to draw out the karma that is in the heart of every man and every woman who has walked the face of this earth. His mission didn't get far enough for that to be accomplished.

“We have inherited a structure right back to the Annunaki where the feminine is subjugated. We have inherited a system that is basically a patriarchal society dedicated to the control of the masses. We have a fear based religion focused on a male type god who believes in punishment and retribution. These need to be addressed. We are now in a position like we have never been before. We can address these issues not through self righteous planning for justice, because we know where they came from and we know the factors in our own being that are keeping them alive. In that way we can address them very powerfully, very efficiently and very expertly. And in that way a new world and new power that we wish to become as children of GOD will become a reality.”