The Mecca of Light

The War in Heaven, the Sons of Light, and the Spirit

See Also: The Last Prophecy - The Cathar Prophecy of 2021

The Fallen Angels and the Nephilim

Before the Deluge, Semites were led by angels, a word meaning messenger. They acted as spiritual beings "intermediary between God (the transcendent) and humanity (the profane)" ("Angel." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 09 January 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel.). The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), the great-grandfather of Noah, tells of a rebellion against God by some of the angels that were sent to the physical world as watchers. Defying divine orders, they had carnal interactions with human women who later gave birth to the Nephilim, destructive giants whom God tried to exterminate by bringing on the Deluge, and became known as fallen angels ("Book of Enoch." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 08 January 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch.). Most scholars believe that "demons originate from the evil spirits of the deceased giants, cursed by God to wander the Earth" ("Demon." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 18 January 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon#Second_Temple_Judaism)

The True Name of God

Typically, the names of angels end with el, e.g. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, etc.  El or Elohim is the name of God in the original text of the Bible ("Book of Enoch." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch#Names_of_the_fallen_angels & "Theophory in the Bible." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophory_in_the_Bible.). 

El is the 'God Most High' of the Canaanite pantheon (i.e. the God of the gods), also called El Elyon, possibly standing for El El-Aeon, life force or God of eternity ("Elyon." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation,  6 May 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyon & "Aeon." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon.).

Elohim is the plural of El. Pluralization is sometimes used as an epithet of royalty (pluralis majestatis). As such, in capitalized form with singular verb, it translates to God (El). Otherwise (uncapitalized), it is plural and refers to the children of El. It is "cognate to the 'lhm [or 'ilhm'] found in Ugaritic, where it is used for the pantheon of Canaanite gods, the children of El and conventionally vocalized as 'Elohim'" ("Names of God in Judaism." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 December 2026, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonai#Elohim.). 

Yah (as in Yahweh) and jah mean lord. Yahweh is not God. He and his nemesis Baal are lower entities subordinate to El. Confirming this is their listing on Wikipedia as children of El ("El (deity)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_(deity).). For example, in Judges 6, El and Eloah in Hebrew are translated to God. Elohim is translated either to God or gods, and Yahweh, to Lord ("Judges." Scripture 4 All, https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Hebrew_Index.htm. Accessed 17 December 2025.). Yahweh was the god of the Jewish tribes, but not the Most High God.

In Latin, 'nefas' means 'crime' ("Nefarious." Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nefarious. Accessed 17 December 2025.). Nephilim (nef-ilhm) could mean 'criminal elohim' or anti-elohim, i.e. demons. In Norse mythology, Niflhel (interchangeably used in literature with Niflheim) is the lowest level of the Afterlife ("Niflheim." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 June 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niflheim.). El is also called El Elyon (possibly El Aeon, meaning 'life force' or 'god of eternity') or 'God Most High' ("Elyon." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation,  6 May 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyon  & "Aeon." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon.).

The letter 'l' is typically associated with angels, while 'd' in pronunciation tends to be linked to Dyeus (the Indo-European day-light sky god), Dieu (French), Zeus (derived from Dyeus), Jupiter (Djous patēr), deity, and divine. Similarly, in English 'g' is associated with God and ghost (Holy Ghost) ("*Dyēus." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Dy%C4%93us.).

The War in Heaven and the Sons of Light

The Book of Revelation talks about a War in Heaven in which fallen angels, led by Satan, attacked the angels loyal to God under Archangel Michael and lost. They were condemned to the Abyss till the End of Time as a result ("War in Heaven." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Heaven.).

A similar story is echoed in the Dead Sea Scrolls, of which the War Scroll describes a future conflict between those who rebelled against God, led by Belial, and the Sons of Light, led by Melchizedek (meaning righteous king or king of justice), believed to be the son or nephew of Noah.

In the story, God is El and Melchizedek, a messenger (i.e. an angel), "is the Anointed one of the spirit," i.e. the Christ ("11Q13, The Melchizedek Document." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 October 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek_document.). Very likely, both these stories refer to the same event, with Belial being the Satan of Revelation.

In this angelic prophecy, the anointing comes from the Spirit, 

adding evidence to Peter, who had the power to bestow the Spirit,

have been the one anointed at the time of Jesus.

In the War Scroll, Melchizedek is the 'ELOHIM' of the Jews. He is also described as being 'by his strength' the judge of the 'holy ones of God' (i.e. the priests and religious clerics). Belial is associated with the spirits that rebelled. With the 'gods of justice,' it is said, Melchizedek will defeat Belial, save many from its grasp, and bring final peace. In the end, the Sons of Light (angels loyal to El) and men of Melchizedek (the Just) will be rewarded. Belial is said to have three nets: "fornication, wealth, and pollution of the sanctuary," pointing to a strong environmental duty ("Belial." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 8 February 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belial.).

Melchizedek, king of Salem (the former name of Jerusalem meaning peace), was the high priest of El. He was better known for having accepted Lot and his tribe as refugees after their rescue from the king of Elam by his uncle Abraham. The latter was blessed by Melchizedek in the name of the supreme god, El (Genesis 14), and paid tithe to Melchizedek so he and Lot could settle in his land. This sets El and Melchizedek above Yahweh and Abraham, in line with all of the above ("Melchizedek." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 18 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek#Genesis_14.).

When Yahweh through Abraham gave Canaan (modern day Israel and parts of Jordan) to the Israelites in the Covenant of the Pieces, he set in motion a series of events that led to the violent conquest of Canaan and the Levant by Joshua, multiple genocides, and the killing of the last Zedekian king of Jerusalem, Adonizedek ("Covenant of the pieces." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_of_the_pieces & "Book of Joshua." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Joshua.).

The Book of Joshua relates the story, starting with destruction of Jericho and continuing with the massacre of 12,000 souls, men and women, and total annihilation of Ai (Canaan), their city, and its king ("Ai (Canaan)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_(Canaan).).

Catharism professes that people are angels

and would therefore be associated with the Sons of Light,

Melchizedek, and El, the Elohim.

They would have followed Archangel Michael,

a name meaning 'like El' or more likely 'king of angels' (Melchi-el),

and celebrated Michaelmas.

The God of the Afterlife

The words Aides, Adon (Lord), Adonai (My Lords), and Adonis are all closely related. Adonai was one of the seven names of God in Judaism ("Names of God in Judaism." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 26 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#Seven_names_of_God.). Adonis was the "mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was famous for having achieved immortality" ("Adonis." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 July 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonis.), i.e. Adonis may have been Hades in the flesh. Sdk, or Sydyk and Zedek, was a Phoenician god, son of Amunos and Magos, themselves children of Wanderers or Titans ("Sydyk." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 20 August 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydyk.).

The Greek pantheon was comprised of 12 or 13 gods, all living on Mount Olympus except for Hades who abided in the Underworld. Although ominous sounding, the latter was really an afterlife comprising the Asphodel Meadows, where ordinary souls resided after death, the Elysian Fields or Elysium, paradise for the meritorious, and the Abyss or Tartarus where the damned went. 

As a result of the Titanomachy--a decade-long war in Ancient Thessaly in which the Olympian gods led by Zeus (Dyeus) rebelled, overthrew their father Cronus and the Titans, and seize power (the castration). Zeus became proprietor of the sky, Poseidon, of the waters, and Hades, who did not take part in the rebellion, was given the Underworld, from then on called Hades ("Titanomachy." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanomachy.).

The Zoroastrian pantheon of Persia had several gods and one angel, Rashnu, the Angel of Justice and keeper of the bridge between life and the afterlife (Mark, Joshua J. "Twelve Gods of Persian Mythology." World History Encyclopedia, 09 January 2020, https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1486/twelve-gods-of-persian-mythology/.). This mirrors the Greek pantheon with its gods on Olympus and Hades, keeper of the Underworld. The latter would therefore be the Rashnu of Persia, not only an angel, but one of the priestly Zedekian line since the suffix 'zedek' translates to righteousness, i.e. justice. He would also be the one guarding the Gates of the Afterlife.

Persian priest-gurus were called magi

and were known for their knowledge of astrology.

Magos or magus is the singular Greek word for magi

 ("Biblical Magi." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi.).

In the Greek pantheon story, the gods, except for Hades, violently rebelled against their father, making them the fallen angels of the Book of Enoch and the followers of Belial of the War in Heaven. After the Titanomachy, Zeus began another war, the Gigantomachy....

The god we should be concerned with is the one who controls

 the passage to the afterlife and who will judge us after we die.

The House of God

Bethel, Luz, and Ai (Canaan) are three of the most significant biblical locations after Jerusalem. They are all within 3 km of today's town of Deir Dibwan. When Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, visited the area he dreamed of angels travelling up and down a ladder between Earth and Heaven ("Jacob's Ladder." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder.).

And he [Jacob] was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God [Elohim], and this is the gate of heaven!" (Genesis 28:17)

Inspired by the dream, he built an altar to El, called the place Bethel, took the name Israel, and became the father of the 12 tribes of Israel. Bethel (or Beit El), often translated as the House of God, literally means House of El. It was the same area where Abraham had earlier built an altar to Yahweh in Genesis 12.

Luz, a royal city in Canaan, is identified as Bethel in three different books of the Bible (Judges 1:23, Joshua 18:13, Genesis 28:19 & 35:6). In Judges 1:23 and Genesis 28:19, Luz is the former name of Bethel. Ai, which means heap of ruins, was thought to be Et-Tell near Deir Dibwan, but recent excavations suggest it would more likely be Khirbet el-Maqatir near the same town. However, this is still debated and it may have been one of the many other ruins in the area (Khirbet el-Haiyan, etc.) or Luz itself ("Luz (biblical place)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 6 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luz_(biblical_place).). 

In fact, there might have been two Bethels, the place on the outskirts of the city called Luz where Jacob built his altar and Luz itself which became know as Bethel later on.

Deir Dibwan literally means 'The Monastery of the Divan' ("Deir Dibwan." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Dibwan.). Divan or dewan is a word of Persian origin meaning a high-ranking official or ruler. The word itself is almost the same as the English 'divine' and French 'divin.' Very likely, it would have been the equivalent of a pope. At the highest of point of the plateau on which Deir Dibwan sits is a ruin called Ed-Deir (the Monastery) by locals. It would have been originally the crown jewel of Luz.

Luz means 'almond' in Hebrew but could also refer to Latin 'lux' for 'light' ("Luz." Behind the Name, 02 July 2017, https://www.behindthename.com/name/luz.). Melchior (as in the King-Magi of Persia in the Jesus story) literally means 'king of light' ("Melchior." Wiktionary, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 November 2025, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Melchior#Latin.). As Judaism has no official monastic tradition and magi was the word used for Persian priest-gurus, 'Luz' would likely refer to the Indo-European 'light' rather than the Hebrew 'almond.'

In some books of the Bible, Luz was the stuff of legends, being associated with immortality ("The Bone of Resurrection and the City of Immortals." Mayim Achronim, https://www.mayimachronim.com/the-bone-of-resurrection-and-the-city-of-immortals/. Accessed 19 December 2025.):

Luz... which Sennacherib entered but could not harm; [which] Nebuchadnezzar [marched against], but could not destroy; the city over which the angel of death has no power; outside the walls of which the aged who are tired of life are placed, where they meet death.

 (Kohler, Kaufmann. "Luz," Jewish Encyclopedia, https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10200-luz. Accessed 29 May 2024)

After his dream, Jacob continued on his journey. In Genesis 35:16-20, he is called back by God to settle in Bethel. He later travels on to a Judean town called Ephrath where Rachel, one of his two wives, dies giving birth to Benjamin ("Ephrath." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism.). Rachel's tomb can be found today at the northern entrance of the city, which is now called Bethlehem, the claimed birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth as well as of two parallel stories. The first is that of a Jewish shepherd by the name of David who famously killed with a simple sling his much bigger opponent, Goliath, a Philistine giant. He later became King of Israel. The other one is that of Elhanan, a Bethlehemite who killed the brother of Goliath in another battle ("Who killed Goliath, David or Elhanan?." Got Questions?, 08 July 2025, https://www.gotquestions.org/Goliath-David-Elhanan.html.).

The Book of Exodus and Book of Joshua in the Bible tell how Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 years and died before reaching the promised land. Joshua (a.k.a. Yehoshua, Jeshoshua, Josue, as well as Yeshua and Jesus), son of Joseph of the tribe of Ephraim, was his successor. At the prompting of Yahweh (see Joshua 1, 7, 8), he violently conquered Canaan and the other lands promised to Abraham (Genesis 12) under the Covenant of the Pieces. In Judges 1:23 the House of Joseph is said to have destroyed Bethel.

Bethlehem is translated by scholars as the 'House of Bread.' However, since Jacob was with the House of El, Bethel, the name would likely have been rooted in 'Beit-lhm,' i.e. the House of the Children of El (God). In that place, an angel by the name of Immanuel (meaning El with us) was to be born, according to the prophecy of Isaiah 7:10-16 ("Immanuel." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel.). 

Very likely, Ephrath got renamed to Bethlehem probably because of Rachel's and Jacob's association with El, and perhaps also as a result of the surviving descendants of Ai moving to the Ephrath after the former's destruction. 

There were two branches of Judaism, the angelic one followed God (El) and was associated with Bethlehem. The other one followed Lord Yahweh and destroyed Bethel, the source of the angelic branch.

Lucifer

The myth of Lucifer's fall from Heaven stems from Isiah 14:12. Most scholars agree today that the passage was misapplied to Lucifer in the Vulgate (400 C.E.) and King James Bibles ("Lucifer." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 24 June 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer.):

"O Lucifer, son of the morning!"

 ("Interlinear Bible - Isaiah 14 King James Version." Bible Study Tools, https://www.biblestudytools.com/interlinear-bible/kjv/isaiah/14.html. Accessed 21 December 2025.).

"O star of the morning, son of the dawn!"

 ("Interlinear Bible - Isaiah 14 New American Standard Bible." Bible Study Tools, https://www.biblestudytools.com/interlinear-bible/nas/isaiah/14.html. Accessed 21 December 2025.).

The passage spites the king of Babylon--probably Nebuchadnezzar II who destroyed Jerusalem's First Temple and enslaved the Jews--not Lucifer. 'Luci' stands for light, and the word Lucifer means 'light bearer,' 'light bringer,' or 'source of light' (just like aquifer is a source of water) and can be confused with the planet Venus, the morning star, also referred to as light bringer. Isaiah 14 was portraying Nebuchadnezzar rising to Heaven and being cast out of it (as a result of his arrogance), similarly to the planet Venus seen rising at dawn but falling at dusk ("Lucifer." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 24 June 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer.).

In John 8:12 Jesus calls himself the 'light of the world.' There are also multiple other references to Jesus being the light in the gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John (see "20 Best Verses About the Light of Christ." Catholic Ace, https://www.catholicace.com/light-of-christ/. Accessed 21 December 2025.).

2 Peter 1:19 says about Jesus,

"So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts"

  ("2 Peter 1:19 NAS." Bible Study Tools, https://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/2-peter/1-19.html. Accessed 21 December 2025.).

"et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem cui bene facitis adtendentes quasi lucernae lucenti in caliginoso loco donec dies inlucescat et lucifer oriatur in cordibus vestris"

  ("2 Peter 1:19 VUL." Bible Study Tools, https://www.biblestudytools.com/vul/2-peter/1-19.html. Accessed 21 December 2025.).

 “I, Jesus... am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.” (Revelation 22:16)

Even today, the Church still refers to Jesus as lucifer in one of its most sacred chant, the Easter Proclamation in Latin:

"Flammas eius lúcifer matutínus invéniat: ille, inquam, lúcifer, qui nescit occásum. Christus Fílius tuus..."

 ("Exsulted." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 12 September 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsultet.).

The first six minutes of the following video by Robert Sepehr argues that Luciferianism has its origin in secret Catholic societies and features the chant live in Saint Peter's Square in 2014: "The Luciferian Doctrine Explained - ROBERT SEPEHR." YouTube, uploaded by Robert Sepehr, 06 September 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wfim7mDE3Q.)

There is no reference to Lucifer being the devil in the Bible. On the contrary, there are several claims of Jesus being the source of light (lucifer) in both the New Testament and Christian traditions.

Lucifer is never called the Devil in the Bible, but Satan is, repeatedly. The words satan and devil are both etymologically linked to the word 'accuser' and are associated with temptation. Satan, for example, is identified as the serpent in the Garden of Eden and as the tempter of Jesus in the wilderness ("Serpents in the Bible." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 November 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpents_in_the_Bible#Ancient_serpent.).

Satan was probably the angel known as Satanail (or Satanael  in the Second Book of Enoch. Very likely, he lost the angelic suffix 'el' as a result of his fall from Heaven and became known as Satan. In the narrative, Satanail was the leader of a group of angels that rebelled against Heaven and tried to "establish his own throne above God's," exactly what Lucifer was accused of ("2 Enoch." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 May 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Enoch.). The same group of angels is later responsible for tempting Eve into disobeying God in the Garden of Eden and thus being cast out of Heaven. The story is known in the Bible as the Fall of Mankind.

 The fall of Eve is one of the biggest stories of the Bible!

It is said that Eve was tempted by Sataniel and fell from Heaven. 

Before the fall, she would have probably been known as Evil.

The Children of Hel

'Il' is the French (a Latin language) third person singular masculine pronoun (i.e. 'he' in English). It is also an alternative spelling for El ("El (deity)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 December 2025.). 'Elle' is its feminine equivalent and a perfect homophone for El. Both might be related to Eleleth, an angelic being or divine emanation in Sethian Gnosticism, and may represent the dual male-female (El-Eleth) aspects of divinity. They may also relate to Helel (il, elle) in Isiah 14.

Hell is an eternal afterlife of punishment in Christian and Islamic religions. However, in Eastern mysticism, it is an intermediary place between reincarnations. Religions for which the Afterlife is non-punitive (for example, Mesopotamian Kur, Greek Hades, and Hebrew Sheol) see it as the abode of the dead ("Hell." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 August 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell.).

Hel (also spelled Hell or Helle), coincidentally, is the female goddess of the Underworld in Norse mythology. Like Tartarus and Hades, the name represents both a god (goddess) and a place ("Hel (mythological being)." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_(mythological_being).). Perhaps, the Hebrew Sheol is really Indo-European She-El, a female El.

Angelical mysticism has both male (El) and female (Hel) deities. In contrast, Judaism (Yahweh), Christianity (Jesus), and Islam (Allah) have male gods only. In French, 'hell' translates to 'enfer' (from Latin infernus, or underworld). Shockingly, the French call their own children 'enfants!'  This points to ancient Latin mythology viewing the Underworld as a transit place between life and death and death and life, i.e. reincarnation.

In French, the male and female pronouns (il, elle)

are cognate with angelic deities (El, Hel).

Angels are usually depicted with wings. 

The French word for wings is 'ailes,' pronounced 'el.'

In ancient mythology, angels that rebelled against God fell to the Earth, probably losing their wings (ailes, el) in the process just as the angelic suffix 'el' appears to be dropped from the names of some fallen angels.

In French, Heaven is called 'ciel' and Christmas is called 'Noel' from Latin 'natalis,' meaning birth. The full word would probably mean the birth of El (God).

Babel (later called Babylon) translates from the Akkadian to Gate of El. It was a biblical city located about 85 km south of Bagdad, Iraq, famous for its Tower of Babel legend in which people, after having displeased God, had their languages confused and were scattered all over the Earth as punishment.

The city was also famous for having built a tunnel across the Euphrates that joined both of its sides. To the east was Elamite territory which was part of the Persian Empire. Perhaps the Gate of El may have referred to Elam (El-am), the land of El, God Most High.

Contrary to Judaism and Christianity, which are worships of the god Yahweh, antediluvian mythology seems to be rooted in the angelic God of Genesis 1, El, and his feminine counterpart, Hel. 

The Spirit and the Truth

The French pronoun 'nous' means 'we' or 'us' in English. The same word means 'mind' in Greek and refers variously to the intellect, the intelligence, the intuition, or the mind's eye. ("Nous." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 30 June 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous.). 

At the time of Jesus, the 'nous' was the substance of God, "he himself is pure nous" ("Apollonius of Tyana." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 September 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonius_of_Tyana.). John 4:24: "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." In the Koran, Allah uses the pronoun 'we' and 'us' when speaking about himself.

The nous would be the Spirit or a part us that interfaces with the Spirit. It allows us to perceive the underlying logic of life. In Christianity the Spirit is a messenger of God which enlightens and provides clarity (Acts 1:2; John 14:16; John 15:26; John 16:7) and is one of the three divine persons of the Trinity.

En-light-enment is associated with the truth and comes through realizations. These are often at the root of scientific breakthroughs and profound and liberating understanding of oneself and life. They free us from slavery to the physical world (diseases, poverty, etc.) and the prison of ignorance (falsehoods, taboos, religious dogmas, etc.). Epiphanies are realizations or little bits of clarity, truth, or enlightenment. Science, in as much as it pursues the truth, would be the religion of the Spirit. 

The Holy Spirit has a strong connection with light in Christianity. At times it is called the source of light or the lord of light (examples, hymntime.com, blessedcatholicmom.com, humnary.com). In French, the Spirit is often referred to as Dieu de Lumiere (God of Light).

The Holy Spirit would be the God of Light.

He would also have been the god of Lux, the Eternal City of Light, whose King may have been Melchior.

This takes us straight back to the Dead Sea Scrolls' War in Heaven and the Sons of Light.

Muslims argue that trinitarian Christianity has three gods and is not monotheist: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. However, the latter seems to have a special position within the religion.

"Truly I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons and daughters of men, and whatever blasphemies they commit; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin." (Mark 3 NASB).

This sets up the Spirit as higher than God. Furthermore, Christians calling the God of the Trinity a father confirms his status as a fallen angel.

The Holy Spirit, God of Light, would be the Most High God of a monotheist Christianity and be associated with the truth, the light, and life eternal.

The God That Looks Like Us

Judaism and Christianity have roots in Greek mythology whose  pantheon was more or less composed of 6 gods and 6 goddesses plus Hades. In French the name of God is Dieu (pronounced Dzieu in the Quebec dialect). Both the French and Greek (Zeus) words originate from 'dyeu-' which means 'shining.'  The Greek gods became the 12 male patriarchs of Judaism and the 12 male apostles of Christianity. Their priesthoods, with the exception of the Cathars', were also male.

If the Greek gods resided on Mount Olympus, they would have been humans. The Olympians fought wars, had children, etc. If God looks like us, he would also likely be human. The mythology on which Christianity is based is human. In our own history, we saw how priests turned Jesus, a human, into God. Many of the Greek gods were simply the human heroes of oral tradition, the stuff of legends.

Science has essentially proven that humans and the universe were not created as per the Genesis account. If the creation story is false, then the tenuous foundational evidence for a god creator is gone. Even if there were a god of matter, science has demonstrated that he did not create humans. We evolved. As such, there would be no point of worshiping such an external entity.

The Tree of Life

Without light (energy, heat), everything in the universe would be frozen. Even the air would be rock solid. Early on, atoms combined under the pressure and heat inside suns to form heavier elements. Some of these combined and were capable of capturing light, which enabled them to grow. The first time that that happened, life began. Through randomness over aeons of time, these eventually formed the early building blocks of cellular organisms, vegetation, and animal life.

Matter is sort of the architecture of life forms. Light is the life in them. Organisms are essentially light incarnated in a body of rock particles.

The third pseudo-state of matter is spirit. Matter is static, inanimate on its own. Organisms (life) are animated, partly independent of matter. Likewise, the spirit is partly independent of its biological form.

There is a lot of anecdotal support for the existence of the spirit in esoteric tradition, for example, out-of-body projections and near-death experiences. Scientifically, we know that the body generates electromagnetism which attracts electrically charged particles, some of which can permeate the body just as solar radiation does. It is therefore possible that extremely small particles or dark matter (which is more abundant in the universe than regular matter) can form a double of our physical envelope, one which is locked in by the body's electromagnetic field while alive but that is released upon death.

Both the resurrection and reincarnation promise eternal life but one is impossible in a real world.

The Tree of Life in the Bible symbolizes eternal life (Genesis 3:22). While resurrecting in a body that does not age (what the Jesus priesthood sells) is just not possible in a real world, hence cannot lead to eternal life, reincarnation of the spirit probably is.

There seem to be two narratives in the Bible. Genesis 1 speaks of the angelic god El (Elohim in the original text) to whom Jacob built an altar. He was the god of all (God Most High) and created 'the human,' man and woman (Genesis 1:26). The angelic theology was represented by the Zedekian priesthood (hence, based on justice), associated with the number seven, and linked to the Book of Enoch, which has been rejected by both Jews and Christians.

Then there is Genesis 2 which speaks of Yahweh (Yahweh Elohim), the god of the Jewish tribes and Davidic priesthood to whom Abraham built his altar. He created man first and later women as helpers (Genesis 2:7-22), suggesting subordination.

One sells magic, the other sells miracles, which violates the laws of physics and cannot happen in real world. One has sanctity, the other, the appearance of sanctity.

The Jews really had two gods. To this, Christians added another one, Jesus, son of Yahweh, to form the Trinity, of which El would have been the Spirit and supreme deity.

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