The Mecca of Light

(The God of Ai)

The War in Heaven and the Sons of Light

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 babies (the Nephilim) who grew up to become destructive giants and whom God tried to exterminate by bringing on the Deluge. The watchers who rebelled became known as fallen angels ("Book of Enoch." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 08 January 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch.). 

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). Elohim is the plural of El, which is 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 "children of El." It is "cognate to '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.).

El is also called El Elyon, possibly standing for El El-Aeon, meaning "life force" or "Eternal God" ("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.).

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).). 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 God Most High. Eli and Eloi, both meaning "My God" translate literally to "My El."

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." In Norse mythology, Niflhel (interchangeably used in literature with Niflheim) is the lowest level of the Afterlife, i.e. hell ("Niflheim." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 June 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niflheim.). 

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, derived from Dyeus), Zeus (Greek, derived from Dyeus), deity, demon, and divine. Similarly, in English "g" is associated with Goth, God, and 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 ("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 have been the son or nephew of Noah. This puts the conflict at approximately the time as the Deluge and may identify Belial and his followers with the Nephilim.

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 Michael being Melchizedek and Belial, the Satan of Revelation.

In this 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 ways to entrap followers or nets: "fornication [a reference to extramarital sex], wealth, and pollution of the sanctuary" ("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, and paid tithe to him so he and Lot could settle in his land (Genesis 14). This sets El and Melchizedek above Yahweh and Abraham, in line with preceding assertions ("Melchizedek." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 18 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek#Genesis_14.).

When Abraham made the claim that Yahweh 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, to multiple genocides, and the killing of the last Zedekian king, Adonizedek, effectively breaking with the Order of Melchizedek, priesthood of the God Most High ("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 God Most High.

They would have followed Archangel Michael,

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

and celebrated Michaelmas, the angelic Christmas.

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.). 

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 an afterlife comprising the Asphodel Meadows, where ordinary souls resided after death, the Elysian Fields or Elysium, a paradise for the meritorious, and the Abyss or Tartarus, a place reserved for damned. Adonis may have been Hades in the flesh as the latter was the official consort of Persephone.

The Titanomachy was 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). As a result of it, Zeus became proprietor of the sky, Poseidon, of the waters, and Hades (who did not take part in the rebellion) was given the Underworld, which from then on was called Hades ("Titanomachy." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 October 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanomachy.). Greek mythology had really two primary gods: Zeus, ruler of the sky above and head of the gods, and Hades, a chthonic god (i.e. of the Underworld) judge of humanity in the Afterlife below.

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, ruler 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. His consort, Persephone, may have been the Goddess of Persia (Perse-phone, Persepolis). 

Zedek (also spelled Sydyk or Sdk) 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.). Magos or magus is the singular Greek word for magi, which was the name for Persian priest-gurus ("Biblical Magi." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 December 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi.).

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 said to be 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 referring to a high-ranking official or office of accounts or justice. The word itself is almost the same as the English "divine" and French "divin" and would very likely have been equivalent to 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 "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. 

Some 600 to 700 years later, the location was at the center of two important events. 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 performed an equally impressive feat, the killing of 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 under the Covenant of the Pieces (Genesis 12 & 15). 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.). Elhanan (El Hanan) would have been the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Angel of Bethlehem (Micah 5:2 & Isaiah 7:14), which occurred almost exactly 1,000 years before Jesus, while David would have represented the legacy of Yahweh.

Very likely, Ephrath got renamed to Bethlehem 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 its destruction. 

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

Lucifer and Satan

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 (uncapitalized) 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, and the source of light is actually revered in Christianity.

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. He is said to have tried to "establish his own throne above God's," exactly what Lucifer was accused of. 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. ("2 Enoch." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 9 May 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Enoch.). 

In the Bible, the story is known as the Fall of Mankind.

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

It is said that she was tempted by Satan and fell from Heaven. 

The French word "evangile" (meaning "gospel") and "ev-angel-ical" might have their roots in Eve who would have been a popular angel by the name of Evil before falling from Heaven.

The Children of Hel

"Il" is the French 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 the Eleleth, angelic beings or divine emanations in Sethian Gnosticism, and may represent the dual male-female (El-Elle-th) aspects of divinity. They may further be related to Helel (הֵ ילֵ ל; il-elle) in Isiah 14, which means "shining one" and is translated to "Lucifer."

Hell is most often viewed as an eternal afterlife of punishment in Christian and Islamic religions. However, in Eastern mysticism, it is generally an intermediate place between reincarnations. In religions for which the Afterlife is non-punitive (for example, Mesopotamian Kur, Greek Hades, and Hebrew Sheol), it is seen it simply 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.

In French, hell translates to "enfer" (from Latin infernus, meaning "lower regions" or "underworld"). Shockingly, the French call their own children "enfants!" This points to ancient Latin mythological roots and a view of the Underworld as a transit place between life and death and death and life, i.e. reincarnation. Similarly, the word for God is Dieu (pronounced Dzieu in Quebec), which is a reference to Greek Zeus as both words originate from "dyeu-," which means "shining." Lucifer (Luci-fer) is often called the shining angel and is very likely linked to "en-fer," the Underworld.

If the suffix "fer" means "source" or "emanation," Lucifer may be linked to ancient shamanic or druidic French/Celtic mythology and to French "sourcier" (dowser), which is closely related to "sorcier" (sorcerer).

Angelical mysticism has both male and female deities, El and Hel. In contrast, Judaism (Yahweh), Christianity (Jesus), and Islam (Allah) have male gods only.

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,

as they would if their wings (ailes, el) were cut off, paralleling the idea of losing the angelic suffix "el" as a result of a fall from Heaven.

In French, Heaven is called "ciel" and Christmas is called "Noel," meaning "birth of El."

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 the Tower of Babel legend in which its 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 under the Euphrates to the other side where the Elamite territory lay. Perhaps its name may have been on account of the tunnel to Elam (El-am), possibly translating to the "land of El."

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 probably his female counterpart, Hel, of which we see many remnants in the French language.

Ancient Mythology

The Sky God and the God of the Afterlife

The number 12 is symbolic to many religions, including Judaism and Christianity. The Greek pantheon was composed of 6 gods and 6 goddesses. In monotheism the Greek gods were replaced with 12 male patriarchs (Judaism) and 12 male apostles (Christianity). Their priesthoods were also almost exclusively male. Of course, this is with the exception of the Cathars who allowed both men and women to become perfecti and lead. They were associated with angels and spirits, and the Peterian branch of Christianity. Spirituality has historically been more closely associated with the female than the male gender.

The Gospel of Mary shows her and the apostles discussing Jesus's teachings and referring to each other as brothers and sisters. Peter even specifically asked her to share her own knowledge, suggesting she had a valued voice among the apostles. 

There seem to be two narratives in the Bible, a spiritual one and a divine one. Genesis 1 speaks of the angelic god El (Elohim in the original text) to whom Jacob built an altar in Genesis 35:7. He was the God Most High who created humans in Genesis 1:26 and was represented by the priesthood of the Order of Melchizedek. Angels, who followed El, are associated with the number seven in the Book of Revelation (seven angels, seven churches, seven plagues...) and linked to the Book of Enoch, which has been rejected by both Jewish and Christian leaderships.

The divine narrative of Genesis 2 speaks of Yahweh, a demigod subordinate to El and to whom Abraham built an altar in Genesis 12:8. He was the lord of the Jewish tribes and represented by the Levitical priesthood. He created man first and later women as helpers (Genesis 2:7-22), suggesting a subordinate status.

Jesus as the fulfillment of 

Jewish prophecies would have been the son of Yahweh.

The Spirit and the Truth

The word "nous" 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.). 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).

En-light-enment is associated with light and the truth and comes through realizations, which are often at the root of scientific breakthroughs and liberating understandings 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 sort of 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).

We have a God of Light, the Spirit.

We have a King of Light, Melchior.

And, we have a City of Light, Lux, 

also known as Beit El, the House of the God Most High.

El, Elohim and God of Angels, would be the Spirit.

In the original language, the Gospel of Mark records Jesus's words on the cross just before his spirit leaving as: "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?... My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" ("Mark 15:34." Scripture 4 All, https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Greek_Index.htm. Accessed 08 May 2026.). 

The Tree of Life & Nature of Reality

Without light (energy, heat), everything in the universe would be frozen. Even the air would be rock solid. Early on the universe was almost entirely made of hydrogen and helium. As time went on atoms combined under the pressure and heat inside suns to form heavier elements. In turn, some of these formed combinations that were capable of capturing the energy from the sun, light, which enabled them to grow. The first time that that happened, the process of life began. Through randomness, chemical pathways, and natural selection 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 material particles.

There is a lot of anecdotal support for the existence of a spirit body, or soul, in esoteric tradition, for example, out-of-body projections and near-death experiences. It is also a fundamental part of many religions, including the belief systems of many of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. 

Scientifically, we know that the body generates electromagnetism which attracts electrically charged particles, some of which can permeate it 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 and may interact with the latter through weak nuclear force) came to form a double of our physical envelope, one which would have gained a sense of relative independence as a result of self awareness and will to survive, and one which would be locked in by the body's electromagnetic field while it is alive but that would be released when the latter disappears upon death.

In essence, each new biological body would act as a magnetized cradle that would attract particles that would solidify into a spirit body through life experiences and evolve into a unique soul. Potentially, an existing spirit would be able enter a fetus, essentially reincarnating into the new body instead.

The biological body would essentially be the womb of a soul, 

acting as a copier creating a new soul or as a host for an existing one.

The Tree of Life in the Bible symbolizes eternal life (Genesis 3:22). While resurrecting in a body that does not age is just not possible, hence cannot lead to eternal life, reincarnation of the soul could. 

Both the resurrection and reincarnation promise eternal life,

 but only one is scientifically possible in the real world.

Angels in the Bible are both seen as eternal beings and as incarnated in physical form (for example in Genesis 19), enshrining the idea of reincarnation in holy scriptures.

Reality is both physical (obeys the laws of physics) and biololgical. You contract the rabies virus, you will die no matter how many prayers you make, unless of course it treated with some magic of medicine. Science is the Bible of Reality. It is imperfect and does not explain everything.

While miracles do not exist as they violate the laws of physics, magic, depending on how you define it, does.