GENESIS
OF THE GRAIL KINGS
- The Explosive Story of the Ancient Bloodline
by
Laurence Gardner
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- TRANSCRIPT - -
Genesis
of the Grail Kings relates to the dawn of monarchy, and to the
emergent bloodline which gave rise to the Messianic succession.
In biblical terms, we shall concentrate on Old Testament times,
particularly on the early stories from the books of Genesis
and Exodus.
The
Bible explains that the Bloodline story began with Adam and
Eve, from whose third son, Seth, evolved a line which progressed
through Methuselah and Noah, eventually to Abraham, who became
the great patriarch of the Hebrew nation. It then relates that
Abraham brought his family westwards out of Mesopotamia (present
day Iraq) to the land of Canaan (Palestine), from where some
of his descendants moved into Egypt. After a few generations,
they moved back into Canaan where, in time, the eventual David
of Bethlehem became king of the newly defined kingdom of Israel.
If
viewed as it is presented in the scriptures, this is a fascinating
saga - but there is nothing anywhere to indicate why the ancestral
line of David was in any way special. In fact, quite the reverse
is the case. His ancestors are portrayed as a succession of
wandering territory seekers, who are seen to be of no particular
relevance. Their biblical history bears no comparison to, say,
the contemporary pharaohs of ancient Egypt. We are told, however,
that their significance comes from the fact that they were God's
chosen people.
This
designated status leaves us wondering because, according to
the scriptures, their God led them through nothing but a succession
of famines, wars and general hardship - and on the face of it,
these early patriarchs do not appear to have been too bright.
We are faced, therefore, with a couple of possibilities: Either
David was not of the Abrahamic succession, and was simply grafted
onto the list by later writers. Or, maybe we have been presented
with a very corrupted version of the family's early history.
The
problem with such distant history is that the earliest Hebrew
scriptures were compiled between the 6th and 1st centuries BC.
They are not likely, therefore, to be that authentic in relating
accuracies from thousands of years before. Indeed, this is plainly
the case because their express purpose was to convey an account
which upheld the principles of the Jewish faith - a faith that
did not emerge until well into the ancestral story.
Given
that the scriptural books were commenced while the Israelites
were held captive in Mesopotamian Babylon from 586 BC, it is
apparent that Babylon was where the original records were then
held. In fact, from the time of Adam, through some nineteen
said generations down to Abraham, the whole of Old Testament
patriarchal history was Mesopotamian. More specifically, the
history was from southern Mesopotamia, where the ancient Sumerians
did indeed refer to the grasslands of the Euphrates delta as
the Eden.
It
is also apparent that certain books were, for some reason, not
selected for inclusion in the canonical Old Testament - the
books of Enoch and Jubilees, for example. A further book (to
which attention is specifically drawn in the books of Joshua
and Samuel) is the book of Jasher. But despite its apparent
importance to the Hebrew writers, it was excluded from final
selection. Similarly, the book of Numbers draws our attention
to the book of The Wars of Jehovah, and in the book of Isaiah
we are directed towards the book of The Lord.
What
were these books? Where are these books? They are all mentioned
in the Bible, which means that they all pre-date the Old Testament
- so why did the editors dismiss them when the selection was
made? In pursuing an answer to this question, a fact which becomes
increasingly clear is that, in English-language Bibles, the
definition Lord is used in a general context - but in earlier
texts a positive distinction is drawn between Jehovah and the
Lord.
It
has often been wondered why the biblical God of the Hebrews
led them through trials and tribulations, floods and disaster
when, from time to time, he appears to have performed with a
quite contrary and merciful personality. The answer is that,
although now seemingly embraced as the One God by the Jewish
and Christian faiths, there was originally a distinct difference
between the figures of Jehovah and the Lord. They were, in fact,
quite separate deities. The god referred to as Jehovah was traditionally
a storm god - a god of wrath and vengeance - whereas the god
referred to as the Lord, was a god of fertility and wisdom.
The
name given to the Lord in the early writings was Adon - the
prevailing Semitic word for Lord. As for the apparent personal
name of Jehovah, this was not used in the early days, and the
Vulgate Bible explains that the God of Abraham was called El
Shaddai, which relates to a Great One of the Mountain.
The
identity of Jehovah (Yahweh) came from the an original Hebrew
stem (YHWH) which, according to Exodus, meant 'I am that I am'.
This was said to be a statement made by God, to Moses, on Mount
Sinai hundreds of years after the time of Abraham. Jehovah was,
therefore, not a name at all, and early texts refer simply to
El Shaddai, with his opposing counterpart being the Adon. To
the Canaanites, these gods were respectively called El Elyon
and Baal.
In
modern Bibles, the definitions God and Lord are used and intermixed
throughout, as if they were one and the same character - but
originally they were not. One was a vengeful god (a people suppressor);
the other was a social god (a people supporter), and they each
had wives, sons and daughters.
The
old writings tell us that, throughout the patriarchal era, the
Israelites endeavoured to support Adon the Lord - but at every
turn El Shaddai (the storm god Jehovah) retaliated with floods,
tempests, famines and destruction. Even at the very last (around
600 BC), the Bible explains that Jerusalem was overthrown at
Jehovah's bidding. Tens of thousands of Israelites were taken
into Babylonian captivity simply because one of their previous
kings had erected altars in veneration of Baal the Adon.
It
was during the course of this captivity that the Israelites
finally succumbed to the Jehovah god of wrath. They developed
a new religion out of sheer fear of his retribution - and this
was only 500 years before the time of Jesus. Subsequently, the
Christians took Jehovah on board as well, calling him simply
God, while the hitherto social concepts of the Adon were totally
discarded. The two religions were henceforth both faiths of
fear.
This
leaves us knowing that, within an overall pantheon of gods and
goddesses (many of whom are actually named in the Bible), there
were two predominant and opposing deities. In different cultures
the pair have been called: El Elyon and Baal, El Shaddai and
Adon, Ahriman and Mazda, Jehovah and Lord, God and Father -
but these styles are all titular; they are not personal names.
So who precisely were they?
To
find the answer we have to look no further than where these
gods were operative, and old Canaanite texts (discovered in
Syria in the 1920s) tell us that their courts were in the Tigris-Euphrates
valley in Mesopotamia. We can trace the related Sumerian records
back to about 3700 BC, and they relate that the gods in question
were brothers. In Sumer, the storm-god (who eventually became
known as Jehovah) was called Enlil or Ilu-kur-gal (meaning Ruler
of the Mountain), and his brother (who became Adon the Lord)
was called Enki, which means 'archetype'.
The texts inform us that it was Enlil who brought the Flood;
it was Enlil who destroyed Ur and Babylon, and it was Enlil
who constantly opposed the education and enlightenment of humankind.
Indeed, Syrian texts tell us that it was Enlil who obliterated
the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah on the Dead Sea - not because
they were dens of wickedness, but because they were great centres
of wisdom and learning.
It
was the Lord Enki, on the other hand, who (despite the wrath
of his brother) granted the Sumerians access to the Tree of
Knowledge and the Tree of Life. It was Enki who set up the escape
strategy during the Flood, and it was Enki who passed over the
time-honoured Tables of Destiny - the tablets of scientific
law which became the bedrock of the early mystery schools in
Egypt.
The
kings of the early succession (who reigned in Sumer and Egypt
before becoming kings in Israel) were anointed upon installation
with the fat of the sacred crocodile. This noble beast was referred
to as the Mûs-hûs or Messeh (from which derived
the Hebrew verb 'to anoint') - and the Kings of this dynastic
succession were referred to as Messiahs (meaning Anointed Ones).
The
first king of the Messianic succession was the biblical Cain,
head of the Sumerian House of Kish. On recognizing this, one
can immediately see an early anomaly in the traditional Genesis
story, for the historical line to David and Jesus was not from
Adam and Eve's son Seth at all. It descended from Eve's son
Cain.
Conventional
teaching generally cites Cain as being the first son of Adam
and Eve - but he was not; even the book of Genesis tells us
that he was not. In fact, it confirms how Eve told Adam that
Cain's father was the Lord - who was of course Enki the archetype.
Even outside the Bible, the writings of the Hebrew Talmud and
Midrash make it quite plain that, although Cain was Eve's eldest
son, he was not the son of Adam.
The
Old Testament book of Genesis (in its translated form) tells
us that Cain was 'a tiller of the ground' - but this is not
what the original text relates. What it states is that Cain
had 'dominion over the earth', which is a rather different matter
when considering his kingly status.
The
Bible translators appear to have had a constant problem with
the word 'earth' - often translating it to ground, clay or dust,
instead of recognizing it as relating to the Earth. Even in
the case of Adam and Eve, the translators made glaring errors.
The Bible says, 'Male and female created he them, and he called
their name Adam'. Older writings use the more complete word
Adâma, which means 'of the Earth'. However, this did not
mean they were made of dirt; it means (as the Anchor Hebrew
Bible explains in precise terms) that they were Earthlings.
Around
6,000 years ago, Adam and Eve (known then as Atâbba and
Kâva - and jointly called the Adâma) were purpose-bred
for kingship by Enki and his sister-wife Nîn-khursag.
This took place at a 'creation chamber' which the Sumerian annals
refer to as the House of Shi-im-tî (meaning 'breath‹wind‹life'
).
Adam
and Eve were certainly not the first people on Earth, but they
were the first of the genetically contrived kingly succession.
The records tell that Nîn-khursag was called the Lady
of the Embryo or the Lady of Life, and she was the surrogate
mother for Atâbba and Kâva, who were created from
human ova fertilized by the Lord Enki.
It
was because of Nîn-khursag's title, Nîn-tî
(meaning Lady of Life), that Kâva was later given the
same distinction by the Hebrews. Indeed, the name Kâva
(Ava or Eve) was subsequently said to mean 'life'.
Both
Enki and Nîn-khursag (along with their brother Enlil)
belonged to a pantheon of gods and goddesses referred to as
the Anunnaki which, in Sumerian, means 'Heaven came to Earth'
(An-unna-ki). In fact, the Grand Assembly of the Anunnaki (later
called the Court of the Elohim) is actually mentioned in the
Old Testament's Psalm No. 82, wherein Jehovah makes his bid
for supreme power over the other gods.
According
to tradition, the importance of Cain was that he was directly
produced by Enki and Kâva, so his blood was three-quarters
Anunnaki, while his half-brothers, Hevel and Satânael
(better known as Abel and Seth), were less than half Anunnaki,
being the offspring of Atâbba and Kâva (Adam and
Eve).
Cain's
Anunnaki blood was so advanced that it was said that his brother
Abel's blood was earthbound by comparison. It was related in
the scriptures that Cain 'rose far above Abel', so that his
brother's blood was swallowed into the ground - but this original
description was thoroughly misinterpreted for the modern Bible,
which now claims that Cain 'rose up against Abel' and spilled
his blood upon the ground. This is not the same thing at all.
The
story can now be progressed by considering the oldest grant
of arms in sovereign history - an entitlement which denoted
the Messianic bloodline for all time. The Sumerians referred
to this insignia as representative of the Gra-al (the nectar
of supreme excellence), but biblical history refers to it as
the Mark of Cain. This Mark is portrayed by the modern Church
as if it were some form of curse, but it is not defined as such
in the Bible. Genesis actually relates that, having got into
an argument with Jehovah over a matter of sovereign observance,
Cain feared for his life. Consequently, the Lord placed a mark
upon Cain, swearing sevenfold vengeance against his enemies.
It
has never been fully understood why Jehovah should decide to
protect Cain with this mark, when it was he who held the grievance
against him. But the fact is that Jehovah did not make this
decision; the mark was settled upon Cain by the Lord - and the
Lord (the Adon) was not Jehovah (Enlil) but Cain's own father,
Enki.
Few
people ever think to enquire about the supposed enemies of Cain
as defined in Genesis. Who could they possibly have been? Where
would they have come from? According to the Bible only Adam
and Eve, along with Cain and Abel, existed - and Cain had apparently
killed Abel. Therefore, if one accepts the text as it stands,
there was no one around to be Cain's enemy!
The
Sumerian Gra-al was an emblem dignified as the Dew Cup. It was
identified in all records (including those of Egypt, Phoenicia
and the Hebrew annals) as being an upright, centred red cross
within a circle - and has long been recognized as the original
symbol of the Holy Grail.
Another
anomaly is presented soon afterwards in Genesis when we are
told that Cain found himself a wife. Who on earth were her parents
if Adam and Eve were the only couple alive? Then, without confronting
this anomaly at all, Genesis lists the names of Cain's descendants.
It
becomes clear from all this that some very important information
has been edited from the Old Testament narrative. Plainly, there
were plenty of other people around at the time, and it is not
difficult to find their stories outside the Bible.
In
order to further enhance the historical succession from Cain,
he was married to his half-sister, a pure-bred Anunnaki princess
called Luluwa. Her father was Enki and her mother was Lilith,
a granddaughter of Enlil. Although not giving the name of Cain's
wife, the Bible does name their younger son Enoch, while the
Sumerian records cite his elder son and kingly successor Atûn,
who is perhaps better known as King Etâna of Kish.
Etâna
was said to have 'walked with the gods' and was fed from the
Plant of Birth (the Tree of Life as it is called in Genesis).
Henceforth, the kings of the line were designated as being the
twigs of the Tree - and the ancient word for twig was 'klon'
(clone). In later times, this plant or tree was redefined as
a vine - and so the Graal, the Vine and the Messianic Bloodline
became entwined in the Holy Grail literature of subsequent ages.
By
virtue of their contrived breeding, this kingly succession was
modelled specifically for leadership and, in all aspects of
knowledge, culture, awareness, wisdom and intuition, they were
highly advanced against their mundane contemporaries. In order
to keep their blood as pure as possible, they always married
within a close kinship, for it was fully recognized that the
prominent gene of the succession was carried within the blood
of the mother. Today we call this the mitochondrial DNA.
And
so was born a tradition inherited by their kingly descendants
in Egypt, and by the later Celtic rulers of Europe. True kingship,
it was maintained, was transferred through the female and kingly
marriages were, therefore, strategically cemented with maternal
half-sisters or matrilinear first cousins.
Having
reached the point where the Plant of Birth is first mentioned
in the records, we are at about 3800 BC, and it is at this stage
that we begin to learn how the kingly succession was orally
fed with bodily supplements from the early days. This original
practice continued for more than 1,800 years until the nourishment
programme became wholly scientific and alchemical.
The
supplement in question was, in the first instance, a menstrual
extract from Enki's sister-wife Nîn-khursag, the designated
Lady of Life. It was revered as a sacred Anunnaki essence -
defined as the most potent of all life-forces and venerated
as Star Fire. It was from the womb of Nîn-khursag that
the royal line was born and it was with her own divine Star
Fire that the kingly succession was supplementally nourished.
In this regard, they were reckoned to become like gods themselves
- an aspect which did not please Enlil-Jehovah. In Genesis,
when Adam had taken the fruit, Jehovah said, "Behold, the
man is become as one of us".
In
later times, specially designed cups were used for this ceremony
- an example of which now resides at the British Museum. Indeed,
it was from this very custom that the eventual chalice and wine
tradition (representing the blood of the Messianic Vine) moved
into Christian ritual (though perhaps unwittingly) to become
the Eucharist (Holy Communion) sacrament.
In
strict terms, the original Star Fire was a lunar elixir of the
Goddess, but even in an everyday mundane environment, menstruum
contains the most valuable endocrinal secretions, particularly
those of the pineal and pituitary glands. The brain's pineal
gland in particular was directly associated with the Tree of
Life, for this tiny gland was said to secrete the very essence
of active longevity, while also facilitating above-average powers
of perception and awareness. The Sumerian annals relate that
Cain's son, King Etâna, partook of the Plant of Birth
in order to father his own son and heir, King Baali, while the
Plant was itself associated with the office of kingship.
The
royal Mûs-hûs was often referred to as a dragon
or serpent, and in old Bibles, references to serpents are made
by use of the word 'nahash' - but this does not relate to serpents
in the way that we would know them as venomous snakes. It relates
to serpents in their traditional capacity of bringers of wisdom
and enlightenment, for the word 'nahash' actually meant to decipher
or to find out.
Serpents,
in one form or another, were always associated with wisdom,
and healing - and the Trees of Life and Knowledge are customarily
identified with serpents. Indeed the insignia of many of today's
medical associations is precisely this image of a serpent coiled
around the Plant of Birth - a depiction shown in the clay reliefs
of ancient Sumer to be Enki's own personal emblem.
Interestingly
though, another common emblem for relief organizations depicts
two coiled serpents, spiralling around the winged caduceus of
Hermes the magician. In these instances, the true symbolism
of the Star Fire ritual is conveyed, and this symbol can be
traced back to the very origins of the mystery schools and gnostic
institutions. The records explain that the central staff and
entwined serpents represent the spinal cord and the sensory
nervous system. The two uppermost wings signify the brain's
lateral ventricular structures. Between these wings, above the
spinal column, is shown the small central node of the pineal
gland.
A
Star Fire recipient King was considered to have become qualified
for kingship when he reached a predestined state of enlightened
consciousness - a state when his aptitudes for wisdom and leadership
had been enhanced to a realm of kingship called the Malkû.
It was from this Mesopotamian word that the Hebrews derived
their words 'malchus' (king) and 'malkhut' (kingdom).
Only
in very recent times have medical scientists identified the
hormonal secretion of the pineal gland. It was isolated in 1968
and the essence was called melatonin, which means 'night-worker'
(from the Greek 'melos', meaning 'black', and 'tosos', meaning
'labour') - being produced mainly at night. Exposure to an excess
of sunlight actually makes the pineal gland smaller and lessens
spiritual awareness, whereas darkness and high pineal activity
enhance the keen intuitive knowledge of the subtle mind, while
reducing the stress factor.
Melatonin
enhances and boosts the body's immune system, and those with
high pineal secretion are less likely to develop cancerous diseases.
High melatonin production heightens energy, stamina and physical
tolerance levels. It is also directly related to sleep patterns,
keeping the body temperately regulated with properties that
operate through the cardiovascular system.
Melatonin
is the body's most potent and effective antioxidant and it has
positive mental and physical anti-ageing properties. This valuable
hormone is manufactured by the pineal gland through activating
a chemical messenger called serotonin, which transmits nerve
impulses across chromosome-pairs at a point called 'meiosis'.
This is the moment when the cell nuclei are divided and the
chromosomes are halved, to eventually be combined with other
half-sets upon fertilization.
And
so the Cainite kings of Mesopotamia, while already being of
high Anunnaki substance, were fed with Anunnaki Star Fire to
increase their perception, awareness, and intuition. Consequently,
they became masters of knowingness - almost like gods themselves.
At the same time, their stamina levels and immune systems were
dramatically strengthened so that the anti-ageing properties
of the regularly ingested hormonal secretions facilitated extraordinary
life-spans.
The
practice came to an abrupt halt however in about 1960 BC - precisely
when the Bible tells us that Abraham and his family moved northward
from Ur of the Chaldees (the capital of Sumer) to Haran in the
kingdom of Mari, before turning westward into Canaan.
Clay
tablets of the era detail that, at that time, everything changed
in the hitherto sacred land of Sumer when invaders came in from
all sides. They were Akkadians from the north, Amorites from
Syria and Elamites from Persia. The text continues: "When
they overthrew, when order they destroyed. Then like a deluge
all things together consumed. Whereunto, Oh Sumer! did they
change thee? The sacred dynasty from the temple they exiled".
Contemporary
texts relate that Ur (the capital of Sumer) was sacked by the
king of nearby Elam soon after 2000 BC, and although the city
was rebuilt, the power centre moved north to Haran in the kingdom
of Mari. But Haran was not just the name of a flourishing city,
it was the name of Abraham's brother (the father of Lot). Documents
discovered in 1934 also reveal that other cities in Mesopotamia
were similarly named in accordance with Abraham's forebears
- cities such as Terah (Abraham's father), Nahor (Terah's father),
Serug (Nahor's father), and Peleg (Serug's grandfather).
Quite
apparently, in line with all the Sumerian evidence which supports
the kingly line from Cain, these lately discovered reports confirm
that the immediate family of Abraham (in the succession after
Noah) were also great commissioners of the region in general.
Clearly, the patriarchs represented no ordinary family, but
constituted a very powerful dynasty. But why would such a long-standing
heritage of prominence and renown come to an abrupt end and
force Abraham out of Mesopotamia into Canaan?
It
was at that stage of Sumerian history that the original kingly
empire fell. But what had happened to the Anunnaki - the grand
assembly of gods who had established everything? Once more,
the text continues: "Ur is destroyed, bitter is its lament.
The country's blood now fills its holes like hot bronze in a
mould. Bodies dissolve like fat in the sun. Our temple is destroyed.
Smoke lies on our cities like a shroud. The gods have abandoned
us like migrating birds".
For
all that had occurred to the point of Anunnaki departure, an
urgent and significant change in kingly procedure was then necessary
because the Anunnaki Star Fire was no longer available. A substitute
had to be found. In the event, the creation of a more permanent
and versatile substitute was not a problem, for this was the
province of a group of previously trained metallurgists whom
Enki had called the Master Craftsmen.
Genesis
of the Grail Kings continues with the story of this alchemical
substitute, progressing the patriarchal accounts into Egypt
and to the era of Moses, the Ark of the Covenant and, in biblical
terms, to the most important archaeological discovery ever made.
