The Fall - A non-biblical commentary

Introduction: A different Heavenly Father and True Parents experience Having concluded that there is no being that Heavenly Parent created which we call an angel, the next obvious question is what lies behind the story of the Fall? The severity of the Fall doesn’t diminish as we divulge a deeper story: what’s more, it shows the graver depth of Heavenly Father’s grief, His Han.

We are exiting the world of orthodox religion.

Start with a view of evil Necessarily, we need to start looking at history as well as writings from ancient times, in the Middle East part of the world, where the Bible originated. Later we can see other people with creation stories. Where did the Adam & Eve and Fall story come from? If indeed there never was an angel, then how do we explain the Fall? I will also include writings of those who wrote about a topic very closely related to what in Principle we call the Fall. Sumerian texts including Enuma Elish1, Enoch2 are close to our Bible, all indicating violence in our roots even before our creation. The Anunnaki did not write from a moralistic point-of-view, but were on passing historic events.

Where does the idea that there could not have been, in the traditional sense, a God-created angel come from? We have seen this in the first missionary True Parents sent to the US, Ms. Young Oon Kim, Swedenborg, and Zoroastrian studies, as well as straight Divine Principle studies3. In Principle we study that any living being has to have a spirit as well as a physical body4 to grow. I.E., the spirit can only grow within a physical body. By force then, the traditional angel image is allegorical or metaphoric since it never had a physical body in which to grow.

The Bible turns out to be a simplified version of a complicated story; easy to tell and pass on, even to young children.

1 https://www,worldhistory,org/article/225/enuma-elish---the-babylonian-epic-of-creation---fu/

2 Enoch. Chapters 6-9.

3 http://tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks/Bikal/Bikkal-201218.pdf

4 Divine Principle pg 17: ‘all beings exist through the reciprocal relationships between dual characteristics of internal nature and external form. Divine Principle pg 48. 6.3.2. Green: ‘The spirit grows through give & take (receive) action between two types of nourishment: life elements of a yang type that comes from God, and vitality elements of a yin type that comes from the physical self’. Bottom red: ‘The spirit can grow only while it abides in the flesh’. Yellow: ..the physical self provides good vitality elements to the spirit self, which enable the spirit self to grow properly in the direction of goodness’.

The Fall took two people, i.e., a relationship. This can be inferred through the restoration reverse course principle. Also, all actions require give & take (receive) between a subject and an object. There was consent. Eve, the woman was always blamed. If it had been rape, there would be no accusation. Father never blamed the archangel because the commandment5 was given only to Adam & Eve, not the angel.

Evil in the Cosmos A look at the cosmos shows that evil is not confined to earth, and that in fact it was brought to earth. This is seen in studies outside the Bible or religion. True Parents have mentioned cosmic beings; it’s in their title6. Why? Cosmic beings have been with us since our very beginning, and before, including the probability that we humans were genetically engineered by them, and conceivably were brought down (fell) by a subgroup of theirs. This can be seen in Enoch.

Studies of the above texts, and others mentioned below, include many instances of war and results of war. This means extraterrestrials had long been poisoned by Satan, i.e., the Fall. Father said Adam & Eve were the first messiahs7. Was the creation of Adam & Eve a God-given messianic mission to restore cosmic beings? Could this be what Father was referring to?

A group of people decided to destroy God’s children, as seen clearly in Enoch’s writings8. The mind behind these actions, I see, is the mind we call Satan. There was a rebellion, resentment, etc. Directly or indirectly they rebelled against God and His people9 creating giants. This was a result of the Anunnaki going into the daughters of men, as Enoch says. In reality, the daughters of men were God’s daughters, and the Anunnaki gods were servants; the reverse.

The News World When we study the above links related to remote past history, our roots, and the backdrop behind Bible stories, a relevant place to start considering the analysis is in the supplement of The News World daily newspaper that our True Parents created. Our True Parents directed the editors to publish it on a weekly basis in the early 1980s. It was edited by Hal McKenzie, and was called ‘UFOs

5 DP. End of Ch 2.3.2, in the Fall. (Yellow). God gave the commandment not to the Archangel but only to the human beings. Repeatedly in Ch 2 we read that the commandment was given only to Adam & Eve.

6 http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon04/SunMyungMoon-040222.htm

7 http://tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon91/SM910512.htm. Very bottom, almost end of speech.

8 See footnote 2.

9 https://enm.wikipedia,org/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology). Wiki. Greek myth - Giants: a race of great strength and aggression. (They may have been large in stature, but more importantly, their strength and aggression was their fearsome qualities, probably coming from angry, confused and possessed spirits due to their stained blood).

and Other Cosmic Phenomena’10,11,12. The title says it all. Many writers at The News World complained that this was not in line with what we were trying to make, i.e., a ‘serious’ daily. We were now writing about extraterrestrials; however, True Parents have always been very serious13. UFOs and extraterrestrials were always a taboo topic in mainstream media in those days; it was at a time when UFOs and extraterrestrials were ridiculed by governments. Father wanted us to lead his wars against God’s enemies, but found the opposite, resistance. Dismayed, Father said,14. ‘You Moonies are the last people to know because you don’t study, you don’t investigate’.

Early in his ‘Let us Go over the Original Boundary’ speech Father said, ‘You Moonies have to think about these things that nobody else has thought about’15.

The ‘UFOs and Other Cosmic Phenomena’ supplement had an additional function, I believe, which was to give credit and recognition to the extraterrestrials for their contribution to our existence and wellbeing.

Spirit world machine The so-called spirit world machine is another project our True Parents had members work on. I was not involved in it but Saeilo was given the project under the name WRIST. True Parents asked a

10 https://www,sott,net/article/249465-UFOs-and-atomic-nuclear-plants. Several pictures down we can see the only copy of a page of our supplement. Dated March 6, 1982. 11 http://tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks2/McKenzie/McKenzie-091225.pdf. A book Hal McKenzie wrote. He later gave it me to have it published. 12 http://tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks2/McKenzie/McKenzie-051000.pdf. An article Hal McKenzie wrote in the Exopolitics Journal.

13 http://tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon89/SM890408.htm. ‘I am the embodiment of the Principle. Therefore, I cannot give attention to anything else; I am so focused, so serious, so dedicated to my own duty that I have no time to listen to anything else’. (About 45% down the speech). This is but one example. Father repeated this comment on being serious several times over the years.

14 http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon83/SunMyungMoon-830601b.pdf. Pg 13.

15 https://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon87/870401.htm.

Korean physics professor, Dr. Yong Suk Kim, and the person in charge of creating the Sekai Nippo in Japan, Mr. Azuma Kamimura16, to also help advance this project. To date I know of no final results.

Remote past history Much evidence points to beings of high technological knowledge existing on earth since a remote past. Remote past earth history is filled with war stories fought in the air, atomic explosions, visitations, etc. going back millennia. This Includes stories from Germany, and Switzerland, Japanese Utsuro bune, the Hindu vimana stories, and more. Many world native creation stories mention their roots being in the cosmos, far away stars.

It’s interesting how the Old Testament has stories that only True Parents could decipher. Who understood the Fall and Heavenly Parent’s Heart? How is it that there were prepared people in the remote past who understood the Fall and restoration principles, and could encode them through literary figures of speech?

We never read of repentance, biblically speaking. Adam & Eve never repented to Heavenly Parent and said their sorry for the Fall. What happened to their original mind which the Divine Principle states everyone has17? Father said that if Adam & Eve had repented, God would’ve forgiven them. It seems that Adam & Eve didn’t repent, and neither did anyone else repent in their behalf. Were their original minds fogged? The original mind of Heavenly Parent’s children were buried. They could not repent. They were under total mind control.

Sumerian creation history, Enuma Elish, contains stories of Anunnaki creating a servant race. It is a story that a lower group of Anunnaki had difficult jobs. Some rebelled. A group of Watchers (igigi?) defiled women. (The same people?). Were these women God’s chosen - biblically condensed into Eve. Is that the correlation? Were the Anunnaki directed by Heavenly Parent to create His children, their messiahs, humans, which they then used as slaves? They may have been chosen, but not perfect. There was a rebellious group among them. Among the leaders there may also have been benevolence with their original minds at work, leading to the Noah story, sensing something bad had transpired. The Enuma Elish story contains much conflict among the Anunnaki, another sign of a fallen society.

16 https://history,familyfed,org/tf-sermons/sun-myung-moon-and-wrist-world-research-institute-for-science-and-technology. WRIST.

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17 Divine Principle. Ch 2. The Human Fall. 1st sentence: ‘All people have an Original mind which inclines them to reject evil and pursue goodness.

18 Adamu 19 Eden

Chosen. Hybrid. According to Anunnaki Sumerian stories Adam & Eve were genetically engineered. They called them the Adamu18. They lived in the Eden19. The Bible stories borrowed Sumerian terms and ideas. The stories coexisted in the same part of the world.

As seen above, extraterrestrials, our makers and siblings under Heavenly Parent, were already fallen. Additional evidence is the galactic wars fought among them, as seen above. These already broken satanic minds made and subjugated humans. Heaven was on a course, and God couldn’t turn back.

Restoration starts from the bottom, the servant of servants position. These Anunnaki creations had no God consciousness, it seems. God started restoration with His children whose original minds were mentally buried under a yoke of slavery. They were serving a lower group of Anunnaki; i.e., they were slaves of slaves. They knew only obedience to a ruler; in Principle language, a lord-servant mind. From this mindset Heavenly Father started restoring His children. It would take untold years to go through the 8 stages of growth until Heavenly Father was able to have a Father-child relationship with His first children, our True Parents. Father said that even God had to develop His Heart20. God knew no children’s love; He only had a distant master-servant relationship with His chosen people because it was all they knew. It was all He knew.

Adam & Eve were messiahs, true parents. To who? As seen above,21 Father said Adam was the 1st messiah. To whom, if Adam & Eve were the first people? There’s a difference between first man & woman and first messiah.

Father said that spirit world is very different from what we imagine22. After studying the Divine Principle and Father’s words, we must deepen our studies. Heavenly Parent himself doesn’t do the work that His children were designed to do and can do; i.e., be creative and take responsibility for our environment, growth and wellbeing; i.e., the 3 blessings.

We are not spiritual infants any longer, we can and need to eat more substantial spiritual food & understand God’s Heart in a deeper, more mature way.

Father traveled throughout spirit world seeking truth. If Satan were a single angel gone rogue, Father could’ve just clung on to him. True Parents went in search of how Satan in humans have been, and are still working. Historically, Satan’s force never stops growing until it is stopped by war or physical force at its trunk, but True Parents finally stopped it at its roots through True Love.

18 Adamu 19 Eden 20 DP pg 402: ‘God has been grieving with the heart of a parent who lost his children’. God never had Childrens love.

21 See footnote 6 above.

22 This I heard at Belvedere but was not able to find it among Father’s speeches available on tparents.org.

In the ‘Serve and attend your original mind23 speech, Father talks about people having blind faith in True Parents. I don’t think True Parents want that. They’d prefer people follow them precisely because their original mind leads them to True Parents. Father said that we were to follow our original mind before them. Freedom requires results. It was a time Father also said He’d give us all away in exchange for 10 good leaders24. In another version of the speech25 Father says ‘learn to listen to what your original mind tells you’. In the first two paragraphs Father repeats several times that we need to follow our original mind. At the bottom of the speech it says that the Japanese translation uses ‘conscience’.

Conclusion The complicated historic process of the making and defiling of God’s children was reduced to the simple Bible narrative of the creation of Adam & Eve and the Fall. Satan is not only a being, but a force that imperfect beings helped create, and which we all carry inside as fallen, still imperfect humans, an energy not 90° perpendicular to Heavenly Parents. The more we build that force with others, the more we participate in going against Heavenly Parents.

The Bible gives us a symbolic version of the actual separation of man from Heavenly Father.

It’s not hard to see why in the Bible, talking of angel as a root of the Fall and the separation of God’s children from our Heavenly Parent is much simpler than explaining the background to a very painful, complicated history.

In 2021 True Mother started calling for the end of religion. This requires a rethinking of how to view religion. The main reason for this call is that religion has been at the base of so much bloodshed and confrontation throughout history; this along with racism, nationalism, etc.

23 http://tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon91/SunMyungMoon-911103a.pdf.

24 I attended the speech when Father said this. Unfortunately I don’t find a link. Sorry.

25 http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon91/SunMyungMoon-911103b.pdf.