Who Wrote the Reptilian Agenda?

On the Origin of the Annunaki Script

This is an expanded version of the article of the same title by John Lash, published on phenomenamagazine.com.

In a Collector's Edition entitled "Secrets of the Da Vinci Code," published by US News and World Report, there is a brief interview with James Robinson, general editor of the Nag Hammadi Library. In response to Dan Brown’s reference to the Nag Hammadi texts as scrolls, Robinson points out: “They are codices – books with individual pages. They are actually the oldest example we have of leather-bound books.”

Amazingly, whatever the significance of their content (and we have just barely begun to comprehend what that might be), the Nag Hammadi Codices (NHC) are rare original artifacts, the earliest surviving examples of bound books. A close reading of these arcane materials shows that Gnostics, as teachers in the ancient Mysteries were called, were deeply concerned with alien intrusion into human affairs. The entities they called Archons appear to be identical to the ET’s of modern Ufology. Both Grey and Reptilian types are explicitly described in the codices. I would estimate that up to one-fifth of the core material in the NHC concerns the Archons, their origin, methods and motives.

The Sophia Mythos, the Gnostic creation story, explains that the Archons arise due to an anomaly in the cosmic order. “The world system we inhabit came about by a mistake.” (The Gospel of Philip, NHC II, 3, 75.5) This startling line alludes to the Gnostic theory that the solar system was produced by the impact of the goddess Sophia upon lifeless atomic matter, but the Earth was formed from Sophia’s divine, alive, self-aware power. Odd as it sounds, this view is totally compatible with modern astronomy. We know that the solar system at large is dominated by inorganic chemistry and does not support life as it occurs in the biosphere, where organic chemistry is the norm. Gnostics would argue that this is so because the Earth is the embodiment of Sophia, while the solar system is the product and habitat of the Archons. The observation of this difference between the inorganic and organic aspects of our solar system led James Lovelock to formulate the Gaia Hypothesis.

So, the earliest surviving documents in book form contain a preview of Gaia theory, as well as an account of alien intrusion — but what about the earliest known writings? Archeologists tell us that cuneiform writing was invented in Mesopotamia around 3200, long before books appeared. The cuneiform record on clay tablets presents an extensive repertoire of stories about human prehistory. Cuneiform texts such as Atrahasis, Enuma Elish, and Enki and World Order, describe a non-human race called the Annunaki, “those who from heaven to earth came,” as Zecharia Sitchin translates that term. Sitchin is known for densely researched books on the Annunaki, whom he identifies with the Biblical Nefhilim, “the Watchers” of the Book of Enoch. These are alien entities who “came into the daughters of men,” as Genesis says.

The cuneiform story of the Annunaki describes how an alien race intervenes deeply in human evolution. Sitchin and others accept this plot as if it were an actual record of events in prehistory. The tablets describe how two Annunaki leaders, Enki and his half-sister Ninhursag, produced a hybrid slave race from the indigenous ape-like peoples of the planet. Hence, an alien “interbreeding program” is central to the Annunaki narrative. It is an indisputable fact that this story is written down in the oldest surviving records, but is the story itself a fact?

Both the oldest writings and the earliest books tell us the same story. Isn’t this amazing? To my knowledge, little or no attention has yet been given to this odd “coincidence.”

However, there is a world of difference in the way the story is treated in these two sources. The cuneiform record tells the intervention scenario as if it were (pre)historical fact, a set of events that really happened. In the NHC, the story of the Annunaki (there called Archons) is presented in the cosmological perspective of the Sophia Mythos, the Fallen Goddess scenario, and then it is analyzed, deconstructed. In other words, the Gnostics had a view of the cosmic origins of the Annunaki, and they also took a critical approach to intervention. They deconstructed the Sumerian narrative. The cuneiform record is just a story, without critical commentary. The description of the "alien interbreeding program" occurs in several places in the NHC, but the Gnostic materials tell us that the attempt failed:

The Archons came to Adam. When they saw Eve talking to him they said to each other, ‘What sort of creature is this luminous woman?’ … Now come, let us lay hold of her and cast our seed into her, that she may become soiled and unable to access her inner light. Then those who she bears will be under our charge… But Eve, being a free power, laughed at their decision. She put mist in their eyes [and escaped them].”
The Origin of the World, NHC II, 5, 116.10ff

This is one of several riveting passages in the NHC that show Eve, the primal woman, outwitting the Archons. The Mystery teaching presents a mythological event, and comments on the outcome of that event. In the Gnostic view, the Archon/Annunaki do attempt to interbreed with humanity, but fail. Other texts describe how Eve leaves her “phantom image” which the Archons defile, but they are unable to actually access her body, i.e., human genetic structure.

The “Reptilian Agenda” is a modern interpretation and extension of the Sumerian cuneiform story, but it ignores the Gnostic version of that story, and completely disregards the critical commentary. Sitchin’s weak points are his inability to present a convincing case for the origin and motives of the Annunaki, and his failure (or refusal) to describe their physical appearance. Most ET theorists who follow him assume the Annunaki are Reptilians: for instance, R. A. Boulay in Flying Serpents and Dragons — an excellent book, by the way, and more deeply researched than Sitchin in some ways.

Another account of the failed rape of Eve occurs in The Reality of the Archons, NHC II, 4. Here again the Mystery teachings present some careful distinctions concerning the reptilian factor in human evolution. According to the Gnostics, the serpent in the Garden of Eden was a benefactor because it advised them to eat the forbidden fruit that opened their eyes to heightened or paranormal perception. NHC II, 4, 89.30 says that "the female spiritual principle came through the snake, the instructor." This serpent power is known in Asian mystical practices as Kundalini, the Serpent Power. The form of the Archons or Annunaki ETs is reptilian (drakonic in the NHC text), but the faculty by which we detect and repel them is also serpentine. Hence there is a divinely endowed serpentine faculty, build into our biological makeup, which is grotesquely reflected in the form of the predatory ETs. Gnostics taught that we must understand the one, our benign serpentine endowment, to face other, the instrusive reptilians.

On the use of Kundalini to repel alien intrusion, see the related article. Also, on Mystery teachings about sexual mysticism and anointing of the human immune system with Light, see the commentary on the Gospel of Philip in the Nag Hammadi reading plan.

Today we hear the wildest claims regarding Reptilians, how they manipulated us genetically in ancient times, how they are running the world, etc. Unfortunately, most of the commentary on the Reptilian Agenda, even when it attempts to expose it, ends up providing hype for the scaley intruders, who are enormously overrated. Gnostics taught that the signature of the Archons is HAL, the Coptic word for "simulation." They would have warned us in no uncertain terms to distinguish between what the Reptilian-type ETs and the embryonic types, the Greys, can actually do, and what they merely simulate with the psychophysical technology of VR, virtual reality (HAL). It will be impossible to sort out the truth of this situation unless we recognize the wisdom that comes down to us from the genuine adepts of the Mysteries, men and women who mastered the Serpent Power, Kundalini, and distinguish our ancient benefactors from the alien Reptilians and their human cohorts. There has always been an intrepid corps of enlightened warriors who resist the alien game on this planet, but current discourse on the Reptilian Agenda, led by David Icke, totally fails to recognize the nature of the Mystery cells as bastions of resistence and immunity to alien intrusion.

To return to that "coincidence" of the oldest bound books and the oldest written records, the cuneiform tablets, treating the same scenario. The "Reptilian Agenda" stands or falls on how we view the cuneiform accounts, the oldest version of the alien intrusion plot, and so we cannot afford to ignore the deconstruction of those accounts to be found in the Nag Hammadi Codices.

Finally, we might ask, Who wrote the cuneiform stories? The answer is, scribes in the service of the Sumerian theocrats. This answer is not complete, however, because scribes write things down, they do not originate what they write. Who then originated the cuneiform intervention stories taken down by scribes? I propose that it was soothsayers and advisors in the service of the theocrats, the patriarchal tyrants of old. No ancient court was without a psychic channeller, if not a whole team of them. Surely it is understandable that psychics advising the theocrats would produce a story to fit the need of their masters: specifically, the need to see themselves as descendents of “gods” and, at the same time, as slaves (albeit privileged ones) to a higher race that claims to have produced them. This message is schizophrenic, and as such it is totally consistent with channeled material and the mentality that produces it.

The Second Treatise of the Great Seth in the NHC describes how Abraham, Moses, the Patriarchs, and even Jesus the Messiah, were duped by the Archons. We could apply the same observation to the egomaniacal patriarchs who founded the first city-states in the Near East. They bought the Annunaki script fed telepathically to their advising soothsayers, because it legitimated their worst pretensions and provided a divine mandate for their all-too-human plans for world domination. The picture of global realpolitik is not much different today. The Reptilians may appear to be running the show, but only as long as human complicity enables them to keep up the appearance of power they do not have.

If the cuneiform stories are the product of psychic channeling in ancient times, the Reptilian Agenda, the modern elaboration of those stories, needs to be entirely reexamined in the light of Gnostic Archon theory. The first step in confronting the Reptilian menace, whatever it is, is to get the story straight.

Jll March 27, 2005.