2. Angels and Plasma Life?
This serious question
is the clear implication found in the Mesopotamian, the Egyptian
(Edfu), and the Biblical traditions that the “gods” are “spirits”,
i.e., incorporeal and non-material in nature. They are, in short, a
very different form of intelligent life
than the humanoid “giants,” Nephilim, and humans themselves, that
we have discussed thus far. And as I have observed elsewhere,578 the problem is
compounded by the fact that in the Mesopotamian and Biblical
traditions, these “gods” or “sons of God” marry humans and sire
chimerical offspring from them.
Traditionally,
Christian theology has maintained that the angels, and by
implication demons, are beings of “light” and thus not inhibited by
the normal constraints of space and time. They are, so to speak, a
sort of “hyper-dimensional” life form able to “slow down” long
enough to manifest themselves corporeally, materially, and locally,
and thus presumably, to sire offspring of humans.579 This whole approach
has often been sarcastically portrayed in the popular imagination
as a debate on “how many angels can fit on the head of a pin,” when
in fact its profound character as a speculation in theoretical physics and its implications for alternative
life forms has gone entirely unnoticed.
But the theological
conjectures of an earlier age might not be so easily dismissed. In
fact, they find rather strange corroboration from the plasma
physics community, for the famous quantum and plasma physicist
David Bohm once noted that the behavior of electrons in plasma gave
him the impression that they were somehow alive, since they
exhibited the kind of self-organizing properties in plasma that one
normally associated with life. More recently, an even more
suggestive connection between plasmas and life appeared to have
been demonstrated by physicists who were able to create plasmas
that grew, replicated, and communicated
information to each other.580 This fulfills three
out of the four main criteria that many list for the presence of
life. The major distinction between such plasmas and ordinary life
is that ordinary life requires the presence of
inherited material from the parent to the child. This is eerily reminiscent of the statement
by Christ in the New Testament that angels neither marry nor are
given in marriage. One is permitted to speculate that perhaps
plasmas are able to communicate or imprint information almost
totally on another plasma. By implication, this would enable them
to do so in any interface with more organically based life. In the
case of the evil intentions of “fallen angelic ‘plasmas’” this
would manifest itself as an habitual inclination toward evil,
recalling our speculations concerning an impressed dynamic of evil
on the Tablets of Destinies, explaining their consistent and
persistent association in the texts with the cosmic war in the
pantheon.581