After writing about Christian Nephilim conspiracies Wednesday and Thursday, I was surprised when I discovered a “news” story published this week claiming that the Russian government had issued a warning about the return of Fallen Angels. It took only a few seconds to determine that the story, appearing on Before It’s News and other fringe sites, had been reprinted from an original published in February by Sorcha Faal, the pseudonymous conspiracy theorist behind What Does It Mean, a low-quality conspiracy website. According to Rational Wiki, Faal may be David Booth, the owner of the website. Faal once claimed to be a Russian scientist, but the character’s biography was later amended to make her into an Irish mystic, with the name referring now to a succession of high priestesses of the Order of Sorcha Faal, one of whom was Russian. According to the report, the Russian Military Scientific Committee of the Armed Forces called for the immediate provision of space lasers to key countries to battle a group of “interdimensional entities” that they believed planned to invade and seize the earth. Faal states that Russian authorities had been aware of these beings since World War II, when the Soviets had discovered that the Nazis were in contact with fallen angels or demons, whom they identified as the pagan gods of prehistory. According to Faal, the Russian military accepts all of fringe history’s goofiest claims: These “fallen angels/demons”, this report explain, were once vanquished from our Earth about 5-6,000 years ago in what was then referred to by the ancients as “the great overturning” that nearly instantly froze millions of wooly mammoths of Siberia, destroyed the vast city-state known as Atlantis, and is recorded in the stories, religions and legends of all of our planets peoples as “the great flood”. But there is a dark side to Faal’s crackpot history, since Faal ties the fallen angels to Aryan race theory, arguing that the fallen angels lived in the Indian subcontinent through to the Ukraine, and that the angel-human hybrids they produced were the Aryan race. The symbol of the fallen angels, Faal says, is the swastika, which is why the Aryans in India and the Nazis in Germany both used it. Faal throws in a boatload of material most famously seen on past seasons of Ancient Aliens to bolster this argument: John Dee’s alleged communication with Fallen Angels (extended now to the supposed Nuremberg “UFO battle” of 1561, even though Dee was not in Germany at the time), the Nazi bell-shaped “time machine,” the supposed giant copper domes of Siberia (identified as a weapons defense system, as per Ancient Aliens, despite the continued lack of evidence for their existence), and even Jacques Vallée’s by no means unique suggestion that aliens and angels share a common mythos. It is interesting that Faal reverses fringe history’s usual glorification of the Aryans by making them the product of evil rather than the exemplars of all that is good. I’m not exactly sure why this is, but Faal’s attempt to diabolize Russia’s old imperial rivals England and Germany as having had the upper hand over Russia in the past only through the intervention of evil supernatural forces suggests that there may be a real Russian connection to Sorcha Faal after all—though a nationalist one, not an actual set of real secrets. Also, and perhaps most disturbingly, this report concludes, US-EU attempts to demonize President Putin and embroil Russia in war are, in fact, “an elaborate masquerade” designed so that these Western powers can overrun Siberia to destroy/dismantle what by all appearances seems to be an ancient defense system designed to protect our planet from these “fallen angel/demons” who are now in league with, if not outright controlling, nearly all of the Western nations on Earth. Yes, indeed: Fallen Angels are in league with both Nazis and the West, but not glorious Russia and its all-powerful hero-tsar, Vladimir Putin.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but in the “Aryan” race was originally considered to be synonymous with Caucasian people, but under the Nazis, Aryanism became increasingly identified with its “purest” form, the Nordic, Teutonic, and Anglo-Saxon groupings. Thus, in the final phase of Aryan race theory before World War II, Slavs, like the Russians, were not considered Aryan and thus the Nazis considered them to be subhuman. Hitler argued that the Slavs had too much Jewish and Asiatic blood to be true Aryans, except for those who could prove descent from medieval German settlers. The rest, he said, were a “wave of filth.” Anyway, in Faal’s alleged Russian view of history, this means that the Russians invert the received claim of Aryan purity by arguing that Russians are in fact pure humans while the Aryan nations of the West are the corrupt racial hybrids born of supernatural evil. If there is one truism about fringe history, it is that the stories fringe historians tell are never about the surface claims but rather the deeper resentments and anger beneath the surface, whether these are political, cultural, religious, personal, or a combination of all of them. After all, if you weren’t dissatisfied at some level, you wouldn’t be trying to overturn the conventional historical narrative.
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Only Me
10/23/2015 11:11:57 am
>>>After all, if you weren’t dissatisfied at some level, you wouldn’t be trying to overturn the conventional historical narrative.<<<
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An Over-Educated Grunt
10/23/2015 11:24:17 am
I dunno, my impression is less that anyone else is trying to embroil Putin in war than that he's playing Hitler Speed Chess, looking for weak seams in his opponent and grabbing what he can. Unfortunately, the end result of Hitler Speed Chess always seems to be overconfidence after a series of successful moves. Russia seems to be realizing this in eastern Ukraine, and will probably realize pretty soon in Syria that after twenty years of not using it much, their military is really creaky and not up to the task of high-optempo life.
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Only Me
10/23/2015 11:34:00 am
According to RationalWiki:
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An Over-Educated Grunt
10/23/2015 11:42:47 am
Right, I understand that. It just makes no sense to me that an ancient, secretive order of mystics would select a random Russian scientist to be their high priestess. Guess this is the danger of globalization and outsourcing. Even your local cults are hiring from outside the organization rather than promoting from within.
Hermes
10/23/2015 11:45:58 am
Why do you pretend to know more than you actually do, Grunt?
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An Over-Educated Grunt
10/23/2015 11:51:01 am
Because I'm not an enlightened Freemason, obviously. Hodor Hodor Hodor.
Hermes
10/23/2015 11:53:16 am
What a caricature of a know-all-who-knows-nothing
An Over-Educated Grunt
10/23/2015 11:55:16 am
Coming from the guy who said that we can't know anything for certain about the past without a time machine, then declared that he KNOWS Freemasons controlled the Enlightenment, that's particularly rich.
Hermes
10/23/2015 11:56:29 am
ipse se nihil scire id unum sciat
An Over-Educated Grunt
10/23/2015 11:58:15 am
Funny, you sure throw around a lot of certainty for someone who knows nothing. I'll let Götz von Berchlichingen's reply stand for me.
Hermes
10/23/2015 11:59:45 am
You sound more and more like Scott Wolter.
Only Me
10/23/2015 12:07:02 pm
>>>You sound more and more like Scott Wolter.<<<
An Over-Educated Grunt
10/23/2015 12:10:45 pm
And, bluntly, you sound like someone who has lived his entire life in a closet. I don't care how many references and quotations you throw up showing that French deputies were Masons or that French leaders met with Masonic leaders. Real people do not make their decisions on a point-to-point straight line, as you insist on positing. They don't even simplify down that far. Further, when I point out that backroom deals have been happening since the beginning of time, you're not going to impress me by telling me I'm wrong, then providing two examples of backroom deals. You're a lightweight, you see shadows where there are none, and you have no idea how actual people work in the real world. I'm not an expert on that, but good grief, you're a complete failure in terms of interpreting actual, honest-to-goodness human behavior. Everything has to have a larger explanation, because there's no way the French people were just fed up with going hungry and foreign adventures in 1789, it must have been Masons!
Hermes
10/23/2015 12:39:51 pm
Scott Wolter knows all the facts.
Only Me
10/23/2015 03:05:45 pm
Are you saying, Hermes, that you and Scott Wolter were separated at birth? You're right; the resemblance IS uncanny.
Hermes
10/23/2015 06:19:58 pm
Only Me,
Only Me
10/23/2015 06:55:55 pm
>>>Freemasonry does have a valid political history attached to it. It's just not taught in schools, colleges or universities.<<<
Colin Hunt
10/23/2015 11:37:31 am
The guy, whoever he is, belongs on Mulder's World (http://www.muldersworld.com/) probably the craziest site I have ever seen that 'explains' supernatural events (including, very seriously, an explanation that man has never been into space and that ALL space photos are Photoshop doctored images from the Apollo 11 flight, the only one that went into space - and that there are no GPS or telecoms satellites and that there was never a moon landing or space station). Now that guy is REALLY wacky!!!!
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Pam
10/23/2015 01:36:11 pm
I saw a TV show some time ago (I can't recall the name, sorry) and they interviewed one of these guys who promote the "Moon Landing Hoax" material. He was a bit bedraggled, in the middle of the southwest desert, occupying a rundown trailer home full of tech type equipment.
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Pam
10/23/2015 04:10:45 pm
*sigh* This one was new to me. I wouldn't be surprised if he has expanded his views, but at the time it was just the moon landing stuff.
Colin Hunt
10/23/2015 05:11:16 pm
Check out his site. Will make you mad!! The guy is so far from reality its reality scary. What's really scary is that if there are people who believe his crap so others like SW seem quite rational by comparison. Maybe the far out like SW et al are trying the attract the middle ground between Mulders World followers and reality to gain acceptance/credibilty and following. Maybe it's a ploy to appear "rational" and get followers and book sales.
DaveR
10/23/2015 11:39:51 am
What's sad is there are people who believe this is true.
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Scott Hamilton
10/23/2015 01:14:28 pm
"The Great Overturning"? I'm not sure what the Ancients were good at, but I know it wasn't dramatic naming of stuff.
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Pam
10/23/2015 01:16:08 pm
I've noticed in the last couple of Jason's reviews that the "theorists" he has written about seem to be trying to come up with their own version of "the theory of everything".
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Shane Sullivan
10/23/2015 03:00:41 pm
Off the top of my head, David Icke's been working on stitching together everything fringe claim in existence, from Protocols of the Elders of Zion to aliens to the Matrix, since at least 1999. I dunno if you'd count that as "new" though.
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Pam
10/23/2015 03:07:57 pm
Thanks, Shane. I've never visited his site. I thought he was only into the reptilians. I'll check it out and then...shower:)
bkd69
10/24/2015 09:04:59 am
I recall seeing one of David Icke's organizational charts purporting to show all the nefarious organizations and activities the our reptoid illumaniti masonic masters engage in...tucked away in one box on the chart, amid the mind control, alien abductions, global drug trade, proxy wars and arms trafficking, and GMO food production, our illuminati masters were able to carve some time to engage in some good old fashioned pedophilia, its presence there driven by Britain's pedophilia hysteria.
Mark L
10/25/2015 12:34:40 pm
Dave Emory used to have a show on WFMU, didn't he? It seemed to be fairly rational when I used to be an obsessive listener, but I guess it was quite a ways from that.
tm
10/23/2015 03:31:23 pm
The Unified Theory of Woo Woo? That's scary.
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Pam
10/23/2015 04:06:04 pm
Haha! It is scary, and thanks to a recommendation I have discovered another site that's attempting said unification. It boggles the mind.
Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/23/2015 04:37:34 pm
It's actually a common trait of conspiracy theory, at least in recent years. As I have said on this site before, history is driven by a staggeringly complex morass of conflicting agendas and individual motivations. Most conspiracy theorists reduce all that complexity to the string-pulling of a single bogeyman—a monolithic conspiracy or an alien/giant race.
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Shane Sullivan
10/23/2015 05:46:25 pm
Speaking of Unified Theories of Conspiracy, wasn't it you who compiled this entertaining distillation:
Pam
10/23/2015 07:15:01 pm
So that "snowball effect" coupled with the innovation gives us the Russian -Celtic-Priestess who paints her people as the good and the pure.
Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/23/2015 08:23:02 pm
Shane: Yes, that was me. There are things about it that I would tweak now. I guess I'm persnickety even when writing nonsense. A pity I thought of them after the whole thing became disastrously outdated!
V
10/24/2015 03:13:01 pm
Not the Comte, I will say that Israel is not entirely free of wrongdoing with regards to the situation in the Middle East--though they have largely restricted their physical violence to the Palestinians. I do, however, think that much of the problem that the US has in dealing with Arab nations has grown out of the US's historic "support Israel, right or wrong" mentality. Israel, as a nation, has openly committed many of the same atrocities on Palestine that the US has sanctioned other Arab nations for, and yet the US has not done squat to Israel for it. That kind of hypocrisy is going to cause resentment, and well it should.
Not the Comte de Saint Germain
10/24/2015 04:50:15 pm
Oh, I'm not arguing against that at all. I think the unquestioning support for Israel is bad for the US and may even be bad for Israel, too. But a lot of Arabs seem to think Israel or a Jewish conspiracy is responsible for everything that goes wrong in the Arab world, rather than for just the Palestinian situation and the military operations that Israel has actually carried out. Blaming the US is more understandable, given our long history of blundering around in the region, but we often get blamed for stuff we didn't do as well as for what we did.
Uncle Ron
10/23/2015 04:22:27 pm
This adds an interesting twist to the idea that the U.S. is the "Great Satan" of Middle Eastern ire.
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Uncle Ron
10/23/2015 08:59:55 pm
Just for clarity: My previous comment referred to Jason's blog, not the entertaining posts which followed.
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Duke of URL
10/25/2015 12:26:01 pm
@bkd69
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