Where Were You Before the Tree of Life? - Horus Centre

The Efe tell a Creation story much like that of Genesis, but the Genesis myth is clearly
assimilated into an even older story dating back into the misty dawn of time. Note, for instance,
that the moon, a female figure, helps the Supreme Being in his act of creation of humans. Note,
too, the familiar element or archetype of creation of the first beings out of clay, and once again,
the presence of the almost ubiquitous Tree with the forbidden fruit.
“With help from the moon, The Supreme Being made a man, Baatsi, out of clay, which he
covered with skin and filled with blood. He made a woman, too, and commanded the man to
make children with her. “Only be sure to obey one rule,” he said. “Do not eat of the Tahu Tree.”
So it was that Baatsi fathered many children and his children fathered many more children,
and everyone obeyed the rule. When they got old and tired they simply went happily to heaven.
Everything went on this way until a pregnant woman with a craving for tahu fruit convinced her
husband to break some off for her. Naturally the moon saw the man picking the fruit in the dark
and she told her co-creator. Because of what the man and the woman did, we now all suffer the
punishment of death. (Creation Myths-- Beier, 63)
Another ‘universal’ entity by the name of Ramtha is channeled by a number of people,
including a woman named J.Z. Knight. In RAMTHA (The White Book), Ramtha tells a short but
succinct version of what happened in the beginning, one which echoes that also channeled from
the Council of Nine:
“Everything has been created by the sons from the thought that the Father is. And whatever
the sons create becomes the expanded self of the Father.”
Colonel James Churchward, who wrote a series of books on the lost continent of Lemuria,
tells us that in the ancient manuscripts of this primal land, science was also a part of religion.
They were considered and looked upon as twin sisters. The first teachings that a man was given
in his life was that there was an almighty, all-powerful, Creative God and that man owed his
existence to Him.
“Then followed the teachings that man was a special creation, possessing a something that
no other form of Creation on earth possessed—a soul or spirit. He was taught that this soul had
everlasting life and never died. The material body returned to earth from whence it came, then
released the soul, and it continued on. Apparently, when the forgoing was thoroughly instilled into
his mind and he thoroughly comprehended it, lessons in science followed. Teachings were given
that showed him the laws and works of Creation, such as the infinite wisdom in the arrangement
of the Universe . . .”
The Gnostic Christian view, tells of a true, ultimate and transcendent God, who is beyond all
created Universes and who never created anything in the sense in which the word “create” is
ordinarily understood. While this True God did not fashion or create anything, He (or, It)
“emanated” or brought forth from within Himself the substance of all there is in all the worlds,
visible and invisible. In a certain sense, this agrees with so many different spiritual views that all
things are in God, for all things consist of the substance of God.
By the same token, it must also be recognized that many portions of this original divine
essence have been projected so far from their source that they have been weakened, an
subsequently have undergone serious and unwholesome attempts to change their basic nature in
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