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The Torah’s Teachings On Alien Life

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 21:30
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Jan 24th in Spirituality & UFO Phenomenon by Micah Hanks

For the seeker of the strange and unusual, a wealth of interesting topics can be found in the mystic traditions of Judaism. One of the more famous legends from this faith to become popularly associated with modern Forteana involves the “Golem,” a literal man brought to life from mud by the Maharal of Prague, Judah Loew ben Bezalel, in the 1500s. However, the creation of mud-men by magical means is hardly the only area of the esoteric that the Jewish faith encompasses.

Much like the Holy Church of Rome, which acknowledges that there are scientific, and at times even scriptural justifications for life on other planets, much can be found in the holy texts of the Torah that seem to point us toward the same line of thought. Often, it is argued that for a divine intelligence or “creator” to exist, it would seem odd for such a being to begin the great work of creating conscious life throughout our universe… but if life were to exist on other planets, how might those varieties of intelligence differ from you or I? Also, would those differences merely be physical in nature, or would the same sorts of differences we might expect of alien life carry over into the spiritual realm just as well?

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  • The headline should be changed. Not only is there nothing in the Torah about alien life or any such teaching — there is NOTHING IN THIS ARTICLE about any such teaching contained in the Torah.

    Even if you didn’t author the article, you should have read it, seen the truth of the matter, and not posted it.

  • Pix

    “Golem a literal man brought to life from mud”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoTKXXNQIU

    Yeah pull the other one it has bells. :wink:

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