Where Were You Before The Tree of Life? Volume 1
by Peter Farley
Introduction

Perhaps the most appropriate expression to describe the history of
mankind upon this planet is a chaos or confusion. It is full of
discontinuities and the sudden, unexplained appearance and
disappearance of entire races of people. Perhaps the major one of
these discontinuities occurs in the Christian Bible in Genesis
itself, Chapter 3, for it seems like everything we know about the
Universe comes somewhere after the fall of Adam.

What would happen though if the most influential occurrences
happened, not only prior to Adam, but prior to the story of Genesis
itself--things so major that they affect everything that has taken
place since, and are still affecting things going on at this very
moment?

It is the humble intent of this book to trace the history of mankind
right from its roots in the heart of God to its very present dilemma
amidst the chaos of a world and a Universe run rampant. It is not,
however, the intention of this book to trace every minute detail of
every event which has occurred in that history. Rather it seeks to
uncover those patterns which give life and which give meaning to
that history. Those patterns,some of which lie buried beneath
history like the underground stream which is such a central metaphor
to theme of the entire book.

It is important firstly, however, to understand the ubiquitous image
of the Tree of Life and the significance it plays to world history
and to all the world's religions. It will then be necessary to that
we take a look at the major players involved in the Creation of this
Universe itself, as well as their subsequent roles in shaping the
events of both world and universal history.

Though we tend to think of world history from grade school and high
school days as being a disjointed series of events, where it was
taught to us that people such as Columbus, or Sir Isaac Newton,
stumbled onto some discovery or invention, thus causing a newer and
better world to be opened for the rest of us, let me assure you, in
the beginning here, nothing could be further from the truth. History
is a lie we have been fed to make us docile and keep us ignorant of
the true intent of those who have manipulated events from the start
for their own benefit, and for the benefit of those whom they serve.
In the process of unraveling this puzzle and fitting the pieces
together, it will be necessary for the reader to, as it were,
suspend belief in everything they know and have learned about both
the Creation and about history in general. It will be necessary to
digest the material and watch as the picture grows before your eyes,
and then to judge whether or not this picture which has been formed
is justly valid or not. No matter what racial or ethnic background
the reader comes from, no matter what level of education or social
strata they have achieved, or hope to achieve, and no matter what
religion or denomination they were raised in or currently belong to,
any preconceived notions of how history or the universe were
created, will only prove to be a stumbling block to understanding
the true story unfolded herein, and to the resulting expansion of
consciousness it will obviously bring.

As author Machaelle Wright says in relation to her work: "During an
expansion of consciousness, our intellectual understanding of what
we are experiencing is challenged because it is new to us. Like
anything new, if we try to force an understanding of it through the
framework of what we already know, we end up confused and possibly
misinterpreting the experience. If we truly wish to expand out
consciousness, that expansion can only serve to render our old
framework obsolete. Any expansion we might have can actually be
distorted if we try to force it through our old intellectual
framework, such as would happen with a round handful of Play Dough
squashed through a square shaping hole. Some of the Play Dough may
get through intact, but it is distorted, while much has been left
behind on the other side of the screen, hopelessly lost for use in
the new construction.

"If we attempt to use our old framework when tackling new material
such as is here being presented, we will tend to experience what we
think we are experiencing instead of what it is that is actually
happening. Or,worse still, we will tend to read into things what it
is we want to hear, rather than getting the truth from what it is we
are reading. We need then just to put the intellect aside--to just
be. Let this new experience, this new knowledge, integrate itself
naturally into our being. Like a Zen master would proscribe, if we
just get ourselves out of the way, life will show us what we need to
know and what it is we need to be doing.

"In this way, we can allow the formation of a new and more logical
or intellectual framework. As a result, we will then gain a
completely different understanding. The experience itself will build
its own new logical framework. So, as you read this work, just let
the expansion or processing happen naturally. As you do, you will be
surprised at how much easier it is and how much more you really
understand."

Let it be known first, that there are some prerequisites needed
before entering upon this particular voyage of expansion of your
consciousness:

First, is the understanding of how language can be used to alter
perception.This is especially true when it comes to historical texts
which were written in one or more languages which have then been
translated into English or the language we understand. The structure
of many a languages allows for alternate meanings of a single word,
or shades of meaning that can vary so greatly as to throw off our
understanding of an entire event or reason for something happening.
Just as a teenager may use the word `cool' to mean something
is `wonderful,' so to might another person use the same word `cool'
to express the temperature of their bath water as being "tepid"
or "not warm."

Language can also be used as a means of encoding certain information
with which we wish to transmit a message or idea, while still making
it impossible for those we do not wish to understand our true
meaning not to be able to understand it. During World War II, the
BBC broadcast innumerable such encoded messages into Occupied France
and Europe in this form, usually in the simple guise of a valid news
story or meaningless phraseology.

When setting out to write this book, it quickly became evident that
language would be the key to unlocking many of the clues to what was
really taking place in the history being uncovered. The word `God,'
for instance, is actually a relatively new term in the annals of
history for those beings some people worship as their creator. It
has now become a generalized term in English speaking countries for
something "which was in the Beginning" and is responsible for both
our presence and possible also for our current dilemma. As Zechariah
Sitchin explains in his works, the word most commonly used in
ancient Sumeria for these gods was "lord," and this crops up again
and again in various translations of names used for the ancient
gods.

A serf in medieval England also called the owner of the estate, `My
Lord, and even though that owner may hold a great deal of power over
the life and death of the serf and his family, the lord was
certainly not a god to be worshipped. This is true of many places in
history, and many historic texts where the title used to indicate a
person's role or station in life has come down to us more commonly
known as that person's name, rather than as their title. Jesus
Christ is a good example of a title being used as a name.

A second prerequisite before reading this book is an understanding
that everything in the universe is made up of atoms, tiny particles
vibrating at a certain frequency within a seemingly empty mass of
space. As explained in the chapters on creation, not everything
which exists can be seen with the physical eyes. Everyday we are
getting more and more confirmation of this very fact, both on an
individual level, and in the general area of public events. Higher
dimensional beings such as angels and ascended masters simply have a
higher vibration which allows them to be "on Earth" without being
visible to the human eye. As we become able to `raise' our vibration
as well, many of these things become `visible' to us and more of the
other worlds can be known.

Consequently, it is also necessary to understand that all life in
the universe does not vibrate at the same frequency as the lifeforms
here on Earth. The Universe is made up of many multi-dimensional
levels on which beings have existence, either similar or dissimilar
to our own. Many of these beings interact and have interacted with
our own dimension since its inception. Each race or group of
entities has its own agenda, and many of these agendas can be
discerned through the channeled writings of certain entities who
claim to be friendly to the planet Earth and who have only our best
interest and welfare at heart. In some cases this is true, in
others, it is definitely untrue. Discerning which are true and to
what extent, and which are not, has been a real challenge to writing
this book. It must be realized that there are elements of truth at
some level to all the writings, yet truth is a major element in good
propaganda for it allows one to accept the greater message and
intent with so much less questioning. Partial truth is the tool
with which our history has been manipulated until now, and robbed us
of our rightful heritage. Ferreting out these little fragments of
truth and assembling them into one coherent,all-encompassing and
logical story has been my assigned task.

Each of these individuals and groups of entities who have and still
do interact with this planet and with its inhabitants, can also not
see the whole picture, however. Like us humans, they often cannot
see the forest for the trees. On the dimension level at which they
exist, they too are only somewhat aware of the higher spiritual
dimensions and the spiritual hierarchy working there, except as they
are interacted with by these beings,much as many of us do when
working with our angels and other spiritual guides. These higher
spiritual dimensions or vibrations are what are commonly referred to
as `the levels of Heaven' and will be dealt with in the chapters on
Creation.

Next, it is necessary to understand that the basic spiritual purpose
behind the creation of various levels of existence, was to give the
individual atoms of Soul that each one of is, a school in which to
learn and grow, and to develop our awareness to a point where we too
can become the teacher rather than the student. When listening to
entities from one level higher up than you, it is much like
listening to a tenth grader when you are only a lowly 9th grader.
They may know more than you do, or then again, maybe they don't. But
then again, the 11th grader knows still more than the 10th grader
does. The whole question is From what level do you wish to receive
your truth? At what level do you seek to settle back and say, This
is high enough? The work in this book comes from the highest levels
of Truth available to mankind, in His interest, and for His benefit
alone.

Take it as you will.

In terms of the functioning of this school, planet Earth was created
as a plane of experience on which these individual atoms of Soul
could learn to master a balance between their physical and spiritual
natures. In some religions, this idea is expressed as walking with
your feet on the ground,and your head in the clouds or in heaven. To
do this, however, takes more than one lifetime. In the eternity of
nows beyond eternity, the number of lifetimes each being will spend
on this world and on other worlds and in other existences is
certainly almost infinite. The individual soul progresses from one
new learning experience to another, and from one lifetime to another
until it becomes a Master of every world, and is able then to be of
service to Creation in return by acting as a guiding hand, assisting
other up-and-coming `souls' in their individual learning process.
This cycle of births and rebirths is known to some as reincarnation.
It is also important to remember as you progress through this book
and discover the more negative affects of what has happened in the
past, that you realize that Soul exists in eternity, and, as all of
us must do in overcoming adversity in our lives, we must look at
these events as a part of the endless series of "nows" in which we
really have existence. If we choose to drag our past along with us,
we will always bear a heavy load. Eventually this load will become a
weight too heavy to bear, and will cause us to stumble and fall. We
will be victims of the abuse that has been perpetrated on us for
aeons, and we will never recover and go on from there. To understand
our past, and learn from its lessons, will then instead become a way
of freeing ourselves from these past injustices and going on from
here, clear and in command of our own power--fully conscious of who
and what we are.

In chalking the lesson of this history up to experience and going on
from there, we will have learned a valuable lesson. As Alex Haley
once embarked on a search for his own ancestral roots, so too is
this a voyage of discovery for the roots to which all of us can and
MUST lay claim. Every new moment affords us the opportunity to share
in ultimate Creation by recreating ourselves. We can only do this,
however, if we are willing to let go of who we thought we were and
move into the new paradigm of who it is we are becoming, and who we
have always been.

The voyage into the `past' and into the `future' that you are about
to take has already occurred at one level or another. It has created
the present reality in which we all live-for we create our own
reality. Whether we allow it to also create the future we are about
to undertake, is the choice that each and everyone of us now must
make as we step forward into the coming paradigm shift, and either
flow with it, or leave once again to take up anew our old patterns
of learning and of simply existing.

The last element of this whole puzzle of history is the presence of
Darkness in this Creation of Light and of Love. Free Will is the
essential ingredient in all of Creation, and so certain mechanisms
were instituted at its inception which would give man the lessons he
might need learning to use this right use of will. Know, however,
here and now, that Darkness as it exists in this Universe, was never
meant to be. Worlds of duality were created to give Soul the lessons
it needs to progress through the various levels of existence, but
Darkness as it is now, was a flaw in the system, an anathema to what
we think of as a perfect God creating a perfect Universe.

This is not only a true history of the Light of Creation itself, but
more so it is a history of the Darkness, and how it came to rule.
One more thing to keep in mind before we board this vehicle for
interstellar flight into the very heart of Consciousness itself, the
Spiritual Hierarchy want us all to remember how very grandly and how
very dearly we are all loved. As we become aware of our own inherent
spiritual nature awe will become aware of ourselves also as Co-
creators of the Universe-manifesting either the Darkness of an
unloving heart, or the True Light and Love of who we really are,
children of an Eternal Creator Himself.

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