Tower of Babel: Stargate to the Abyss

by Douglas Corrupting the Image 2

Chapter 12 of Corrupting the Image vol 2: Tower OF Babel: Stargate To the Abyss

Satan raised up the Rebel who became a gibbor, the Son of Perdition. Phase two of Satan’s plan was to create the stargate, a portal for the gods (demons) to pass through into the Rebel’s dimension. They would create bābu-ilū, that is, a gate / door of the gods, or the plural is ilānu, probably reflecting the alternate title Bab-ilan / Babylon, in Akkadian. The Bible records this event: 

Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth” (Gen 11:3–4).  

The Babylonians believed their ziggurats (step-pyramids) were ladders or bridges between the domain of man and the domain of the gods. Recall that when the veil spread over all nations (Isa 26:7), and unrolled between heaven and Earth at the Fall, the spiritual and earthly domains were no longer one. The veil shielded Earth from God’s glorious, fiery face so it would not melt his fallen creation (Ps 97:5); It also confined Satan to the spiritual side. He tried to overcome this obstacle through the Nephilim bodysuit program, but with the Flood, his hopes went down the drain.  

Thus, the point of ziggurats was to unite a city with its god. The intention was to create a connection point between the domain of the “gods” and the domain of man. The buildings were, according to Andrew George, “said to bridge the gap between the lowermost and uppermost levels of the cosmos.”xxxiv  

The names of some of the ziggurats reveal the important connection the builder’s ascribed to these artificial mountains, such as:  

  • Temple of the Foundation of Heaven and Earth (Babylon)  
  • Temple of the Wielder of the Seven Decrees of Heaven and Earth (Borsippa)  
  • Temple of the Stairway to Pure Heaven (Sippar)  
  • Temple of the Ziggurat, Exalted Dwelling Place (Kish)  
  • Temple of the Exalted Mountain (Ehursagkalamma)  
  • Temple of Exalted Splendor (Enlil – at Kish?)  
  • Temple of the Foundation of Heaven and Earth (Dilbat)  
  • Temple which Links Heaven and Earth (Larsa)xxxv 

Figure 31 Babylon ziggurat like the Tower of Babel 

The ziggurat, as depicted in Figure 31, was the device thought to grant humans and gods a portal through which they could commune and visit one another. It was “a bond of union, whose purpose was to assure communication between earth and heaven … giant step-ladder by means of which a man may ascend as near as possible to the sky.”xxxvi 

God revealed such a spiritual ladder between the two domains in Jacob’s dream, in which “a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it” (Gen 28:12). Jesus later identified himself to be the ladder: “You shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man” (John 1:51). The ziggurat was Satan’s counterfeit of Jacob’s Ladder.   

Additionally, Jerusalem was considered to be a connecting point between the two realms with one above and one below; the two cities were geographically superimposed, but separated by the veil. The Mishne speaks of the two Jerusalems and how God said that He would not enter the Jerusalem of the heavens until he could enter the Jerusalem below. The Rabbis ask, “Is there then a Jerusalem above?” They answer affirmatively, citing Ps 122: “Jerusalem! which art built as a city wherein all associate together (i.e., Jerusalem is built as that Jerusalem which is connected (associated) with it. Hence there is another Jerusalem, and that is above in the heavens.”xxxvii 

The idea of two Jerusalems is reflected in Paul’s writings where he distinguished the earthly “Jerusalem which now is” (Gal 4:25), from the “Jerusalem above” (Gal 4:26). He was apparently echoing the rabbinic understanding of the Jerusalem shel ma’alah (above) and the Jerusalem shelemata (below). xxxviii In Hebrew, things that come in natural pairs use a dual ending: e.g. “yad” means hand and “yadayim” means two hands. The “ayim” ending of Yerusalayim strongly implies duality xxxix with one above and one below. This may be the reason Jerusalem is commanded in Isaiah 52, to awake twice. “Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion” Is 52:1. The Mesopotamians knew that the earthly realm was only part of the cosmos. Therefore, we see the Mesopotamians understood a spiritual truth that is confirmed in Scripture. 

In the ancient Mesopotamian worldview, it was believed that heaven and Earth had been separated, and Enlil’s temple, Ekur, was “the bond between them.” The city of Nippur was called dur-an-ki, meaning “bond between heaven and earth.”xl Amar Annus points out how Enlil had the central position in the pantheon, and in an ancient hymn, the city of Nippur was called, “city of Enlil, bond of Heaven and Earth, Enlil, the great mountain.” The most important city and its main temple, as the cosmic bond, [that] forms a link between the different levels of the universe” xli (Emphasis mine).  

The ancients did not naively imagine they could build a skyscraper and touch the physical sky. The point was to build a portal, as Creig Marlowe explains, “A ziggurat was not only to reach the gods but to provide a gateway for a god to come down to the people,” which he says, “precludes any idea that building this tower was a superhuman construction of a super skyscraper and some kind of attempt to ‘storm Heaven’ and rival or resist God.” xlii They were not going to invade heaven, but instead, were seeking a way to let Satan, et al., break through to the earthly realm.  

WORMHOLE TO THE ABYSS?  

Thus, this gate of the gods was Satan’s plan to open a portal to allow his team to flood through to our side of the veil. We do not know exactly how they intended to do this, but mathematics might offer some clues. 

The ancients understood, perhaps imprecisely, that the gods they worshipped were not in this dimension, but resided in another dimension. They believed that the cosmological abode of the gods was “in the middle heavens which was the place for assembly. xliii  

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Figure 32 Tesseract 

The terrestrial dimension where we live is at a right angle to spiritual dimension and this is called a Tesseract (or a 4-D cube). Figure 32 above illustrates that the spiritual dimension is an overlay on our realm—it is not far away, but is on us, below us, beside us. We are completely enveloped by the fourth dimension.  

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Figure 33 Visualizing three dimensions 

To understand this concept, point your index finger forward; that is one dimension, as in Figure 33 Point your middle finger 90 degrees from your index finger. Now you have two dimensions. Point your thumb up, now you have three dimensions. We live in three dimensions. We are familiar with three-dimensional space. To get to another dimension, according to physicists, we just have to draw a right angle. This is where our brains begin to hurt because we are not able to contort our fingers in such a fashion. Yet mathematically, it is possible; higher dimensions are simply at right angles to one another.  

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Figure 34 Abbot’s visualization of A Sphere entering the two-dimensional plane of Flatland. 

It is easier for us to imagine a two-dimensional world, as Edwin Abbot did in his 1883 book, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. In Flatland, everyone and everything is two-dimensional. There are myths of a higher dimension, but since no one has been to that dimension, there is no proof and it is considered taboo to talk of it. In Flatland, there is no up or down, just forward and sideways. However, when a three-dimensional being (A Sphere) intersects their world, it causes great consternations. They cannot see the entirety of A Sphere; they only see a horizontal cross-section because Flatlanders can only see in two-dimensions.; If you follow the arrow labeled “My eye” in Figure 34, you will see how the Flatlanders can only perceive a two-dimensional slice of A Sphere. He appears as a round spot on the ground that narrows and widens as he passes through. Abbot’s picture illustrates what this might look like. Flatland serves as a convenient analogy for us to imagine a yet higher dimension than our own three-dimensional world. As the illustration shows, the three-dimensional world was not far away, in a special sense, from Flatland; it was in fact, all around it. Flatland lived inside of Spaceland (the three-dimensional world). In the same way, we live inside the spiritual or heavenly plane which is on a higher dimension than our world; yet it is all around us. We cannot directly see it, but we can perceive it through math and testimonies of those who have seen it. Quantum physics, which was discovered in the early part of the twentieth century, has provided a theoretical bridge between these dimensions. Einstein, who was rather skeptical of some of the claims of quantum physics, wrote a paper with Podolsky and Rosen, called the “EPR Paradox,” in which they did a thought experiment:  

The essence of the paradox is that particles can interact in such a way that it is possible to measure both their position and their momentum more accurately than Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle allows, unless measuring one particle instantaneously affects the other to prevent this accuracy, which would involve information being transmitted faster than light as forbidden by the theory of relativity (“spooky action at a distance”). This consequence had not previously been noticed and seemed unreasonable at the time; the phenomenon involved is now known as quantum entanglement.xliv  

Quantum entanglement happens when you have two particles that become connected—they share information between them instantaneously. Scientists have fired a laser beam through types of crystal which can split photons, causing them to become entangled. Even when the particles are separated by hundreds of miles, the relationship remains intact; a change in one instantaneously causes a change in the other! 

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Figure 35 Quantum Entanglement (Moreau et al., Science Advances, 2019) www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-unveiled-the-first-ever-photo-of-quantum-entanglement 

The particles are working in tandem, and when separated, regardless of the distance, they continue to be inextricably linked. Whatever happens to one immediately affects the other. If you change the spin in one, it changes the spin in the other instantaneously. Once entangled, the particles lack independence, and nobody knows why this happens, but it happens.xlv And it has been tested and reproduced repeatedly. 

Figure 35 above is the first-ever photo that “shows [quantum] entanglement between two photons—two light particles. They are interacting and—for a brief moment—sharing physical states.”xlvi 

Wormholes are technically known as Einstein-Rosen bridges (the “ER” part of the equation). Nathan Rosen collaborated with Einstein on a paper describing them in 1935. EPR refers to another paper Einstein published in 1935 with Rosen and Boris Podolsky. This paper articulated the paradoxical puzzles imposed on the nature of reality by quantum entanglement. For decades, nobody seriously considered the possibility that the two papers had anything to do with one another. But in 2013, physicists Juan Maldacena and Leonard Susskind proposed that in some sense, wormholes and entanglement describe the same thing.xlvii 

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Figure 36 Anatomy of a Wormhole livescience.com/28550-how-quantum-entanglement-works-infographic.html. 

Researchers may have discovered glimpses of the other dimensions; they may have peered through the veil. However, God placed this barrier there for our protection; its removal would literally be the end of the world as we know it.  

Communication through the veil is forbidden by God; however, it appears to be exactly what Geordie Rose, CTO of D-Wave Systems, a quantum computer company, is attempting to do. He claims that shadows of parallel worlds overlap ours and, given the right circumstances, we can enter into that other dimension, take their resources, and repurpose them for our own use. He says: 

In Quantum mechanics there is this concept that a thing can exist in two states which are mutually exclusive at the same time … Imagine that there really are parallel universes out there, and now imagine that you have two, that are exactly identical in every respect … with only one difference, and that’s the value of a little thing called a Q-bit on this chip, that’s a contraction of quantum bit. And that Q-bit is very much like a bit or a transistor in a conventional computer. 

It has two distinct physical states, which we call 0 and 1 for bit. And in a conventional computer these are mutually exclusive. That device is either one or the other and never anything else. In a quantum computer, that device can be in the strange situation where these two parallel universes have a nexus, a point in space where they overlap … So, the way I think about it, is that the shadows of these parallel worlds, overlap with ours, and if we’re smart enough, we can dive into them and grab their resources and pull them back into ours, to make an effect in our world” xlviii (Emphasis mine). 

It is interesting that he says “their” resources. Who are they? To what resources is he referring? How does he know that there is a parallel dimension? He does not provide answers to these questions. Nevertheless, it sounds like he is describing a portal or a bridge, like Enlil’s temple served as a link between the realms. It could be that the quantum computer is a modern, high-tech way to open up a channel between dimensions which might explain Roses’ eerie statement, “If you have the opportunity to stand next to one of these machines, it is an awe-inspiring thing, at least to me. It feels like an altar to an alien god.” xlix 

The Tower of Babel, the gate of the gods, was apparently a similar device. It did not have a fancy quantum computer at its center, but it was still an impressive structure with a clearly defined goal: to make contact with “them”. The ancients were blatant about wanting to reach the other side and communicate with the gods, and to quote Geordie Rose, were trying “to grab their resources and pull them back into ours, to make an effect in our world.”  

Thus, modern man is once again trying to open the veil, much like what Satan intended to do with the gate of the gods. And that explains why God deemed it imperative at the Tower of Babel to thwart man’s actions. If the purpose of constructing a tower had just been to make people famous, then God would not have needed to intervene; or, if God simply hates haughty towers, we would have seen Him destroy all towers and every monument made to man. Granted, He will do just that one day (Isa 2:12–15), but it will be at the end of the world!  

Opening the Tower of Babel gateway would have had catastrophic consequences, but God intervened at that time. In the future, this very thing will indeed happen, according to the book of Revelation. Satan will one day succeed in opening the Abyss and releasing an army of two-hundred-million, chimeric creatures upon the world.  

I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace (Rev 9:1–2). Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million (Rev 9:16). 

Satan’s purpose for opening the Abyss in the future is to increase the size of his army to fight against Jesus. Thus, the overwhelming reason for God to intervene at Babel was to prevent Satan from creating a gateway of the gods that was intended to be a passageway or stargate for the fallen angels to enter our physical realm. Satan particularly wanted to release those who were judged during the Flood and sent to the Abyss. 

Opening the gates of the Abyss is a parallel action to what was planned to happen at Babel. We do not know exactly how the pieces came together in Babel to create a working portal, but we have seen that science supports the notion of opening wormholes. Given that Satan is the smartest being after God, he must have used his intelligence to find a way to do it. Historically, archaeology and multiple texts agree that the Tower was built. Since that time, Satan has continued to partner with mankind to build mechanisms to bridge the dimensions and to ultimately open the Abyss. (See Appendix 8 Joel’s Army).