UFOs & Aliens - Fr. Seraphim Rose

UFOs and aliens an Orthodox Christian understanding by father sarap from

Introduction, excerpt from “Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works”, Ch. 77

Rose introduction an excerpt from father Sarah from Rose his life and works by

ham monk damine for chapter six of Orthodoxy and the religion of the future titled signs

from Heaven an Orthodox Christian understanding of UFOs father sarram

researched a great many books works by reputable scientists and historians as well as some popular Works

which gave him insights into the mind of the times his library in the optina cell

even included the books Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars at the beginning of the chapter

father seraphim looked into the background of Science Fiction literature in order to characterize the mentality

associated with UFOs he then proceeded to the objective evidence for UFO phenomena quoting

scientists he had studied And discussing the official government reports he chronologically traced the history of

UFO sightings in the 20th century defined the various kinds of UFO

encounters and related in detail some of the more reliable well documented and revealing

cases about Close Encounters of the Third Kind cases of actual contact with

animated beings he wrote science fiction has given the images Evolution has

produced the philosophy and the technology of the space age has supplied the plausibility for such

encounters having demonstrated that there can be no reasonable doubt that there is something behind the many

thousands of serious UFO reports father seraphim went on to present his conclusions based on patristic

sources these conclusions as it turned out were being corroborated by the

secular scientists themselves only lately father saram wrote have serious

investigators begun to agree that UFOs while having certain physical

characteristics cannot at all be explained as somebody's spaceships but are clearly something of the

paraphysical or ult realm he quoted the French astrophysicist jacqu valali as saying

that UFOs might be constructed both as physical craft and as psychic devices

Dr valii has well asked whether the sightings might not be carefully engineered scenes and whether the

visitors from outer space idea might not serve as a diversionary role in masking

the real infinitely more complex nature of the technology that gives rise to the

sightings both he and Dr J Allen highneck the chief scientific consultant

of the Air Force investigations of UFOs had Advanced the theory of Earth B found

aliens speculating on interlocking universes right here on Earth from which

the phenomenon might be coming in the words of Iowa college professor Brad

Steiger who had made a detailed study of the Air Force files we are dealing with

a multi-dimensional paraphysical phenomena which is largely indigenous to

planet Earth excerpt from Orthodoxy and the

Excerpt from "Explanation of the UFO Phenomena", Ch. 6, Section 4 from "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future" (ORF)

religion of the future by father Sarah from Rose chapter 6 signs from Heaven an

Orthodox Christian understanding of unidentified flying

objects the most puzzling aspect of UFO phenomena to most researchers namely the

strange mingling of physical and psychic characteristics in them is no puzzle at

all to readers of Orthodox spiritual books especially the lives of saints

demons also have physical bodies although the matter in them is of such

subtlety that it cannot be perceived by men unless their spiritual doors of perception are opened whether with God's

will as in the case of holy men or against it as in the case of sorcerers

and mediums Orthodox literature has many examples of demonic manifestations which

fit precisely the UFO pattern apparitions of solid beings and objects

whether demons themselves or their illusionary creat ations which suddenly

materialize and dematerialize always with the aim of aing and confusing people and ultimately

leading them to predition the lives of the 4th Century St Anthony the Great and

the 3r century St cyprian the former sorcerer are filled with such

incidents the life of St Martin of Tours by his disciple supicious Severus has an

interesting example of demonic power in connection with a strange physical manifestation which closely parallels

today's UFO close encounters a certain youth named anatolius became a monk near St Martin's

Monastery but out of false humility he became the victim of demonic deception

he fancied that he conversed with angels and in order to persuade others of his sanctity these angels agreed to give him

a shining robe from Out of Heaven as a sign of the power of God that dwelt in

the youth one night about midnight there was a tremendous thudding of dancing

feet and a murmuring as of many voices in The Hermitage and Anatolia cell

became Ablaze with light then came silence and the deceived one emerged

from his cell with the Heavenly garment a light was brought and all carefully

inspected the Garment it was exceedingly soft with a surpassing luster and of a

bright Scarlet but it was impossible to tell the nature of the material at the

same time under the most exact scrutiny of eyes and fingers it seemed to be a garment and nothing

else the following morning Anatolia spiritual father took him by the hand in

order to lead him to St Martin to discover whether this was actually a trick of the devil in fear the deceived

one refused to go and when he was being forced to go against his will between the hands of those who were dragging him

the Garment disappeared the author of the account who either witnessed the incident

himself or had it from eyewitnesses concludes that the devil was unable to

keep up his Illusions or conceal their nature when they were to be submitted to Martin's eyes it was so fully within his

power to see the devil that he recognized him under any form whether he kept to his own character or changed

himself into any of the various shapes of spiritual wickedness including the form of pagan gods and the appearance of

Christ himself with royal robes and Crown and enveloped in a bright red

light it is clear that the manifestations of today's flying saucers

are quite within the technology of demons indeed nothing else can explain

them as well the multifarious demonic deceptions of Orthodox literature have

been adapted to the mythology of outer space nothing more the anatolius

mentioned above would be known today simply as a contact D and the purpose of

the unidentified object in such accounts is clear to awe the beholders with a

sense of the mysterious and to produce proof of the higher intelligences Angels

if the victims believe in them or space visitors for Modern Men and thereby to

gain trust for the message they wish to communicate we shall look at this message

below a demonic kidnapping quite close to UFO abductions is described in the

life of St nylus of Sora the 15th century founder of ski life in Russia

sometime after the Saint's death there lived in his Monastery a certain priest with his son once when the boy was sent

on some errand suddenly there came to him a certain strange man who seized him and carried him as if on the Wind into

an impenetrable Forest bringing him to a large room in his dwelling and placing him in the middle of his cabin in front

of the window when the priest and the monks prayed for St nyla's help in finding the

Lost Boy the saint came to the boy's Aid and stood before the room where the boy was standing when he struck the window

frame with his staff the building was shaken and all the unclean spirits fell to the Earth the saint told the demon to

return the boy to the place from which he had taken him and then became invisible then after some howling among

the demons the same strange one seized the boy and brought him to the ski like the wind and placing him on a haystack

he became invisible after being seen by the monks the boy told them everything that

happened to him what he had seen and heard and from that time this boy became very humble as if he had been stupified

the priest out of Terror left the ski with his son in a similar demonic kidnapping in

19th centur Russia a young man after his mother cursed him became the slave of a

demon grandfather for 12 years and was capable of appearing invisibly among men

in order to help the demon sew confusion in their midst such true stories of demonic

activity were commonplace in earlier centuries it is a sign of the spiritual crisis of today that Modern Men for all

their proud Enlightenment and wisdom are becoming once more aware of such

experiences but no longer have the Christian framework with which to explain

them contemporary UFO researchers seeking an explanation of phenomena

which have become too noticeable to overlook any longer have joined today's psychic researchers in an attempt to

formulate a unified field theory that will Encompass psychic as well as

physical phenomena but such researchers only continue the approach of enlightening

Modern Men and trust their scientific observations to give answers in a spiritual realm that cannot be

approached objectively at all but only with faith the physical world is morally

neutral and may be known relatively well by an objective Observer but the invisible spiritual realm comprises

beings both good and evil and the objective Observer has no means of distinguishing one from the other unless

he accepts the Revelation which the invisible God has made of them to man thus today's UFO researchers place

the divine inspiration of the Bible on the same level as the satanically inspired automatic writing of spiritism

and they do not distinguish between the actions of angels and those of demons

they know now after a long period when materialistic prejudices reigned among

scientists that there is a non-physical realm that is real and they see its

effects in UFO phenomena but as long as they approach this realm scientifically

they will be just as easily deceived by the Unseen Powers as the most naive

contacte when they try to determine who or what is behind the UFO phenomena and

what the purpose of the phenomena might be they are forced to indulge in the wildest

speculations thus Dr valii confesses himself baffled whether the source of UFO manif stations might be a morally

neutral unintended Clockwork a benevolent solemn Gathering of wise men

as the Extraterrestrial myth would have us believe or a terrible superhuman

monstrosity the very contemplation of which would make a man insane that is

the activity of demons a true evaluation of the UFO

experience may be made only on the basis of Christian Revelation and experience and is accessible only to the humble

Christian believer who trusts these sources to be sure it is not given to

man entirely to explain the invisible world of Angels and Demons but enough

Christian knowledge has been given to us to know how these beings act in our world and how we should respond to their

actions particularly in escaping the Nets of the Demons UFO researchers have come to the

conclusion that the phenomena they have studied are essentially identical with phenomena that used to be called demonic

but only the Christian the Orthodox Christian who is enlightened by the patristic understanding of scripture and

the 2,000-year experience of saints encounters with invisible beings is able

to know the full meaning of this conclusion section five the meaning of

"The Meaning of UFOs", Section 5 (ORF)

UFOs what then is the meaning of the UFO phenomena of our time why have they

appeared just at this time in history what is their message to what future do

they Point first UFO phenomena are but one

part of an astonishing outpouring of paranormal events what just a few years

ago most people would have considered as Miracles Dr valii in The Invisible

College expresses the secular appreciation of this fact observations of unseen events suddenly Loom into our

environment by the thousands causing a general shifting of man's belief patterns his entire relationship to the

concept of the invisible something is happening to human consciousness the

same powerful force that has influenced the human race in the past is again influencing it

now in Christian language this means a new demonic outpouring is being loosed

upon Mankind in in the Christian apocalyptic view see the end of this book we can see

that the power which until now has restrained the final and most terrible manifestation of demonic activity on

Earth has been taken away 2 Thessalonians 2:7 Orthodox Christian government and

public order whose Chief representative on Earth was the Orthodox Emperor and

the Orthodox Christian worldview no longer exists as a whole and Satan has been loosed out of his prison where he

was kept by the grace of the Church of Christ in order to deceive the Nations and prepare them to worship Antichrist

at the End of the Age perhaps never since the beginning of the Christian era have demons appeared

so openly and extensively as today the visitors from outer space theory is but

one of the many pretexts they are using to gain acceptance for the idea that higher beings are now to take charge of

the destiny of mankind footnote many of the reports of Bigfoot

and other monsters show the same occult characteristics as UFO sightings and

often they occur in connection with such sightings second UFOs are but the newest

of the mediumistic techniques by which the devil gains initiates into his occult realm they are the terrible sign

that man has become susceptible to demonic influence as never before in the Christian era in the 19th century it was

usually necessary to seek out dark Seance rooms in order to enter into contact with demons but now one need

only look into the sky usually at night it is true mankind has lost what remains

of basic Christian understanding up to now and now passively places himself at

the disposal of whatever Powers May descend from the sky the new film Close Encounters of the

Third is a shocking revelation of how superstitious postchristian man has

become ready in an instant and unquestioningly to believe and follow hardly disguised demons wherever they

might lead footnote two other recently discovered

paranormal phenomena reveal how boldly the demons are now making use of physical means in particular modern

technical devices in order to enter into contact with men

one one Latvian researcher now followed by others has discovered the phenomenon

of mysterious voices which appear unexplainably on tape recorders even

when the recording is done under clinical conditions in a totally soundless atmosphere with results very

similar to those of seanes the presence of a medium or psychic in the room seems to help the

phenomenon Constantine Riv breakthrough an Amazing Experiment in electronic

communication with the Dead Two metallic voiced space people

for some time have supposedly been using the telephone to communicate with both contactees and UFO researchers the

possibility of a hoax in such a phenomenon of course is high but in recent years the voices of the Dead

convincing to those who are contacted have been heard in telephone conversations with their loved ones it

can can hardly be denied as the reporter of this phenomenon notes that the Demons

of old are Marching Among Us Again to a degree unheard of in the past Keel UFOs

operation Trojan Horse third the message of the UFOs is

prepare for Antichrist the savior of the apostate world is coming to rule

it perhaps he himself will come in the air in order to complete his impersonation of Christ perhaps only the

visitors from outer space will land publicly in order to offer Cosmic worship of their Master perhaps the fire

from heaven apocalypse 13:13 will be only a part of the Great

demonic spectacles of the last times at any rate the message for contemporary

mankind is expect Deliverance not from the Christian Revelation and faith in an

unseen God God but from vehicles in the sky it is one of the signs of the last

times that there shall be Terrors and great signs from Heaven even a hundred years ago Bishop ignacius brianchaninov

in his book on Miracles and signs remarked on the striving to be

encountered in contemporary Christian Society to see Miracles and even perform

Miracles such a striving reveals the self-deception founded on self-esteem

and vain Glory that dwells in the soul and possesses it true Wonder workers have decreased

and grown extinct but people thirst for Miracles more than ever before we are

gradually coming near to the time when a vast arena is to be opened up for numerous and striking false miracles to

draw to predition those unfortunate offspring of fleshly wisdom who will be

seduced and deceived by these miracles of special interest to you have

uo investigators the Miracles of antichrist will be chiefly manifested in

the aerial realm where Satan chiefly has his Dominion the signs will act most of

all on the sense of sight charming and deceiving it St John the Theologian

beholding in Revelation the events that are to precede the end of the world says that Antichrist will perform Great Signs

and will even make fire to come down out of Heaven upon the Earth in the sight of

men this is the sign indicated by scripture as the highest of the signs of antichrist and the place of this sign is

the air it will be a splendid and terrible spectacle St Simeon the new Theologian

for this reason remarks that the struggler of prayer should quite rarely look into the sky out of fear of evil

spirits in the air who cause many and various deceptions in the air St ignacius Brian nof

continues men will not understand that the Miracles of antichrist have no good

rational purpose no definite meaning that they are foreign to truth filled

with lies that they are a monstrous malicious meaningless play acting which

increases in order to astonish to reduce to perplexity and Oblivion to deceive to

seduce to attract by the fascination of a pompous empty stupid effect all

demonic manifestations have the characteristic that even the slightest heed paid to them is dangerous for such

heedfulness alone allowed even without Sympathy for the manifestation one may

be sealed with the most harmful impression and subjected to a serious

Temptation thousands of UFO contactees and even simple Witnesses have

experience the Dreadful truth of these words few have escaped once they become deeply involved

even the secular investigators of UFO phenomena have seemed fit to warn people against their dangers John Keel for

example writes dabbling with UFOs can be as dangerous as dabbling with black

magic the phenomenon prays upon the neurotic the gouble and the immature

paranoid schizophrenia demonomania and even suicide can result and has resulted

in a number of cases a mild curiosity about UFO can turn into a destructive

Obsession for this reason I strongly recommend that parents forbid their children from becoming involved School

teachers and other adults should not encourage teenagers to take an interest in this subject UFOs operation trojan

horse in a different place Bishop ignacius brianchaninov recorded with awe

and for boing the vision of a simple Russian blacksmith in a village near Petersburg at the dawn of our present

age of unbelief and Revolution 1817 in the middle of the day he

suddenly saw a multitude of demons in human form sitting in the branches of the forest trees in strange garments and

pointed caps and singing to the accompaniment of unbelievably weird

musical instruments an eerie and frightful song our years have come our

will be done we live near the end of this this fearful age of demonic Triumph and

rejoicing where the Eerie humanoids another of The Masks of the demons have

become visible to thousands of people and by their absurd encounters take possession of The Souls of those men

from whom God's Grace has Departed the UFO phenomenon is aign to Orthodox

Christians to walk all the more cautiously and soberly on the path to Salvation knowing that we can be tempted

and seduced not merely by false religions but even by seemingly physical objects which just catch the eye in

earlier centuries Christians were very cautious about strange and new phenomena

knowing of the devil's WS but after the Modern Age of Enlightenment most people

have become merely curious about such things and even pursue them relegating the devil to a half imaginary realm

awareness of the nature of UFOs then can be a help in Awakening Orthodox Christians to a conscious spirit

spiritual life and a conscious Orthodox worldview that does not easily follow after the fashionable ideas of the

times the conscious Orthodox Christian lives in a world that is clearly Fallen

both the earth below and the stars above all being equally far from the Lost

Paradise for which he is striving he is part of a suffering mankind all

descended from the one Adam the first man and all alike in need of the Redemption offered freely by the Son of

God by his saving sacrifice on the cross he knows that man is not to evolve into

something higher nor has he any reason to believe that there are highly evolved beings on other planets but he knows

well that there are indeed advanced intelligences in the universe besides

himself these are of two kinds and he strives to live so as to dwell with

those who serve God the angels and avoid contact with the others who have

rejected God and strive in their envy and Malice to draw man into their Misfortune the

demons he knows that man out of self-love and weakness is easily

inclined to follow error and believe in fairy tales that promise contact with a higher state or higher beings without

the struggle of Christian Life in fact precisely as an escape from the struggle

of Christian Life he distrusts his own ability to see through the de ceptions

of the demons and therefore clings all the more firmly to the scriptural and patristic guidelines which the Church of

Christ provides for his life such a one has the possibility to resist the religion of the future the

religion of antichrist in whatever form it may present itself the rest of

mankind saved by a miracle of God Is

Excerpt from "Living the Orthodox World-view"

Lost the following is an excerpt from the original recording of father seraphim's lecture from 1982 titled

living the Orthodox world view another point the truly weird

response to the new movie everyone in America is talking about see ET the exat terrest his caus literally millions of

seeming the normal people to express their affection and love for the hero who is a savior from outer space was

quite obviously a demon and all this is an obvious preparation for the worship of the coming Antichrist ined the movie

editor review of in the Orthodox America of this film which can you all read it was also review of this film in the

recent uh newspaper the V dasis and the priest who reved it a wonderful movie

that can teach us about love and everyone to me there quite a contrast between people who are trying to be

aware of what's going on and those who are simply led into the mood of the

T I could go on with details like this but my purpose is not to frighten you but to make you aware of what is

happening around us it is truly later than we think the apocalypse is now now

tragic it is to see Christians and above all Orthodox young people with this incalculable tragedy hanging over their

heads who think they can continue what is called a normal life in these terrible times participating fully in

The Winds of this silly self- worshipping generation totally unaware that the Fool's Paradise we living in is

about to crash and completely unprepared for the desperate times that lie just ahead of there is no longer even a question of

being a good or a poor Orthodox Christian question now is will our faith survive at all with many it will not

survive the coming Antichrist will be too attractive too much in the spirit of the worldly things we now crave for most

men even to know that they have lost their Christianity by bowing down to him still the call of Christ comes to us

let us after becoming aware of some of these things begin at last to pay attention to

Excerpt from Conclusion of ORF

father Sarah from Rose writes Orthodox Christians hold fast to

the grace which you have never let it become a matter of habit never measure it by merely human standards or expect

it to be logical or comprehensible to those who understand nothing higher than

what is human or who think to obtain the grace of the holy spirit in some other way than that which the one Church of

Christ has handed down down to us true Orthodoxy by its very nature must seem

totally out of place in these demonic times a dwindling minority of the despised and foolish in the midst of a

religious revival inspired by another kind of spirit but let us take comfort

from the certain words of our Lord Jesus Christ fear not little flock for it is

your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom let all true or Orthodox

Christians strengthen themselves for the battle ahead never forgetting that in Christ the victory is already ours he

has promised that the Gates of Hell will not Prevail against his church and that for the sake of the elect he will cut

short the days of the last Great Tribulation and in truth if God be for

us who can be against us even in the midst of the

cruestv World let us live even as true Christians of all times have lived in

expectation of the end of all things and the coming of our dear Savior for he

that giveth testimony of these things saith surely I come quickly amen come

Lord Jesus