From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race

by Andrew Collins, Richard Ward

Overview

Provides convincing evidence that angels, demons, and fallen angels were flesh-and-blood members of a giant race predating humanity, spoken of in the Bible as the Nephilim.

• Indicates that the earthly paradise of Eden was a realm in the mountains of Kurdistan.

• By the author of Gateway to Atlantis.

Our mythology describes how beings of great beauty and intelligence, who served as messengers of gods, fell from grace through pride. These angels, also known as Watchers, are spoken of in the Bible and other religious texts as lusting after human women, who lay with them and gave birth to giant offspring called the Nephilim. These religious sources also record how these beings revealed forbidden arts and sciences to humanity—transgressions that led to their destruction in the Great Flood.

Andrew Collins reveals that these angels, demons, and fallen angels were flesh-and-blood members of a race predating our own. He offers evidence that they lived in Egypt (prior to the ancient Egyptians), where they built the Sphinx and other megalithic monuments, before leaving the region for what is now eastern Turkey following the cataclysms that accompanied the last Ice Age. Here they lived in isolation before gradually establishing contact with the developing human societies of the Mesopotamian plains below. Humanity regarded these angels—described as tall, white-haired beings with viperlike faces and burning eyes—as gods and their realm the paradise wherein grew the tree of knowledge. Andrew Collins demonstrates how the legends behind the fall of the Watchers echo the faded memory of actual historical events and that the legacy they have left humanity is one we can afford to ignore only at our own peril.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781879181724
Publisher:	Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication date:	09/01/2001
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Andrew Collins has spent more than twenty years investigating the relationship between paranormal phenomena, ancient sites, and the human mind. He is also the widely heralded author of Gods of Eden and Gateway to Atlantis. He lives in England.

Table of Contents

Author's Note
List of Figures
List of Charts
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
1. I Have Begotten a Strange Son
2. The Search for the Source
3. Demonic Doctrine
4. Insane Blasphemy
5. Visage Like a Viper
6. When Giants Walked the Earth
7. Angels in Exile
8. Terrible Lie
9. Born of the Demon Race
10. On the Edge of Death
11. In the Realm of the Immortals
12. Eastward, in Eden
13. The Peacock Angel
14. Children of the Djinn
15. Where Heaven and Earth Meet
16. Sleeping with Gods
17. In the Footsteps of the Watchers
18. Shaman-like Demon
19. Born of Fire
20. Hell-fire and Flood
21. Egyptian Genesis
22. Father of Terrors
23. Kosmokrator
24. Tragedy of the Fall
25. Amnesia of the Masses
Postscript
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Graham Hancock

"An exciting and original intellectual quest . . . important new facts concerning the mysterious origins of human civilization.

Barbara Ardinger

"Tracking down angels both heavenly and fallen, Collins’s detective work takes him through entire libraries. . . . His conclusion is that we humans are not the first race to live on the planet. Reading books like this one can be as much fun as reading Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie.

Sandy Moss

"A fascinating and in-depth look at . . . how actual events inevitably evolve into the stuff of indecipherable legend as centuries pass.

Nigel Jackson

"A magnificently researched work; its startling conclusions will undoubtedly reverberate over the coming decades.

David Rohl

"A fascinating piece of research which does much to bring the biblical world of Eden back into the historical spotlight . . . a major contribution to the study of the genesis of civilization.

Editorial Reviews

"A fascinating piece of research which does much to bring the biblical world of Eden back into the historical spotlight . . . a major contribution to the study of the genesis of civilization."

Egyptologist and author of A Test of Time David Rohl

"A magnificently researched work; its startling conclusions will undoubtedly reverberate over the coming decades."

author of The Horned Piper Nigel Jackson

"An exciting and original intellectual quest . . . important new facts concerning the mysterious origins of human civilization."

author of Fingerprints of the Gods Graham Hancock

"A fascinating and in-depth look at . . . how actual events inevitably evolve into the stuff of indecipherable legend as centuries pass."

Sandy Moss

"Tracking down angels both heavenly and fallen, Collins’s detective work takes him through entire libraries. . . . His conclusion is that we humans are not the first race to live on the planet. Reading books like this one can be as much fun as reading Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie."

Barbara Ardinger

"A fascinating and in-depth look at . . . how actual events inevitably evolve into the stuff of indecipherable legend as centuries pass."

"A fascinating piece of research which does much to bring the biblical world of Eden back into the historical spotlight . . . a major contribution to the study of the genesis of civilization."

"A magnificently researched work; its startling conclusions will undoubtedly reverberate over the coming decades."

"An exciting and original intellectual quest . . . important new facts concerning the mysterious origins of human civilization."

"Tracking down angels both heavenly and fallen, Collins’s detective work takes him through entire libraries. . . . His conclusion is that we humans are not the first race to live on the planet. Reading books like this one can be as much fun as reading Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie."

From the Publisher

"A fascinating piece of research which does much to bring the biblical world of Eden back into the historical spotlight . . . a major contribution to the study of the genesis of civilization."

David Rohl

"A magnificently researched work; its startling conclusions will undoubtedly reverberate over the coming decades."

Nigel Jackson

"An exciting and original intellectual quest . . . important new facts concerning the mysterious origins of human civilization."

Graham Hancock