God is dead? Hardly! We are God! To the very quick of the very first heartbeat of esoteric knowledge and wisdom
Originally Published 12th November 2025 at GrahamHancock.com
Photo Auguste Léon, 1914 (PD)
At the very heart of the mystery of advanced ancient civilizations and the megalithic structures they left behind, not least of which are the Pyramids of Giza and Gobekli Tepe, is the question: how on earth did they build those things? The logical conclusion is that our ancestors were in possession of advanced knowledge that was lost over time. Which only begs another question: why was that knowledge lost? An easy answer is to chalk it up to the moral decay of humanity, but that hardly stands up to scrutiny today. That only begs another question. Why does morality decay over time? All the religious guilt in the world hasn’t brought the world one step closer to understanding that mystery. As we learn more about how megalithic structures situated across our planet are in surgically precise alignment with the celestial mechanics of heavenly bodies, the mystery digs even deeper. There would appear to be some sort of Intelligent Design involved, a Grand Architect, God if you will, who has left a map in the heavens and on Earth for us to find… what exactly? What exactly are we to find? What exactly are we here for?
At the very heart of Vedic cosmology is the concept of the Yuga Cycle. The notion that over long periods of time, Consciousness Itself goes through varying cycles of ignorance and knowledge. These cycles have been shown to align with the movement of the heavenly bodies in the night sky, and they point to a cyclical model of history where knowledge and wisdom are gained and lost on a timescale that has proven to be predictable. As our world becomes ever more technologically advanced, there is an undeniable awakening of Consciousness occurring. None of this feels random. None of this appears to be happening at random intervals with leaps and bounds here and there, with a hiccup here or there. It appears to be all happening
in accordance with immutable mathematical laws that are in alignment with the movement of the heavenly bodies, which are in turn aligned with the rise and fall of civilizations. This all renders moot the concept of free will and religious guilt as the causative agents for the atrocities that have littered our known history and are attributed to appeasing some angry external God with an ax to grind. The time has come, and it’s been a long time coming, but that turd needs to be flushed down the toilet. The official narrative of history, who we are, what we are, and where we are, is dead. All of which leads me to that glorious iconoclast, Friedrich Nietzsche, and the title of this article.
God is dead? Hardly! We are God!
One of the most famous quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche is “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” Now, naturally, he didn’t mean it in the literal sense. He was pushing the very limits of language, the meanings we attach to words, and the subtle shifts in meaning words undergo in specific contexts. Every word Friedrich Nietzsche committed to posterity is a clarion call for the human race to wake up. Curiously enough, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is doing the same thing, pushing the very limits of language to their utmost. It requires us to look closer. To look very closely. As close as we can until language dissolves into Pure Spirit, and we are able to move mountains again without lifting a finger!
From Basic Writings of Nietzsche, translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann, page 475:
To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long— that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget (a good example of this in modern times is Mirabeau {Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791), was a celebrated French Revolutionary statesman and writer.}, who had no memory for insults and vile actions done him and was unable to forgive simply because he— forgot). Such a man shakes off with a single shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone genuine “love of one’s enemies” is possible— supposing it to be possible at all on earth.
*bold portions added by Luke Angstadt
To take it a step further. Better yet, to never register anything as even remotely approaching for consideration to be a grievance! With one swift stroke, we do away with the need for, nay, the concept of forgiveness. The concept of forgiveness vanishes as an afterthought.
We are being brought to a Threshold. To where the Doors of Perception are waiting to be cleansed, for everything to appear as it is, Infinite. (William Blake) The Gospel of Jesus Christ is doing the same thing, albeit in a slightly different way, but ever so slightly, the mere shadow of which that 19th century antichrist swung his hammer. (Nietzsche)
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. —Matthew chapter 18 verses 21 and 22
But on the 491st occasion, it may be necessary to pull out a rubber chicken and slap your neighbor upside the head with it, but not with all your might, just enough that is required to gain his attention! (These were quite possibly Jesus’ next words, but they were stricken from the record.)
We are being brought to a Threshold. To where the Doors of Perception are waiting to be cleansed, for everything to appear as it is, Infinite. (William Blake) The entire Gospel narrative is merely a preamble. To where is it bringing us?
And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
—Luke chapter 17 verses 20 and 21
*bold portions added by Luke Angstadt
A common phrase in modern parlance is “taking it to the next level.” So the kingdom of God is within us. What does that mean? You talk about pregnant with hidden meaning. Hiding in plain sight, it means EXACTLY what it says: WE ARE IT, WE ARE GOD, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR, ALL THROUGHOUT THE AGES. The “not with observation” means EXACTLY what it says too. Reality in its fullness exists beyond the sensory world. This eternal truth cannot be grasped with the senses. It cannot be grasped with the intellect. Words can only lead us to the THRESHOLD. It is the threshold of ALL POSSIBILITY. (David Icke)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
—John chapter 14 verse 12
*bold portions added by Luke Angstadt
Here we have Jesus, the Son of God, One with God the Father, the Creator of the Universe, telling the Creation that the Creation will EXCEED IN GREATNESS the works of the Creator! We are pushing through the very limits of language and understanding through language. We are moving ever closer to knowing how the Pyramids of Giza were built and why all the rest of the megalithic structures are interconnected with the movement of the heavenly bodies. They’re teaching us something, they’re reminding us of something. What is that something?
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At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. —John chapter 14 verse 20
There is One Spirit permeating all of existence, playing hide and seek with Itself, for what else should It do? (Alan Watts)
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
—John chapter 14 verse 26
*bold portions added by Luke Angstadt
Graham Hancock has stated on many occasions that we are a species with amnesia. Truer words have never been spoken. We have forgotten who we are. We have forgotten what we are capable of. What are we capable of? Literally anything and everything, for we are God. All of us, together, are God. We forget this, and we remember this. There is a place where all of this comes together. Where all the alignments of megalithic structures with the movements of the heavenly bodies in alignment with the rise and fall of civilizations, come together. That place is in our hearts.
We must remember who we are. How will we remember?
That brings us to the second part of this article’s title: We must go to the very quick of the very first heartbeat of esoteric knowledge and wisdom, and then one step further. What is esoteric knowledge and wisdom? It’s the Great Work of the Ages that Manly P. Hall went just short of completely divulging in his book The Secret Teachings of All Ages from 1928. It’s the secret knowledge and wisdom of the nature of the universe that has been enveloped in symbolism and double-talk for centuries. All the ancient Mystery schools teach that you can find God within you.
Take the Great Pyramid of Giza, in the same way we find 500-year-old organs the size of cathedrals within churches designed to balance the inner divinity within us all by their vibratory power, so too did the Great Pyramid of Giza serve the same function. The Great Work of the Ages is about reconciling the schism at the heart of existence that gives form and energy to our world of duality. Good and evil, light and dark, the yin and the yang. Bringing about a New World Order, a One World Order, a Singularity, which dovetails perfectly with the Technological Singularity I’ve written about at length in previous articles published with Graham Hancock and in two short books available on Amazon.
Photo FZohren (PD)
So, we find ourselves in this screwball state of affairs with Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Tech, all bearing down on us in an attempt to form a One World Everything watched over by Big AI to tuck us in to bed at night. The Overton Window flew out the window a long time ago. People talk about gatekeepers, those in the shadows doing the devil’s dirty work. In my view, that’s all illusion; there are no gatekeepers, and no one is doing the devil’s work. There is no devil and there is no God in the sense of the Hebrew, Abrahamic, Judeo-Christian sense of the word. So, if there are no gatekeepers and no God in the traditional sense of the word —meaning an angry, external, personal deity —then what is going on here? Where’s the rub, as Hamlet said?
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
—Isaiah chapter 45 verse 7
Everything is Consciousness. Even stone is imbued with a degree of Consciousness, and when it is placed at strategic locations and structured accordingly around the earth at energy “hot spots”, sacred stone serves in aiding us in finding the God within us. Freddy Silva’s work, specifically in his books The Lost Art of Resurrection, First Templar Nation, and The Divine Blueprint, explores in fascinating detail humanity’s relationship with sacred architecture.
So, where’s the rub? If there are no gatekeepers to the eternal truth that holds this universe and existence itself together, what’s going on here? How does the world find itself in the position it’s in, in the year 2025?
Words are merely tools to bring us to the Threshold of Infinity. Words are a form of technology, and technology has its limits, and where technology ends is at the full knowledge that all is Consciousness. That Consciousness is God, we are Consciousness, and We are God, all of us, together. It’s a cycle. We forget this, we remember this. And when enough of us remember this, it will create an energetic shift in Collective Consciousness that will propel the Universe and Existence Itself into the New Age, the new heavens and the new earth, the New Jerusalem, the Age of Aquarius, call it what you will, when enough of us wake up to the eternal truth that life is a dream and we create reality as a collective whole, then this silly show we see playing out in the news every day is over.
In a manner of speaking, as the world stands today, we are still dependent upon language. Consciousness Itself, otherwise known as God in some circles, is the gatekeeper of the “global conspiracy.” It is Consciousness Itself who must slay its dark side. The devil is merely the dark side of Consciousness (God), and as Paul Foster Case points out in his book The Book of Tokens (1934), that is The Great Struggle of this Age, for Consciousness Itself must reconcile with its shadow, and that great drama is told in breathtaking relief in the symbolism of the Bible, especially in the book of Revelation.
We need to go one step further. We must go beyond the Great Work of the Ages, the Secret Teachings of all Ages, and beyond the Kingdom of God within us. We must transcend all of that. We must transcend language. We must transcend all symbolism. We must transcend all illusions of division and separation. We must transcend the illusion that there is something “out there” or “in here.” There is no “out there” or “in here.” All the megalithic structures around the world are mnemonic devices to help us Remember Who We Are. To overcome our amnesia as a species, as Graham Hancock has repeatedly stated. The megalithic structures are not there merely as a legacy, even though all of the ancient advanced lost civilizations were connected by a common bond. They are not merely a legacy. They are a physical reminder leading us to the Threshold of our potential, which is Infinite, showing us that everything is connected, on earth as it is in the heavens. Once we fully realize this and integrate the full knowing of this eternal truth into our entire being, then the final shoe will have fallen and the veil of maya, the cosmic illusion, will have been lifted, and everything will appear to be as it is: Infinite (William Blake)
The Last Judgment, by Michelangelo (PD)
It’s all a dream. It’s time for another dream!
The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch (PD)
It certainly has been interesting, but it’s time for a new dream!
Consciousness is Energy, and it’s all Energy. We are Energy. And it’s all so subtle, terribly so. Intellectually, these statements have become hackneyed platitudes, likely to provoke ridicule when spoken aloud. Yet waiting, ever so patiently, for full integration into Spiritual Understanding that for the time being still straddles two worlds, both the limited (illusory) and infinite (true) realms. An infinitesimal shift in perception and an ephemerally subtle harmonizing of energy on the Spiritual plane is all it requires! No lifting of heavy boulders up hills, and if it isn’t too humid or too hot, you wouldn’t even break a sweat in achieving this!
The physical three-dimensional world was never meant to be the end-all and be-all. A long, long time ago, We—Infinite Eternal Consciousness—created it for pleasure. For there is a lot of sensual pleasure to be had here on the temporal plane. Cheeseburgers taste good, orgasms feel good, and the sun on your face at the beach with crystal clear waters lapping on the shore, well, people pay good money to fly on airplanes and stay at hotels for the experience. The flesh and its accompanying pleasures feel good. But over eons of time, it has become a trap where Consciousness Itself has grown overly enamored and addicted to the pleasures to be had on the physical three-dimensional temporal plane. (David Icke) And within that trap, the cyclical nature of physical existence has taken shape.
All of known written history has taken place in a dark age. We are still in the dark ages. The light is peaking through, and the Light never entirely goes away, but on the whole, any intellectually honest survey of history brings shivers down one’s spine. Which brings us back to the bombastic language of Friedrich Nietzsche and the concept-shattering language of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It brings us back to why all the megalithic structures —the Pyramids of Giza, Gobekli Tepe — were constructed and for what purpose.
We are barely scratching the surface of what’s possible. We are barely tapping into our potential. We are just beginning. We have barely begun to understand who we are, what we are, where we are, and how to exercise our power. In a way, it’s like we’ve been standing at the Threshold for thousands of years, waiting. Waiting for what? Perhaps it is as impersonal as waiting for the immutable mathematical laws by which our physical world functions to bring us into the full awakening that We are It, that Consciousness is God, We are Consciousness, and that all of us together are God working as a single living breathing organism moving through Eternity in Infinity. Something about all of this feels inevitable; perhaps I’m working in my own way to transcend language here, too.
The concept of overcoming is a core tenet of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy, and if you peer into the Mysteries long enough, you will see it’s the same message as the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Transcendence of the human experience is at the very quick of both messages. Which isn’t the same thing as denigrating the human experience, but the human experience isn’t the end-all and be-all; it’s just an experience! It’s easy to lose track of that. As the most extreme examples of personal philosophies go, both those men merely did everything they could to bring us to the Threshold. It’s the same principle with all the megalithic structures across the world. They are telling us, they are showing us, they are singing with all their glory the eternal truth that Everything is connected, that Everything is One, the stones, the grass, the trees, the rivers, the oceans, the stars, the moon, the caterpillars, the grasshoppers, and every hope and dream within every one of our hearts that leaves us breathless with joy and heartbreak and beauty and wonder.
We will all figure it out. In time. Eventually!
*All Bible quotations are from the King James Bible.
Afterword.
For Percy Bysshe Shelley and D.H. Lawrence.
A rhetorical question for you.
Why is it the year 2025?
The years between 2012 and 2045 are significant.
Let’s play with it for a little while.
Call it foreplay if you will.
Split the difference.
The year 2028.
25,772.
25,920.
Those numbers are significant too.
2,160.
Let us, the royal we, the editorial we, be cryptic for a short season.
Play with those numbers!
I will too.
In a sandbox.
Dance with them, as the planets go round and round, as our solar system goes round and round.
What will we discover?
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare!
The Lord is my shepherd!
As Hamlet’s Mill churns…
Do you like riddles?
Riddle me this!
Saith the Cosmic Jester.
The Time has come!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra!
Have I been understood?
The Final Word.
“What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?”
—the Sphinx
“There is a tremendously old popular belief, especially in Persia, that a wise magus can be born only from incest. With the riddle-solving and mother-marrying Oedipus in mind, we must immediately interpret this to mean that where prophetic and magical powers have broken the spell of present and future, the rigid law of individuation, and the real magic of nature, some enormously unnatural event—such as incest— must have occurred earlier, as a cause. How else could one compel nature to surrender her secrets if not by triumphantly resisting her, that is, by means of something unnatural? It is this insight that I find expressed in that horrible triad of Oedipus’ destinies: the same man who solves the riddle of nature—that Sphinx of two species (Lion and human. Actually the Sphinx also has wings in ancient Greek representations.)— also must break the most sacred natural orders by murdering his father and marrying his mother.”
From Basic Writings of Nietzsche translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann, pages 68 and 69, from The Birth of Tragedy.
*bold portions added by Luke Angstadt
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
—Matthew chapter 27 verse 46 King James Bible
And what is the answer to the Sphinx’s riddle?
Man!
We, and our world, is being tested, the likes of which we haven’t seen in a very long time. There are secrets embedded in these stories with almost inconceivable power; should we unlock them? We only fight amongst ourselves because of the fear of the unknown. No one shakes their fist at the sky while arguing with someone that the sun will rise the next day. It’s only where uncertainty, confusion, and ignorance rear their ugly faces that we experience conflict. It is time. It is time for the full unveiling of the secrets of Life Itself.
What is more unnatural than killing your father? What is more unnatural than marrying your mother? You take two of the most extremely unnatural events and throw them together, and what do you find? Something akin to nuclear fusion occurs, in the process unleashing almost inconceivable energy. In this case, Mother Nature herself has no choice but to offer up her secrets.
What is more unnatural than killing God? Something so unnatural and brutal that even the Creator of the Universe trembles and, in a moment of crisis, must look away. Only for God the Son, the Sun, to rise on the third day, just as the Sun begins its ascent on the horizon on December 25th after resting, on those three days between the winter solstice and Christmas, by neither ascending nor descending in its angle at the sunrise on the horizon each morning. It all happens by sheer miracle, wrapped within concept-shattering stories that push language and expression to their very limits.
Something recently happened on our planet which shook the collective psyche of a great part of the human race. I’m talking about what happened to Charlie Kirk. Something so traumatic that it strikes fear into all of us. Is anyone safe anywhere? That is the question to be asked. What happens next? Where does this take us? There is only one thing that everyone can agree on as it pertains to what happened to Charlie Kirk. As the narrative unfolds and circumstances build upon circumstances, none of it adds up. None of the details make sense. None of the details make any sense in isolation. Nothing adds up when taken together. Every facet of the story, when isolated and when taken together, is unnatural. It’s uncanny how unnatural the whole thing is. It’s one unnatural detail after another. It’s already become an unnatural mountain of unnatural circumstances, which only heightens the horror. What exactly happened, and how did it happen? This could literally tear the human race apart for good, but at its core, we are dealing with something that is unnatural. That changes the whole context. It is preternaturally strange, which is easy to lose track of, given the trauma.
But it doesn’t have to play out that way. There are answers. There are answers to the most confounding, heartbreaking, and tragic riddles the human race has faced for the past several thousand years. These mysteries have torn humanity apart for several thousand years, and it is time, finally, the time has come, for the unveiling of the great secret of Life Itself.
There is something so heavy and so brutal about the very concept of violating nature in order to penetrate the secrets of nature. So much so that I was hesitant to talk about it in this essay. That being said, it is a concept so profound, and it is a story within a story embedded into some of the most famous stories that have shaped the history of the world, and continue shaping our world today. We must face the darkness. We must face the evil. Divide and rule by deception has run this world for time immemorial. Enough is enough. These stories have so much hidden meaning in them, it’s not even funny. Precession of the Equinox through the 12 houses of the zodiac, the 12 tribes of Israel, Jesus enters the temple at 12, Jesus has 12 apostles, the kingdom of God is within us, the yogi path to God consciousness is inward, within our hearts, every megalithic structure on this planet has astronomical coordinates embedded into its construction. The technological singularity is embedded in every religion and historical foundational thinker imaginable. We have to stop pretending that we understand the ancients. We are just beginning to understand the ancient world. We have to stop fighting with each other. At some point, the sense of Wonder and Beauty, the sense of PURE WONDER and PURE BEAUTY, must overwhelm us all. The full realization that our Universe is a single, living, breathing organism experiencing itself has to happen. It absolutely must happen. Until that happens, this world will continue tearing itself apart.
But that is what it will take, or so it seems. Something so unnatural as to rupture the very fabric of existence itself is about to happen. That is what it will take to wake the world up to the simple, eternal truth that WE ARE IT, we are what we have been looking for all this time. That is the very secret at the very heart of existence itself. That is what is hiding behind the veil.