Are AI and Ancient Idols Connected? A Biblical End-Times Warning

The veneration of black stones has a long history.

Whether they be meteorites, alabaster, obsidian, or Egyptian onyx, these stones were collected, worshipped, and dubbed baetyl—houses of the gods. But do these black stones have any relevance for a postmodern age where autonomy, worship of self, and an ever-growing disinterest in religion prevails? Clearly our highly civilized, scientific, and technological interest in these black stones has evolved well beyond the concept of veneration.

Or has it?

In the first pages of this book, I quoted Ian Bogost who equated the science and technology of today to a “new type of theology.” Bogost writes, “The scientific revolution was meant to challenge tradition and faith, particularly a faith in religious superstition. But today, enlightenment ideas like reason and science are beginning to flip into their opposites. Science and technology have become so pervasive and distorted, they have turned into a new type of theology.”

And yet, I would argue there is nothing new about it at all. Mankind is now, just as always, being wooed by the enemies of God who, by wielding the flails of science and technology are “making straight the way” for the return of their messiah—the ancient astronauts—the gods who fell from Zeus (Acts 19:35).

This goes back to the Hebrew parallelism that we talked about previously. First Corinthians 10:19-21 is a prime example of synonymous parallelism, where two or more lines of the verse are reiterating the same idea or concept twice, but using different terminology.

In the New Testament, Paul testifies to the same doctrine in 1 Corinthians 10:19-21 (NASB) when he uses the words “idols” and “demons” interchangeably:

What do I mean then? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but I say that things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become partners with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

This same concept is also found in Deuteronomy 32:16-17 (ESV) that states:

They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. They sacrificed to demons that were not God, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.

In this case, the phrase “strange gods” is used synonymously with “demons that were not God.” This text (within the Torah) is clearly paralleling the worship of idols with the worship of demons or evil spirits.

Speaking of the Torah, author Joel David Basket alludes to this idea rather directly in The Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna, Volume 1 where he quotes Rabbi R. Hillel who defines the “end times” as a “…prophetic, messianic confluence of Torah and Kabbalah with science and technology.” Pretty spot-on prophetic vision coming from a man who died in the 1800s. Not to mention another potential quincunx—the four spaces of Torah, Kabbalah, science, and technology all pointing to the fifth direction—the center of it all—the “end times,” the new kingdom with the new mountain (throne) belonging to the new god—the beast (aka Metatron to the Kabbalists).

For those in the Church who are paying attention, these four, once disparate, if not altogether competitive, schools of thought (Torah, Kabbalah, science, and technology) have in recent years begun to assimilate. We see the Church merging with Torah movements; we see many of these Torah gatherings being surreptitiously infiltrated with the teachings of Kabbalah; while at the same time, the culture at large adopting an ever-growing dependence upon technology, while viewing the world through ever-increasing scientific lenses in lieu of the biblical lenses once preferred by the institutional Church, just as Bogost suggests. Torah, Kabbalah, science, and technology are the four ingredients—the four “pillars of the (new) earth”—necessary for the great reveal of the ancient sky gods who will announce themselves with great pomp; and their constituents—the star seeds—will receive them with enthusiasm and vigor, only to be backstabbed and enslaved once all the chess pieces are in place and their New Golden Age is unveiled. A very brief, but necessary rabbit trail becomes necessary at this juncture. The concept of the “end times” in nearly every religion in the world (including Christianity) is not “the end of the world” but rather, as Michael Stipe might put it, “the end of the world as we know it.” Even in biblical eschatology—Jesus coming back is not the end of all matter, consciousness, and existence; but rather, a reset button from which a new humanity (resurrection bodies), a new heaven, a new earth (and, yes, a new order) will emerge. The world doesn’t just blip out like an old television set and cease to exist in perpetuum.

Likewise, when the ancient civilizations, the Kabbalists, or New Agers talk about “the end times” they are also talking about a “great reset,” a promised ascension to a higher-vibrational existence. This concept, just like in Christianity, is not one of soul death, but of soul ascension—a new, improved human body. So when we talk about the “end times” from an occult, Kabbalistic, or New Age perspective, we are talking about the planet ascending—singularity—transhumanism—humanity 2.0—transforming into higher-vibrational beings.

Becoming as gods.

The end times is a reset—not a reference to nuclear war or the ozone layer imploding because all the ladies down south are using too much hairspray.

But what in the world does the Torah and Kabbalah have to do with technology? And specific to the topic of this book, what relation, if any, do they have to do with the deification of black stones or artificial intelligence?

I have spent the last six chapters laying the groundwork for this piece of the discussion, and I thank you, reader, for your patience thus far. We have discussed the shattered star, Rahab, watcher technology given to mankind, as well as the veneration of the black stones of antiquity, which were likely meteorite fragments.

At this point, we are going to turn our attention from the black rocks themselves to the precious metals contained within the black rocks, namely, silicon carbide (SiC), Manganese (Mn), and Graphene. Understanding the potential of these base elements will lay the groundwork to understanding what lies within the black box—the “secret sauce” that transmogrifies the semiconductor from silicone to sapience.

Silicon Carbide (SiC)

What exactly is silicon carbide (SiC)? According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, SiC is an, “…exceedingly hard, synthetically produced crystalline compound of silicon and carbon. Its chemical formula is SiC. Since the late 19th century, silicon carbide has been an import-ant material for sandpapers, grinding wheels, and cutting tools. More recently, it has found application in refractory linings and heating ele-ments for industrial furnaces, in wear-resistant parts for pumps and rocket engines, and in semiconducting substrates for light-emitting diodes.”

I’ll cut to the chase. The key word in the previous paragraph is semiconducting. A computer chip is an integrated circuit which is the heartbeat of every computer and various other electronic devices. An integrated circuit is a set of electronic circuits mounted to a small, flat piece of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Encyclopedia Brittanica continues, “Silicon (Si), a nonmetallic chemical element in the carbon family (Group 14 [IVa] of the periodic table). Silicon makes up 27.7 percent of Earth’s crust; it is the second most abundant element in the crust, being surpassed only by oxygen.”

But silicon (Si) and silicon carbide (SiC) are not one and the same. In laymen’s terms, SiC is silicon 2.0. In comparison to traditional silicon semiconductors, SiC has higher thermal and electronic properties which enable a device to operate at higher temperatures, frequencies, and voltages. With specific reference to EVs (electric vehicles), SiC switches outpace traditional silicon-powered technology with:

• 10X higher dielectric breakdown field strength

• 2X higher electron saturation velocity

• 3X higher energy bandgap

• 3X higher thermal conductivity

The growth of electric vehicles is fueling demand for next-generation power semiconductors, especially those made with silicon carbide. This demand is what’s driving producers of silicon carbide chips, such as ON Semiconductor (ON) and Wolfspeed (WOLF).

According to Investors.com, Silicon carbide semiconductors can operate at much higher voltages, temperatures, and frequencies than traditional silicon-based semiconductors. That makes them a better choice for electric vehicles, solar power conversion, 5G wireless, aerospace, and other applications.

The down shot is, due to its scarcity, SiC is three times the cost of traditional silicon. Silicon is the second-most abundant element in the crust of the earth, while SiC is only found in its natural state in one place, and that is within (drum roll please…) …meteorites.

The speed and superiority of SiC will serve as a powerfully motivating factor for industry suppliers to find more SiC—which means, millions, if not billions, of dollars are going to be poured into the locating and mining of SiC.

At present, there is already an $8 billion, federally funded meteorite-mining project underway in Antarctica, but that is not by any stretch of the imagination the only location where SiC is being mined. According to The New York Times:

The story of modern electronics is often equated with the relentless advancement of the silicon-based microchips that process information in our computers, phones and, increasingly, everything else. Moore’s law has become a well-known summary of how those chips become ever more compact and powerful.

But electronics also have a critical, less celebrated role in modern life: directing the electricity that powers all of our gadgets. This field, aptly called “power electronics,” is changing quickly as engineers switch to power-control devices based not on silicon chips but on new materials that handle electricity more quickly and efficiently. Some novel, post-silicon devices are in use already, and better power electronics will become far more important in the future as much of our economy switches from fossil fuels to electricity. At a time when supply chains for silicon are severely kinked, these newer materials have boomed.

This wave of new materials burst from the lab in 2017, when Tesla faced a pivotal moment in its history. The company had released two successful luxury car models, but in its effort to become a major automaker, it gambled the company’s future on making a cheaper, mass-market vehicle.

When Tesla released its Model 3, it had a secret technical edge over the competition: a material called silicon carbide.

Much of the silicon carbide in use today is a synthetically produced crystalline compound comprised of silicon and carbon. Citing, once again, the Encyclopedia Brittanica:

The modern method of manufacturing silicon carbide for the abrasives, metallurgical, and refractories industries is basically the same as that developed by Acheson. A mixture of pure silica sand and carbon in the form of finely ground coke is built up around a carbon conductor within a brick electrical resistance-type furnace. Electric current is passed through the conductor, bringing about a chemical reaction in which the carbon in the coke and silicon in the sand combine to form SiC and carbon monoxide gas. A furnace run can last several days, during which temperatures vary from 2,200° to 2,700° C (4,000° to 4,900° F) in the core to about 1,400° C (2,500° F) at the outer edge. The energy consumption exceeds 100,000 kilowatt-hours per run. At the completion of the run, the product consists of a core of green to black SiC crystals loosely knitted together, surrounded by partially or entirely unconverted raw material. The lump aggregate is crushed, ground, and screened into various sizes appropriate to the end use.

This is the description of manufactured, synthetic silicon carbide. But what about natural silicon carbide? Where can that be found, if anywhere? In the late 1800s, a deposit of natural silicon carbide was found in Canyon Diablo, Arizona (interesting name, eh?), within fragments of a meteorite that hit the area.

Natural moissanite [SiC] was first found in 1893 as a small component of the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Arizona by Dr. Ferdinand Henri Moissan, after whom the material was named in 1905.12 Naturally occurring moissanite is found in only minute quantities in certain types of meteorite corundum deposits, and kimberlite. Because of the rarity of natural SiC, virtually all the silicon carbide sold in the world, including moissanite jewels, is synthetic.

Moissanite, in its natural, geological form is extremely rare and, up until the 1950s, the only place it could be found was in pre-solar grains in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Now here is where our discussion finally fuses with prior chapters regarding the heavenly host, stars, fallen angels, idols, and demons.

The Astrophysical Journal published a study conducted by two scientists: cosmochemist Maitrayee Bose and astrophysicist Sumner Starrfield, both of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University who attempted to answer the question, “What do tiny specks of silicon carbide stardust, found in meteorites and older than the solar system, have in common with pairs of aging stars prone to eruptions?” And their conclusions corroborate what I wrote in the very opening pages of this book. Namely, that to get to the gooey center of the AI systems’ black box problem, one must go back to the beginning of time itself.

Bose and Starrfield concluded:

…the microscopic grains of silicon carbide—a thousand times smaller than the average width of a human hair—were part of the construction materials that built the sun and planetary system.

Born in nova outbursts, which are repeated cataclysmic eruptions by certain types of white dwarf stars, the silicon carbide grains are found today embedded in primitive meteorites. “Silicon carbide is one of the most resistant bits found in meteorites,” Bose said. “Unlike other elements, these stardust grains have survived unchanged from before the solar system was born.

Speaking of these silicon grains, Bose further stated, “Each silicon carbide grain carries a signature of the isotopic composition of its parent star. This provides a probe of that star’s nucleosynthesis—how it made elements.”

The concept of stardust grains also harkens back to where Space.com staff writer, Elizabeth Howell, physicist Vladimir I. Shcherbak, and astrobiologist Maxim A. Makukov referred to the stardust in human DNA as “biological SETI.”

We now see that natural deposits (albeit infinitesimal amounts) appear in meteorites, stardust, human beings, and fallen angels (upon the assumption that fallen angels are fallen stars). The fact that science is saying these stardust grains have survived unchanged since before the “solar system was born” and it appears in both human DNA as well as meteorite deposits worldwide, it begs the question: Does this mean human beings are displaced star seeds—or does it mean the soil from which humanity was created was littered with the meteoric remains of a shattered star [Rahab] whose shrapnel lays all over our earth’s crust, oceans, and ice flows in the South Pole? (The very same locations, by the way, that NASA and various metals companies are feverishly scouring to collect meteorite fragments.)

Thomas Neyer, vice president and fellow at American Semiconductor Corporation (Onsemi) and Roveendra Paul, Director of Product Management (Onsemi) writing for the Electronic Design website, tell us that:

For more than 65 years, silicon has undoubtedly been the poster child of the semiconductor industry’s revolution. From making pocket electronic calculators a reality to powering the digital age that we know today, the rate of progress has fueled remarkable technological innovation across industries. But with the plateauing of Moore’s Law, rising focus on clean energy technologies, and a global chip shortage, the industry’s demands for smarter and more energy-efficient solutions are at an all-time high.

A rising star has started to make a material difference in the world of power electronics. SiC, a close cousin of silicon, has gained a stronghold for its distinguishing performance and impressive energy efficiency. Discovered first in 1891 by the American inventor Edward G. Acheson—in an attempt to produce artificial diamonds—the crystalline compound of silicon (Si) and carbon (C) has gone through a noteworthy evolution.”

SiC is indeed a rising star—quite literally. And due to the laws of supply and demand, as the interest and need for SiC increases, so will the necessity to mine the world’s deserts, glaciers, sky, and oceans for meteorite fragments; because synthetic, lab-produced SiC lacks the DNA of the black stones (namely, stardust—the physiological building blocks of fallen stars). This means only the real stuff will do. Ladies and gents, SiC is the 21st century’s Gold Rush.

Investor’s Business Daily agrees: “The growth of electric vehicles is fueling demand for next-generation power semiconductors, especially those made with silicon carbide. That’s driving interest in makers of silicon carbide chips, such as ON Semiconductor (ON) and Wolfspeed (WOLF). Silicon carbide semiconductors can operate at much higher voltages, temperatures, and frequencies than traditional silicon-based semiconductors. That makes them a better choice for electric vehicles, solar power conversion, 5G wireless, aerospace, and other applications.”

Other applications, indeed!

Globe Newswire reported on July 13, 2023, that the SiC global market would reach $4.4 billion dollars by the year 2030.16 This is up from a mere $1.1 billion dollars reported in 2022.

Do the math—SiC is the cosmic cash cow of the century.

But if meteorites only contain miniscule traces of SiC, this means a massive quantity of these fragments would need to be collected to prove useful. It’s one thing to find enough to make a few EV batteries for luxury cars that only the top financial tier of society can afford to own and operate, but what happens when SiC becomes the essential heartbeat of our entire technological infrastructure?