The Spirit of the Air and the Queen of Heaven: Babylon Unmasked
- Michelle Hayman
- Jul 26
- 22 min read
Ancient philosophers and biblical writers alike warned of non-human intelligences infiltrating humanity. The 3rd-century thinker Porphyry (see previous post) https://www.rebuildspirit.com/post/elemental-spirits-soulless-beings-and-mystery-babylon described how elementals take on human form to deceive mortals – even masquerading as gods to enjoy human worship. Likewise, the Bible portrays false prophets as “wolves in sheep’s clothing” (Matthew 7:15) – predators wearing a human mask. This article explores the deep theory that “elemental” spirits (fallen angels or demons) have posed as humans (and human hybrids) throughout history, from the Nephilim giants of Genesis to the “unclean birds” of end-times Babylon. It connects Scripture with myth and esoteric lore to show how “as in the days of Noah, so shall it be” again at the end of the age.
The phrase “prince of the power of the air” is often understood to refer to Satan, the adversary, or a ruling spiritual authority over the world’s corrupt systems. The term “power of the air” implies more than just atmospheric control; it suggests dominion over an invisible domain—perhaps the astral or spiritual “air” realm, known in esoteric traditions as the aether. Within theosophical and elemental thought, this overlaps with the concept of sylphs—spirits of the air. Myth and occult teachings describe sylphs, nymphs, and birdlike intelligences as interdimensional entities capable of influencing perception, thought, and illusion. Thoth, the ibis-headed deity often linked to wisdom and language, also exemplifies these air-aligned traits. Under this lens, the “prince of the power of the air” could be interpreted as a fallen or corrupted air elemental, a spiritual overlord of the aerial realm.
The Book of Genesis introduces an eerie episode of pre-flood history: “The sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them” – producing the Nephilim (giants). These hybrids were on Earth “in those days; and also after that”, implying that Nephilim existed both before and after Noah’s Flood. In other words, the flood did not utterly eliminate this corrupted bloodline. Indeed, post-Flood giants are later encountered: the Israelite spies in Canaan report giant clans like the Anakim, and Goliath of Gath – “whose height was six cubits and a span” (over 9 feet tall) – stands as a famous example (1 Samuel 17:4). The enduring presence of giants “after that” suggests some second incursion or survival of the hybrid strain.
The “sons of God” that fathered these hybrids have been interpreted in ancient and apocryphal texts (like 1 Enoch) as angelic beings who rebelled against heaven. These are the “Watchers” who “left their first estate” (Jude 1:6) – meaning they abandoned their proper spiritual realm and took physical form to indulge in lust. The Book of Enoch describes how these Watchers “defiled themselves with the daughters of men” and taught humanity forbidden arts. Their half-human offspring, the Nephilim giants, were “mighty men of old, men of renown” – revered as god-kings and heroes in the ancient world. This union of fallen angels and women was a direct transgression of created order, “strange flesh” never intended to mix.
Jude 1:6 declares, “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness…” This confirms that some beings crossed a line, stepping out of their proper domain. “First estate” (οἰκητήριον / oikētērion) implies their natural order or body: suggesting they took on another form, possibly human-like, to interact sexually with humanity. That’s hybridization, and it’s unnatural in the biblical sense. Non-human entities crossing into human form, whether fallen angels, elemental beings, or both; is a concept supported in both biblical and apocryphal literature.
This leads directly into the realm of spiritual warfare. If non-human intelligences can manifest in human form, or influence humans from within (possession & deception), then humanity remains under the influence of entities that are not aligned with God. These may not be “elementals” in the classical alchemical sense (earth, water, air, fire beings), but they operate according to similar energetic principles. Deception is their method. Hence: “Inwardly ravening wolves.” This becomes a poetic or prophetic way of describing entities that wear a human mask yet lack the essence of a true soul; impostors animated by something alien to the human spirit. Their presence suggests origins from a realm not aligned with God’s created order, and their purpose is inherently destructive.
This theological and esoteric framework draws together Scripture (Genesis, Ephesians, Jude), apocryphal texts (like Enoch), and symbolic tradition (elementals, Thoth, sylphs), revealing a coherent picture of infiltration by non-human entities in human guise.
The “Prince of the Power of the Air” – An Elemental Spirit Overlord?
In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul describes Satan as “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2). This curious title – “power of the air” – suggests more than a metaphor. It hints at an authority over the atmospheric or spiritual realms closest to Earth. In occult and theosophical tradition, the “elementals” are spirit-beings tied to the classical elements (earth, water, fire, air). In fact, the early Christian writer Tertullian explicitly referred to elemental spirits as “the princes of the powers of the air”. Could Paul’s biblical phrase denote a real spiritual being ruling the ‘air’ – essentially an Air Elemental or sky prince?
Consider that many pagan cultures worshipped sky gods and storm gods – Zeus, Baal, Enlil, etc. – who ruled the air and weather. It’s as if a malevolent spiritual being took on the mantle of “storm lord” across cultures. Even in Egyptian myth, the god Horus was a falcon-headed sky deity associated with the wind and the heavens. Horus was believed to embody the reigning Pharaoh (the king was called “the living Horus”), and he famously battled Set to avenge his father Osiris’s murder. This falcon-god – a winged avenger – resonates with the idea of a powerful aerial spirit. Likewise, the Egyptian god Thoth (who had the head of an ibis bird) ruled wisdom and magic – air-like qualities of intellect and illusion.
From a biblical perspective, these pagan deities were not mere fantasy. Scripture says “the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God” (1 Corinthians 10:20). In other words, behind the idols were real entities siphoning worship. Porphyry concurred: he wrote that bad demons would “change their forms” and “masquerade as the sky gods, enjoying human prayers and sacrifice”. The prince of the power of the air could very well be Satan or a high demonic ruler acting like a “sky god” or corrupted air elemental – commanding the lower aerial spirits (the “rulers of the darkness of this age”, Ephesians 6:12) and using illusion, glamour, and false doctrine to keep humanity in disobedience.
Modern occultists would call such a being a sylph-lord – a powerful air spirit. By whatever name, this being works “in the children of disobedience,” influencing human thoughts and culture through the “airwaves”.
Watchers Who “Left Their First Estate”: Crossing the Sacred Boundary
A key Scripture sheds light on the gravity of the Watchers’ sin. Jude 1:6 recounts that “the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation” are now bound in darkness awaiting judgment. These were those who “left heaven” to pursue lust on earth. The phrase “first estate” (Greek archē, also “principality” or original domain) implies they abandoned the form and place proper to their nature. In other words, they took on fleshly form and violated the boundary between heaven and earth. Jude compares them to Sodom and Gomorrah in verse 7, for going after “strange (other) flesh.” This confirms the traditional view: Jude is alluding to Genesis 6 and the Watchers cohabiting with women.
By materializing as human-looking beings, these angels committed an unthinkable trespass. They corrupted the human gene pool (hence God’s drastic remedy in the Flood), and they taught forbidden knowledge (weaponry, witchcraft, etc., per Enoch). Transgression of boundaries is a hallmark of evil in biblical thought – mixing of species, blending of holy and profane. The Watchers’ fall was a cosmic transgression, leaving their assigned spiritual bodies to don bodies of “flesh and blood” which angels were never meant to wear. In doing so, they incurred a severe penalty: God has chained them in a special dark prison (2 Peter 2:4 says these angels are locked in “Tartarus”) until the final judgment.
The significance for us is that other beings can appear human but are not human in origin. The Watchers set the template: interdimensional entities crossing into our plane, assuming tangible form, and even fathering offspring. This opens the door to all kinds of infiltration scenarios. If it happened once, could it happen again? Jesus’s own prophecy about the end times suggests yes: “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man” (Luke 17:26, cf. Matthew 24:37). The Days of Noah were defined by that angelic incursion and hybrid corruption. Christ warns that a similar situation will recur before His return. We should not be surprised, then, at modern phenomena like “alien” abduction lore (hybridization experiments) or the obsession with transhuman genetic tinkering – it all hearkens back to Noah’s days.
Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Elementals Hiding in Human Form
If fallen angels could once materialize and even procreate, then lesser spirits (demons) might also impersonate humans in more subtle ways. The Bible frequently warns about deceptive appearances. Jesus said false prophets “come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matthew 7:15). While this metaphor targets human false teachers, the spiritual parallel is intriguing: inwardly, these deceivers are of their “father the devil” (John 8:44). Could some influencers literally be non-human entities wearing a human facade?
Early Christian writers believed demons could at least appear as apparitions of humans. Porphyry stated that demons have no fixed solid body but can reveal themselves in visible forms. Theosophical sources go further, asserting that certain nature-spirits can “condense” quasi-physical bodies and assume human likeness at will. These elementals are described as “plastic” in form – “centres of force” that can mold etheric matter and even read human thoughts to pull images from a person’s memory. In séances and occult rituals, such entities have often masqueraded as deceased humans or benevolent spirits, when in truth they are neither human nor benevolent.
The idea of shape-shifting intruders sounds like science fiction, but it has ancient pedigree. Many cultures have legends of non-humans living among us: the jinn in human form in Middle Eastern lore, the “changelings” or fairy folk in European myth, etc. Biblically, we know Satan can appear as an “angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14) to deceive. In Genesis 18-19, angels appeared as traveling men and were hosted in human homes. If righteous angels can take human appearance temporarily, one might assume fallen ones can as well – though likely with malicious intent.
At the very least, demons can inhabit human bodies via possession. In that case, a person’s outward form remains human, but the personality and agenda coming from within is alien. A sobering example is Judas Iscariot: Luke 22:3 says “Satan entered into Judas” before he went out to betray Jesus. Jesus even called Judas “a devil” (John 6:70) because of this inner identity. Thus a demonic spirit can work behind a human face to mislead others. The false prophets and antichrists of the end times will similarly be tools or vessels of these inhuman intelligences. Perhaps this is why Revelation’s False Prophet is able to call down fire from heaven (Revelation 13:13) – a spirit of the air empowering him.
“Babylon the Great”: A Haunt of Demons and Unclean Birds
As the Bible reaches its climax in the book of Revelation, a striking vision of global spiritual corruption unfolds. The fallen world system; referred to as “Mystery Babylon”; is portrayed as the epicenter of demonic infestation and divine judgment. In Revelation 18:2, an angel announces the collapse of this spiritual empire, crying, “Babylon the great is fallen… and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” This Babylon, used by early Christians as a cryptic reference to Rome, also symbolizes the broader end-times empire; an unholy fusion of political, religious, and economic power deeply infected by the occult.
The language used in Revelation 18:2 is vivid and deeply symbolic. Babylon is called a habitation of devils, indicating it has become a dwelling place for demonic entities. The Greek word daimonion refers to evil spirits or lesser demons, suggesting this is no mere metaphor; Babylon is portrayed as a literal haunt of hellish beings. It is also described as the hold of every foul spirit, a kind of spiritual stronghold or prison for impure and abhorrent forces. But the most enigmatic and telling phrase is this: “a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” While birds in prophetic literature often symbolize spirits or messengers, this passage is not just speaking poetically about vultures, owls, or ravens as symbols of death and desolation. These birds are deeply tied to the ancient concept of air-aligned elemental beings; spiritual intelligences that once occupied the domain of the heavens, but left their “first estate” and fell to Earth. These are not mere animals; they are avatars of fallen air spirits, once associated with the skies, the winds, and the upper realms.
The language of Revelation 18:2 is not simply poetic; it is surgical in its spiritual precision. When it declares that Babylon has become “a habitation of devils… a hold of every foul spirit… and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird,” it is not describing natural birds or general omens of death. It is unveiling the final concentration of disembodied, elemental spirits of the air; once heavenly, now utterly corrupted. The term “unclean birds” refers to fallen air spirits; elementals like the sylphs of theosophical tradition; who once operated in the upper realms but rebelled and crossed into human affairs. These spirits, are the very same entities that, in the days of Noah, took on form, left their first estate, and bred hybrid offspring with human women. The Nephilim were their legacy then. Today, it is Babylon that becomes their nesting place.
The image of a cage is critical. Babylon is portrayed not only as the seat of global commerce and spiritual fornication, but as the spiritual containment zone for these air-born entities who now mask themselves in human form. These “birds” are not vultures and owls in the literal sense; they are masquerading intelligences, ancient and cunning, who project false identities, even embodying roles of teachers, prophets, rulers, and influencers. Their disguise is subtle, but their nature is predatory. The prophetic vision of Revelation is unmasking a terrifying truth: Babylon is the spiritual capital of these impersonating spirits, these unclean, hateful beings of air who once walked openly in the antediluvian world and now embed themselves in systems, ideologies, and institutions. What was once a terrestrial rebellion in Genesis has become a global spiritual occupation in Revelation; not just deception, but infiltration by elemental spirits who wear a human face but possess no soul. This is the true meaning of the “cage of every unclean and hateful bird”: a world stage filled with aerial impostors, fallen watchers still ruling the skies, now pulling the strings of empires from behind the veil.
Importantly, the Babylon of Revelation is not just a geopolitical power but a spiritual archetype; a continuation of the ancient Babylonian system of idolatry, sorcery, and human defilement. The mention of unclean birds draws directly from Old Testament prophetic imagery. Isaiah, describing the judgment upon Edom, wrote of a land so forsaken that wild beasts, satyrs, and the screech owl would make their homes there. The Hebrew word translated “screech owl” in Isaiah 34:14 is Lilith, the same name given to the infamous night demon in Jewish folklore. Often depicted as an owl-like or winged succubus figure, Lilith embodies the archetype of a feminine, elemental predator of the night.
This connection is echoed in the prophecies of Jeremiah, where Babylon’s ruins are described as a habitation for dragons and a court for owls (Jeremiah 50:39; 51:37). Dragons, owls, and satyrs were among the best symbolic language available to the prophets to describe evil spiritual entities that roam in the aftermath of divine judgment. The apocryphal Book of Enoch continues this motif, particularly in its Animal Apocalypse, where various nations and fallen angels are represented as carrion birds; eagles, vultures, ravens; devouring the righteous and embodying chaos.
In Revelation 18, the demonic foundation of this system is fully unveiled. What once appeared as a thriving empire or a utopian “New World Order” is exposed as a cage of spiritual monsters. The imagery of foul birds implies that those controlling Babylon’s structures; its governments, economies, and religions; are not human in essence, but spiritual scavengers, entities that feed on the soul of humanity. This is no exaggeration, as the Antichrist himself is described in Revelation 11:7 as rising from the Bottomless Pit; marking him not as a normal man but as an infernal being. When Babylon finally falls, its destruction reveals what lay hidden all along: an elite hierarchy not simply corrupt, but fundamentally inhuman, animated by powers from another realm.
This symbolism finds a striking visual echo in the famous Burney Relief, an Old Babylonian artifact dating to around 1800 BC. Often referred to as the “Queen of the Night,” the plaque depicts a winged female figure; believed to be either the goddess Ishtar or the demoness Lilith; flanked by owls and bearing the talons of a bird of prey. The parallels to Revelation’s vision of Babylon are chilling. The wings, the bird feet, the nocturnal animals all point to the same ancient archetype: a winged, female, spirit-being masquerading as divine, yet aligned with death, deception, and spiritual ruin.
Lilith and the Screech Owl: Night Queen of Desolation
As noted, Lilith is a key figure linking the idea of evil elementals and birds. The name Lilith in Hebrew (derived from lilitu in Akkadian) literally means “night creature” or “night demon,” but it became associated with a female night demon in later Jewish tradition. Isaiah 34:14’s prophecy of desolation reads: “the satyr shall cry to his fellow; Lilith (the screech owl) also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest”. This paints a chilling picture: once God’s presence departs, a land becomes a playground for dark preternatural entities – satyrs (goat-like demons) and Lilith (the nocturnal succubus).
In ancient Mesopotamian lore, Lilitu/Lilith was depicted as a seductive night hag with wings and taloned feet, often accompanied by owls. The Burney Relief shown above is thought by many to represent this figure or a related goddess. Lilith exemplifies the concept of an “elemental” spirit – specifically of the air and night – that preys on humans. She is said to seduce men and even steal infants. In esoteric terms, Lilith corresponds to the astral plane of dreams and illusions – again connected to “air” or ether.
The significance of Lilith’s owl symbolism is that she blurs the line between human and animal, physical and spiritual. She is bestiary (part bird) and yet humanoid – a true hybrid monster. Birds of prey in the Bible (owls, hawks, vultures) are consistently listed as unclean animals (e.g. Leviticus 11:13-19) and associated with ruin and death. Revelation’s use of “hateful bird” for demons is a culmination of this theme: the most hateful spiritual force is symbolized as a composite human-bird creature – much like Lilith in art.
Interestingly, other ancient myths echo this. The Mesopotamian demon Anzû was a massive lion-headed eagle that stole the Tablet of Destinies from the gods – essentially a prideful fallen creature wreaking havoc (one is reminded of Satan being compared to a lion and an “angel” of light). The Apkallu of Babylon were half-bird, half-human sages – said to be great "teachers" from before the Flood (some see in these a memory of the Watchers). In Jewish lore, a giant primordial bird called Ziz was said to inhabit the sky, parallel to Leviathan in the sea – a cosmic monster bird restrained by God. All these legends reflect an awareness that some spiritual forces have avian features – as if the ancients half-remembered encounters with winged fallen beings.
When Revelation 18:2 declares Babylon fallen and inhabited by foul birds, it is affirming that all the ancient “gods” and demons (Lilith, Anzu, et al.) have converged in the Babylon end-game. The Queen of Heaven (whom we’ll discuss next) herself was often depicted with wings and bird symbols. Thus, the foul birds of prophecy encompass the whole spectrum of demonic personalities that once masqueraded as gods and goddesses. In the end, Babylon – the zenith of human pride and occult knowledge – becomes a filthy aviary of those same impostors, awaiting final destruction.
“And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
—Revelation 17:5, KJV
The Winged “Queen of Heaven”: Inanna, Isis, and Ishtar
Towering above all other female elementals is the figure known in the Bible as the “Queen of Heaven.” The prophet Jeremiah condemned the Israelite women of his day for baking cakes to the “Queen of Heaven,” identifying her as a false goddess provoking God’s anger (Jeremiah 7:18). Who was this Queen of Heaven? Biblical scholars note that this title was applied to Ishtar (also called Astarte or Ashtoreth) in Mesopotamia, and also to certain Egyptian and Canaanite goddesses. In essence, it is a composite figure representing the chief mother-goddess of paganism – the feminine side of the Luciferian deception.
The Queen of Heaven goes by many names: Inanna (Sumerian), Ishtar (Babylonian), Astarte/Ashtoreth (Canaanite), Isis (Egyptian), Aphrodite (Greek), Venus (Roman), and in later distortions, even syncretized with the Virgin Mary by unbiblical tradition. At her core, she is a winged goddess of sexuality, fertility, war, and magic. For example, the goddess Isis of Egypt – who was both the wife and mother of Horus in myth – was often depicted with outstretched wings on funerary inscriptions, fanning the breath of life into Osiris. In a famous hymn from Cyme, Isis proclaims: “I am the Queen of rivers and winds and sea… I stir up the sea and I calm it… I am in the rays of the sun… I am the Queen of rainstorms… With me the wind blows”. In other words, Isis/Inanna claimed dominion over the elements of air and water. The Egyptians explicitly prayed to her as “She who commands the wind and rain”.
It is not hard to see that this Queen of Heaven is a powerful elemental spirit in the biblical sense. She wears the horned moon crown and star imagery. She rides a lion or dragon in some depictions, showing her dominance over earthly kingdoms. In Revelation 17, this same figure reappears as the “Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth,” dressed in scarlet and purple and riding the seven-headed Beast. She is Mystery Babylon personified – “the mother” of earth’s idolatry and occultism. Indeed, all the ancient goddess cults (Ishtar, Isis, etc.) ultimately point to this archetype: the satanic counterfeit of the Virgin Mary or of the Holy Spirit, a pseudo-mother who promises wisdom and power but brings abominations.
What makes the Queen of Heaven especially relevant to our theme is her avian characteristics. As seen in the Burney Relief, the goddess (likely Ishtar or Lilith) had bird talons and owls flanking her, linking her to night-spirits. Ishtar was associated with the planet Venus (the morning star), but also called the “Divine Bird” in some hymns. Statues of Isis often show her with wings outspread, literally like a giant sylph (air spirit) enveloping her devotees. In occult literature, the elemental of air is often conceptualized as a lithe female fairy or spirit with wings (think of depictions of “Mother Nature” with wings). It’s as if all these threads converge: the Queen of Heaven is portrayed as a beautiful winged woman commanding the powers of the air (wind, storms) – precisely how one might imagine a grand air elemental or fallen angel of high rank.
The ramifications are profound. This suggests that the ancient worshippers of Inanna/Ishtar were in fact venerating a particular fallen entity – a female (or feminized) angelic being who had set herself up as a goddess. She, along with others, “masqueraded as [a] god” to the masses. And humanity made covenants with these beings through sacrifices, rituals, sexual rites, and even child sacrifices (e.g. offerings to Ishtar, Ashtoreth, and the Phoenician Tanit). In return, these spirits granted power to kings and priests. For example, many Mesopotamian and Egyptian kings claimed to be direct sons of the goddess. Inanna in the Sumerian king list was said to “love” certain kings and give them authority. The Pharaohs of Egypt were often titled “Son of Ra” and considered the offspring of a union between the sun-god and the queen mother. This is essentially Nephilim ideology – the divine right of kings by virtue of demonic parentage.
Hybrid Bloodlines in History: From Pharaohs to Caesars
All ancient royal lineages at some point trace back to a claim of godly ancestry. Post-flood, there may have been residual pockets of Nephilim DNA or even new incursions. The Anakim giants in Canaan are called “sons of Anak,” and the Moabites called them Emim (“terrible ones”) (Deut 2:10-11). The Israelites also fought the Rephaim, another giant clan, and Og of Bashan who was last of the Rephaim (Deut 3:11). Many of these terms later became generic words for “spirits” or “shades” in Hebrew lore, implying these giants were seen as something more than human.
Now consider the claims of rulers in later history: For example, Julius Caesar of Rome, from the Julian dynasty, claimed descent from the goddess Venus (the Roman name for Ishtar/Aphrodite). He advertised that his family line went back to Aeneas, the Trojan hero who was the son of Venus. Thus Caesar arrogated a semi-divine (hybrid) status for himself. The Roman emperors after him encouraged a cult of emperor-worship, effectively presenting themselves as living demigods. In Egypt, the Pharaohs were not only called sons of Ra, but some like Pharaoh Akhenaten claimed to be the literal embodiment of the sun disk (Aten) on earth. Every Pharaoh was considered the incarnation of Horus in life and Osiris in death. Likewise, in Mesopotamia, kings would often be seen as chosen lovers or sons of Ishtar.
Isis, the goddess of magic and resurrection, presides over rites of false rebirth; bringing back the dead as incarnations severed from the true light. But Scripture makes clear the cost of such sorcery: “The light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived” (Revelation 18:23, KJV).
While modern historians view these as political propaganda, from our perspective it hints that certain bloodlines believed they carried “seed” from the elemental spirits, masquerading as gods.. It is noteworthy that Genesis 3:15 predicted an ongoing enmity between the “seed of the woman” and the “seed of the serpent.” Could it be that Satan attempted to establish his own “royal seed” among men via the Watcher incursions? If so, the Nephilim and later god-king lines were literally the seed of the serpent intermingling with humanity. Daniel 2:43 contains an ominous end-times prophecy: “they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another”. Many have puzzled over who “they” are in this verse – it implies “they” are not human (“seed of men”) but will attempt to combine. Some interpret “they” as foreign nations or political alliances, but an alternative view is that “they” are fallen angels or demonic hybrids once again trying to literally mix with humans. “But they shall not cleave” – meaning this time, God will not permit a pervasive hybrid civilization to take root as in Noah’s day. The end-times empire (symbolized by iron and clay in Daniel’s statue vision) will be inherently unstable, partly strong and partly brittle, precisely because half of it may be not of human origin. Yet those efforts will ultimately fail and be smashed by God’s kingdom.
We may already see hints of this today. The obsession with gene-editing, transgenic experiments, cloning, and even “contact” with extraterrestrial entities – these could be modern avenues through which the dark powers seek to mingle again with human seed. But according to Daniel, any such hybrid agenda (“iron mixed with clay”) will not fully hold together – perhaps due to internal discord among the fallen ones, or simply God’s restraint. Nevertheless, Jesus’ warning remains: the last days will mirror the days of Noah, and that includes the presence of corrupted “flesh” on the earth (Genesis 6:12).
Conclusion: Unmasking the Elemental Conspiracy
We have followed a trail from Genesis to Revelation, from Porphyry’s demons to John’s apocalyptic Babylon, and a consistent picture emerges. Humanity has never been alone – it has been a battleground and a breeding ground for other intelligences, some of which present themselves as benevolent gods, heroes, or enlightened masters, but are in truth predatory elemental spirits. These beings can be understood as “cosmic impostors”:
It all points to an ongoing infiltration of human civilization by evil elementals. Some are locked away (as Peter and Jude say of the worst offenders), but many demons still roam free – “the spirits of the giants” on earth, plus Satan and his angelic princes in the air. They integrate into human society to various degrees, influencing or possessing those in power. This “elemental conspiracy” is not a fanciful paranormal tangent; it is woven into the biblical worldview. Paul wrote that “the mystery of lawlessness is already at work” (2 Thess 2:7), and that Satan is “the god of this world” who blinds unbelievers (2 Cor 4:4). John adds that “the whole world lies under the sway of the Wicked One” (1 John 5:19). How could Satan sway the whole world unless he has agents on the ground? Indeed, he does – an army of spirits who shape-shift, deceive, and even interbreed when possible, all to hijack God’s plan for mankind.
The good news is that this will not go on forever. Revelation shows that Babylon – the grand assemblage of these elemental powers – will fall. “Is fallen, is fallen!” the angel cries, as God’s judgment burns her up in one hour (Rev 18:10). In the end, Christ the True King will obliterate the counterfeit “gods” and their hybrid empire. Isaiah’s vision of a haunted desert will become a reality for Babylon: it will be an eternal wasteland inhabited only by the foul spirits it loved, a grim memorial of what happens when creation rebels against the Creator.
For now, we must maintain spiritual vigilance. The Apostle Peter, when speaking of Rome (which he cryptically called “Babylon”), urged believers to “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). We contend not just with philosophies or human tyrants, but with literal creatures of darkness lurking behind them. Yet we need not fear. We are armed with truth to expose their lies, and with the power of Christ’s name, before which every demon must tremble.
The theory of evil elementals masquerading as humans is not only plausible – it ties together threads from Genesis to Revelation. It explains the past (days of Noah, giant offspring, pagan gods), the present (ongoing spiritual deception and occult resurgence), and the future (Babylon’s demonic showdown with God). The sooner we unmask the wolves in sheep’s clothing and foul birds in human plumage, the better we can resist their influence. Our ancestors knew it, Porphyry knew it, and the Bible declares it: not all that appears human truly is.
To end.....
If Horus—the falcon-headed avenger of Osiris and the prince of the power of the air—is in fact an evil elemental spirit, then his ancient vendetta continues. Both Pharaoh and Caesar, regarded as sons of gods, were confronted by the Most High and His Son with the same divine command: let My people go. This isn’t just ancient history; it points to a deeper truth: we may be political captives in a cosmic war, prisoners in a system ruled by fallen elementals who masquerade as human and seek our destruction.
Just look at the state of the world: confusion, moral collapse, spiritual blindness. Scripture makes it clear; those who do not have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them are under another influence entirely. As Ephesians 2:2 says, they walk “according to the prince of the power of the air,” the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience. Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers; those outside of God's covenant; are not just morally lost; they are spiritually occupied. Not by chance, but by design. The war is real, and most don’t even know they’re in it.
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee..."
— Hosea 4:6, KJV
Repent and believe the gospel of Christ
References: The Holy Bible (Genesis, Enoch, Isaiah, Daniel, Gospels, Epistles, Revelation); Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs and On Abstinence; historical records of ancient religions (e.g. Hymn of Isidorus to Isis); and modern theological analyses that correlate these sources. All underline the enduring war between humanity and those dark powers “not of flesh and blood.” Let us have the discernment of the apostles and prophets in recognizing the times we live in – days that are fast becoming as in the days of Noah, when the boundaries are crossed and the elemental forces must be confronted by the power of God.
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