Aliens
The Nature of “Aliens”
The idea of ”aliens” as physically, biologically, and technologically advanced beings from other planets is deeply problematic and rejected for various doctrinal and philosophical reasons:
The Centrality of Man in Creation: Man is not a cosmic accident. The creation narrative in Genesis teaches that God created the universe for man . Adam and Eve, our first parents, were the crowning achievement of visible creation. The Incarnation of Jesus Christ—God becoming Man —definitively confirms the central and unique position of humanity in the divine plan. The existence of other independent rational species dilutes this central mystery and calls into question the singularity of Christ’s Redemption. For whom would Christ have died? For humans, or would he have had to incarnate in every alien species? This is seen as a theological absurdity.
The Fall and Original Sin: All humanity descends from Adam. Original Sin, a dogmatic reality, has affected all of human nature . Suffering, death, and concupiscence are consequences of this. The notion that there might be other rational, “unfallen” and technologically superior species contradicts the doctrine of the universal Fall and the universal need for the Savior, Jesus Christ.
The Classic Demonic Strategy: The Devil is the “father of lies” (John 8:44) and an “angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14). He does not create, but corrupts and imitates God’s work. The “alien” is a demonic imitation of creation. Just as demons can create false Marian apparitions or false stigmata to mislead the faithful, they can create the illusion of spaceships and beings from other worlds. The objective is one of the oldest: to sow doubt against the Faith.
The Demonic Objectives Behind the “Alien” Phenomenon
For the traditionalist, the “alien” phenomenon is a modern demonic manifestation with specific objectives:
Undermining Faith in Revelation: By promoting the idea that other advanced rational species exist, the biblical narrative of Creation and the doctrine of Original Sin are attacked. If man is only one among many cosmic species, then the Bible is a mythological and local book, and not the Word of God for all Creation.
Preparing the Way for a False World Religion: Narratives of alien contact often involve messages of “universal peace,” “evolution of consciousness,” and a technological or spiritual salvation from beyond . This is a diabolical parody of the Second Coming of Christ. Instead of awaiting the Savior Jesus Christ, humanity is led to expect “cosmic brothers” who will bring the solution to our problems. This aligns perfectly with the globalist and syncretistic agenda that traditionalists see as apostasy.
Promoting Materialism and Gnostic Evolutionism: Most descriptions of aliens portray them as products of a purely materialistic evolution, older and more advanced than our own. This reinforces the atheistic and evolutionist worldview, while introducing a Gnostic element: the idea that secret knowledge (gnosis), and not the grace of God, is what will save humanity.
Discrediting the Possibility of the True Supernatural: By saturating the culture with false stories of abductions and spaceships, the Devil trivializes the supernatural. When a legitimate Marian apparition or a Eucharistic miracle occurs, modern society, conditioned by the alien phenomenon, tends to dismiss it as just another “unexplained phenomenon” or even “alien contact.”
What the Popes Said on the Subject
It is crucial to note that no Pope prior to Vatican II spoke directly about “aliens” or UFOs . These phenomena gained cultural prominence primarily after World War II. However, pre-conciliar Popes spoke extensively about the principles that a traditionalist would apply to this issue.
Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903): Known for his intense fight against modernism and anti-Christian forces. He composed the famous Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel after having a terrifying vision of demons spreading throughout the world to destroy the Church. A traditionalist would say that the “alien” phenomenon is exactly the kind of “cunning and malice of the devil” against which Saint Michael was invoked to protect us. The prayer speaks of “dragging souls to perdition”—and what better way to do that than by convincing them that they don’t have a soul to save, being just one race among many in the cosmos?
Pope Saint Pius X (1903-1914): In his document against Modernism, Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), he condemns the tendency to reinterpret faith in the light of modern philosophy and to subordinate revealed truth to scientific discoveries. A traditionalist would see the belief in aliens as a ripe fruit of modernism: the rejection of Genesis in favor of materialistic cosmological theories.
Pius XII (1939-1958): In his encyclical Humani Generis (1950), he cautiously addresses the theory of evolution, but strongly reaffirms the immediate creation of the soul by God and the unity of the human race, descended from a single original couple (monogenism). Any idea of other independent rational species would be fundamentally contrary to this teaching. Pius XII also spoke extensively about Angels and the dangers of occultism, which are the lenses through which the alien phenomenon would be analyzed.
The Cosmos According to the Holy Mother Church
For the traditionalist believer, the universe is not an impersonal vacuum governed by chance, but a Hierarchical and Ordered Creation by God. Above the material world, invisible but more real, lies the angelic world: pure spiritual intelligences, divided between the faithful (the Angels of Light) and the rebels (the Demons of Darkness). The modern secular narrative, in purging the supernatural, becomes spiritually blind and therefore incredibly naive. It confuses the material appearance of a phenomenon with its spiritual essence . What the world calls “aliens” or “ETs,” the Holy Church, in its perennial wisdom, recognizes as manifestations of demonic intelligences.
The Doctrinal Impossibility of Rational “Aliens”
The acceptance of rational, corporeal, and non-human beings from other worlds is heretical and philosophically untenable according to four pillars of the Faith:
Man is the Pinnacle of Visible Creation: All the work of the six days of Creation, narrated in Genesis, is ordained for man, created last in the Image and Likeness of God . Adam, the first father, received dominion over all the Earth. The notion of other independent rational species negates this divine purpose, reducing man to a mere cosmic accident.
The Incarnation of the Word and the Unique Redemption: The Son of God incarnated as Man , Jesus Christ, to redeem humanity from the stain of Original Sin. If other rational “unfallen” species existed, the Incarnation would be a provincial, not universal, event. If they were fallen, Christ would have to incarnate in each of them to redeem them, an absurdity that denies the sufficiency and universality of the Sacrifice of Calvary, unique for all Creation. “There is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
The Unity of the Human Race and Original Sin: The Dogma of Original Sin, defined at the Council of Trent, teaches that the sin of Adam, head of all humanity , tainted all his natural descendants. Every human soul incurs this guilt. The existence of extraterrestrial rational beings, not descended from Adam, would create a class of beings with pure souls, which is theologically impossible after the Fall, except through a specific supernatural intervention of God – of which there is no indication in Revelation.
The Demonic Strategy of Imitation: St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that the devil cannot create, only corrupt and simulate. His strategy is to present a parody of God’s work. Just as he can fabricate false miracles, false apparitions, and false stigmata, he can also fabricate the illusion of “other creations”—the so-called aliens—to introduce metaphysical errors and lead souls astray from the one true Source of Truth.
Anathema to Notorious “Aliens”: A Demonological Exegesis
Let us now analyze the specific figures mentioned, revealing their true nature in the light of the Doctrine.
A. The “Greys”: The Impersonal Demon Workers
Appearance: Small, gray, with large, impersonal black eyes. They are the antithesis of the human person, created in the image of God. Their form is android, devoid of emotion and individuality.
Traditionalist Analysis: These beings represent the materialization of the soulless man of modernity. They are the embodiment of materialistic determinism, of the view of the human being as a biochemical accident. Their abductions, with hybridization experiments and genetic manipulation, are a blasphemous parody of God’s creative act and the Holy Family. While Christ redeems through grace, the “Greys” intend to “save” or modify the species through technical and genetic manipulation, promoting a Gnostic and anti-Christian salvation through profane science. They are the “saints” of the new religion of Materialism.
B. “Lam”: The Emissary of Cosmic Gnosis
Origin: An entity “channeled” by the occultist Aleister Crowley in 1918 through a black magic ritual, also known as “Aiwass,” it proclaims itself “minister of Hoor-paar-kraat,” a deity from the Egyptian pantheon corrupted by Crowley. Its central message is the abolition of Christian morality: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law .” This is the essence of Satanism: rebellion against God’s Law in the name of the autonomous will of the individual. To consider “Aiwass” an “alien” is the height of demonic deception. It is a spirit of the highest infernal hierarchy, one of the “Principalities and Powers” spoken of by Saint Paul (Ephesians 6:12), disguised to found an anti-Christian religion that denies sin, redemption, and the Cross. The influence of “Aiwass” is directly felt in the counterculture, moral relativism, and ideology of “self-deification” of the New Age.
Traditionalist Analysis: Here the deception is evident. Crowley, a notorious Satanist who called himself “The Great Beast 666,” consciously opened himself to demonic influence. “Lam” is not an alien, but a pure demon who presented himself in exotic guise to deceive. The fact that modern ufology has adopted him as a “type of alien” only proves our thesis: the ufological movement is, at its root, a vehicle for the dissemination of occultism. Accepting “Lam” as an ET is like accepting a demon invoked by a 17th-century sorcerer as a “friendly spirit guide.” It is an abomination.
The Great Deception and the Duty of the Faithful
The “alien” phenomenon, in all its forms – from the impersonal “Greys” to the “ascended masters” like Lam and Aiwass – is a far-reaching operation of the realm of darkness. Its ultimate goal is to prepare humanity for the Great Apostasy and the acceptance of an Antichrist who may himself use these illusions to present himself as a “cosmic savior.”
Faced with this deception, the traditionalist Catholic should:
Reject the Narrative Completely: There are no “cosmic brothers.” There are Angels and Demons.
Putting on the Armor of God: Frequent reception of the Sacraments, devotion to the Holy Rosary, and unwavering adherence to the Tridentine Mass, the greatest exorcism against the forces of evil.
Invoking Saint Michael the Archangel: Recite daily the prayer composed by Leo XIII, specifically asking for protection against the “cunning and snares of demons,” including extraterrestrial deception.
Avoid all forms of occultism: This includes ufology, channeling, transcendental meditation, and anything that claims to offer an alternative “spirituality” to the Holy Church.
The battle is and always has been spiritual. The Virgin Mary, crushing the serpent’s head, is our principal ally. May She protect the faithful from this last and greatest deception, which attempts to replace hope in the Glory of Jesus Christ with the chimera of salvation coming from the stars.
Conclusion from a Traditionalist Perspective
The “aliens” are not extraterrestrial beings , but demonic intelligences that manifest themselves under a technological and modern guise to better deceive contemporary man, distancing him from Faith and sacramental life.
It’s a trick of the Devil to:
To replace the supernatural Christian worldview with a materialistic and Gnostic one.
To offer a false (technological/cosmic) salvation in place of Jesus Christ and His Church.
To prepare humanity to accept an anti-Christian global religion.
The Church is the guardian of the Truth revealed by Jesus Christ, the only source of salvation for humanity. Any phenomenon that contradicts, diminishes, or distracts from this Truth is, by definition, suspect and seen as potentially diabolical.
The solution, therefore, is not the scientific investigation of the phenomenon, but a return to unwavering Faith, to prayer (especially the Holy Rosary), to devotion to Saint Michael the Archangel, to frequenting the Sacraments, and to the complete rejection of all forms of occultism and spiritualism, including UFO “contact.” The true battle is not in outer space, but in the spiritual realm, and victory has already been won by Our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross.