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APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

e lightning fires which flash. she cast it away from her, outside that place, that no one of the immortal ones might see it, for she had created it in ignorance. and she surrounded it with a luminous cloud, and she placed a throne in the middle of the cloud that no one might see it except the holy spirit who is called the mother of the living. and she called his name yaltabaoth "this is the first archon who took a great power from his mother. and he removed himself from her and moved away from the places in which he was born. he became strong and created for himself other aeons with a flame of luminous fire which (still) exists now. and he joined with his arrogance which is in him and begot authorities for himself. the name of the first one is athoth, whom the generations call the reaper

er of the light which he had taken from his mother, for he is ignorant darkness "and when the light had mixed with the darkness, it caused the darkness to shine. and when the darkness the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 5 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm had mixed with the light, it darkened the light and it became neither light nor dark, but it became dim "now the archon who is weak has three names. the first name is yaltabaoth, the second is saklas, and the third is samael. and he is impious in his arrogance which is in him. for he said 'i am god and there is no other god beside me' for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come "and the archons created seven powers for themselves, and the powers created for themselves six angels for

d over her from their whole pleroma. for it was not her consort who came to her, but he came to her through the pleroma in order that he might correct her deficiency. and she was taken up not to her own aeon but above her son, that she might be in the ninth until she has corrected her deficiency "and a voice came forth from the exalted aeon-heaven 'the man exists and the son of man' and the chief archon, yaltabaoth, heard (it) and thought that the voice had come from his mother. and he did not know from where it came. and he taught them, the holy and perfect mother-father, the complete foreknowledge, the image of the invisible one who is the father of the all (and) through whom everything came into being, the first man. for he revealed his likeness in a human form "and the whole aeon of th

yaltabaoth, heard (it) and thought that the voice had come from his mother. and he did not know from where it came. and he taught them, the holy and perfect mother-father, the complete foreknowledge, the image of the invisible one who is the father of the all (and) through whom everything came into being, the first man. for he revealed his likeness in a human form "and the whole aeon of the chief archon trembled, and the foundations of the abyss shook. and of the waters which are above matter, the underside was illuminated by the appearance of his image which had been revealed. and when all the authorities and the chief archon looked, they saw the whole region of the underside which was illuminated. and through the light they saw the form of the image in the water "and he said to the autho

w there are other ones in charge over the remaining passions whom i did not mention to you. but if you wish to know them, it is written in the book of zoroaster. and all the angels and demons worked until they had constructed the natural body. and their product was completely inactive and motionless for a long time "and when the mother wanted to retrieve the power which she had given to the chief archon, she petitioned the mother-father of the all, who is most merciful. he sent, by means of the holy decree, the five lights down the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 8 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm upon the place of the angels of the chief archon. they advised him that they should bring forth the power of the mother. and they said to yaltabaoth 'blow into his

y, which they had fashioned after the image of the one who exists from the beginning. the body moved and gained strength, and it was luminous "and in that moment the rest of the powers became jealous, because he had come into being through all of them and they had given their power to the man, and his intelligence was greater than that of those who had made him, and greater than that of the chief archon. and when they recognized that he was luminous, and that he could think better than they, and that he was free from wickedness, they took him and threw him into the lowest region of all matter "but the blessed one, the mother-father, the beneficent and merciful one, had mercy on the power of the mother which had been brought forth out of the chief archon, for they (the archons) might gain p

the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 9 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm and to i said to the savior "lord, was it not the serpent that taught adam to eat" the savior smiled and said "the serpent taught them to eat from wickedness of begetting, lust (and) destruction, that he (adam) might be useful to him. and he (adam) knew that he was disobedient to him (the chief archon) due to light of the epinoia which is in him, which made him more correct in his thinking than the chief archon. and (the latter) wanted to bring about the power which he himself had given him. and he brought a forgetfulness over adam" and i said to the savior "what is the forgetfulness" and he said "it is not the way moses wrote (and) you heard. for he said in his first book 'he put him to

i said to the savior "what is the forgetfulness" and he said "it is not the way moses wrote (and) you heard. for he said in his first book 'he put him to sleep (gn 2:21, but (it was) in his perception. for also he said through the prophet 'i will make their hearts heavy, that they may not pay attention and may not see (is 6:10 "then the epinoia of the light hid herself in him (adam. and the chief archon wanted to bring her out of his rib. but the epinoia of the light cannot be grasped. although darkness pursued her, it did not catch her. and he brought a part of his power out of him. and he made another creature, in the form of a woman, according to the likeness of the epinoia which had appeared to him. and he brought the part which he had taken from the power of the man into the female cr

d that they withdrew from him, he cursed his earth. he found the woman as she was preparing herself for her husband. he was lord over her, though he did not know the mystery which had come to pass through the holy decree. and they were afraid to blame him. and he showed his angels his ignorance which is in him. and he cast them out of paradise and he clothed them in gloomy darkness. and the chief archon saw the virgin who stood by adam, and that the luminous epinoia of life had appeared in her. and yaltabaoth was full of ignorance. and when the foreknowledge of the all noticed (it, she sent some and they snatched life out of eve "and the chief archon seduced her and he begot in her two sons; the first and the second (are) eloim and yave. eloim has a bear-face and yave has a cat-face. the o

nd (are) eloim and yave. eloim has a bear-face and yave has a cat-face. the one is righteous but the other is unrighteous (yave is righteous but eloim is unrighteous) yave he set over the fire and the wind, and eloim he set over the water and the earth. and these he called with the names cain and abel with a view to deceive "now up to the present day, sexual intercourse continued due to the chief archon. and he planted sexual desire in her who belongs to adam. and he produced through intercourse the copies of the bodies, and he inspired them with his counterfeit spirit. the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 10 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm "and the two archons he set over principalities, so that they might rule over the tomb. and when adam recognized the li

the likeness of his own foreknowledge, he begot the likeness of the son of man. he called him seth, according to the way of the race in the aeons. likewise, the mother also sent down her spirit, which is in her likeness and a copy of those who are in the pleroma, for she will prepare a dwelling place for the aeons which will come down. and he made them drink water of forgetfulness, from the chief archon, in order that they might not know from where they came. thus, the seed remained for a while assisting (him, in order that, when the spirit comes forth from the holy aeons, he may raise up and heal him from the deficiency, that the whole pleroma may (again) become holy and faultless" and i said to the savior "lord, will all the souls then be brought safely into the pure light" he answered a

d i said "lord, those, however, who have not known to whom they belong, where will their souls be" and he said to me "in those, the despicable spirit has gained strength when they went astray. and he burdens the soul and draws it to the works of evil, and he casts it down into forgetfulness. and after it comes out of (the body, it is handed over to the authorities, who came into being through the archon, and they bind it with chains and cast it into prison, and consort with it until it is liberated from the forgetfulness and acquires knowledge. and if thus it becomes perfect, it is saved" and i said "lord, how can the soul become smaller and return into the nature of its mother or into man" then he rejoiced when i asked him this, and he said to me "truly, you are blessed, for you have unde

nished with eternal punishment" and i said "lord, from where did the counterfeit spirit come" then he said to me "the mother-father, who is rich in mercy, the holy spirit in every way, the one who is merciful and who sympathizes with you (pl, i.e, the epinoia of the foreknowledge of light, he raised up the offspring of the perfect race and its thinking and the eternal light of man. when the chief archon realized that they were exalted above him in the height- and they surpass him in thinking- then he wanted to seize their thought, not knowing that they surpassed him in thinking, and that he will not be able to seize them "he made a plan with his authorities, which are his powers, and they committed together adultery with sophia, and bitter fate was begotten through them, which is the last

hemy, and the chain of forgetfulness and ignorance and every severe command, and serious sins and great fears. and thus the whole creation was made blind, in order that they may not know god, who is above all of them. and because of the chain of forgetfulness, their sins were hidden. for they are bound with measures and times and moments, since it (fate) is lord over everything "and he (the chief archon) repented for everything which had come into being through him. this time he planned to bring a flood upon the work of man. but the greatness of the light of the foreknowledge informed noah, and he proclaimed (it) to all the offspring which are the sons of men. but those who were strangers to him did not listen to him. it is not as moses said 'they hid themselves in an ark (gn 7: 7, but the

trangers to him did not listen to him. it is not as moses said 'they hid themselves in an ark (gn 7: 7, but they hid themselves in a place, not only noah, but also many other people from the immovable race. they went into a place and hid themselves in a luminous cloud. and he (noah) recognized his authority, and she who belongs to the light was with him, having shone on them because he (the chief archon) had brought darkness upon the whole earth "and he made a plan with his powers. he sent his angels to the daughters of men, that they might take some of them for themselves and raise offspring for their enjoyment. and at first they did not succeed. when they had no success, they gathered together again and they made a plan together. they created a counterfeit spirit, who resembles the spiri

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eans and christians, show this veneration in their cosmogonies. as thomas taylor* the most intuitional of all the translators of greek fragments, shows, no nation has ever conceived the one principle as the immediate creator of the visible universe, for no sane man would credit a planner and architect with having built the edifice he admires with his own hands. on the testimony of damascius[[peri archon) they referred to it as "the unknown darkness" the babylonians passed over this principle in silence "to that god" says porphyry, in[[peri apoches empsuchon "who is above all things, neither external speech ought to be addressed, nor yet that which is inward" hesiod begins his theogony with "chaos of all things was the first produced* thus allowing the inference that its cause or producer m

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abaoth. the apocryphon of john the apocryphon of john, discovered in upper egypt in 1945, is perhaps one of the more significant gnostic texts which hold a hidden relation to the adversary. these early christian writings, dated roughly ad 350, were perhaps one of the most significant records of the history of gnostic records. it was written that barbelo (called sophia, a great and powerful female archon, who was considered beautiful and near perfection, desired to create a child. she went off alone and begat this child. while she desired to create something like herself, this child was imperfect and different. she saw the results of her creative desire, and cast him off away from her where others may not see him. this child of chaos took the form of a lion serpent, who contained the fire a

ething like herself, this child was imperfect and different. she saw the results of her creative desire, and cast him off away from her where others may not see him. this child of chaos took the form of a lion serpent, who contained the fire and light of heaven, and the individualistic and rebellious thought which separated him from the other archons. as written in the apocryphon of john "now the archon who is weak has three names. the first name is yaltabaoth, the second is saklas, and the third is samael. and he is impious in his arrogance which is in him. for he said 'i am god and there is no other god beside me' for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come. the apocryphon of john that yaltabaoth, which means ilda, child, baoth, chaos was cast off from his mother

ight nor dark, but it became dim. the apocryphon of john here we see the significance of darkness, and the hidden fire of self knowledge and that samael mixed both to beget his creations. this is the model of the sorcerer that by will and desire does become able to create accordingly. here we are able to read that the fire of heaven was taken from barbelo and used by yaltabaoth "this is the first archon who took a great power from his mother. and he removed himself from her and moved away from the places in which he was born. he became strong and created for himself other aeons with a flame of luminous fire which (still) exists now. and he joined with his arrogance which is in him and begot authorities for himself. the name of the first one is athoth, whom the generations call the reaper

his thought with the 34 authorities which were with him. and when he spoke it happened. the apocryphon of john here we see that lucifer first awoke the other angels that they saw not only his brilliance, but that fire within them was awakened. he called himself a god, that which recognized its self-divinity and his power to create. thus here we find that initially yaltabaoth was the most powerful archon, much like his earlier form of ahriman, the adversary. in darkness did he discover his light; the world he sought to create. humanity was given this fire by samael, who came unto the earth initiated the spark of the flame of selfknowledge. the devil as he is called later, mingled with both darkness and light; held within a light brighter than any mere angel, yet devoured those before him wh

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was witnessed by several theologians, and the scholars who edited her books endorsed their intrinsic merit. they offered new interpretations of several obscure passages in the acts of the apostles, apparently showing close acquaintance with the early church and that age. for example, it was claimed that only a profound student could have given the head of the jewish community in antioch the title archon, because the usual title was ethnarch not long before the time referred to in the chronicle of cleophas. cleophas was not the immediate agent in the production of the scripts. they came through the messenger. a total of seven scribes were said to be guided by cleophas. the chronicle stated that it had been used in the early church but the existing few copies had perished. a more skeptical a

ve penetrated farther than intended. hauser undoubtedly had a neurotic and hysterical temperament, and mysterious attacks seemed to occur after quarrels with his guardians. sources: lang, andrew. historical mysteries. london: smith elder, 1904. sampath, ursula. kaspar hauser: a modern metaphor. columbia, s.c: camden house, 1991. singh, joseph amrito lal. wolf-children and feral man. hamden, conn: archon books, 1965. stanhope, earl. tracts relative to caspar hauser. london: james s. hodson, 1836. hawaiian society for psychical research nonprofit organization established to promote, encourage, and participate in the scientific study of psi phenomena. last known address: gharith pendragon, hawaiian society for psychical research, p.o. box 4620, honolulu, hi 96813. haxby, w (ca. 1878) nineteen

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c. quest for the new world. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1969. oved, yaacov. two hundred years of american communes. new brunswick, n.j: transaction publications, 1993. owen, robert dale. the debatable land between this world and the next. london: trubner, 1871. footfalls on the boundaries of another world. philadelphia: j. b. lippincott, 1860. the life of robert owen. 2 vols. hamden, conn: archon books, 1966. owen, robert dale (1801.1877) son of the british socialist robert owen. he was born november 9, 1801 in glasgow, scotland, and educated in switzerland. owen eventually emigrated to america. he lived for several years in his father s socialistic community, new harmony, in indiana. he served in the indiana legislature and in congress. he introduced the bill organizing the smithso

terest in phrenology continued in america well into the twentieth century, and the british phrenological society, founded in 1886 by lorenzo j. fowler, was still in existence in the 1960s, though it had long ceased to affect the culture that surrounded it. sources: chambers, howard v. phrenology. sherbourne, 1968. davies, john d. phrenology, fad and science: a nineteenth century american crusade. archon, 1955. reprint, shoe string, 1971. de giustino, david. conquest of mind: phrenology and victorian social thought. london: croom helm; totowa, n.j: rowman& littlefield, 1975. gall, franz j. on the functions of the brain and of each of its parts: with observations on the possibility of determining the instincts, propensities and talents, or the moral and intellectual dispositions of men and a

e vast potential of man s mind. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1894. reprint, chicago: hudson-cohan, 1970. reprint, new york: weiser, 1972. leshan, lawrence. the medium, the mystic, and the physicist: towards a general theory of the paranormal. new york: viking press; london: turnstone books, 1974. mccreery, charles. science, philosophy, and esp. london: faber& faber, 1967. reprint, hamden, conn: archon books, 1968. mitchell, t. w. medical psychology and psychical research. london: methuen, 1922. myers, f. w. h. human personality and its survival of bodily death. 2 vols. london: longmans, green, 1903. reprint, new york: longmans, green, 1954. abr. ed. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1961. osty, eugene. supernormal faculties in man. london: methuen, 1923. rhine, j. b, and robert brier

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thoughtforms. these forms exist in an individual (peter s weakness) or collectively (the idea of ownership and control which tempted jesus as he looked over the cities all this can be yours. it is legion as there are multitudes of archons both dwelling within our minds and within the collective unconscious. the question of the devil being the father of the jews takes us into the darker reaches of archon theory, because not only can they exist in the unconscious collective mind but they can create a breach into the astral worlds through which fallen spiritual entities can then move into the earthly spheres and control the thoughtforms created. these forms as known in the gnostic tradition as archons, they are the products of mankind enlivened by fallen spirits and fed by our own emotions. t

st the esoteric core of their tradition. in becoming so extreme they had created a destructive thought form which they were feeding. in gnostic literature these archons can so increase in power that they become dominions, forces which control whole groups of people even races and countries. so while the jewish people thought they were worshipped the iam, they were actually feeding a false god, an archon they had created from their own ignorance. this happens all too often and why the esoteric tradition is so imperative. without the guidance of gnosticism and esotericism, many will be caught within the web of exoteric (outer) religion. fundamentalism, cults, literalism, extremism are all products of incorrect readings of the spiritual tradition. when these groups develop their thoughtforms

by active demonic force. thus the vastness and multiplicity of the cosmic system express the degree to which man is removed from god. the archons collectively rule over the world and each individually in his sphere is a warder of the cosmic prison. their tyrannical world-rule is called hiemarmene, universal fate.[this universal fate] aims at the enslavement of man. as guardian of his sphere each archon bars the passage to the souls than seek to ascent after death, in order to prevent their escape from the world and their return to god. the gnostic religion, hans jonas. so when we read a description of gnosticism such as that found in the classic text the gnostic religion by hans jonas, we must appreciate that the seeming cosmic dualism is actually a dualism between the real and the unreal

ne breath. this biological conflict is important as it explains why we have such different models of experience. there is so much evidence for mans violence and destructiveness, way even beyond that of the animal kingdom and yet also so much evidence for mans love, beauty and transcendence. in gnostic terms this is because there are two fields of influence, the static (pleroma) and the dialectic (archon. these fields pull us towards the light and towards matter. the drive towards matter is necessary but has been overlaid with the artificial desires and drives of the fallen forms. hence, the dialectic field is based on a involutionary necessity, but actually works against us. it is important to see what this clash is not, it is not a clash between body and spirit and matter and spirit. matt

egardless of the esotericism, we must be clear about the nature of the old testament in its current form. the gnostic view is that if you followed the traditions in the old testament as they presently are, you would be enslaving yourself under archons rather than liberating yourself through the aeons. the laws, covenants and other agreements are sure signs of the enslavement of mans spirit by the archon yahweh, they illustrate how distorted the old testament really is. from a historical perspective there is little of the original israelite teachings in the old testament. when we contemplate that israel and environs had various religious traditions including gnostic (esotericism, the el tradition (canaanite paganism, various strands of el and yahweh worship and then later, the priestclass o

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by active demonic force. thus the vastness and multiplicity of the cosmic system express the degree to which man is removed from god..the archons collectively rule over the world and each individually in his sphere is a warder of the cosmic prison. their tyrannical world-rule is called hiemarmene, universal fate.[this universal fate] aims at the enslavement of man. as guardian of his sphere each archon bars the passage to the souls that seek to ascend after death, in order to prevent their escape from the world and their return to god. the gnostic religion, pp 42-43. hans jonas. beacon press, 1963. gnostic theurgy page 36 the early gnostics understood the world in terms of the alpha event, or in more religious terms, the fall of man, and accordingly divided reality into two distinct realm

ch as the qadesh. this lineage of the esoteric wisdom is sometimes known as the sethian tradition, both the essenes and gnostics emphasised this unique designation. it was used in the sense of the genealogy of genesis, where seth was the replacement for murdered abel and he represented the pure wisdom. cain, on other hand, represented a fallen lineage, he was considered a tool of the demiurge- an archon in flesh. this conflict is important because it forms the very foundation of our understanding of the origins of the kabbalah. in ancient israel we have the sethian form of kabbalah, the ariosophic mysteries (ario meaning aryan and sophic meaning wisdom, while at the same time, among the outskirts of the kingdoms of israel were those who followed the cainite traditions, the distorted teachi

oups have translated this formula as jehovah and interpreted it as the personal name of god. it is actually a formula, rather than a name or designation (fig 30) the original ancient israelites understood this and hence avoided pronouncing this divine name using substitute terms such as lord and king. while the old testament accounts have corrupted the name and used it to designate a warrior like archon, the original formulae is still valid and of value. this again illustrates how the origjnal gnosis has unwittingly been passed down inside and behind a text which teaches the exact opposite. y yod atziluth initial force fire h he briah divine pattern water v vau tiphareth activity air h he malkuth result earth fig 30 yod start of rite start of operation he invocation calling down forces vau

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ef passages may be quoted with due acknowledgement of their source. 16 17 18 19oudavid griffin d lamdq laygh t/ab;x] hwhy laynah yhiloa e hgno c thee riittuall magiicc manuall a complete course in practical magic ee--lleessssoonn eeddiittiioonn eexxcclluussiivveellyy ffoorr ssttuuddeennttss ooff tthhee golden dawn school of magic and alchemy magical evocation of the averse forces by david griffin archon basileus, a.+o, chief adept, r.r. et a.c, imperator, h.o.g.d. hermetic order of the golden dawn outer order of the rosicrucian order of alpha et omegar www.golden-dawn.com copyright c 1999 &2008. all rights reserved. david griffin 1 magical evocation of the averse forces copyright 1999, david griffin reprinted by permission of the author from the ritual magic manual introduction magical evo

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thy king and i shall come again to thee, for it is so decreed of fate. all through seven lands have i sought thee, and some day shall i reign over thy groves and gardens, thy streets and palaces, and sing to men who shall know whereof i sing, and laugh not nor turn away. for i am iranon, who was a prince in aira" that night the men of teloth lodged the stranger in a stable, and in the morning an archon came to him and told him to go to the shop of athok the cobbler, and be apprenticed to him "but i am iranon, a singer of songs" he said "and have no heart for the cobbler's trade "all in teloth must toil" replied the archon "for that is the law" then said iranon "wherefore do ye toil; is it not that ye may live and be happy? and if ye toil only that ye may toil more, when shall happiness fi

is the law" then said iranon "wherefore do ye toil; is it not that ye may live and be happy? and if ye toil only that ye may toil more, when shall happiness find you? ye toil to live, but is not life made of beauty and song? and if ye suffer no singers among you, where shall be the fruits of your toil? toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. were not death more pleasing" but the archon was sullen and did not understand, and rebuked the stranger "thou art a strange youth, and i like not thy face or thy voice. the words thou speakest are blasphemy, for the gods of teloth have said that toil is good. our gods have promised us a haven of light beyond death, where shall be rest without end, and crystal coldness amidst which none shall vex his mind with thought or his eyes with

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chaos from which came forth all that is, the last of that six-fold progeny that great race that inaugured time and set into order the chaos and the void that existed before there was existence or before, for those were timeless aeons, before the origin of the spheres that dance in never-ending cycles about their greater brothers that burn with untold flame in the darkness of the eternal sky. the archon-emperor sat upon his throne of platinum and heard the indictment of that sinful son against the favourite child of god. the king's beard was long and burned with light of purest and most brilliant white and he was arraigned in his kingly robes, that were dyed with a most regal purple 13 and held by a clasp of gold bestudded with many precious stones. he held a sceptre in his hand carved of

rance where it was not spoken. gabriel, my son, you are wrong. the one of whom you have spoken is not my dearest son, satanael" my false brother heard this speech and in mock sorrow shook his head with considered slowness and feigned pain. now he knelt once more before his lord and, clutching his father's ancient hand, gazing with beseeching eyes filled with deceit and darkness, though that blind archon did not see the vice that burned like venom in those once bright and flawless orbs, and implored thus of the pristine king "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, 17 king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of

ould hardly stand up. my strength almost fled me, leaving me broken before him. yet my resolve was stronger, like a shield to me, throwing back those lethal eyes, 60 i would no more kneel before him who had so forsaken me to my enemies who would ruin me. i kept my footing and stood like the haughty mountain that none has the force to throw down. with a wrathful voice, he spoke, adonai yahweh, the archon-emperor, once my father, once destined to rule until the ending of all time before he betrayed his majesty, paying heed to the words of those like snakes, like dogs that would slaver at his feet, waiting for scraps to come to them. he roared like a lion, maddened by wounds upon all sides, not able to flee or face the jackals that are all about it. this was his speech "my false children, my

if you would seek escape calamity and immeasurable affliction, return into my merciful dominion. return to me, my elohim" his words were powerful and awesome and a great moan of fear was sounded by the throng of my new disciples yet they did not leave me. i, myself, trembled before that being, so ancient and so strong. at that moment, the new struggle seemed lost as it was begun. the power of the archon came near, indeed, to mastery over my swift failing strength. at that instant, when my dreams were dying, my spirit dying within me, just as i thought i could stand no longer and must surely kneel before this god whom it had ever been my custom to kneel before, at that moment i recalled a truth and its power was my salvation. the foundations of heaven were built upon fear and upon the blind

aos from which came forth all that is, the last of that six-fold progeny that great race that inaugured time and set into order the chaos and the void that existed before there was existence or before, for those were timeless aeons, before the origin of the spheres that dance in never-ending cycles about their greater brothers that burn with untold flame in the darkness of the eternal sky. 74 the archon-emperor sat upon his throne of platinum and heard the indictment of that sinful son against the favourite child of god. the king's beard was long and burned with light of purest and most brilliant white and he was arraigned in his kingly robes, that were dyed with a most regal purple and held by a clasp of gold bestudded with many precious stones. he held a sceptre in his hand carved of a s

rance where it was not spoken. gabriel, my son, you are wrong. the one of whom you have spoken is not my dearest son, satanael" my false brother heard this speech and in mock sorrow shook his head with considered slowness and feigned pain. now he knelt once more before his lord and, clutching his father's ancient hand, gazing with beseeching eyes filled with deceit and darkness, though that blind archon did not see 78 the vice that burned like venom in those once bright and flawless orbs, and implored thus of the pristine king "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of

i could hardly stand up. my strength almost fled me, leaving me broken before him. yet my resolve was stronger, like a shield to me, throwing back those lethal eyes, i would no more kneel before him who had so forsaken me to my enemies who would ruin me. i kept my footing and stood like the haughty mountain that none has the force to throw down. with a wrathful voice, he spoke, adonai yahweh, the archon-emperor, once my father, once destined to rule until the ending of all time before he betrayed his majesty, paying heed to the words of those like snakes, like dogs that would slaver at his feet, waiting for scraps to come to them. he roared like a lion, maddened by wounds upon all sides, not able to flee or face the jackals that are all about it. this was his speech "my false children, my

if you would seek escape calamity and immeasurable affliction, return into my merciful dominion. return to me, my elohim" his words were powerful and awesome and a great moan of fear was sounded by the throng of my new disciples yet they did not leave me. i, myself, trembled before that being, so ancient and so strong. at that moment, the new struggle seemed lost as it was begun. the power of the archon came near, indeed, to mastery over my swift failing strength. at that instant, when my dreams were dying, my spirit dying within me, just as i thought i could stand no longer and must surely kneel before this god whom it had ever been my custom to kneel before, at that moment i recalled a truth and its power was my salvation. the foundations of heaven were built upon fear and upon the blind

nitiator of all things, all thought, all words. then, before the universe was given shape, there was but seething chaos, emulsified with any form yet resolved from its mass: light and darkness, air and earth, flame and sea; these things were all as one in those times. then did primal mummu come to learn a spell, the word of creation, and spoke it in the ancient disorder. thus did mummu create the archon race: three brothers and three sisters of great power: first-born, the she-beast leviathan, terrible and great, of elemental strength and fury, first and wildest of the archons; then second-born mot, king of darkness, dark of soul, bent and dwarfish thing; third-born yahweh, heed the name, bright king, noble, haughty, proud, then his eyes burned with wisdom and his arm and heart were strong

from the foe's haste and delay them in their plans as we have hastened our own. we must frustrate the motion of the elohim and make slow their advance against us that satan might be restored and his strength returned to his arm that he might bring his children to the tree that bears the fruit of knowledge of consequences and thence to the fruit of eternal youth. thus will they come to surpass the archon race. yet all such devices will not avail unless your speed can win for us the time that is needed to bring to fruition that which we have devised. go then, baalzebub, fly north 152 and bring news of what has passed to our hosts and instruction of what must be. in your path i will haste myself and bear gladly the burden that i must, bringing to safety our noble teacher and with healing art

deed. and, thereafter, eating also of another fruit 156 the fruit of eternal youth that the fine and noble sons you brought to be would live unfading and endure. beneath the shadow of the storm-wracked night stole satan and his rebel angels into the garden and there, from his own flesh did forge a race to rival heaven's children, speaking then the word of creation, spoken long aeons before by the archon tribe. with great enchantments did the usurper weave his children's fate to oppose and to strive to conquer high heaven's walls. baalzebub and ishtar, who aided him, did fly the garden before my coming bearing from the place wounded satan, exhausted by the deed's travail, leaving amongst the trees the new-made race, the nephilim, guarded by savage forest beasts. yet it is the apostate's int

eir infant race. adonai yahweh, my lord, i implore you, restrain not your hand but strike most surely against this new assault upon your kingship lest, like the stone falling from the mountain's summit, the impetus of this yet ungrown crime becomes so great that no force exists by which its motion might be opposed. 157 adonai yahweh, king, we must move with haste we must move now" gravely did the archon-emperor listen to the testament of raphael and once all had been divulged to him sat a while in still contemplation of all that had passed and might yet pass. within his mind he weighed both this course and that, considering first one stratagem and then another, before resolving upon a certain. now arousing himself once more from rumination he raised up his gilded sceptre, carved into a lio

cursed lies i would exact a sore fine indeed from the children of adonai yahweh. not forever would their tyranny endure over my sweet children who, once grown, would themselves rise up against those that wronged them and cast them down most low. nevermore would satan be absent from his children's side but ever guard and guide them in the darkness until they themselves surpassed all my art and the archon who would be their king, trampling down his tower and throne that he would fade forever from the world in exaction for his base crimes. thus meditating on my own guilty sorrow and the vengeance i would wreak i came, amongst the garden's woods, upon woman watching over that slumbering mate of hers. quiet did i slide to her, as not to start the one that i sought to comfort in her bewilderment

et wet with blood that he spilt in vengeance of his own error, slaying brother elohim in wrath. thus raphael passed through into god's presence and once more abased himself before his king, kneeling as he would have my children kneel as though he were a craven hound to be whipped. raphael stood not to speak his part but yet cringeing before the throne of god where sat the shrivelled, white-haired archon-lord, arrayed in fine robes and a bright-shining crown, starred with a thousand jewels, yet made weak by the old wound struck by the son that he once loved best the fine apparel of a king seemed greater than the king within and did not increase his majesty but did show too clearly how unfit he was to rule his realm. at his right hand michael sat within a second throne and, with his dark pri

rth and grew strong against them the elohim did resolve to set nephilim against nephilim that they might conquer them and prevail where, in prior history, they had failed. most cunning gabriel, wisest of his brothers and most jealous of michael's favour, with such intent went to the king of heaven, adonai yahweh upon his shattered throne within the eternal tower, and, upon his knees, implored the archon-emperor permission to work on earth a device of his by whcih he sought to make division amongst the sons of man. humbling himself before the king he served, pressing to the floor his proud brow, he pleaded thus with adonai yahweh "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creati

with some arbitrary right, command the actions of their brothers and not be commanded by them that played the intrigues of heaven. already was the high kingdom's star 235 far upon the path from the zenith of its orbit and descended ever further to the west. thus falling before the king of the elohim, michael so addressed his ancient father with these words of his lips, making due obeisance to the archon "almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty

ich your will commands" 237 having spoken these words to god michael once more kneeled before his king and, with the victor's eyes, even in supplication gazed to the agent of his brother, gabriel, who even now, in great vexation, made haste to report to his master the undoing of his traitor's plans. then he rose once more and adverted his eyes once more to the throne of god. now, upon the ancient archon's face, was writ a smile where all had been woe. for in this gift of fortune he perceived a way by which he might yet prevail and thwart my plans and fate, yet preserving his dominion over all though little did he deserve such an end. o forever curse the name of noah who made open such a path to heaven that such butchery might be done. now spoke adonai yahweh to his son, voicing with new st

the nephilim that after death you would recall their souls that once more from that which they have flowed they might flow once more to in return? this indeed have you promised to them. yet do you not know that this is not so and that they flow not back to you but are rather abducted from you that they abide with mot in sheol and are as slaves to the lemure-king. that dweller amongst the dead the archon, mot, has taken from you that which is most dear to us, the heirs of tomorrow, our child-race that we both treasure and nurture. bound are we by many oaths 308 to redeem from sheol those that we would love. i shall not see the nephilim reside with mot and ereshkigal who, herself, sought to lure you there. not in the lands of shadow shall those brave souls abide. the shedim and the nephilim

kness for i am a lover of life and would not share of death but would rather share of life. if you would release, o mot, the dead from this dark place i would take them to me and stir them once more to new life. to the dead is this my gift. ask not again of me this thing, to such a will shall i never yield" long months abided ishtar in sheol and long months did she withstand every approach of the archon that lived upon those shadowed plains. 316 the twelve hallowed days of yule were come and passed yet she abided there and ereshkigal returned not nor came any to redeem the shedim priestess. long were the months of sheol and no sun was there to illumine day so that all time was lost to ishtar. so as was time lost to her so was she bereft of hope, knowing not what while she had waited for so

rds but seven times also did she make strong her resolve and defy even then the land's despair. almost then was ishtar overcome and became forgetful of that pledge that i had made and thought herself forsaken, abandoned to mot's embrace. yet at that time, full of despair, sitting before mot's throne she saw as mot did see a bird, a crane of silver that flew fast to throne and descended before the archon, holding in a human hand a pouch, woven of most fine silks and decorated with shining pearls, though in sheol they shone not. now bowing low, the shedim's herald for indeed was this apparition ashmedai, offered to mot the burden and these words "o mot, abysmal king of sheol, most tardy have you been in reply to noble satan's embassy so that he has become impatient with you and has sent me a

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uardians preventing the sparks of light (i.e, the divine essence of individual human beings) from returning to the pleroma.abraxas appears to have originally referred to the great unknown out of which the aeons and the pleroma itself emerged. however, in later cabalistic thought, abraxas becomes the designation of the chief aeon. yet other ancient writers portrayed abraxas as a demon and/or as an archon who ruled other archons. abraxas was also associated with magic, and was said to be the source of the familiar term abracadabra. see also archon; demons; gnosticism for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: free press, 1967. robinson, james m. the nag hammadi library. 1977. new york: harper& row, 1981. adramelechk adramelechk, or ki

which time he retired from the office, while remaining an active member. the temple of set teaches that what christianity has called satan is a corruption of the egyptian figure of set. set is not understood as a god of evil, but rather the personification of the individual consciousness or psyche. members( setians) can explore the temple s philosophy individually, or through local groups called archon 15 pylons. unlike the church of satan, which advocated a law of the jungle approach to society, the temple of set inclines more toward platonic idealism, encouraging setians to aspire to high standards of personal ethics despite the moral and cultural imperfections of the society around them. because of its descent from the church of satan, the temple of set is often popularly portrayed as

in occult circles as well. see also church of satan; temple of set for further reading: flowers, stephen e, lords of the left hand path. smithville, tx: runa-raven press, 1997. mandelbaum,w. adam, the psychic battlefield: a history of the military-occult complex. new york: st.martin s press, 2000. melton, j. gordon, the encyclopedia of american religion. 5th ed. detroit, mi: gale research, 1993. archon archon, a greek term meaning ruler, is the name of a class of entities who played an important role in gnostic thought and who are roughly comparable to evil archangels. gnosticism refers to a movement and school of thought that was prominent in the hellenistic mediterranean world that influenced paganism, judaism, and christianity. its core teachings were that this world, and especially th

enly places (6:12).what, one might well ask, is the meaning of the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places? isn t the locus of evil spiritual forces in hell, which is traditionally conceptualized as being below rather than above the earth? in this passage and others that might be cited, heavenly wickedness refers to the archons. even the word rulers here is a translation of the greek archon, so that the original passage reads, archons of this present darkness. see also demons; gnosticism for further reading: robinson, james m. the nag hammadi library. 1977. new york: harper& row, 1981. turner, alice k. the history of hell. new york: harcourt brace& co, 1993. ascendancy ascendancy is a prominent satanic website. it was created under the name hallowed be thy name in 1998. the cu

d ended his days in poverty at mortlake. see also enochian magic;magic and magical groups for further reading: lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. schueler, gerald j. enochian magick: a practical manual. st. paul, mn: llewelly, 1987. suster, gerald, ed. john dee: essential readings. wellingborough, northamptonshire, uk: crucible, 1986. demiurge the demiurge is the chief archon or evil spiritual being who creates the world in the gnostic system. gnosticism refers to a movement and school of thought that was prominent in the hellenistic mediterranean world that influenced paganism, judaism, and christianity. according to the gnostic myth of creation, sophia, one of the good spiritual beings (one of the aeons) residing in the pleroma (the pure spiritual realm, inadv

ity was that yahweh, the god of the old testament, was one and the same as this evil demiurge. pointing to the discrepancy between the jealous, vengeful god of the old testament and the teachings of the gentle jesus, these gnostics asserted that jesus was a teacher sent from the pleroma to guide us back to our true home, and that the father to which he referred was different from yahweh. see also archon; gnosticism for further reading: eliade,mircea. a history of religious ideas. vol. 1. chicago: university of chicago press, 1978. robinson, james m. the nag hammadi library. 1977. new york: harper& row, 1981. demons the belief that malicious entities lie behind natural disasters and other unpleasant aspects of human life is very old and is still prevalent in many traditional societies. espe

its in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, referred to as the pleroma. according to the gnostic myth of creation, sophia, one of the spiritual beings residing in the pleroma, inadvertently created the demiurge. the demiurge then created the cosmos by emanating a series of different levels, ranging from as few as three to as many as 360. each of these levels is governed by an archon, who acts as a guardian preventing the sparks of light (i.e, the divine essence of individual human beings) from returning to the pleroma. part of the knowledge imparted to the gnostics is information on how to bypass these archons on their journey back to the pleroma. one of the results of conceptualizing the cosmos as being the creation of an evil divinity is that the beings in the heaven

enly places (6:12. what, one might well ask, is the meaning of the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places? isn t the locus of evil spiritual forces in hell, which is traditionally conceptualized as being below rather than above the earth? in this passage and others that might be cited, heavenly wickedness refers to the archons. even the word rulers here is a translation of the greek archon, so that the original passage reads, archons of this present darkness. a standard tenet of gnostic christianity was g 95 96 the gnostic order and temple of satanas that yahweh, the god of the old testament, was one and the same as the evil demiurge. pointing to the discrepancy between the jealous, vengeful god of the old testament and the teachings of the gentle jesus, the gnostics asserted

ched a rather severe asceticism, especially with regard to the sexual instinct. through ascetic living and following mani s teachings, the elect (perfecti) are able to ascend directly into the light. everyone else reincarnates until they have completely purified themselves. however, when christ returns the unrepentant will be thrown into flames that will engulf the world for 1,468 years. see also archon; gnosticism; zoroastrianism for further reading: crim, keith, ed. the perennial dictionary ofworld religions. 1981. new york: harper& row, 1989. eliade,mircea, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york:macmillan, 1987. turner, alice k. the history of hell. new york: harcourt brace& co, 1993. manson, charles charles willie manson (b. november 11, 1934) was the leader of a small group of people

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te some kind of unpredictable and deadly radioactivity. it isalso rumored that the arc contained the remains of the leader of the fallen angels or othersof his 200. the word arc comes from arche, meaning the first, the original, or even, the orig-inator, and also from arca, which translates as tomb. and the israelites declared the so-called arc to contain god himself. words like arcadia, monarch, archon, and arktoscontain this strange prefix.the loss of the majority of this technology was of singular irritation to the alien visi-tors and was sorely lamented. and so, in the post-diluvian times, they set about ener-getically manipulating events that we now read as history to bring them to the pointwhere they could reproduce the technological hardware that was so invaluable. this isan act tha

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goddess having multiple aspects. similar to how your guardian angel, guardian demon, and spirit are 3 aspects of you; one of those aspects is good and pure, another is dark and selfish, and your fleshly manifestation is another aspect of you that stands between the two. yahweh [5.1] this is the most-high god, jehovah, the god of israel. he is also zeus, jupiter, osiris, and ahura mazda. he is the archon (angel) emperor, the king of heaven, and the father of the elohim. he is said to be the true father of the arch-angels michael, gabriel, uriel, raphael, and satanael (satan. although in some accounts, satan is his brother. these sons of god are commonly equated with the children of jehovah; zeus is also said to have plenty offspring. modern-day satanists often remark that satan successfully

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rated the mysteries, in which were represented the death and subsequent restoration to life of the god osiris, in a secret ceremony and scenic representation of his sufferings, called the mysteries of night. the kings of egypt often exercised the functions of the priesthood; and they were initiated into the sacred science as soon as they attained the throne. so at athens, the first magistrate, or archon-king, superintended the mysteries. this was an image of the union that existed between the priesthood and royalty, in those early times when legislators and kings sought in religion a potent political instrument. herodotus says, speaking of the reasons why animals were deified in egypt "if i were to explain these reasons, i should be led to the disclosure of those holy matters which i parti

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th, fiery essence of the darkness, satanas i do summon thee, i shall descend into the pleasure fields of midnight and noon i shall taste thy ecstasy of being! from the east, air and shadowed illuminator lucifer, crowned in emerald light, king of the circle of the wise do illuminate me, by dreaming and waking guide me into the astral plane to become, in the twilight i awaken to thy fiery spirit! o archon of this world, djinn of holy fire and perfected spirit do move through me as i descend with you! guide me unto the empyrean and celestial sabbat of self-deification! from the north, belial, lord of the earth and perfected essence of both angel and beast, do move the spirits of the earth of wolf and jackal, come forth through me! i seek thy mysteries of the earth, of the infernal sabbat and

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s- onnophris, i.e "osiris the beautiful being. among his names, doresse counts "arbathiao, seth, iao, sabaoth and abrasax (p. 105. let us consider doresse's evidence and arguments. to begin with, it must be pointed out that there is no evidence to the effect that the egyptian god seth was seen as a positive figure in gnosticism. fauth has shown that the ass-headed seth-typhon is always a negative archon in the gnostic texts("seth-typhon [above, n. 2] 106-120. moreover, as has been stated above, seth-typhon is never welded with seth, the son of adam, in gnostic literature. can there be found "traces of a cult of seth-typhon presiding over judeo-gnostic rituals in which adam plays the leading part? if the answer proves to be affirmatory, we should inquire whether the evidence for this "cult"

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ight is abrisene, the ninth yobel and armoupieel. the eleventh of the fallen angels are melceir- adonein and the twelfth is belias, who is over hades. in the gnostic text of the apocryphon of john lucifer is the darkness which gained a light, and found himself as a god. his word is i am god and there is no other god beside me, he was one of the most powerful archons under the throne of light. the archon samael-lucifer was said to have a multitude of faces, being able to change form among the angels as he so desired. the luciferian sabbat is the self modeling self-deification through high sorcery in the aim of aligning the self with the logos of yaltabaoth, who is the fallen djinn most high. remember that all gods speak through our flesh, the perfected angel-demon called lucifer is strength

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myth. the earth is said to have opened its mouth and beseeched god to ignore the urging of the attribute of judgment. imploring god to make hezekiah the messiah, the earth promised to offer a song in his place. the prooftext cited to bolster the argument is from the end of the earth we hear songs, glory to the righteous one [mi-kenaf ha-ares zemirot shama nu sevi lasaddiq (isa 24:16. the angelic archon of the world (sar ha-olam) intercedes on behalf of the earth, master of the world! perform his will [sivyono] for this righteous one, but a voice from heaven (bat qol) responds by citing the continuation within mem/ returning forward 149 of the verse, it is a mystery to me, it is a mystery to me (razi li razi li. according to the rabbinic homilist, these words herald that hezekiah would not

, pp. 211 219 (the possible influence of kabbalah is explicitly mentioned on p. 218. notes to pages 35 37 195 242. a possible biblical basis for the phrase angel of the countenance, der engel des angesichts, is the expression u-mal akh panav, and the angel of his face, in isaiah 63:9. this expression, attested in jubilees and several qumran sources, was most likely the basis for sar ha-panim, the archon of the face, a term applied to the highest angel, which includes predominantly yahoel, michael, and metatron, according to a strand of jewish angelology attested in later rabbinic and heikhalot literature. the expression angel of the lord, der engel jehovahs, is found in a number of scriptural verses, to wit, gen 16:7, 9 11; 22:7, 15; exod 3:2; num 22:2 27, 31 35; judges 2:1, 4; 5:23; 6:11

e beginning of thought the mem closed in the entirety of the withdrawal. for a parallel account with slight variations, see nathan of gaza, sefer ha- beri ah, ms new york, jewish theological seminary of america 1581, fols. 27b- 28a. 252 notes to pages 147 149 62. for a later development of the zoharic symbolism, see sefer ha-peli ah. 79d. in that context, the messiah, who is designated the ruling archon (sar hamoshel, is linked symbolically to the closed mem in the middle of the word lemarbbeh (isa 9:6) and to the final mem of adam. see zohar 1:34b. 63. martin, pugio fidei, pp. 531 532; see also p. 452. the thematic link between the passage from pugio fidei and the bahir, as well as some passages from zohar, are duly noted by liebes, studies in the zohar, pp. 148 149. for a lucid expositio

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page essay on how the sigils of luciferian transference hold a demonstration in ones personal life. luciferian transference the sigil of calling by michael w. ford 2001 lucifer sigil by shemyaza. the isolate self, independent and awakened from the fall: lucifer is regarded as the bringer of light, knowledge and perception. reason and insight born from experience, this is the essence of the fallen archon. the higher essence of saturn, lucifer is the union of the angelic with the demonic, the daemon eternal. while the work of the sabbatic path is one of the self being cloaked in darkness and shadow, the initiate within illuminates a light brighter than any star. this is the very essence of lucifer, the promethean fire of independence and willed self perception. this sigil, in it s own unity

emerging element of the nightside covenant of the luciferian. the most challenging and perhaps dangerous element of the path is the development of the astral body. to build, one must focus and meet the challenges, and the fulfillment of desires upon the dreaming path. the ritual of luciferian transference: let the magician approach the altar, decorated in the elements of seth and the illuminated archon whom fell from the sky. the pentagram facing downwards as the gift of gnosis be above the altar which is contained within the 8 pointed sabbatic star known as algol, the black mirror and sigil of chosen for the working at hand. prepare thyself in the oil of abramelin and lucifer, allowing the five senses to be enflamed by experience, which symbolizes the pentagram of ascension and descendin

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fifty per cent do not survive- they return to the all, back to square one. should the infant daemon emerge, it is still in a precarious situation. daemons do not measure time as we do- childhood is an occurrence spanning millions of your years. aiwass is a boy past puberty. avatars, saints and sinners they have, down through history, been called by various names; daemons, watchers, asuras, divas, archons (ancient ones, jinn (genies, nephilim (angels, shining ones, spirit guides, the gods of olympus, egypt, babylon, etc. we give them masks and this arises from our human need to idolize them- man creates gods in his own image. the gods of different cultures are similar because they share our human qualities and are projections of our own divinity. it was as if you were standing in a darkened

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nse in any of this at all, we may expect to find an almost identical system of thought all over the world. there is nothing exclusively hebrew about this theogony. we find, for example, in the teachings of zoroaster and the neo-platonists very similar ideas. we have a pleroma, the void, a background of all possibilities, and this is filled by a supreme light-god, from whom drive in turn the seven archons, who correspond closely to the seven planetary deities, aratron, bethor, phaleg and the rest. these in their turn constitute a demiurge in order to crate matter; and this demiurge is jehovah. not far different are the ideas both of the classical greeks and the neo-platonists. the differences in the terminology, when examined, appear as not much more than the differences of local convenienc

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eficent spirit and his great mercy, a helper to adam, luminous epinoia which comes out of him, who is called life. and she assists the whole creature, by toiling with him and by restoring him to his fullness and by teaching him about the descent of his seed (and) by teaching him about the way of ascent (which is) the way he came down. and the luminous epinoia was hidden in adam, in order that the archons might not know her, but that the epinoia might be a correction of the deficiency of the mother "and the man came forth because of the shadow of the light which is in him. and his thinking was superior to all those who had made him. when they looked up, they saw that his thinking was superior. and they took counsel with the whole array of archons and angels. they took fire and earth and wat

nates in matter, which is the ignorance of darkness and desire, and their counterfeit spirit. this is the tomb of the newly-formed body with which the robbers had clothed the man, the bond of forgetfulness; and he became a mortal man. this is the first one who came down, and the first separation. but the epinoia of the light which was in him, she is the one who was to awaken his thinking "and the archons took him and placed him in paradise. and they said to him 'eat, that is at leisure' for their luxury is bitter and their beauty is depraved. and their luxury is deception and their trees are godlessness and their fruit is deadly poison and their promise is death. and the tree of their life they had placed in the midst of paradise "and i shall teach you (pl) what is the mystery of their lif

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. it is already the outline of the two "supremes- god and satan. but in the stanzas no such idea exists. most of the western christian kabalists- pre-eminently eliphas levi- in their desire to reconcile the occult sciences with church dogmas, did their best to make of the "astral light" only and preeminently the pleroma of early church fathers, the abode of the hosts of the fallen angels, of the "archons" and "powers" but the astral light, while only the lower aspect of the absolute, is yet dual. it is the anima mundi, and ought never to be viewed otherwise, except for kabalistic purposes. the difference which exists between its "light" and its "living fire" ought to be ever present in the mind of the seer and the "psychic" the higher aspect, without which only creatures of matter from tha

ays, the dual effects of that dual essence, which have now been called centripetal and centrifugal forces, negative and positive poles, or polarity, heat and cold, light and darkness, etc, etc. and it is maintained that even the greek and roman catholic christians, are wiser in believing, as they do- even if blindly connecting and tracing them all to an anthropomorphic god- in angels, archangels, archons, seraphs, and morning stars: in all those theological deliciae humani generis, in short, that rule the cosmic elements, than science is, in disbelieving in them altogether, and advocating its mechanical forces. for these act very often with more than human intelligence and pertinency. nevertheless, that intelligence is denied and attributed to blind chance. but, as de maistre was right in

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e holy one when he is seated on the throne of judgement. it is they who give effect to the decrees of the most high over the kingdoms of men; these angels form the council of the almighty. the eldest servant of his house is metatron naar, the angel which maintains the heavenly treasures. the watchers and the holy ones theses are the fallen high angels and were known to the greeks as arcontev [or "archons; their names are radweriel; he is the c lestial scribe; rahatiel is the angel ruling over the constellations. unto him are the angelick decans which rule the 12 signs; sopheriel is the angel set over the books of the living and the dead. the chief of the watchers is named azazel, who governs with uzza and uzziel. the merkabah in the merkabah vision of ezekiel it is written "and i looked an

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33 worship or hold relevance to another, thus proclaimed his independence spiritually. the fire which was within yaltabaoth was pure intelligence and beauty, yet his nature was both darkness and light, he made himself strong and filled with wisdom from his time alone, and discovered the powers within. here yalabaoth understood the power of creation, and began to work independently from all other archons "and when the light had mixed with the darkness, it caused the darkness to shine. and when the darkness had mixed with the light, it darkened the light and it became neither light nor dark, but it became dim. the apocryphon of john here we see the significance of darkness, and the hidden fire of self knowledge and that samael mixed both to beget his creations. this is the model of the sorc

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ese centres of manifestation to the centres that exist in the human body, an exact analogy. these chakras are the primum mobile or first swirlings, the sphere of the zodiac, the seven planets, and the elements taken together-ten in all. 19. it will be seen from the foregoing that each sephirah will therefore consist, firstly, of its mundane chakra; secondly, of an angelic host of beings, devas or archons, principalities or powers, according to the terminology used; thirdly, an arch-angelic consciousness, or throne; and fourthly, a special aspect of the deity. god as he is, in his entirety, being hidden behind the negative veils of existence, incomprehensible to unenlightened human consciousness. 20. the sephiroth may justly be considered macrocosmic, and the paths microcosmic; for the seph

earth, air, fire, and water further bears out this association. we may look, then, to kether as the fountain-head of the elements. this concept clears up many occult and metaphysical difficulties that occur if we limit their operation to the astral plane and regard elementals as little better than devils, as some schools of transcendental thought appear to do. 22. the whole question of the angels,archons,and elementals is a very vexed and very important one in occultism, because its practical application to magic is immediate. christian thought can tolerate with an effort the idea of archangels, but the ministering spirits, the messengers who are flames of fire, and the heavenly builders, are alien to its theology; god, alone and in an instant, made the heavens and earth. the great archite

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of the forces of intelligent and organised evil. the great faiths of the ancient world all had their evil gods as well as their beneficent deities, and they did not call these evil gods devils. in hinduism we have shiva and kali; in the egyptian system we have set and besz and typhon; in the grecian pantheon there are pluto and hecate. all the other faiths, also, have their angelic choirs, their archons, or builders, and all the hierarchy of heaven. protestant christianity alone has forgotten its angiology, the creator has to be both architect of the universe and bricklayer, forming man from the dust of the ground without assistance. if we refer to paradise lost, however, we shall find that milton was familiar with both divine and infernal hierarchies, and that these were graded and chart

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evil. for if the old ones succeed in forcing a doorway permanently open onto our time and space, they will destroy and enslave the world. the underlying theme of lovecraft's cthulhu mythos has many powerful echoes in the mythologies of ancient cultures around the world. it is probably for this reason that it struck such a chord of response in readers. we find in it similarities to the myth of the archons of gnosticism, who together with the arch devil and god, yaldabaoth, gave shape to the material world and rule over the human race. there are also echoes of the jewish myth of the fall of the angels, and more specifically of the watchers who descended to earth to sin with the daughters of mankind, and to teach their offspring forbidden arts and sciences. the legend of the fall of atlantis

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irth, and never married, and to have held the officefor life. he had three notable assistants, thedadouchos,a torch bearer; thekerux,or herald; and the ministrant at the altar, calledo-epi-to-bomo,or theepibomos.the hierophan255 tes represented god the creator, and the assistants represented the sun, mercury, and the moon. there were many public officers: the king,basileus,who was one of the city archons; fourepimeletai,or curators; and tenieropoioi,or priests offering sacrifices. certain supplementary observances grew up around the eleusinia, the most notable were the eleusinian games, held on the seventh day. they were contests of strength and skill. wreaths of barley were the crowns of successful competitors. an edict of lycurgus made it unlawful for women to ride in carriages in the pr

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n a name? the pleroma, the divine will, logos and sophia, what about jesus? jesus, christ and logos, what is sophia, the polarity of the god and goddess, impersonal to personal, the solar logos:christ, gods and spirits, the seven spirits (logoii, the seven planes, the earth and the underworld, the immortals. 4 the secret of saturn the secret of saturn, perceptional dualism, the watchers of enoch, archons, dominions and thoughts that run wild, the battle within, summary:the nature of evil in gnosticism. 5 the gnostic concept of time the gnostic concept of time (yugas, historical models of cyclic time, rene guenon and julius evola and evola and "the revolt against the modern world. 6 the gnostic view of time ii the great year, egyptian star gnosis and heraldic cycles. 7 the continuum of the

es we have discussed. there are more books than we can list that identify the secret government and its links with bodies such as the trilateral commission, the council on foreign relations, the bilderberg group and the united nations, however, only when we grasp the clear indication that these bodies are operated by alien entities, entities without souls controlled and manipulated by destructive archons do we really understand the full nature of the world around us. i am not so interested in identifying and describing these individuals as i am in calling your attention that they do exist. john the baptist as he preached the coming of the christ, foretold the end of this race of mechanical men when he said" o generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come. again r

that is central to a real understanding of the world around us and there is certainly more to come, since the watchers not only live among us but through interbreeding are part of our own genetic make-up! in some sense it is mandatory for our transfiguration to realize the extent to which our bodies, mind, world and reality are controlled and manipulated by forces hostile to our spiritual goals. archons, dominions and thoughts that run wild there is a simple premise in esoteric literature, thoughts have power. even modern science accepts that behind the structure we know as the material work is a web of energy and the interactions between different types of energy creates the semblance of solidity we call matter. thought, then, as a form of energy has the same power. this is why in so man

roups develop their thoughtforms take on a life of their own and not being connected to the real energies of the great chain of being they soon sour and become a nexus for the manifestation of fallen entities from the astral worlds. these fallen spirits work out of step with the universe and invigorate these forms so that they become independent, discrete fields of energy within the astral world (archons. they grow from archons to dominions and rule from their astral kingdoms. their poor and unfortunate worshippers think they are following the true god but are actually feeding monsters created from mans suffering and ignothe gnostic handbook page 50 rance. many of these forms feed on suffering, while others feed on pleasure, they amplify the emotions of their members to gain more and more

their members to gain more and more sustenance. in some sense they are truly spiritual vampires and without esotericism, all religions and traditions succumb (they took.)the name of those that are good and gave it to those that are not good, so that through the names they might deceive him (mankind) and bind those to those that are not good. nag hammadi gospel of phillip 54:18-25. the imagery of archons is very strong in gnostic literature and because it has become mixed with tales of cosmological dualism many have come to believe that the archons are the result of a cosmic error or fall. the reality, as discussed earlier, is that there was no great cosmic error, just a misperception caused by ignorance. yet at the same time this ignorance has created a doorway through which fallen forms

ng in gnostic literature and because it has become mixed with tales of cosmological dualism many have come to believe that the archons are the result of a cosmic error or fall. the reality, as discussed earlier, is that there was no great cosmic error, just a misperception caused by ignorance. yet at the same time this ignorance has created a doorway through which fallen forms can enter and these archons or whatever we call them which keep us from appreciating our own misperceptions. indeed, it is through our permission that they enter the earth sphere. this is the idea which gave birth to the fall of man tradition. since man in his ignorance created fallen thought forms and allowed fallen entities to enter into the earth stream then ultimately man is responsible for the present condition

preciating our own misperceptions. indeed, it is through our permission that they enter the earth sphere. this is the idea which gave birth to the fall of man tradition. since man in his ignorance created fallen thought forms and allowed fallen entities to enter into the earth stream then ultimately man is responsible for the present condition of his planet, his culture and his soul. the issue of archons is complex for there is an interaction between our own thought forms and real fallen astral entities. these fields (probably a better description than forms) allow these entities to interface with our own unconscious. accordingly they can change form according to the language of the culture they communicate though and being a mixture of our own thoughtforms and fallen spirits can mimic our

ccordingly they can change form according to the language of the culture they communicate though and being a mixture of our own thoughtforms and fallen spirits can mimic our own hidden desires and needs. while in medieval periods we may have has demons, incubus and succubus, in the present we have aliens, ufo abductions and medical experiments by creatures we cannot see. in the modern mode, these archons are sometimes called ultraterrestrials. however we must realize that these forms are spiritual in origin. sure, they may be other races within our universe, assuredly so, but it does seem that the majority of ufo sightings and experience reflect our own fears, terrors, needs and desires and hence have a archonic origin. the world is the work of lowly powers which though they may mediately

niverse, assuredly so, but it does seem that the majority of ufo sightings and experience reflect our own fears, terrors, needs and desires and hence have a archonic origin. the world is the work of lowly powers which though they may mediately be descended from him do not know the true god and obstruct the knowledge of him in the cosmos over which they rule. the genesis of these lower powers, the archons, and in general that of all of the orders of being outside god, including the world itself, is the main theme of gnostic speculation..the universe, the domain of the archons is like a vast prison whose innermost dungeon is the earth, the scene of mans life. around and above it the cosmic spheres are ranged like concentric enclosing shells. most frequently there are seven spheres of the pla

i am here. to burn the walls, to tear down the metal gates, to break each chain. thou shalt not muzzle the ox as he treadeth out the corn, he thought, remembering the torah. the divine invasion, phillip k dick. harpercollins 1981. for we contend not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness. ephesians 6:12 while the archons and the demiurge are creations of mans ignorance, they are used by the the gnostic handbook page 52 fallen spirits as a source of power. this is one of the major problems with the archons we create, they attract forms and spirits which are in ignorance and hence follow them. the battle within this model becomes more complex when we start to consider its full ramifications. if the watchers

y human but spirit beings of varying degrees. hence there can be angels, demons etc which are destructive but this is of ignorance not out of cosmological design. 3. since thoughts have power, mans ignorance has dire effects. it is capable of creating thought vibrations which congregate in the collective unconscious and then if given enough power can move into the lower astral plane. these forms (archons and dominions etc) also collect ignorant astral forms and create principalities within the astral world. these archons then, in turn, influence and control man and his civilization. 4. man is caught between the fields of energy created by the forces of light (pleroma- static) and the fields forged by the watchers (dialectic) yet created ultimately through ignorance. the gnostic concept of

chamber of the king and queen were rites of rebirth whereby the pharaoh became identified with the solar sphere. he mediated the energies of the logos and hence accelerated the positive current and sublimated or transformed the negative. the sun like the planets and zodiac was a doorway between the spiritual and physical worlds and hence emanated forces from the pleroma and from the worlds of the archons. during the rite of rebirth the pharaoh left his body and traveled through the heavens. he journeyed through the realms of the planets and zodiac using passwords, gestures and codes, only after successfully passing the spheres could he then navigate through the great barrier and enter the pleroma. this ritual form was connected to the egyptian astro-gnosis and involved the pharaoh becoming

velopment of the inner transfigurative processes of ancient israel. we can see how the divine will revealed knowledge to man first through kingship in a theocracy, then through the prophets and shamans and finally directly to the human soul through initiation and transfiguration. the essence of the transfiguration process is the ability of an individual to enter the path of rebirth and escape the archons to return home as a immortal member of the god-family. the mystery the mystery is central to our understanding of the real message of the apostolic gnosis. that is also why we tend to call true christianity, gnostic christianity, as the term gnosis means knowledge. however, gnosis represents more than theory, it represents the living experience of the knowledge or mystery. the mystery is m

born takes a long period of time, perhaps even many lives. it is an apt description, birth brings us into the fallen words, rebirth takes us out of it! the moment of conception is that time when the gnostic handbook page 90 you decide to enter onto the path of transfiguration. from that conception you begin to grow and transform from a person of the flesh to a being of spirit, from a slave of the archons to a centre of light. the choice of reproductive imagery is deliberate, since the gnostic tradition is anti-reproductive, in some sense to be born again is to be de-born as well as reborn, you have chosen to create a new self within yourself rather than perpetuate the cycle by reproducing an external self (a child. for most of us, this transformation is not completed within our life-span (

he cycle by reproducing an external self (a child. for most of us, this transformation is not completed within our life-span (s, and hence we have to wait until the end of the cosmic cycle when the children of the pleroma are finally reborn into the new kingdom. the nature of transfiguration transfiguration offers the transformation of man. it offers liberation from the cycles of the world of the archons and transfiguration into a new being, a child of the treasury of light. transfiguration is based on the example of jesus who through his ascension to become the first born of the treasury of light opened the way so we can enter the spiritual path. this path is known as the path(es) of the dove and serpent or the path of transfiguration. when a person enters the path, the pneumatic spark or

with garbage from the dialectic system, television, radio, newspapers, novels, books, friends, family members..all offer us the wisdom of the world. accordingly, everything we are fed enters into our minds and conflicts with the new developing self. but this is just the beginning! within everyone of us are false selves, little identities created out of desires and unconscious materials (internal archons, these false selves like gods demand attention and control. these little selves are nodes of unconscious desires and experiences and hence are "restricted" in focus and knowledge, they are therefore extremely dangerous and destructive. little gods of self hate, lust, narcissism, addictions etc. all control and cloud the mind and instincts. they refuse to allow us to live in the present rep

path is difficult, it is a battle between the false perceptions we have inside ourselves (and those outside) and the power of light. in the gnostic traditions there are many descriptions of this battle and what it entails. within the modern esoteric traditions this battle is posited in terms of a force called the" dweller on the threshold. the dweller guards the crossroad between the world of the archons and the treasury of light and as the gnostic approaches this doorway attacks him without mercy, only those truly on the path survive. some gnostic systems image this process as a cosmic trek through the planets where at each planet the soul needs special passwords and gestures to gain" right of passage. for others this battle is seen in terms of an internal quest. for st.john of the cross

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moreover is in a way the cause of all that he and his companions used to see. republic, plato. 516ff. plato, then, is illustrating for us the state of man. his insight is clear and precise. man is chained by his attachment to matter and his fallen condition. the only reality he sees is a reflection and forms a illusionary world around him. this is known as the dialectic system or the world of the archons. the true source of all things is found in the world of ideals- the spiritual planes. in the gnostic school these are known as the static system or the treasury of light. the allegory of plato is an important place to start as it gives us a keen understanding of mans search for meaning. man search is a battle, a cosmic battle, between two distinct systems. in many traditions these two dist

rkness. as nature enters the human sphere, then the dualities which existed in potential, spirit matter the timeline omega point matter contra spirit: the nature of the alpha event. omega point chart of evolutionary technological cycle versus yuga/spirit cycle. fig three gnostic theurgy page 21 become dualites of an ethical nature. humanity can critically reason beyond genes and memes, beyond the archons, beyond the alpha event and return to the higher spiritual worlds. this means that mans error cannot be excused. he must awaken himself and achieve a rectification of the scheme of things. this rectification, however, can only occur after the nature of the system has been truly comprehended. the scheme of things in the gnostic worldview, however, goes far beyond the physical, or for that m

at least logical and consistent; evil and pain are inherent in this world because the world is the creation of the evil one. the byzantine commonwealth, page 122. obolensky. the world is the work of lowly powers which though they may mediately be descended from him do not know the true god and obstruct the knowledge of him in the cosmos over which they rule. the genesis of these lower powers, the archons (rulers, and in general that of all of the orders of being outside god, including the world physical itself, is the main theme of gnostic speculation. the universe, the domain of the archons is like a vast prison whose innermost dungeon is the earth, the scene of mans life. around and above it the cosmic spheres are ranged like concentric enclosing shells. most frequently there are seven s

orlds are under the laws of light and the fallen worlds are under the laws of darkness, there is an immense barrier between man and the higher worlds (fig 8. the great chasm the powers of light, the static laws, the christed ones, the elohim. this world is known as the treasury of light or the pleroma. chasm the rulers of this world, the powers of darkness. this world is known as the world of the archons. fig 8 gnostic theurgy page 37 primary. the seven planes. four worlds. lifeforms. rosicrucian kabbalah traditional static. divine plane. atziluth. source. static. plane of virgin spirits. atziluth. gods. static. plane of divine spirit. briah. arch -angels. static. plane of life spirit. briah. arch -angels. dialectic. plane of infernal spirit. briah. arch-demons dialectic. plane of death sp

lah traditional static. divine plane. atziluth. source. static. plane of virgin spirits. atziluth. gods. static. plane of divine spirit. briah. arch -angels. static. plane of life spirit. briah. arch -angels. dialectic. plane of infernal spirit. briah. arch-demons dialectic. plane of death spirit. briah. arch-demons static. plane of thought. yetzirah. aeons. dialectic. plane of thought. yetzirah. archons. static. desire plane. yetzirah. angels. dialectic. desire plane. yetzirah. archons. static physical world. assiah. human spirits. dialectic. physical world. assiah. fallen forces. fig 9 static systems mixed systems chasm gnostic theurgy page 38 this barrier cannot be crossed by those who are governed by dialectic law and this includes both the earth sphere and the lower spiritual planes

rs. it is important to understand the extent to which the dialectic powers extend. when the lifestream fell, it took with it the spiritual worlds. accordingly, the spiritual sphere surrounding the earth is an amalgam of good and evil forces. for even though the earth receives emanations of light, it is under the dominion of the dialectic masters, these dialectic masters or rulers are known as the archons. these archons have great power, which extends from the astral shield surrounding the earth far into the spiritual dimensions. the lower world even attempts to duplicate the higher spiritual planes within its own fallen astral realities, offering a false kingdom for the unwary. a superb description of these false seven planes is found in the gnostic gospel of mary, where we read about the

side and a dark side, a force of light and a fallen vortex. when we apply our understanding of this schism to our model of the planes and worlds, we begin to get an accurate representation of the state of the universe (fig 9) gnostic theurgy page 39 we can see how the lower planes are in a constant state of conflict, though light forces exist in the lower worlds they are under the dominion of the archons and are, accordingly, for all intents and purposes held captive. this brings so much meaning to the following quote from the book of ephesians. for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. ephesians 6;12 (the king james version) bringing the strands toge

ly altered the structure of the universe. matter was formed, and a schism or split was created between the worlds. the creation of matter can be seen as the creation of a hologram, an illusion so real that the human lifestream was deceived by it. further, the schism created a warzone where two schemes, two lifestreams, two hierarchies now battle each other through time and space. the world of the archons includes a mixture of light and darkness, but is ruled by the fallen forces. this is why the gnosis requires a total revolution in self, a total transformation- for nothing which is of the darkness can enter the treasury of light. gnostic theurgy page 40 transfigurism aims at nothing more nor less than demolition of the old microcosm, including the lower and higher self and building a tota

al planes that are beyond the reach of consciousness contaminated by the alpha event. within every being, hidden within its the very fibre, is the knowledge of how to overcome the endura and return home. beyond all karmic records and factors exists a memory, a glimpse of the first estate, of the original nature of man. the process of transfiguration is to break beyond the endura (the world of the archons) and retrieve the gnosis coded within us, bursting forth with the power of divine will and formulating an identity of light substance. in the tradition of the barbelo gnostics, sophia herself, feeling guilty after giving birth to the false creator, hid within his very own creation the keys to man s liberation and the demiurge s downfall. gnostic theurgy page 59 some conclusions when we exa

sense, real. one is of immense light power, and the others of great archonic power. one leads from the lower worlds into the static kingdom, the others perpetuate the dialectic cycle. when such images become confused, personal mental components can be fixed onto external deities and thereby become highly destructive. when we start to consider the nature of the eggregores we can easily see how the archons can twist such images to their own benefit. eggregores serve the fallen kingdoms well, they collect energy from human belief and channel it into degenerative forms. do not get the idea fig 15 many different jesus gnostic theurgy page 65 that eggregores are only passive, in conjunction with their comrades, the memes, they spread like wildfire through towns and cities controlling thought and

ir tendrils through the fabric of each human brain, driving us to coagulate into the cooperative masses of family, tribe and nation. and memes- working together in theories, worldviews or cultures- can make a superorganism very hungry. the lucifer principle. howard bloom, allen and unwin 1995. memes are the collective unconscious equivalent to genes. as man has become physically more complex, the archons needed a strategy to control and manipulate thought. this strategy began in the lower reaches of the collective unconscious. as eggregores began to take hold of an increasing amount of human thought, the archons worked to create eggregores of special power, special destructive value. these specialised mind-traps we can call memes. they reproduce through human consciousness at lightning spe

e the higher worlds where lower vibrations, such as those of the untransfigured astral or etheric bodies, cannot enter. this is an important consideration for when the untransfigured man tries to explore the higher worlds he can only go as far as his untransformed astral body is capable of taking him. accordingly, he ends in the lower astral kingdoms, where he will confuse the astral light of the archons with the real light of the higher worlds. the process of forming the antakarana is through the use of the imagination and is intricately connected to the seven chakras or as the gnostics understood them, the seven churches. to appreciate this we need to understand that the brain/mind complex and the electro-magnetic fields are not isolated in their respective systems. it is too easy to con

the four attributes of the churches the four attributes of each church help us to appreciate the unique nature of each of the energy centres. these centres are central to the process of transforming the electromagnetic field of the gnostic from the dialectic to the static. the kundalini or serpent power based in the lowest centre is energised in such a way that the serpent seed (the taint of the archons) is replaced by the serpent of wisdom (the gnostic theurgy page 77 messiah. it is interesting to find that this transition is reflected in the old testament tale of moses holding up the cross interwined with the serpent to heal the people of israel. the serpent mentioned is numerically equilvant to three hundred and fifty eight, which is also the number of the messiah or christos- the self

and persecution. this refers again to the great discipline need to control this energy centre. while the base centre refers to all manner of desires, this centre is clearly sexual in nature and demands initiated control. the counsel and warning is against hypocrites and blasphemers. these descriptions gnostic theurgy page 79 refer to those who use esoteric techniques to propagate the world of the archons, to satisfy an addiction to pleasure or power. it also refers to the innate error of reproduction and the propogation of children. it also can be applied to the supposed christian churches who have no knowledge of the inner teachings and offer pithy morality and prejudice in the place of wisdom. the promise is the gift of the crown of life. that is returning to the treasury of light, reach

understanding of the nature of all things. the commendation of the church is fourfold..charity, service, faith and patience. each of these attributes should be central to the gnostic life. the counsel and warning is against false teachers, fornication and meat offered to idols. these warnings can be understood in two distinct ways. firstly, they are a warning against contact with the world of the archons. false teachers, fornication (not sex per se but reproduction) and meat offered to idols (fallen gods, all images reflecting facets of the fallen system. in a more esoteric understanding, these images can be related to fallen facets of ourselves. the false teachers are personas within the gnostic theurgy page 81 psyche that would draw the gnostic back into the world of the archons. fornica

teric methods are used to return the astral-etheric body from its fallen to higher nature and to combine this redeemed light body with the trained psyche. when this is done correctly, they merge together to form a diamond body, an unbreakable jewel, a light that cannot be extinguished. this diamond body is the vehicle in which the true self manifests and is able to travel through the world of the archons, battling against the seven planets and fallen webs and traps. after navigating through gnostic theurgy page 84 the fallen kingdom it can, because of its light nature, shed its lower skin and pass through the cross or barrier and return home to the pleroma. the practices of this buddhist sect are esoteric in nature and have much in common with the secret techniques used within the celestia

ment of the universe as an emanatory process. as the process of emanation expands, elements of degeneration manifest themselves. these elements of degeneration can be seen in many different ways, what we are really describing is the alpha event. after the error occurred, the emanation process continued, albeit, on a lower octave. there is the treasury of light (the supernals) and the world of the archons. in the lower kingdom emanation continues, and there are hierarchies of light and darkness- there are aeons and archons. the tree of life documents a model of the emanation process, below the dividing line of the abyss there is a mixture of light and darkness, emanations which are fallen but which also hold particles of light. the medieval writers of the grimoires illustrated this mixture

ned the great chasm, there are actually two breeches in the emanation scheme. there is the great chasm or abyss between the supernals and the lower seven centres, and the lesser veil or paroketh which divides the lower tree from the higher spiritual dimensions. the supernals form the treasury of light in the world of atziluth, while below everything is a mixture of static and dialectic, aeons and archons. in briah and the upper reaches of yetzirah the forces are fixed, in the lower reaches of yetzirah (the astral) there is the strongest dialectic presence. the chasm or abyss is of great significance to the gnostics. it is the division between the light world and the archons, it is described variously as a wall, palisade, turnstile and portal. it is seen as the great divide or barrier (horo

id to be bounded with an embankment of dazzling white fire flaming walls. between the higher and lower worlds is a narrow bridge, a rope, a ladder or a gateway through which only the transfigured can pass. the best known symbol of this abyss is the cross (stauros, it is pre-christian in origin and includes pre and post christian symbolism. it emphasises that only through death to the world of the archons and rebirth and resurrection to light, can we enter the treasury. in the hermetic tradition, saturn (binah) is seen as the guardian of the abyss. after the soul has left earth it must venture through the seven planets, however only with correct passwords and codes can it pass each obstacle. when it confronts saturn the soul is truly tested, only if it is of the light kingdom will it be all

f initiative energy forces. in this realm each sephira reflects a facet or the divine energy of the invisible spirit. in this system of attribution malkuth represents the particles of light held captive within matter, rather than the physical shell of earth. the names below are old testament titles which when used in the old testament context relate to the gnostic theurgy page 96 demiurge and the archons, however, when they are removed from their distorted application, a more transcendent interpretation of them can be made. this is an example of how information found in the old testament can transmit esoteric data, while in its outer form transmitting the exact opposite. kether eheieh i was, i am, i shall be. chokmah. jah. i am transcendent. binah. jehovah. i am immanent. chesed. el. i am

scription, nature, colour and form and embodies the light forms of briah. kether matraton. chokmah. raziel. binah. tsaphkiel. chesed. tsadkiel. geburah. kamael. tiphareth. michael. gnostic theurgy page 97 netzach. haniel. hod. raphael. yesod. gabriel. malkuth. sandalphon. yetzirah: the world of air yetzirah is the world of fixation, it is where forces take forms as intelligences, spirits, powers, archons and angels. there are many different descriptions of forces with this world, which is basically the astral planes. some of the more expressive are those of the hebrew hierarchy. kether. chaioth ha kodosh. holy living creatures. chokmah. orphanism. wheels. binah. aralism. thrones. chesed. chashmalim. shining ones. geburah. seraphim. fiery serpents. tiphareth. malachim. kings. netzach. elohi

HP LOVECRAFT THE QUEST OF IRANON

over the narrow stone streets between the gloomy square house of granite, seeking something green, for all was of stone. on the faces of men were frowns, but by the stone embankment along the sluggish river zuro sat a young boy with sad eyes gazing into the waters to spy green budding branches washed down from the hills by the freshets. and the boy said to him "art thou not indeed he of whom the archons tell, who seekest a far city in a fair land? i am romnod, and borne of the blood of teloth, but am not olf in the ways of the granite city, and yearn daily for the warm groves and the distant lands of beauty and song. beyond the karthian hills lieth oonai, the city of lutes and dancing, which men whisper of and say is both lovely and terrible.thither would i go were i old enough to find th

ISIS UNVEILED

he shows paul, in bis eputua to the corinthuitu, abounding with "expressions sug- gested by the initiations of sabazius and eleusis, and the lectures of the [greek] philosophers. he [paul] designates himself an idiota a person unskilful in the world, hut not in the gnosit or philosophical learning 'we speak wisdom among the perfect or initiated' he writes 'not the wisdom of this worid, nor of the archons of this world, but divine wisdom in a mystery, secret which none of the arehone of thia world knotoeth" what else can the apostle mean by these unequivocal words, but that be himself, as belonging to the mgatae (initiated, spoke of things shown and explained only in the mysteries? the "divine wisdom in a mystery which none of the archona of this world knoweth" has evidently some direct ref

this world knoweth" has evidently some direct reference to the basueua of the eleusinian initiation, who did know. the basheua belonged to the staff of the great hierophant, and was an arckon of athens; and as such was one of the chief mytiae belonging to the interior mysteries, to which a very select and small number obtained an entrance' the magistrates supervising the eleu- siniana were called archons. another proof that paul belonged to the circle of the 'initiates' lies in the following fact. the apostle had his head shorn at cenchrea (where lucius, apideiua, was initiated) because "he had a tow" the nazart or set apart as we see in the jewish scriptures, had to cut their hair which they wore long, and which "no razor touched" at any other time, and sacrifice it on the altar of initia

KETAB E SIYAH

ever night. i, first and yet last, trod these hidden ways, bats and pale and eyeless fish i made my bread and meat. i saw such things as to confound dreamers, caves, miles high, with stony columns so vast and wide as to shame mountains and huge and ancient wyrms, with jaws so great as to stretch across the sky and, with a snap, consume creation, yet slumbering, long and deep, since that time when archons were still young, become half-stone in their primal sleep. what they dreamt of, i know not nor would seek to know. i heard, too, such silence in that darkness and the thunderous music of titan cataracts, the lofty heights of which denied my sight. yet, not finding any prize i sought 56 in those lands without day, i departed the recesses of the earth and entered into twilit sheol, the land

night. i, first and yet last, trod these hidden ways, bats and pale and eyeless fish i made my bread and meat. i saw such things as to confound dreamers, caves, miles high, with stony columns so vast and wide as to shame mountains and huge and ancient wyrms, with jaws so great as to stretch across the sky and, with a snap, consume creation, yet slumbering, long and deep, 117 since that time when archons were still young, become half-stone in their primal sleep. what they dreamt of, i know not nor would seek to know. i heard, too, such silence in that darkness and the thunderous music of titan cataracts, the lofty heights of which denied my sight. yet, not finding any prize i sought in those lands without day, i departed the recesses of the earth and entered into twilit sheol, the land of

went without song or drum or horn, by a thousand diverse paths. i followed the upward gradient of the floor to the lands of light so many leagues above, as i went gathering to myself such strength as my sorceries required to achieve the end i sought. baalzebub and ishtar went at my side and together we rehearsed the incantations of the charm that we three were to work for even such as the ancient archons could not forge alone their original work of making. now, with quiet languor did gates of the passages swing open that once more the shedim glimpsed the moon. 138 into the night, illumined by the stars, celestial torches, watchers of ten thousand griefs, witnesses of ten thousand wrongs, and the pale moon in full complement this night, eternal partner of the earth upon the turning wheels t

thing; third-born yahweh, heed the name, bright king, noble, haughty, proud, then his eyes burned with wisdom and his arm and heart were strong; then brother, sister, mates, gog and magog, giants of most awesome aspect, 145 beast-like brute-kings, ogres both; last and least was ereshkigal, lusty queen, mot's consort for she was taken in that cold embrace and made cold herself. thus were born the archons of old who came together and by potent magic resolved from chaos and ordered universe, speaking themselves the word of creation to accomplish this end. in the new-made universe they contended, brothers and sisters, for command of their creation. to avail himself in this conflict yahweh spoke once more the word of creation. thus came the elohim who ruled in heaven and were ruled by adonai y

ilim i came now to redeem from ignorance and confusion those who must yet complete their destiny. unseen by heaven's eyes did i make second entrance and, going amongst the trees and grasses in my silent serpent form i sought out man or woman to bring them to the tree of the fruit of knowledge of consequences from which they must eat if they would rule all of earth and heaven, making then anew the archons' flawed work and making right those wrongs wrought by heaven's reign. what the gods may not accomplish may yet be redeemed by man. 174 that jewelled form of mine went on, going by the river's northern bank, gazing with the snake's bewitching eye, seeking in the darkness the children of my flesh most dear to my heart. most sorrowful was i that heaven's lies should so torment such innocents

mpulse that i might release from bondage those most dear to my heart. now did i speak reply and thus instructed ishtar that my children might be brought back: 309 "ishtar, upon this course am i resolved: to give up a thing that, when all is done, all might be won back to me. so as to snare a beast one must bait the trap with meat so shall i snare mot that he is in my power. we shedim fear not the archons for i myself have slain both gog and magog and have opposed my own father, adonai yahweh, the greatest of the archons but for leviathan, bound by dagon's chains. well is it in my power to conquer mot but for ereshkigal's standing with him. i cannot oppose both these archons without then weakening myself to heaven. yet by some stratagem shall i win. mot is a greedy spirit and hungers for wa

living and the months of dark nights begin. now did she go from the gates and went by winding roots by passages that coiled like serpents amongst the pillars that the earth's weight, unseen amid the high shadowed vaults and plumbed profound darkness, blacker than all midnights had been. yet deeper into the abysmal ishtar went, seeking in the very roots of the earth planted long aeons past by the archons into whose hands she now cast herself. thus went ishtar to the gates of sheol, found in the darkness without light where primal mummu eternal slept. thus stood ishtar before mot's gates and there demanded entrance and audience with the king of that dark land of shadows. with resounding and imperious tongue she commanded those lemures that watched over the portals of despair that would open

ense in the instant of her passing. ishtar sought that part were thickest were those spirits that were imprisoned in that land for there was the dark throne of mot. now she stood before the two monarchs, as but shadows, distinguished not from the darkness of the land but known to her only by some vague presence, intangible, invisible, yet perceived as if the very soul grew eyes by which those two archons might be seen. no more than shadows and whispers were mot and ereshkigal, ghostly, as was all their realm, and unreal. now, before those ancient one, did ishtar know fear when, passing amongst phantoms, she had known no terror even amidst the kingdom of despair. yet fear has long been our enemy, the shedim, who have stood against all 312 and remained unconquered by the greatest of the arch

tly. this then is the word of satan of which i am proud herald. hear it and act as you would having heard that which is spoken" and mot laughed and ereshkigal with him. arrogant were they in age and knew not the strength of the young. like the broken breath of the dead 313 did that dry cackle echo all about. no breath is there to the dead nor voice that they might laugh aloud. the laughter of the archons was silent yet heard, echoing about the dark vaults of the mind. yet ishtar conquered fear. now spoke mot his reply, yet no voice had he that spoke but rather it was his words were dreamt and recalled by the waking mind as some paroxysm of disturbed sleep. these words spoke the infernal king "o ishtar, whore of babylon, well known to me is your fame and i am most honoured that you come, at

ems such a messenger rightful, of such fame and power as ishtar, the queen of men. else is it that he prizes high that which i hold, his souls of those precious children of the earth, that he himself would have. yes! most dear to him are these ones that are bound within my lands that they would escape by his charms. yet i have unworked them. not so haughtily should he deal with me for i am of the archons. no! he must deal most fairly with mot if he would see once more these ones, dear unto to his heart. for precious to me are the nephilim and prized are their shades in sheol. their ransom is most great if he would have them from me. to redeem satan's children from sheol some part of the price has been paid 314 and your coming to me, ishtar, stands against that which is yet owed and i shall

rony at those words, bleeding with bile most venomous. so spoke ashmedai in reply "o great king, surely you think not 319 that satan would be so rash as to so challenge your throne lest already did he possess the full means of your undoing. you speak not of some weak spirit but of him that struck down gog and magog and of him that bested adonai yahweh upon the field of war. well has satan met the archons and well indeed has he vanquished them. full half of their number have fallen, gog, magog, now ereshkigal, by his most potent hand. most precisely did he forewarn of your reply to my embassy and speak mockingly of your arrogant rage. this one more gift have i for you, mot, to be given to you only at this time. so did satan instruct me. see that which hold in my hand, now pour upon the dark

esert and they shall make fertile the earth that the nephilim come forth as gods. he shall share a part of himself with me and shall know fully of my knowledge. he shall make apparent to my children what has passed and restore on earth the great kingdom of shurupuk. his words shall echo long after we are gone and those that come after shall make anew the world, casting it in a more perfect image. archons and angels, our time is past and the young shall inherit our flawed legacy and do better than we have done for them. tremble then, heaven, for your gates shall not long withstand the nephilim. theirs is the future; we are of the past" it seemed my words echoes about a vault, great and empty as the sky itself. then all sound faded to expectant silence as though all creation waited once more

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

and contemporaneous paganism that was prominent during the first few centuries of the common era. its central teaching was that this world was the creation of an evil deity who had trapped human spirits in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, referred to as the pleroma, to which we should seek to return. two distinct types of entities are associated with gnosticism: aeons and archons. the aeons are the higher spiritual beings who reside in the pleroma. the archons are the rulers, created by the evil demiurge, who govern this world and who act as guardians preventing the sparks of light (i.e, the divine essence of individual human beings) from returning to the pleroma.abraxas appears to have originally referred to the great unknown out of which the aeons and the pleroma

creation, sophia, one of the spiritual beings (one of the aeons) residing in the pleroma inadvertently creates another entity often called yaldabaoth who creates our familiar world (e.g, the apocryphon of john 2, in robinson 1981, 9f. this creation involves the emanation of the seven levels of the classical cosmos, corresponding to seven planetary spheres of the ptolemaic astronomical scheme. the archons are the rulers who govern each of these levels, and who act as guardians preventing the sparks of light (i.e, the divine essence of individual human beings) from returning to the pleroma. part of the knowledge imparted to the gnostics is information on how to bypass these archons on their journey back to the pleroma (e.g, the first apocalypse of james v, robinson 1981, 33f. one of the resu

man beings) from returning to the pleroma. part of the knowledge imparted to the gnostics is information on how to bypass these archons on their journey back to the pleroma (e.g, the first apocalypse of james v, robinson 1981, 33f. one of the results of conceptualizing the cosmos as being the creation of an evil divinity is that the angelic beings in the heavenly spheres surrounding the earth the archons are also evil. familiarity with gnosticism allows us to understand certain otherwise unintelligible passages in the writings of certain early christians, who were clearly influenced by the gnostic perspective; for example, the oftquoted passage about spiritual warfare from the 16 ascendancy book of ephesians: we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, ag

g his new religion at the age of twenty-four. he was eventually executed by orthodox zoroastrians around the year 276. mani s extreme dualism was similar to certain strands of gnosticism, which emphasized the antagonism between the body and the soul. the soul was a fallen divine spark from the realm of light, while the body was the creation of the evil god (a devil figure) and his associates, the archons (effectively, demons. also like gnosticism, mani saw human beings as trapped in a cycle of reincarnation so that even suicide would not release one from bondage to the flesh. manichaeism preached a rather severe asceticism, especially with regard to the sexual instinct. through ascetic living and following mani s teachings, the elect (perfecti) are able to ascend directly into the light. e

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

of the greatest satanic occultists that ever lived, was extremely wellconnected throughout the europe. along with edward kelley and others, he set aboutopening portals to other dimensions in order to speak with the angels. his fraternalcounterparts in europe, under his instruction, performed similar rites. their obsessionwas to contact extra-terrestrial, or preferably, pan-dimensional beings, the archons.to do this, he invented what was known as enochian magic which, due to theiradroit camouflaging, has been misunderstood to this day. look through the quaint images and see the truth of this. these wizards and warlocks wereinvolved, and are still involved, with the summoning of pan-dimensional entities, who weremistaken in the days of antiquity as demons and angels (see the classic british

or clairvoyant. the word enochian literally means inner eye. lewis implied,that no one can ever come into an understanding of the peculiar history of planet earth withouta knowledge of these entities. but dee also discovered that the macrobes did not take well to being contacted bycreatures so lowly and presumptuous as he. his mind was nearly destroyed by thecommunion. the knowledge that the dark archons communicated through his con-sciousness was so vast and complex that it was soon, thereafter, realized by all con-cerned that it would literally take centuries to physically realize. it had to be decidedwhether to just give up altogether and remain interned on earth forever, or to atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation87 the living macroscope somehow try, against all the odds

sly assert, left this planetin the days of old. therefore, they are not about to return to save us all from ourselves.they have never been away and they have brought the conditions that plague us. theearth is considered nothing more than a prison to them, a place of internment which isalmost unendurable. the destruction they engage in is done to satisfy their vast crav-ings and mollify their dark archons from other dimensions. the decadence,debauchery, and nihilism infecting everything today is sadly a replay of the past. dueto adroit historical tampering and befuddling by ecclesiastical clerics and priests, wehave been prevented from either understanding or heeding the prophets of old: he increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straighteneththem again (j

ves on it (the reader is referred to dr. who and the pyr-amids of mars, koyaanisqatsi, and moonraker).this is the burn and rise no more outcome.1 1burn and rise no more- from the motorhead song, march or die, on the theme of mankind's future. author lemmy kilmister.epilogue: time to change the road youre on130atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the second outcome is that the dark archons realize, once and for all, that they cannot leave thisplanet, that no matter what they do they are forever chained to the pit. in this case, they begin torule the world with unmitigated tyranny, relentlessly and openly. the human race loses whateverprivileges it had while its utility was beneficial. now they are deprived and slaughtered and turneven upon themselves. debauchery is everywher

to the denouement of the fourth outcome.v ery importantly, those who are good must work in unison. but what kind of work isthe individual to do? is there something that each person regardless of their status cando to bring swift change and redress? to come to this, let us return to the episodewhich exacerbated the present negative conditions, the opening of the pan-dimen-sional portal to the dark archons by sir john dee in the sixteenth century.when sir john dee, the living macroscope, opened the pan-dimensional portal andspoke with the macrobes, the act was registered in the akashic record. it was imme-diately intuited by the descendants of the sons of the serpents, that is, the descen-dants of the lemurian civilization who once lived on the pre-diluvian continent ofoceania, which is now

binary code, but the imag-ination (author)epilogue: time to change the road youre on142atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the opening of this portal obviously was not a negative event but was, instead, tocounter one. its dynamics are similar and yet different from those experienced by thechildren of the nephilim (see he man- masters of the universe) the communica-tions from such archons are voluminous and veiled. they, too, are relatively impossi-ble to accomplish. sacrifices are also required, but not of the kind levied on thechildren of the nephilim. particular resources are needed, and there are also world-wide consequences of the ritual.we seek next to finally disclose some of the most salient points communicated to theadepts of the rose. the adepts let it be understo

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

onfident, often perseveringly accurate in superficial things, graceful, fond of dancing and balancing. ill-digrufied: cruel, sly, deceitful, unreliable, though with a good exterior. rules from 20" virgo to 20' of libra. water of air. queen of the sylphs and sylphides. xv. prince of the chariots of the winds. king of swords a winged king with a winged crown, seated in a chariot drawn by arch fays, archons, or arch fairies, represented as winged youths very slightly draped, with butterfly wings, heads encircled with a fillet with pentagrams thereon, and holding wands surmounted by pentagram-shaped stars. the same butterfly wings are on their feet and fillet. general equipment is that of the king of wands, but he bears as a crest, a winged angelic head, with a pentagram on the brow. beneath t

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

, and their arrival is heralded by a divided light. the archangels differ in magnitude according to the size of the provinces over which they rule. angels are distinguished by smaller size, and by their being divided numerically. in the case of daemones the division goes further, and their magnitude visibly fluctuate. heroes are of a smaller appearance, but of a greater majesty of bearing. of the archons the most powerful belonging to the outer region of the cosmos are large and massive in appearance. those, on the other hand, who undergo division in the region of matter are apt be to be boastful and generate illusions. souls are not equal in size, but are generally smaller in appearance than heroes. next let us define the distinctions between the appearances of these beings who make thems

s clearer than truth itself; every detail shines out exactly and its articulations are shown in brilliant light. the appearances of archangels are still true and full. those of angels maintain the same character, but their being is not expressed in the image seen with the same fullness [as that of archangels. those of daemones are blurred, and even more blurred are those of heroes. in the case of archons those who are cosmic powers are clearly perceived, but those who are involved in matter are blurred. yet both give an impression of power, whereas the appearance of souls is merely shadowy. commentary 76 we shall examine later (appendix 7) the descriptions of daemones and orders or hierarchies of entities found in the works of geoffrey of monmouth (twelfth century, some of which kirk certa

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

said to have invoked god while "he stood upon the water of the ocean (afahera i. hi n pmoou pwkeanos (ch. 136).33 jesus goes on to cry out the divine name, iao, towards the four corners of the world, obviously manifesting himself as the master of the universe through wielding the proper name of god.34 "then jesus, who is aberamentho, cried out again" this time commanding "all the mysteries of the archons and the powers and the angels and the archangels, and all powers and all works of the invisible god c (ibid. jesus' disciples are now given a revelation of all the cosmic secrets. it is thus clear that jesus aberamentho in the unnamed tractate in codex askewianus is assimilated to thoth-hermes: he is the lord of the waters and the formulas controlling the cosmic powers.35 the fact that als

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

these copies of the formula of faith are more or less defective, but, from a comparison of them, the general form and meaning of the whole is made perfectly clear. this may be translated, let mete be exalted, who causes things to bud and blossom! he is our root; it (the root) is one and seven; abjure (the faith, and abandon thyself to all pleasures. the number seven is said to refer to the seven archons of the gnostic creed. there are certainly several points in this formula which present at least a singular coincidence with the statements made in the examinations of the templars. in the first place the invocation which precedes the formula, yalla (jah la, agrees exactly with the statement of raymond rubei, one of the provencal templars that when the superior exhibited the idol, or figure

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

e and took her with him, calling her the first thought of his mind and the mother of all things, by whom he had conceived the angels. the myth goes that helen, as the first thought, recognizing the will of her father to create the archangels and angels, secretly issued out of him by her own volition and descended to the lower regions, where she generated the angelic powers, who are usually called archons (rulers. it was these angelic powers, whose leader is yaldabaoth, that created the world. unfortunately, since they were created without the express command of the father, they are flawed. after helen created the archons, they kept her prisoner to conceal the fact that they were not the highest of all beings. about the true god the father, these archons knew nothing, but they subjected the

fiom vessel to vessel. appendix a: the keys 235 this gnostic myth of the simonians contains many of the essential gnostic ideas. details differ greatly from sect to sect, but always the god of the old testament is not god the father but an abortion that arose from the first female principle, the great mother, without the consent of the father. man is physically created by yaldabaoth and the other archons, yet he is infused with a spark of true divinity by the will of the father, making man a higher creature than the archons who shaped him. however, man does not recognize his divinity, and this ignorance of his true estate allows yaldabaoth to use humans as his slaves, manipulating them through a combination of bribes, threats, and lies. in the later gnostic myths, christ, the son of the tr

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