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Archons and the Demiurge
Also called: Archons · Demiurge · Yaldabaoth
Lower gods described in ancient Gnostic texts as ruling the material world.In this narrative, they are jailers who harvest emotion, and another name for Saturn and the reptilian race.
Established facts
Archons are the seven gods named in ancient Gnostic texts as rulers of the material world.The seven are called the Hebdomad, and their chief is named Yaldabaoth.Ophite texts paired Yaldabaoth with Saturn and matched the remaining six with Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon.These names appear in Nag Hammadi texts such as the Apocryphon of John and the Pistis Sophia, and in the writings of Origen.Demiurge is the Greek word for the god who made the material world, a term originally coined by Plato.Gnosticism holds that layers of aeons emanate in sequence from the true God.It explains that the lowest and most corrupted of these aeons became the Demiurge.Texts discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945 carry this concept to the present.
Saturn broadcasts, the moon amplifies, and after death a white light sends you back.
In this narrativeJailer of the material world
Gnosticism holds that the material world was made not by the true God but by the Demiurge1.The Demiurge either never knew the true God, or knew and grew arrogant anyway1.Archons are the lower rulers who serve that Demiurge2.Inside a person sits a "divine spark" that came from the true God2.Archons make people forget that spark2.That is why the material world itself is drawn as a prison2.
In this narrativeGates after death
Ancient texts describe the soul climbing through seven planetary heavens after death1.An Archon stands as gatekeeper at each heaven, demanding a passphrase1.A soul that does not know its own true origin is caught right there1.One interpretation reads the "being of light" reported in near-death experiences as this Archon's final trick1.That light is a "recycling station" sending the person back into a body1.
In this narrativeThe being that harvests loosh
Recent writing restates that Archons feed on human emotional energy1.A consciousness caught in fear and confusion produces more of it1.Some writing later renames this energy "loosh"1.Archons live off this energy that humans produce1.The way out is not moral improvement but "gnosis": knowing one's own true nature directly1.
In this narrativeSaturn and David Icke
The Ophites paired the chief Archon Yaldabaoth with Saturn1.That one pairing is the root of today's "Saturn-Moon matrix" claim1.David Icke also calls the reptilian race he describes Archons2.Some online writing traces the Archons' origin to a reptilian, Draconian race in Orion3.One ancient Greek word gets rewritten this way as the name of an alien race.
Connected concepts
- Saturn →One line pairing Yaldabaoth with Saturn from an ancient correspondence table becomes the source of the Saturn-worship story.
- Soul Trap →The story of Archons guarding the gates after death becomes, as is, the soul-trap theory.
- Loosh →The emotional energy Archons harvest was given the name loosh in the 20th century.
- Gnosis →The only way out of the Archons that is offered is knowledge, that is gnosis.
- David Icke →Icke also calls the reptilian race Archons.A name from ancient texts becomes the name of a modern conspiracy theory.
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