“Their fruit is a poison without cure and their promise is a living death. And as for their design for life, their implant that falsifies the true design, I shall teach you about the mystery of their ways. It is their counterfeiting spirit (antimimon pneuma), the hoaxing power within them, that leads them astray. So they in turn lead us astray, deviating the true potential of the Anthropos (genomic template of humanity) in order that you may not know your own fullness, your infinite gift.
The tree of their design is bitterness and its branches are darkened by death. Its leaves are hatred and deception, and its aroma reeks of evil (poneria).”
—Apocryphon of John, Nag Hammadi Codex
Image: Martin-Georg Oscity
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The tree of their design is bitterness and its branches are darkened by death. Its leaves are hatred and deception, and its aroma reeks of evil (poneria).”
—Apocryphon of John, Nag Hammadi Codex
Image: Martin-Georg Oscity
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Commentary on Apocryphon of John extract
The Lord Archon is referred to as the antimimon pneuma, "counterfeit spirit" multiple times within the Apocryphon of John and occurs several times in various Gnostic texts.
Antimimon pneuma—the "counterfeit spirit," imitates something but with the intention of making the copy serve a purpose counter to that of the original. The simulation, substitution or ‘archontification’ denies, perverts and reverses the values of what it has co-opted.
It is a maleficent force which tries to seduce us so as to lead us astray; it is effectively an inversion of value, transforming truth to falsehood and falsehood to truth, leading us into forgetfulness and delusion.
The psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung refers to Antimimos, which he describes as "the imitator and evil principle.” When we fall for the ruse of this snake oil salesman of the spirit, we become disoriented, losing our sense of spiritual vocation, our mission in life, and even our sense of ourselves.
Writer and poet Max Pulver has said that "the antimimon pneuma is the origin and cause of all the evils besetting the human soul." The revered Gnostic text Pistis Sophia says that the antimimon pneuma has affixed itself to humanity like an illness.
The illness of the ‘counterfeit spirit’, spreads like a virus (or at least what is commonly understood as a ‘virus’). Just as a virus cannot replicate itself the archontic plague instead uses hosts as means of replication, like a form of psychic vampirism.
The plague described and warned of within this passage from the Apocryphon of John turned into a global pandemic, that ravaged the world for roughly the past 2000 years. The archontic infection through its power of mimicry can conceal itself in a range of different ways and has undergone many mutations. In a world ravaged by such a plague, we would expect to see; education that makes you stupid, health care that makes you sick, religion that destroys spirituality, environmentalism that destroys the planet, sex that results in sterility etc.
The archontic mind virus reinforces and feeds off our unconscious blind spots, which is how it non-locally propagates itself. To the extent we are unaware of this virus of the mind, we are complicit in its propagation. The most horrifying part is that it ultimately involves the assent of our own free will, as we willingly, though often unknowingly, subscribe to a distorted vision of reality and subsequent enslaved condition. As horrific as this might sound it does however restore our agency as there is no one other than ourselves who is ultimately responsible for our situation.
The ‘counterfeit spirit’ is the greatest danger that threatens humanity and life on earth, pulling them deep into unconsciousness together, reinforcing one another's madness in such a way that they become unwittingly complicit in their own self-destruction.
The Lord Archon is referred to as the antimimon pneuma, "counterfeit spirit" multiple times within the Apocryphon of John and occurs several times in various Gnostic texts.
Antimimon pneuma—the "counterfeit spirit," imitates something but with the intention of making the copy serve a purpose counter to that of the original. The simulation, substitution or ‘archontification’ denies, perverts and reverses the values of what it has co-opted.
It is a maleficent force which tries to seduce us so as to lead us astray; it is effectively an inversion of value, transforming truth to falsehood and falsehood to truth, leading us into forgetfulness and delusion.
The psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung refers to Antimimos, which he describes as "the imitator and evil principle.” When we fall for the ruse of this snake oil salesman of the spirit, we become disoriented, losing our sense of spiritual vocation, our mission in life, and even our sense of ourselves.
Writer and poet Max Pulver has said that "the antimimon pneuma is the origin and cause of all the evils besetting the human soul." The revered Gnostic text Pistis Sophia says that the antimimon pneuma has affixed itself to humanity like an illness.
The illness of the ‘counterfeit spirit’, spreads like a virus (or at least what is commonly understood as a ‘virus’). Just as a virus cannot replicate itself the archontic plague instead uses hosts as means of replication, like a form of psychic vampirism.
The plague described and warned of within this passage from the Apocryphon of John turned into a global pandemic, that ravaged the world for roughly the past 2000 years. The archontic infection through its power of mimicry can conceal itself in a range of different ways and has undergone many mutations. In a world ravaged by such a plague, we would expect to see; education that makes you stupid, health care that makes you sick, religion that destroys spirituality, environmentalism that destroys the planet, sex that results in sterility etc.
The archontic mind virus reinforces and feeds off our unconscious blind spots, which is how it non-locally propagates itself. To the extent we are unaware of this virus of the mind, we are complicit in its propagation. The most horrifying part is that it ultimately involves the assent of our own free will, as we willingly, though often unknowingly, subscribe to a distorted vision of reality and subsequent enslaved condition. As horrific as this might sound it does however restore our agency as there is no one other than ourselves who is ultimately responsible for our situation.
The ‘counterfeit spirit’ is the greatest danger that threatens humanity and life on earth, pulling them deep into unconsciousness together, reinforcing one another's madness in such a way that they become unwittingly complicit in their own self-destruction.
“It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being.
The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles.”
― Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Image: Countercurrent by Miles Johnson
The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles.”
― Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Image: Countercurrent by Miles Johnson
“Throughout Antiquity, most civilised peoples worshipped a great goddess and generally agreed to identify her with the great goddesses worshipped under other names by other peoples. From the third millennium BCE, the Sumerians worshipped the goddess Inanna, whose name may mean “Lady of Heaven”. She was associated with the planet Venus, the morning star, whom Greeks would call light-bearer, which, very significantly, was Latinized as Lucifer. She became known to the Assyrians as Ishtar, who was herself known as Astarte in the Phoenician city-states of Sidon, Tyre, and Byblos, and identified with the other Syrian goddess Asherah. No cult was more syncretic, and all these goddesses merged under the noscript of “Queen of Heaven”. It can be argued that the worship of the great motherly Goddess fostered the sense of the universal brotherhood of men, in a way that no male divinity could do. Perhaps that is why Yahweh hated Asherah so much.”
—Laurent Guyenot
Image: Goddess of the Universe by Kinuko Y. Craft
—Laurent Guyenot
Image: Goddess of the Universe by Kinuko Y. Craft
"What a tragic world this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don’t know it; they think they are free because they never have been free, and do not understand what it means. This is a prison, and few men have guessed. But I know, he said to himself. Because that is why I am here. To burn the walls, to tear down the metal gates, to break each chain.”
―Phillip K Dick, The Divine Invasion
Notes: While Phillip K Dick didn’t directly portray the Archons themselves he was clearly deeply concerned within his work about Archontic substitution and counter-mimicry. Within his work, he often depicts people who are the living instruments of Sophia. His VALIS trilogy merges Nag Hammadi material with concepts drawn from the Dead Sea Scrolls. In ‘The Divine Invasion’, the second in the trilogy, two children are incarnations of divine Wisdom. VALIS is required reading for anyone interested in how Gnostic ideas can fertilise the literary imagination.
Image: Kent Bellows
―Phillip K Dick, The Divine Invasion
Notes: While Phillip K Dick didn’t directly portray the Archons themselves he was clearly deeply concerned within his work about Archontic substitution and counter-mimicry. Within his work, he often depicts people who are the living instruments of Sophia. His VALIS trilogy merges Nag Hammadi material with concepts drawn from the Dead Sea Scrolls. In ‘The Divine Invasion’, the second in the trilogy, two children are incarnations of divine Wisdom. VALIS is required reading for anyone interested in how Gnostic ideas can fertilise the literary imagination.
Image: Kent Bellows
“Even while claiming to be the Creator of the universe and humanity, Yahweh remains a national, chauvinist god; that is the basis for the dissonance between tribalism and universalism that has brought up the “Jewish question” throughout the ages. In fact, the Jewish conception of Yahweh parallels the historical process, for in the development of Yahwism, it is not the Creator of the Universe who became the god of Israel, but rather the god of Israel who became the Creator of the Universe. And so for the Jews, Yahweh is primarily the god of Jews, and secondarily the Creator of the Universe; whereas Christians, deceived by the biblical narrative, see things the other way around.”
― Laurent Guyénot, From Yahweh to Zion
Image: Kingdom of God by Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
― Laurent Guyénot, From Yahweh to Zion
Image: Kingdom of God by Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
The Gnostic View of Divinity
The Gnostic view of divinity is in sharp contrast to the ‘New Age’ conception of the ‘God Self’.
The idea that we are ‘all aspects of god’, and that we can ‘become gods’ or need to ‘reunite with the godhead’ shouldn’t be ascribed to Gnosticism. There is no ‘goddess within’ that you need to ‘unlock’, this is a Piscean exercise in narcissism, delusion and self-deception.
The Gnostic view of ‘human divinity’ is very simple. The Gnostics specified that there is a divine component within the human makeup which is called ‘nous’.
Nous: (Greek, "divine intelligence," "cosmic-creative mind," “intellect") In the Mystery idiom, the divine potential endowed in humanity, enabling it to know its true species-specific identity (Anthropos), and to coevolve with Sophia, the wisdom goddess. Root of metanoia, dianoia, pronoia, epinoia, ennoia. Source of the term noetic.
Therefore we have within the human species a germ of ‘divine intelligence’ and the role of our species is to develop that intelligence in harmony with the source from which it came. The source of this intelligence according to the Gnostic creation story is the Goddess Sophia who is now embodied in the Planet Earth.
The important distinction here is that the Gnostics did not mean that our identity is ‘divine’ and made no reference to a ‘divine self’. Instead, they point out that our intelligence is a germ of divinity, a divine gift from our cosmic parents. As with all gifts, they must first be acknowledged and then used and cultivated.
Therefore ‘divinity’ is not an element of our selfhood or identity but instead an element of our potential for intelligence. Due to the continued disinformation campaign surrounding Gnosticism, the divine gift of nous is often conflated or confused with the concept of the ‘divine spark’. Gnosticism does not teach that there is a ‘divine spark’ trapped within us, I will discuss this concept and its actual origins at length in a future post.
The Gnostic view of divinity is in sharp contrast to the ‘New Age’ conception of the ‘God Self’.
The idea that we are ‘all aspects of god’, and that we can ‘become gods’ or need to ‘reunite with the godhead’ shouldn’t be ascribed to Gnosticism. There is no ‘goddess within’ that you need to ‘unlock’, this is a Piscean exercise in narcissism, delusion and self-deception.
The Gnostic view of ‘human divinity’ is very simple. The Gnostics specified that there is a divine component within the human makeup which is called ‘nous’.
Nous: (Greek, "divine intelligence," "cosmic-creative mind," “intellect") In the Mystery idiom, the divine potential endowed in humanity, enabling it to know its true species-specific identity (Anthropos), and to coevolve with Sophia, the wisdom goddess. Root of metanoia, dianoia, pronoia, epinoia, ennoia. Source of the term noetic.
Therefore we have within the human species a germ of ‘divine intelligence’ and the role of our species is to develop that intelligence in harmony with the source from which it came. The source of this intelligence according to the Gnostic creation story is the Goddess Sophia who is now embodied in the Planet Earth.
The important distinction here is that the Gnostics did not mean that our identity is ‘divine’ and made no reference to a ‘divine self’. Instead, they point out that our intelligence is a germ of divinity, a divine gift from our cosmic parents. As with all gifts, they must first be acknowledged and then used and cultivated.
Therefore ‘divinity’ is not an element of our selfhood or identity but instead an element of our potential for intelligence. Due to the continued disinformation campaign surrounding Gnosticism, the divine gift of nous is often conflated or confused with the concept of the ‘divine spark’. Gnosticism does not teach that there is a ‘divine spark’ trapped within us, I will discuss this concept and its actual origins at length in a future post.
“I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers of products and not really asking any of the questions.”
—Graham Hancock
Image: Cemetery in the Snow by Caspar David Friedrich, recreation by Hiroyuki Masuyama as part of The Lost Works of Caspar David Friedrich, 2009
—Graham Hancock
Image: Cemetery in the Snow by Caspar David Friedrich, recreation by Hiroyuki Masuyama as part of The Lost Works of Caspar David Friedrich, 2009
“Artificial Intelligence. This is another term for the Archontic hive mind. It is a binary operating system that imitates the many shades of gray characteristic of human intelligence—only to end up a circumscribed parody of it that processes everything strictly in terms of black and white.”
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer
Image: AI Art produced by Midjourney
Additional notes on AI Art and Archontic Intelligence
― Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer
Image: AI Art produced by Midjourney
Additional notes on AI Art and Archontic Intelligence
AI Art and Archontic Intelligence
I’ve been really enjoying reading the various posts concerning artwork created using ‘artificial intelligence’. While others have covered this topic superbly, I thought putting forward the gnostic perspective might be worthwhile.
In Gnostic terms, the replication of nature (which includes human creativity and intelligence) into a lifeless form (such as AI and subsequently the AI art it produces) exemplifies the highest-order power of the Archons referred to as ‘HAL’ in the Nag Hammadi Codexes.
HAL: (Coptic, "simulation") i.e., near-undetectable virtual reality.
In the shift from organic form to abstraction an entire range of values is lost and other values contrary to organic life are adopted as if they were equal or superior to the lost values. This is what is known as antimimon, counter-mimicking.
This ‘archontified’ artwork can only really ‘impress’ due to the prolonged and continued assault by the agents of deceit that have nearly destroyed humanity's appreciation for beauty and its capacity for creativity. The Archons and their earthly proxies are driven by envy of humanity. As the Archons cannot become human they have decided to attempt to make humans like themselves by attempting to destroy the very things that make us human.
Archontic replication is not mere imitation but a process that insinuates values that work against life often covertly such as within salvationist ideology. The counter-mimicry of humanity’s potential for artistic genius contained within the man-made algorithms that generated AI art will never and can never surpass the potential of human creativity and genius.
The Archons, inorganic beings themselves cannot surpass humanity in intelligence as humanity is an emanation of the Pleroma (the realm of the Aeons and infinite potential), whereas the Archons arise outside the cosmic core, without an act of emanation. The Archons just like their earthly duplicate of ‘artificial intelligence’ are only able to replicate and copy life, they cannot create.
‘Artificial intelligence’ can only be an imitation of human intelligence and lacks intentionality in its actions. The ‘concept of intention’ but not intention itself can be programmed within an algorithm. As intention, entencioun derives from and emanates from desire, this cannot be replicated. Only that which is alive can desire. Desire is the source of all compassion and the generative principle of life, including the creative imagination.
However, if humanity fails to evolve the intelligence innate to our species (nous) we risk the ultimate triumph of the Archons at the level of the human experience itself, where no one could tell plastic from pearl. At that point, the human species would be so ‘archontified’ that we would not even be able to distinguish real from AI art or even real people from soulless clones.
I’ve been really enjoying reading the various posts concerning artwork created using ‘artificial intelligence’. While others have covered this topic superbly, I thought putting forward the gnostic perspective might be worthwhile.
In Gnostic terms, the replication of nature (which includes human creativity and intelligence) into a lifeless form (such as AI and subsequently the AI art it produces) exemplifies the highest-order power of the Archons referred to as ‘HAL’ in the Nag Hammadi Codexes.
HAL: (Coptic, "simulation") i.e., near-undetectable virtual reality.
In the shift from organic form to abstraction an entire range of values is lost and other values contrary to organic life are adopted as if they were equal or superior to the lost values. This is what is known as antimimon, counter-mimicking.
This ‘archontified’ artwork can only really ‘impress’ due to the prolonged and continued assault by the agents of deceit that have nearly destroyed humanity's appreciation for beauty and its capacity for creativity. The Archons and their earthly proxies are driven by envy of humanity. As the Archons cannot become human they have decided to attempt to make humans like themselves by attempting to destroy the very things that make us human.
Archontic replication is not mere imitation but a process that insinuates values that work against life often covertly such as within salvationist ideology. The counter-mimicry of humanity’s potential for artistic genius contained within the man-made algorithms that generated AI art will never and can never surpass the potential of human creativity and genius.
The Archons, inorganic beings themselves cannot surpass humanity in intelligence as humanity is an emanation of the Pleroma (the realm of the Aeons and infinite potential), whereas the Archons arise outside the cosmic core, without an act of emanation. The Archons just like their earthly duplicate of ‘artificial intelligence’ are only able to replicate and copy life, they cannot create.
‘Artificial intelligence’ can only be an imitation of human intelligence and lacks intentionality in its actions. The ‘concept of intention’ but not intention itself can be programmed within an algorithm. As intention, entencioun derives from and emanates from desire, this cannot be replicated. Only that which is alive can desire. Desire is the source of all compassion and the generative principle of life, including the creative imagination.
However, if humanity fails to evolve the intelligence innate to our species (nous) we risk the ultimate triumph of the Archons at the level of the human experience itself, where no one could tell plastic from pearl. At that point, the human species would be so ‘archontified’ that we would not even be able to distinguish real from AI art or even real people from soulless clones.
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“You may find a myth that will evoke the reality in you.”
― Jean Shinoda Bolen
Image: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by John Howe
Notes: For more information on the tale of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, its hidden meaning and Celtic connections check out this excellent video by Fortress of Lugh.
― Jean Shinoda Bolen
Image: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by John Howe
Notes: For more information on the tale of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, its hidden meaning and Celtic connections check out this excellent video by Fortress of Lugh.
“To know, according to Wisdom, does not mean “to think”, but to be the thing known: to live it, to realise it inwardly. One does not really know a thing unless one can actively transform one’s consciousness into it.”
― Julius Evola, Pagan Imperialism
Image: The Night of the Warrior by Boris Olshansky
― Julius Evola, Pagan Imperialism
Image: The Night of the Warrior by Boris Olshansky
“Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species…for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Image: Re-Animator by Pestmeester
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Image: Re-Animator by Pestmeester
“Across a golden Autumn tapestry appear the spirits of our ancient selves demanding recognition and reward for one haunted night. Sated, they retreat from winter’s onslaught and retire to subconscious hibernation for another twelvemonth.”
― Stewart Stafford
Happy Samhain one and all!
Image: Samhain by John Anster Fitzgerald
― Stewart Stafford
Happy Samhain one and all!
Image: Samhain by John Anster Fitzgerald
“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Image: Gate of the Oracle by Christine Knopp
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Image: Gate of the Oracle by Christine Knopp
“Like the preclassical Greeks, the ancient Romans were extremely religious, with a kind of animism in which the whole world was experienced as ensouled. Each mountain and lake had its spirit; each tree, each family, home, and hearth was inhabited by an unseen power. All activities were sacralized, ranging from war and harvest to childbirth, prophecy, and the common acts of daily life.”
― The Golden Thread, Joscelyn Godwin
Image: The Visit of a Sick Child to the Temple of Aesculapius by John William Waterhouse
― The Golden Thread, Joscelyn Godwin
Image: The Visit of a Sick Child to the Temple of Aesculapius by John William Waterhouse