What Does Archons Look Like? and Nag Hammdai Scrolls, Gnosticism, Archon Matrix and Open Source Spirituality by Afrika Is Woke Magazine

 

What Does Archons Look Like?

By admin@desiretoshare.com February 19, 2021

We always focus on both the sound and root of words when looking at their entomology. For instance, when it comes to archons, the ‘on’ and ‘an’ sound are quite similar. In the same way, archangels and archons sounds similar. Archons generally thrive on the fear of humans and hold an important role in the demiurge.

In short, they usually manipulate your being through different control systems including money, government, mainstream media, and religion. There are several other things to unearth about archons. Read on to get some insightful details about them and their true purpose in our lives.

In this Guide

About Archons

The term archon comes from a Greek word that typically means ruler. In the early years in Greece, chief magistrates were referred to as archons. However, Archons are demonic entities in Gnosticism associated with evil embodiments. Among the Sethians, Archontics, and Ophites, Archons were typically the rulers of the seven different planets.

Archons usually prevent people from leaving a particular realm. Their political system portrays a defective government system that cannot be saved. In Manichaeism, they act as rulers of separate realms in the kingdom of darkness as their Prince.

Archons are an integral part of the Gnostics or demiurge and thrive on humans fear as previously mentioned. Jehovah plays a domineering role in the deceit together with religions that control human beings by instilling fear in them. This therefore means that archons obstruct authority through individuals separately or over different groups of people. Archons are known to have a negative impact on your energy.

About Archangels

Archangels act as human’s guardian angels. They usually control people’s actions and thoughts and have their best interests at heart. Nevertheless, their main role is lead you on the path of righteousness. We should all research about the entomology of each of the archangels in the spiritual realm including archangel Metatron, Uriel, Chamuel, Jeremiel, Zadquiel, Saraquel, and Jophiel. In entomology, EL usually means God that’s why each of the archangel names end with those letters.

Generally, archangels channel through different people. They give detailed reports that predict your future and can also tell you how much people love you.

How Archons Usually Act

Archons are demonic and thrive by planting fear in people’s hearts taking control of your spiritual health and entire feelings. They have a dark energy that tends to absorb your aura and those that they control. They typically feed on people’s aura.

Archons can also manifest here on earth as their aspect resembles that of angels holding lower ranks. Most people don’t know when archons are close to them but their presence can easily be diagnosed. They always make us feel exhausted by stealing our energy and make us lose hope in life. Their end goal is to frustrate and torment you silently and make your life hopeless.

Different Ways the Presence of Archons Affects Our Lives

1. They Will Make You Greedy

Archons are the source of our greed. You’ll never be happy with what you have when archons are in your life. Your greed will be insatiable since you won’t be contented with anything. Archons tend to highlight temptations and emotions of greed, wrath, and envy with you.

2. Archons Highlight All Your Fears

One of the most significant ways which archons usually affect our lives is by controlling our mental sanity. Archons may be present in your life if you are always afraid. Not only do archons enhance the feeling of fear in you but also have an effect on your confidence. They control your darker side including hatefulness, envy, and anger.

3. Archons Work Up People’s Dark Desires

Archons are known to also highlight the dark desires in our hearts and even bring them out. The desires may start off with small things like stealing and later become dangerous thoughts. In short, archons will bring out your worst side to light. Sometimes you are not even this type of person the archon showcases which makes understanding the real you quite challenging.

3. They Encourage Shedding of Blood

Archons will make you headstrong. You may therefore have to deal with temper issues and anger management. An archon may be present in your life if you are prone to losing your cool. Archons can also control your entire life preventing your from making any decisions by yourself. You may also seem to get into many physical fights since they encourage bloodshed. Besides, you may not get a hold of yourself and act strangely aggressive when these demonic entities control your life.

4. They Make Your Life Chaotic

Archons will strain your relationship causing unnecessary stress and are usually a bad luck sign in people’s lives. Archons are known for their ill-natured behaviors in both professional and person lives of others. They will cause trouble in your life with the intention of increasing your stress levels. An archon is in control of your life if you are constantly getting into trouble or having problems. Moreover, archons are also behind various encounters such as losing money, financial strains, accidents among several other things.

How Archangels Can Protect Us from Archons

The term angel has a deeper meaning beyond our comprehension. The most significant role of the archangels is to protect us from these demonic entities. Here are some of the archangels who can offer divine protection against the archons:

Archangel Michael

One of the most obvious ways in which an archangel can impact in your life positively is by offering protection against any potential threats and situations. For example, archangels are supposed to obstruct you from archons misguiding. Regardless of your state of mind, whether strong-willed or spineless, archons can gain control of your mind. Therefore, you can safeguard your life from all evil entities by calling upon St. Michael the archangel.

Additionally, archangel Michael will ensure you are courageous enough. You can call upon the archangel to grant to the courage to deal with difficult situations in your job or life. St. Michael the archangel usually protects the sick, suffering, policemen and soldiers. He therefore offers his guidance to those who work under unsafe situations.

St. Michael the archangel is a popular archangel in the spiritual realm. He typically offers protection, courage, and communication. He safeguards your energy whether you need some help or are facing a difficult situation.

Archangel Michael will also come to your aid if you have trouble communicating. He will operate your thirst chakra and give you light during misunderstandings thus enhancing your ability to communicate. Archangel Michael will also help you articulate better showcasing your real feelings and emotions enhancing your relationship with your loved ones. You will feel some type of way when you obtain archangel Michael’s divine guidance.

Archangel Barachiel

Barachiel is typically known to be the angel of blessings. He is also known as Barakiel which loosely translates to God’s blessings. Archangel Barachiel loves rose petals and is the definition of great things. If you have a positive light in your life, you will experience joy and lots of happiness. It will also secure you from archons and their harmful thoughts.

Archangel Barachiel will help you appreciate life more and teach you to be grateful always thus changing your attitude. He will offer you good fortune, helping you to be content and happy. Barachiel offers his guidance and blessings. If you are struggling with difficult life situations, call upon him and seek his assistance. When you learn to be patient, your heart desires will be fulfilled.

Additionally, with archangel Barachiel’s help you will be at peace with everyone around you. He also offers great thoughts allowing you to get back to your quintessential self and those around you. Archangel Barachiel will bring prosperity to your life and manifest positivity too. There are several other archangels in the angelic realm to always lead you. Open your heart and seek their assistance.

When you live a life of love and gratitude, you will never feel unsuccessful, unworthy, and insecure. Archangel Barachiel will guide you to transform any negative thoughts in your mind to positive ones.

Archangel Raguel

Raguel is the most composed and balanced archangel in the heavenly realm. He usually seeks justice and fairness for everyone and equally offers redemption to reformed characters. Archangel Raguel along with other major archangels act as observers of the entire universe.

Archangel Raguel is indispensable impacting our lives positively by cooling us down especially during heated arguments. When an archon is present in your life, you tend to become moody and substantially aggressive.

Archangel Raguel typically radiates a soothing, positive and secure energy. He is super calm with a relaxing vibe that inspires others to be calm as well. Therefore, if you are constantly struggling with professional and personal issues, seek archangel Raguel’s assistance. With proper guidance, this archangel will help transform intense arguments or fights to some deeper connections.

Archangel Raguel will help you resolve difficult life situations and also create meaningful relationships. Besides, he will also help you attract the right kind of friends that match your energy levels and be in good terms with your loved ones.

Archangel Raguel will help you attract friends with a similar spiritual affinity and aura to yours revolving around potency, support, and mutual respect among several other factors.

Archangel Azrael

Of all the archangels in the heavenly realm, Azrael is one of the most fascinating, compelling, and mysterious angels. Archangel Azrael is God’s angel and has advanced knowledge on the universe’s supreme insights.

Archangel Azrael’s calming effects rub on humans. Most of us get overwhelmed trying to figure out this life on our own. Azrael will protect you from archons helping you not to destroy your life. Besides giving you a calming and clear state of mind, he will also help you get in touch with your subconscious. You can easily connect with him through prayer and meditation. Remember, archangels can only come to your aid if you ask.

If you genuinely invoke the presence of archangel Azrael, he will answer all your prayers and grant your heart desires. This therefore means that if you have constantly been struggling with a problem, he will rescue you and ease the burden.

Archangel Azrael also blesses people, which means it’s easier to have a connection with him. In short, archangel Azrael will fulfill your wish of giving and also getting love and compassion.

Additionally, those who have strong connection with archangel Azrael lead successful lives. With his guidance and blessings, you will be able to clearly see the path of success. Plus, you can get rid of any distractions that bother you along the way.

Archangel Remiel

Of all the archangels in the heavenly realm, archangel Remiel’s main focus is giving hope to the hopeless and helping people realize their full potential. Remiel is known as the archangel of hope and will see you through tremendous depression.

Among all the archangels, Remiel is the closest entity to God.  He leads all souls to heaven after death and usually communicates with humans through dreams.

You can easily connect with archangel Remiel by invoking his presence in your life. Most of the times, Remiel will guide you using symbols. He is equally a great companion especially when it comes to your spiritual life.

Archangel Remiel also offers intellect wisdom. He will give you all the hope you need to get you through any difficult life situations. He will ease your pain when you are about to die which is one of the most significant way, he affects people’s lives. Archangel Remiel protects you from archons known to fill your life with negativity.

Archangel Remiel will help you find your purpose in life and see you through your day-to-day activities and also guide you to a new path. It therefore means that Remiel tends to create a magical path of healing to save you the harsh reality of painful emotions. He will help you to remain faithful.

Conclusion

Divine 

entities can make your life better or worse since they usually possess life-altering powers. We are powerless hence cannot protect ourselves from demonic archons who can impact our lives negatively. At first you may think it’s bad luck or sheer coincidence, but don’t play down archon’s powers. Archangels are the guiding force to protect us from evil.

Trust the archangels for enough strength to keep you healthy both physically and mentally. In the end, it all depends on you to choose the right thing. Pray and meditate habitually to establish a strong connection with archangels so that they can protect you against archons.

Nag Hammadi Scrolls, Archons & Gnosticism

n the Gnostic Gosepls the Archons are defined as an Alien False King Tyranny Ruler that controls through masks of deception promoted through war, technological abuse such as mind control, frequency implants, and military strategies and can be applied to human or non-human (Alien) sources. The Archonic Deception stems mostly from the Reptilian and Draconian races from the Orion Constellation.

All this borders on the unbelievable, were it not for the fact the ‘Archon Deception’ was already noted and explained by the First Century Gnostic Christian Movement.

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In December 1945, a red earthenware jar was found  near Nag Hammadi, a city in upper Egypt, and inside the jar were papyrus books dating from approximately A.D. 350.

The Papyrus books were released as The Nag Hammadi Library and  for the first time we had a firsthand account of the earliest Christian beliefs. The writings were very different from the Gospels comprised mainly of sayings rather than elaborate social situations for Jesus’ Ministry.

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Gnostic Texts, Aliens & Archon Matrix

In the Nag Hammadi Library we find first-hand encounters with inorganic beings called Archons. According to Gnostic Nag Hammadi teachings, Archons arose in the early stage of formation of the Solar System, before the Earth was formed and are capable of intruding on Earth.

Archons are considered predators that feed on Human Psychic Energy.

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Ancient Texts & The God Yahweh

In unmasking the Reptilian Deception and understanding Archons in Gnosticism, we relied on Ancient Sumerian Records and Gnostic teachings, and their illuminating effect should already be clear.

 

The transformation of flesh and blood Annunaki Beings into a Supreme Spirit appears to have been inspired by the need to find meaning and security – a resting place in the chaos of every generation. It also suited for an ancient Kingship model, and was fashioned to serve the needs of that era.

These were the beginnings of the “Reptilian Deception’ as part of the broader ‘Archonic Deception’ as understood through the Archons In Gnosticism teachings that is now still being carried out throughout by the Reptilian Draco Group.

We have outgrown the notion of autocratic government, but the accompanying Draco-Political Religious mindset remains.

Judaism and all the Religions of today that stem from it, are revealed as the remnants of a Multi-Dimensional Psychological Control System designed to manipulate and dupe Humanity into throwing away its own potential in the service of Extraterrestrial beings that regard our Planet purely as a ‘resource’ for their own Energy requirements whether its Food or Minerals.

This is the essence of the Reptilian Deception, to conceal from Human Beings their true Divine Potential and Identity as Sovereign Spirits by devising a game of Religious Deception and Kingship which diverts the Spiritual Energy Human beings possess to serve their own ends as Psycho-Spritual Parasites, and in the process limiting Mankind’s True Potential because he does not use his Divinity and Energy to develop himself, but instead to feed the ‘Reptilian Masters of Deception’.

Spiritual Sovereignty & Open Source Spirituality

Individual Spiritual Sovereignty is one in which Human Beings break away from this cycle by recognising their God given autonomy, and potential using the gift of Free Will.

To be sovereign is to be free, and it is important in the process to affirm our sovereignty so that we can recognize the interference of other beings in our energy field, limiting our potential, intentions and life purpose.

The ‘Archon Matrix’ therefore demands radical new Spiritual solutions, but the truth is the answers have always been with us for Thousands of years as the ‘Nag Hammadi Scrolls’ demonstrate. Therefore, in re-connecting with our True Potential, a ‘Return to Gnosticism’ should perhaps be considered a worthy path.

By definition, the Gnostic Path avoids any structural ideologies except to say, we must all sincerely begin to explore within.

For more on the origins of the Archons, Spiritual Soveriegnty and the Archons, you can check out the featured John Lash Podcast.

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Ideological Virus

In another passage of The First Apocalypse of James, the Master refers to those people "who exist as the type of the Archons" (30: 20).

Gnostics were not only alert to the intrusion of the Archons, but they were also acutely aware of the possibility of humans becoming totally "Archontized." This threat appears to have emerged in a particularly alarming way in that era to which Philip K. Dick often refers:

The resemblance to contemporary reports of close encounters is undeniable: the Archons induce a state of mortal panic, they often appear in threes, and they perform abductions ("take away souls by theft"). 

Gnosticism Explained: The Reality of the Rulers (The Hypostasis of the Archons) and Gnosis Part 7: Creation of the Archons and the Different Heavens

 

The Reality of the Rulers (The Hypostasis of the Archons)

(If you want to skip the introduction and just read the text itself, the full text of the Reality of the Rulers is below.)

Introduction

The Reality of the Rulers is a Gnostic text whose title is also sometimes translated as the Nature of the Rulers or the Hypostasis of the Archons. “Hypostasis,” a word that occurs in the original Greek title of the text, is an ancient philosophical word that refers to the inner essence of something.[1] In order to make the title of the text easier to understand for modern readers, “hypostasis” is often translated as “nature” or, as here, “reality.”

In any of its variations, the title of this text is supposed to indicate that it provides its readers with knowledge about the true character of the “archons” or “rulers,” demonic beings who rule the world from the skies and try to keep the souls of humankind imprisoned in the world. It does this through story – specifically, a series of episodes that are elaborations of parts of the Gnostic creation myth that illustrate the personalities, motivations, and goals of these half-witted, lecherous, sadistic beings whom the Gnostics identified with other people’s gods.

The Reality of the Rulers assumes prior knowledge of the Gnostic creation story as told in, for example, the Secret Book of John, so it’s extremely helpful to have read that text or at least a summary of its creation narrative before reading the Reality of the Rulers.

The Reality of the Rulers was written and used by the group of Gnostics that modern scholars call the “classic Gnostics” or “Sethians.”[2] It was originally composed in Greek[3] sometime in the second or third century AD/CE.[4] It was probably written in either Alexandria, Egypt – an ancient cosmopolitan hub of learning where the anonymous author could have encountered and studied the various religious and philosophical traditions he or she drew from – or in Syria, since the text features a number of Syriac wordplays.[5] Today, only one copy of the text survives, a Coptic translation from the Nag Hammadi Library.[6] In the form in which it’s come down to us, the text seems somewhat disjointed and may be an amalgamation of pieces from two or more different sources.[7]

Scholarly opinion has been divided over whether the Reality of the Rulers was always a Christian text or originally a “Jewish Gnostic” text that was later “Christianized.”[8] In my view, at least, this matter was definitively settled by Elaine Pagels in her incisive paper “Exegesis and Exposition of the Genesis Creation Accounts in Selected Texts from Nag Hammadi,” in which she demonstrates that the Reality of the Rulers is steeped in the theology of the apostle Paul in such fundamental ways that the entire text is effectively an exegesis (interpretation) of writings attributed to Paul. In addition to stating at the outset that it aims to explain the meaning of the words ascribed to Paul in Ephesians 6:12 (“For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places”[9]), the Reality of the Rulers also draws heavily from Ephesians 3-5, 1 Corinthians 2, and especially 1 Corinthians 15. The text is therefore thoroughly Christian at its core.[10] (Besides, as I argue in The Origins of Gnosticism, there was never such a thing as “Jewish Gnosticism” in the first place.)

Thus, the “perfect man” or “true man” whose coming is foretold in the text by the angel Eleleth can be none other than Jesus, who had already long since lived and died by the time the Reality of the Rulers was written. (Such retrospective literary “prophecies” of Jesus are a common feature in Gnostic texts.)

The Nature of the Rulers (Hypostasis of the Archons) - Nag Hammadi Library Gnostic Scripture

Indeed, the Reality of the Rulers is closer to the Christian “mainstream” of its day than many other Gnostic scriptures are. The original meaning of the Gnostic creation myth, as exemplified by the Secret Book of John and many other classic Gnostic texts, was that the creation of the material world by the evil demiurge Yaldabaoth and the other rulers was a catastrophe that was contrary to the will of God. But the Reality of the Rulers holds that God was secretly guiding the activities of the rulers so that, without their knowing it, they were making possible the salvation of the sparks of divinity that had been lost when Yaldabaoth was born and cast out of Heaven (which the Gnostics called the “Pleroma” or “Fullness”). The world may appear to be a disaster, but despite all appearances, God still has ultimate control and he’s surreptitiously involved in the world at every turn.[11] This stands the original meaning of the Gnostic creation myth on its head in some ways and brings it closer to proto-orthodox Christianity.

Just as the Reality of the Rulers tries to have it both ways with regard to the worth of the material world, it also tries to have it both ways with regard to the identity of the god of the Hebrew scriptures. Most Christians of the second and third centuries believed that the creator god of Genesis was the same god from whom Jesus had come, but the Gnostics (and certain other types of early Christianity such as the Marcionites) believed that these were two different, and even opposed, entities. For the Gnostics, these were the demiurge and the true God. The Reality of the Rulers sometimes identifies the Jewish god with the demiurge, but at other times it identifies him with Sabaoth, a “good” ruler who repents and joins the side of the true God. Thus, Sabaoth is described using imagery drawn from depictions of the Jewish god in the first chapter of Ezekiel, one of the books of the Hebrew Bible.[12]

The following version of the Reality of the Rulers is my own rendering of the text based on the translations of Bentley Layton[13] and Marvin Meyer.[14] My aim has been to produce a version of the text that’s clearer and more readable than the available academic translations, while still being closely based on them to ensure accuracy. I hope you find it useful. For more on my methods and goals, see A Note on My Renderings of the Gnostic Texts.

The Reality of the Rulers

Prologue

With regard to the reality of the rulers (archons), the apostle Paul said of these dark powers that “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers of this world and the multitude of demons.” The Father of truth inspired the great apostle to write those words. Since you asked about what these rulers really are, I have sent you this letter.

The Demiurge and His Children

Their master (the demiurge Yaldabaoth) is blind. Out of conceit and lack of gnosis he declared with power, “I am the only god; there is no other god but me.” By saying this, he sinned against the Fullness (Pleroma). When his words reached that incorruptible realm, a voice rang out from it that said, “You are wrong, Samael” – a name that means “Blind God.”

Samael’s thoughts, too, were blind. He expressed his power through blasphemy. Wisdom (Sophia) guided him down to chaos and the abyss, his mother, so that his power could be enacted there. And Wisdom established each of his children according to his or her particular traits, based on the model of the eternal realm above. For the visible realm was made after the model of the invisible realm.

Incorruptibility gazed down from the Fullness into the waters, and her image was reflected in the waters. The rulers became infatuated with it. But although they badly wanted to seize for themselves the image they had seen in the waters, they were too weak, for their minds could not grasp the ways of truly spiritual beings. For the rulers were from below, but Incorruptibility was from above.

And why had Incorruptibility gazed down into that place? She had done so by the will of the Father in order to unite everything with his light.

The Creation of Adam

The rulers, whose bodies are both male and female, and whose heads are those of beasts, began scheming. They said, “Come, let us create a human being out of earthly soil,” so that their new creation would be a completely earthly being. They molded the soil into a shape that in some ways resembled their own bodies, yet in other ways resembled the image of God that they had glimpsed in the waters.

They said, “Come, let us seize the image we saw in the waters by the body we have made for it.” Since they were powerless, they did not comprehend the power of God. Their master breathed into the body’s face, and it came alive. Yet it lay on the ground for several days, because they were powerless to give it the ability to stand up. They stood over it huffing and puffing like storm winds in the hope of catching the image they had seen in the waters. But they did not know the source of the power of that image.

All of this happened by the will of the Father of the Fullness.

The Spirit saw the human being lying on the ground and came down from the Fullness to take up residence within him, so that he became a living soul. And the Spirit named him “Adam,” because he had been found lying on the ground. A voice from Incorruptibility came down to support Adam.

The rulers brought to Adam all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the sky so that he could name each of them. They placed Adam in their garden for him to tend it. And they gave him an order: “Eat from every tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Do not even touch that one. For the day you eat from it will be the day of your death.” But they did not realize what they had done. By the will of the Father, they said this in a manner that made Adam want to eat from that tree, which would enable him to see the rulers differently than a solely fleshly being could see them.

The Creation of Eve

The rulers consulted with each other and said, “Come, let us make a deep sleep fall over Adam.” And he slept. Now this deep sleep was a lack of gnosis. They cut his side open and extracted from it a living woman, his spirit. Then they patched him up with flesh where she had been, and in place of a spirit he had only a mind.

The spiritual woman came to him and told him, “Arise, Adam.” When he opened his eyes and saw her, he said, “I am alive because of you, so I name you ‘Mother of the Living.’ You are my mother and my midwife, the woman through whom I was born.”

The rulers approached Adam and saw him talking to his partner. They became greatly agitated with lust for her, and they said, “Come, let us mate with her.” They ran after her as she laughed at them for their stupidity and blindness. When they caught her, she transformed into the tree of life, leaving behind only a shadow that looked like her physical form. The rulers befouled the shadow. By defiling the body they had molded in their own image, they condemned themselves.

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

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The female spirit went into a snake, and it became a teacher. It began to teach Adam and Eve by saying to them, “What did the rulers tell you? That you were to eat from every tree except the tree of knowledge of good and evil?”

Eve – the earthly Eve, for the spiritual Eve was now in the snake – replied, “Not only did they tell us to not eat from that tree, but to not even touch it. For, they said, the day we eat from it will be the day of our deaths.”

The snake, the teacher, said, “You will not die that way. They said that to you out of envy. Instead, your eyes will be opened and you will come to be like gods, recognizing good and evil.” And with that, the female spiritual teacher left the snake, and it became a merely earthly thing once more.

The fleshly woman plucked one of the fruits of the tree and ate it. She gave some to her husband, and both of those fleshly beings ate. They realized that they lacked gnosis and were gravely flawed. When they saw that they were denuded of spirit, they gathered fig leaves and tied them around their private parts.

The chief ruler came and cried, “Adam, where are you?” For he was unaware of what had happened.

Adam answered, “I heard your voice, and because I was naked I was afraid. So I hid.”

The chief ruler said, “Why were you hiding? You would only have done that if you had eaten from the single tree from which I told you not to eat. You have eaten from it!”

Adam said, “The woman you made for me gave me fruit from that tree, and I ate it.” The conceited ruler cursed the woman.

But the woman said, “I ate because the snake lied to me.” The rulers turned to the snake and cursed it. They did not realize that they themselves had made the snake. The rulers’ curse lay upon the snake from that day until the day when the perfect man was to come.

The rulers then turned to Adam and his wife and banished them from the garden. They, too, lay under the rulers’ curse. The rulers plunged them into a life of toil and distraction, so that they would be consumed with earthly tasks and unable to concern themselves with the matters of the Holy Spirit.

The Children of Eve

After this, Eve bore a son by the rulers: Cain, who tilled the soil. Adam slept with his wife, and she conceived again and bore Abel, who looked after flocks of sheep. Cain made a sacrifice to God from the crops of his fields, but Abel made a sacrifice from his lambs. God welcomed Abel’s sacrifice, but he did not accept Cain’s. Cain, fleshly man that he was, went after his brother Abel.

And God asked Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

Cain replied, “What am I, my brother’s keeper?”

God said to Cain, “Listen! The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me. You have sinned with your mouth, and your sin will come back upon you. You will be reduced to a life of moaning and quivering on the ground, and anyone who puts you out of your misery will have seven vengeances unleashed upon them.”

Adam slept with his partner Eve. She conceived again, and bore Seth. She said, “God has given me another son to make up for Abel.”

Eve became pregnant once more and bore Norea. Eve said, “He has given me a virgin to be a helper for many generations of humankind.” Norea is the virgin whom the rulers were unable to violate.

And humankind was fruitful and multiplied.

The Great Flood

The rulers consulted with each other and said, “Come, let our hands send forth a flood that will annihilate all flesh, both human and animal.”

But the ruler Sabaoth had misgivings about their plan. He went to Noah and said, “Build for yourself an ark from wood that does not rot. Take your children and the beasts and the birds – both small and large – inside the ark, set it on Mount Sir, and hide in it.”

Norea went to Noah and asked to board the ark. But Noah refused, so she blew on the ark, and it was consumed by fire. So Noah built a second ark.

The Rulers’ Attempt to Rape Norea

The rulers went to Norea to seduce her. Their master said to her, “Your mother Eve submitted to us.”

But Norea turned to face them and replied, “You are the accursed rulers of darkness. You did not mate with my mother, but with a female from among yourselves. I did not descend from you. I descended from the world above.”

The conceited ruler turned to her with a face like a black fire, and he snarled, “You must submit to us just like your mother Eve did, for I have been given [text missing].”

Norea turned away and cried out with the power of spirit to the holy God of the Fullness, “Save me from the clutches of these depraved rulers, and do it now!”

A great angel came down from the Fullness and said to her, “Why are you crying out to God? Why are you so brash toward the Holy Spirit?”

Norea asked, “Who are you?”

The depraved rulers had fled. The angel said, “I am Eleleth, Intelligence, the great angel who dwells with the Holy Spirit. I have been sent to talk to you and to save you from brutal hands. I will teach you about your root.”

I, Norea, cannot articulate how powerful that angel is. It looks like gold clothed in snow. My mouth becomes silent when I think of its power and the sight of its face.

The great angel Eleleth said to me, “I am Intelligence. I am one of the Four Luminaries who dwell with the Great Invisible Spirit. Do you think you are vulnerable to any of the rulers? None of them has any power against the root of truth, for in the end someone will arrive on its behalf, and he will vanquish the rulers. The rulers cannot violate you or the unshakeable race, for your home is where Incorruptibility and the Virgin Spirit dwell, a place that cannot be assailed by the rulers of chaos or their world.”

Eleleth’s Speech to Norea

I said, “Lord, tell me about the power of these rulers. Where did they come from? What is their nature? What are they made out of? Who created them and their power?”

The great angel Eleleth, who is Intelligence, replied, “Incorruptibility dwells in infinite eternal realms. Wisdom, who is called Faith (Pistis), wanted to have a child by herself, without the involvement of her partner, and she gave birth to something in the heavens.

“A veil lies between the world above and the world below. A solitary shadow was cast beneath that veil, and that shadow became matter. What Sophia had given birth to took shape in matter, like an aborted fetus. He took his form from the shadow, and became a conceited beast like a lion. And because he was a material thing, he was a hermaphrodite.

“When he opened his eyes, he saw such a great heap of matter that it stretched beyond the horizon. He was filled with conceit, and he proclaimed, ‘I am the only god; there is no other god but me.’

“By saying this, he sinned against the Fullness. A voice came from above the tyrant’s realm and said, ‘You are wrong, Samael’ – a name that means ‘Blind God.’

“The blind god said, ‘If anything other than me exists, show it to me!’

“So Wisdom stretched forth her hand and made light shine upon matter, even into that place of chaos. Then she withdrew her light, and darkness fell upon matter once again.

“Since the ruler was a hermaphrodite, he was able to create an immense realm by himself. He gave birth to seven children who were hermaphrodites like their father. And he said to them, ‘I am the God of all.’

“Life (Zoe), the daughter of Wisdom, exclaimed to him, ‘You are wrong, Fool (Sakla)’ – who is also called Yaldabaoth. She breathed into his face, and her breath became an angel of fire. The angel bound Yaldabaoth and threw him down into Tartarus, the lowest part of the abyss.

“When Yaldabaoth’s son Sabaoth saw just how powerful that angel was, he repented. He came to loathe his father and matter, his mother, and he disowned them. He sang hymns of worship up to Wisdom and her daughter Life. Wisdom and Life carried him up to the seventh heaven, just below the veil between the world above and the world below, and established him there. Since he is above the forces of chaos, he is called ‘Sabaoth, lord of the forces.’

“After this had come to pass, Sabaoth made for himself a great four-sided chariot of cherubim and countless angels to assist him and regale him with music. Wisdom put her daughter Life at his right hand to teach him about the things of the eighth heaven, and the angel of fury at his left hand. Ever since, Sabaoth’s right has been called “life,” while his left has become a symbol of the oppression of the tyrant’s realm.

“When Yaldabaoth looked up and saw Sabaoth seated in glory high above him, he was jealous of him. Thus jealousy was born. Jealousy was a hermaphrodite like its father, and it gave birth to death. Death spawned children of its own and put each of them in charge of a region of the heavens until all the heavens teemed with their multitudes.

“But all of this came to pass by the will of the Father of the Fullness, after the model of the world above, for chaos was unknowingly planting the seeds of its own undoing.

“Now I have taught you about the reality of the rulers, of matter, of their father, and of their world.”

The Children of Norea

I, Norea, wondered, “Lord, am I a thing of matter like they are?”

Eleleth answered, “You and your children are from the original Father. Their souls come from above, from pristine light. Because of the spirit of truth within them, the rulers cannot come near them. All who know the ways of truth are deathless as others die all around them.

“But your descendants will remain hidden for now. After three ages, they will reveal who they truly are and liberate others from the chains of the rulers’ errors.”

I asked, “Lord, how long will it be until that happens?”

He replied, “It will not happen until the true man from above comes in an earthly body and reveals the spirit of truth that the Father has placed within them.

“Then that true man will teach them everything, and will anoint them with eternity’s oil, which was given to him by the unbowed race.

“Then their thoughts will be freed from blindness. They will trample death, which the rulers imposed upon them, under their feet. And they will ascend to the place of infinite light where they belong.

“Then the rulers will surrender their domain. Their angels will wail over their downfall, and their demons will grieve over their death.

“Then all the children of light will truly know their root, the Father of the Fullness, and the Holy Spirit. With one voice, they will say, ‘The truth of the Father is just. The Son is the true ruler.’ And all will exclaim through eternal ages, ‘Holy, holy, holy! Amen.’”

References:

[1] Lewis, Nicola Denzey. 2013. Introduction to “Gnosticism:” Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds. Oxford University Press. p. 134-135.

[2] Meyer, Marvin (trans.). 2008. “The Nature of the Rulers.” In The Nag Hammadi Library. Edited by Marvin Meyer. p. 187.

[3] Lewis, Nicola Denzey. 2013. Introduction to “Gnosticism:” Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds. Oxford University Press. p. 132-133.

[4] Meyer, Marvin (trans.). 2008. “The Nature of the Rulers.” In The Nag Hammadi Library. Edited by Marvin Meyer. p. 190.

[5] Lewis, Nicola Denzey. 2013. Introduction to “Gnosticism:” Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds. Oxford University Press. p. 132-133.