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Post by IW on Apr 19, 2018 9:08:31 GMT
By John Lash, an excerpt from "Not in his Image" 2013
In the Gnostic Gospels of Nag Hammadi, written in the 1st Century, the writers warn us about the god of the Bible. Known as the "Demiurge" or "Yaldabaoth", he is described as an insane, demented imposter deity who works against humanity.
He is, "a self-deified inorganic phantom, deluded about his own identity." The word "Demiurge" literally means "half-working" or "half-powered" - so called because he can originate nothing, but must imitate what already exists.
The leader of the extraterrestrial Archon race, he is also ,
• Saklas ("fool")
• Samael ("blind")
• Yaldabaoth to the Gnostics
This is the biblical father god of the Old Testament, Yahweh or Jehovah - the god still worshiped by millions of Jews, Christians and Muslims today!
Yaldabaoth is a demented pretender god who claims to be the creator of the material world, and demands slavish obedience from his human subjects, while he works to undermine the evolution and destiny of humanity.
According to the Gnostic writings,
"Yaldabaoth himself chose a certain man named Abraham, and made a covenant with him",
...and so began the devastating salvationist, misogynistic religions of monotheism that have so devastated our world.
Archons are predatory cyborgs, lacking creativity, but can imitate with a vengeance. Their expertise is simulation ('HAL', virtual reality), and the Demiurge fashioned a heaven world, copied from the Sophianic original, but completely fake.
This Archontic heaven is the afterworld for countless humans who are duped by the simulation presented by messianic, salvationist religion (Christianity).
"They (the Archons) sought to overpower humanity in its psychological and perceptual functions… For indeed their delight is bitter and their beauty is depraved. And their triumph is in deception, leading astray, for their own structure is without divinity." "The Apocryphon of John," from the Nag Hammadi Codices
This fake 'salvation' by superhuman powers, rather than through the divine potential innate to humanity and aligned with the planetary goddess Sophia, is the hallmark of extraterrestrial religion.
It is the root cause of most of the problems that currently beset humanity.
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Post by IW on Apr 19, 2018 9:22:55 GMT
From Nag Hammadi Hyp Arch:
Cosmic Egotism
Hyp Arch (The Hypostasis of the Archons), begins in medias res. It jumps immediately to a decisive event in the Gnostic creation myth: the imposter god, who is blind, declares that he is the only god in the universe, but he is refuted by a divine voice that tells him he is mistaken.
Here the text offers a burst:
"His thoughts became blind"
(87.5).
That humans can think in a blind manner, ignorant of the nature of their thoughts, and oblivious to the self-obscuring effect of the thought process, is a standard teaching in Buddhism and noetic sciences, but Gnostics added to it a bizarre twist, associating it with an arrogant act of cosmic egotism.
They taught that processes in the human psyche are enmeshed with events in the cosmos at large ("cosmo-noetic parallelism"). In our minds we are implicated in the folly and arrogance of the chief ruler.
In Hyp Arch, the authorities or rulers are initially called Exousia, the term found in the writings attributed to Paul, but the name Archontoi occurs later in the text. The chief of the Exousia is not called by his usual name, Yaldabaoth, as occurs elsewhere in the NHC.
In Mystery teachings on the "planetary spheres" the Exousia are connected with jupiter and the force of envy (Greek phthonos).
Hyp Arch does not explain, as do other cosmological treatises, how the chief ruler was produced from "the abyss (Coptic NOUN)," here called "his mother (Coptic MAAY)."
The word NOUN indicates that the chief authority and his legion arise from the realm of elementary matter, chaos, the abyss. This is what we call quantum fields, the (presumed) inorganic matrix of organic life.
Sophia - here called Pistis Sophia, "Confident Wisdom" - established a heavenly world for the authorities,
"in conformity with their power," forming that world "after the pattern (typos) of the worlds that are above, for by starting from the invisible world the visible world was invented"
(87.10).
The "worlds above" are in the Pleroma, source of all "archetypal" patterns of manifestation. The Archons cannot invent anything. Everything has to be done by Sophia, an Aeon from the Pleroma.
Other texts say that the chief ruler does create his own heaven world, the planetary system, by imitating the patterns of the Pleroma, but if he is blind, how can he see those divine forms?
This passage assumes that Sophia tricks the imposter god Yaldabaoth into thinking that he is doing what she, the genuine Divinity, does for him.
Now a sublime event: the figure of "incorruptibility" is reflected in the realm of chaos where the Exousia emerge. In the compound formations of Coptic, "incorruptibility" is constructed from TAKO, "to corrupt, perish," with the prefixes AT-, "not," and MNT-, which functions like the English suffixe -tion: hence, MNTATTEKO, "ability-not-to corrupt." (The A in TAKO changes to an E, one of the many baffling orthographic irregularities in Coptic.) It is also called "imperishability."
This (to us) abstraction is presented as a living, witnessing awareness, even though it is not given a divine or angelic name, such as Elelath.
Strangely, this abstract presence, presumed to be in the Pleroma, produces an image in elementary matter ( MOOY, "waters"), and the Exousia desire it, but are unable to attain it. We are told they can desire it because they have soul, but not spirit. This is the closest the NHC comes to asserting that the Archons have soul, an inner life of some kind. They can long for and pine for something, but they then fall into envy for what they cannot have.
Apparently the image of Imperishability resembles the human form, which the rulers, now called Archontoi, attempt to copy.
The Archons "laid plans" and said,
"Come, let us create a human (ROME) that will be from the soil of the earth (KAZ, variation of Greek ge, gaia)."
It is unclear if they model a man, male, or the human form (perhaps androgyne?), because the Coptic ROME is used interchangeably for man and human.
87.30 says that they modeled the human form after the "image of God," or "divine apparition." Immediately we learn that the image is female, because the Archons now determine "to see its male counterpart."
They first mold a female form or matrix and then produce from it a male form which they infuse with their breath, but the male form is unable to stand upright. This incident recalls indigenous creation myths that describe a botched attempt to produce the human form - for instance, in the Popol Vuh.
The Archons blow furiously but are unable to animate their pseudo-human creation, for,
"they did not know the identity of its power" (88.10).
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Post by IW on Apr 19, 2018 9:24:57 GMT
Now comes a remarkable passage.
The spirit of the Pleroma, observing that "the soul-endowed (psychikos) human form" is unable to attain its true stature, sends a part of itself from the "Adamantine Land" into the struggling creature. And "man became a living soul," PSYCHE ETONE. The term ETONE also appears in the Mystery name, "the living Jesus," as we have noted.
By "living" Gnostics meant something like "everlasting," rather than merely "alive." (This recalls the distinction between zoe, the immortal life force, and bios, the force of biological life-forms, eludicated by mythologist Karl Kerenyi in Dionysos.)
Adamantine Land or Adamantine Earth is a striking term that recalls Buddhist teachings on the Adamantine or Diamond (Vajra) Awareness.
Such awareness resides in the Pleroma, yet because Sophia is united with the Earth, the divine presence of the Pleroma pervades the Earth. With support from the Aeon Sophia, Adamas ("earth-creature") now rises upright and demonstrates spiritual power by naming the animals. The male and female types of humanity (ROME) live in an Edenic world, a natural paradise, the biosphere.
Sophia indwells the entire biosphere, but She is also present in it through the specific medium of the Adamantine or living white radiance, the Organic Light.
The mythology of Hyp Arch thus explains the basis of the central experience of initiation in the Mysteries: instruction by the Light.
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Post by IW on Apr 19, 2018 9:27:18 GMT
The Forbidden Fruit
In the Gnostic version of Genesis, the rulers (Archons) forbid the primal parents to eat from the tree that would allow them to discern good and evil, and they impose the threat of death.
The story carries an extraordinary spin, for we are now told that the Archons are allowed to make this interdiction so that the primal parents will disobey, eat the forbidden fruit, and consequently acquire powers of heightened perception.
Enlightenment comes from eating the forbidden fruit, so that,
"Adamas might not regard them (the Archons) as would a creature limited to dense, materialistic perception"
(89.5).
When the Archons realize that the tabooed knowledge gives Adam power to detect them for what they truly are, they contrive to plunge him into a stupor, blocking his higher perception.
To do so, they perform a grotesque operation:
they open his side and "build up his side with some flesh in place of her (Eve)," so that he is reduced from being a spirit-creature (pneumatikos) to the more modest status of soul-creature (psychikos).
Clearly, Adam is facing some bad moves from the Archons.
Note that the Gnostic Eden scenario is not merely a reversal of the Biblical scenario, presenting a false creator god who works against humanity. In the Gnostic version, Adam and Eve do not sin in human terms.
They do not merely disobey the commandments of the creator god, but they access powers of cognition that expose the creator god. In short, they exhibit spiritual superiority over the Archons, and it is for this that they are "punished" by the Archons intent to plunge them into a stupor.
The spell put on Adam does not diminish his ordinary awareness, it blocks his capacity for heightened awareness.
If this interpretation is correct, it shows that Gnostics were aware that the Archontic powers, and their human representatives, harbour the intention to deprive humanity of the experience of heightened awareness, that is, cognitive ecstasy typical of shamanic practice with entheogenic plants. In fact, the program of patriarchy, right down to our day, has always opposed experimental contact and communion with Sacred Nature in altered states.
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Post by IW on Apr 19, 2018 9:41:09 GMT
Eve is not affected by the deep sleep imposed on Adam. She calls him out of his stupor. Seeing her, he recognizes that she is "the mother of the living," TIMAAY NNETONE, as well as the "physician" who protects life. The Archons are deeply upset because Eve has defeated their plan to stupefy Adam, so they turn their attention to her.
Here The Reality of the Archons presents a version of the alien interbreeding myth from the Sumerian cuneiform tablets:
And the Archons became attracted to Eve, the primal woman. They said to one another, "Come, let us sow our seed in her," and they pursued her. And she laughed at them for their witlessness, and their blindness; and within reach of their clutches, she turned into a tree, and left before them a shadowy reflection of herself.
Contrary to the widely held view that the cuneiform stories prove there was alien intervention in human genetics in prehistory, this Gnostic text (and not only this one) denies that the Archons succeeded in their intention to rape the primal woman, Eve.
They did, however, lay claim to an image of woman,
"and they defiled it foully"
(89.25).
The text oddly specifies that "they defiled the stamp of her voice." What can this mean?
In cosmological terms, it is difficult to say what the Archons are doing here, but in psychological terms - which, let's recall, always run in parallel with cosmic events in the Gnostic vision of human reality - it suggests that womanhood becomes defiled, defamed, and denigrated. This is exactly what has happened with the rise of patriarchal religion: the distinctive voice of woman, her authority to speak for herself and for the Goddess, has been defamed and defiled.
Both themes, the defilement of woman and the forbidding of entheogenic rites, are central to the dominator agenda of patriarchy.
Hyp Arch ascribes the expulsion from Eden to the Archons, whose chief is Yaldabaoth, identified with Jehovah.
This is consistent with Old Testament narrative, but in the OT Yahweh-Jehovah is regarded as the stern creator god who justly punishes humanity for disobedience, while here the creator god is a demented alien who retaliates against the first parents for exercising their gnostic powers of higher perception.
Jehovah's attitude is not benign, and can in no way be construed as a chastisement that leads to human betterment.
"The Rulers threw humanity into great distraction, and into a life of toil, so that humans might be occupied by mundane affairs, and not have the opportunity to be devoted to the spiritual life"
(91.5-10).
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Demiurge
Jun 30, 2021 15:08:15 GMT
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Post by rapallo on Jun 30, 2021 15:08:15 GMT
a better description for demi urge is half made or fetus.
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