Archons, Dominions and Thoughts that Run Wild.
By Julian Websdale.
There is a simple premise in esoteric literature: thoughts have power.
Even modern science accepts that behind the structure we know as the material world is
a web of energy, and the interactions between different types of energy create the semblance
of solidity we call matter.
Thought, then, as a form of energy, has the same power.
This is why in so many traditions there are admonitions about controlling the thought
process, while thinking and doing are still different things, thinking does have its effects.
Clairvoyants of many persuasions have seen and documented the shapes and forms produced
by various types of thought; witness the work of Charles Leadbeater.
While many of these forms are fleeting, when empowered by the emotions and by memory they
become more than just thoughts, they become thought forms.
These thoughtforms exist beyond simply when they are thought � they take on an independent
existence within the mind of the thinker.
They then influence memory and condition our perceptions of everyday life.
We may want to see these thoughtforms as only existing within the psyche of the neurotic
or unstable, and yet all of us have our lives conditioned by the thoughtforms we have created
in the past.
For most people they never see the present unfiltered, all experience is sieved through
thoughtforms created from childhood, and even beyond through past lives.
Meme: (pron. �meem�) A contagious idea that replicates like a virus, passed on from
mind to mind.
Memes function the same way genes and viruses do, propagating through communication networks
and face-to-face contact between people.
DAVID S. BENNAHUM
Thoughts however go much further.
As documented in much modern research on Memes, thoughtforms can become like viruses of the
mind.
They can spread throughout groups, families, nations and indeed the world and are passed
through the deeper levels of the unconscious we all experience.
Rumours, tales and urban myths are all memes or thoughtforms.
While they may be primarily passed by the printed word, internet, media, etc., there
is a time when they reach a certain �saturation point� and then become part of the collective
unconscious.
This is exceptionally dangerous as negative and violent forms can control groups and crowds
creating mob violence and aggression.
These group-minds are really thoughtforms out of control, and are known in the Gnostic
Tradition as Archons.
There are multitudes of Archons dwelling both within our minds and within the collective
unconscious.
Not only can Archons exist in the unconscious collective mind, 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.
The Archons are the products of mankind enlivened by fallen spirits and fed by our own emotions.
They can control and influence individuals, collectives, even nations and governments.
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.
People of many religions think that they are worshipping the I-AM; however they are actually
feeding a false god, an Archon they have created from their own ignorance.
This happens all too often and is why the esoteric tradition is imperative.
Without the guidance of 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 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 ignorance.
Many of these forms feed on suffering, while others feed on pleasure, and they amplify
the emotions of 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 is that there was no cosmic error, just a misinterpretation caused by ignorance.
Yet at the same time this ignorance has created a doorway through which fallen forms can enter
and it is these Archons, or whatever we call them, which keep us from appreciating our
own misperceptions.
Indeed, it is through our own 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 thoughtforms
and real fallen astral entities.
The thoughtforms allow these entities to interface with our own unconscious.
They can change form according to the language of the culture through which they communicate
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 had 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.
Although there are many other races within our universe, it does seem that a percentage
of UFO sightings and experiences reflect our own fears, terrors, needs and desires and
hence have an Archontic 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 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 man�s life.
Around and above it the cosmic spheres are arranged like concentric enclosing shells.
Most frequently there are seven spheres of the planets surrounded by the eighth and of
the fixed stars�
The religious significance of this cosmic architecture lies in the idea that everything
which intervenes between here and the beyond serves to separate from God, not merely by
spatial distance but 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 guardians 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, 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, between the light of the higher worlds and
forces which have been created through ignorance.
They are like �monsters from the Id�, they seem real enough and since the physical
world is shaped and formed by our perceptions, they are for all intents and purposes real.
The only way for us to escape Hiemarmene (universal fate) is to realize that we have created the
prison bars ourselves.
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.
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 man�s ignorance, they are used by the
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 themselves in ignorance and hence follow them.
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