The Creation Of The Thirteenth Aeon - Part I

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Since the dawn of our Fall, all of us, as microcosms, have an enormously long past behind us. The history of this past is recorded in the magnetic system of our auric being, and the sum of this past will always speak by way of the magnetic system of our brain. We are tied to the past, which is billions of years old and which out microcosm has itself has helped to build and maintain. And it is totally clear that all the archons and aeons of dualistic nature make their voices heard in us from time to time. Many of them dominate our whole being right now.

Our biological-intellectual being, i.e., our natural state, is wholly dependent on them. Right at this moment they are determining our cultural state in this life, and our intellectual  relationship to it. This cultural state includes Art, Science and Religion as well as our relationships with society and all their nuances a political, ssocial and economic nature.

The state of our entire character, all our biological instincts and needs, our expressions of our will, and our individual behavior are also directed and decided by them. Hence we must conclude not only that 'we are of nature' but also that 'we are of the aeons of nature'. In the situation of the present it is actually the aeons that decide our nature.

Therefore, once again the question: 'What and who are these archons and aeons as the gnostic philosophy calls them?'

They are power-principles and power-concentrations; they are certain electromagnetic tensions and relationships that appear and work in our nature-of-death. We can give you the following example:

You find yourself on a totally uninhabited and inhospitable island. There is no housing, no clothing, no fire. You are simply a biological being with a biological consciousness. You are for the first time conscious of being there. the world in which you find yourself is hard, cold, hostile and immensely cruel, and so self-preservation, the struggle for existence, begins. You cannot do without it. It is the basic law of nature.

In such a situation the intellectual consciousness slowly develops on the basis of these fundamental biological laws. It starts with a memory in which the negative consequences of the struggle for survival are recorded. The purpose is to start up mental processes on the basis of these memory-experiences in order to be able to convert the negative results of the struggle for survival into positive ones.

Every human being devotes himself to positive results in the nature-of-death, and that is in the first place, an activity of the brain. We mentally make a plan for self-maintenance. When this mental conception has been completed and we continually develop it mentally, it will grow in our respiration -field and at a given moment begin to obsess us. We are then possessed by our plan.

We have then created an archon, a nature-god. According to a particular formula, the rays of the electromagnetic field of nature are partly transformed into a personal electromagnetic principle which inhabits the microcosm. The individual nature-god is born!

As soon as others become involved in the plan for self-preservation, we will form a large nature-god together. Then a large, transformed electromagnetic field develops with much more power than the individual archons, and with the aid of it, the plan can be partly realized. Our archon, our nature-god, is highly praised for the success of the plan, and we continually add to and develop our plan in three ways:

- worship for the archon develops
- religious art arises to support worship
- a science develops because the initial results were only partial

For these reasons, the activities to perfect the plan must continue. This shows how Art, Science and Religion stem from the primary biological self-preservation of the human being.

We can face this discovery in two ways: as a believer or as an unbeliever. These two viewpoints, however, relate only to differences in taste. You like one archon and someone else likes another one. You believe only in yours and not in his.

Let us now look at the behavior of the archons. Because of the immensely dynamic mental nourishment they receive, they grow unbelievably fast. There is a scientific law: Equal joins equal, even though equals fight among themselves. The electromagnetic conceptions that we have outlined to you will, when their vibration rates are similar, merge on a higher level.  The power-principles merge into power-concentrations, that is to say, the archons join together to form aeons. The aeons are clouds of archons of a like vibration-rate. If we regard the archon as a nature-god of small stature in the planetary sense, then it will be clear that the aeon is a nature-god of universal or inter-cosmic proportions.

Then you can imagine how, from below, from the biological instincts, passions and needs of dualistic mankind, provided that this process can continue long enough, the whole universe will ultimately be populated by powerful forces that dominate our whole nature by means of a counter-nature.

A counter-nature? Yes, for all the archons and the aeons are proof of the immense state of deprivation and the fundamental state of human misery.

But does humanity have any other choice? Does not everyone help to maintain these archons and aeons?

End Part I

From "The Creation of the Thirteenth Aeon" - The Gnostic Mysteries of the Pistis Sophia - J. van Rijckenborgh

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