The Archons Of The Aeons

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We have discussed in detail the marvelous change occurring in the aural being when the pupil begins to develop the holy process of the Fiery Triangle. This change signifies the manifestation of twelve magnetic points, as a result of which the microcosm concerned receives a new zodiac  and hence can develop a new magnetic system.

All those who are true, all those who are dedicated to the one Universal Christ-Light -- the twelve Saviors of the Treasury of Light, as the Pistis Sophia says -- will receive these twelve forces. Whoever enters this state-of-being will experience as a living reality the words:

'For all men who are in the world have gotten their souls out of the power of the rulers [archons] of the aeons. But the power which is in you is from Me; your souls belong to the Height'.

Who are they, the archons of the aeons? They are the ruling and leading powers in the universe-of-death. This is not just all that dwells in the reflection-sphere, but think especially of the great powers that control the solar system, the zodiacal systems and even greater formations in the universe-of-death.

After the Fall, when Adamic humanity was driven from the Original Universe, a completely new -- a dualistic -- universe was created for its benefit, a universe that would have had to adapt itself completely, as far as the nature-laws and nature-forces are concerned, to the totally changed nature of Adamic humanity. This humanity was separated into innumerable groups and formations and tied to one of the equally innumerable groups of stars. And each group received a leader, a race-god, a Lord. These gods, these rulers, are referred to in the Pistis Sophia as the archons of the aeons.

It will be clear to you that theses race-gods in no way have the task nor the capability of leading the entities subject to them back to the Original Life. They have the drive to cultivate their systems, to lead them to their own goal in the All-Manifestation, and thus to make their work acceptable to the Gnosis.

The fact that such a goal can never be reached is the doom of the archons. The fact that all the entities dependent on them will one day withdraw from their control through Transfiguration is their sorrow. Hence, when we speak about the archons of the aeons, you should certainly not think that these powers are the very image of evil and blackness, that all the vices of the gutters of civilization are theirs. No, in many respects they represent the greatest virtues of the dualistically attainable; they expound the most beautiful aspects imaginable of an essentially undivine world-order. In some respects, we could call them top Ephesians, the summit of border-dwellers ("Ephesian" is symbolic for "border-dweller", i.e., those who have reached the borders of the Divine Kingdom while standing at the very edge of this nature-order).

However they react to that state in a quite different way than Adamic humanity does. When an Adamic person has climbed to the state of an Ephesian, he will begin to long for his Original Home, and leave his state of imprisonment. The archons cannot possess that longing because they are cosmocrators, the creators of the complicated system of the nature-of-death. They will have to continue their activities until the last fallen entity has been released from their clutches by free choice, and their universe can be ended.

You should note well, therefore, that very high cultural developments can be instigated by the archons and all entities who have received their souls from them; that brotherhood and philanthropy, goodness, truth, and justice can be ascribed to them, and that they maintain a Devachan, an uppermost "heaven" of almost unthinkable beauty and happiness, while all this nevertheless has nothing to do with real Liberation.

They who wish to place their feet on the Path of Transfiguration and who try to renew their souls by and out of the twelve Original Saviors of the Treasury of Light, need to realize these things fully so that mistakes are excluded. They need to turn exclusively to the essential liberating aspects of the Universal Doctrine and of the Christian revelations of salvation. For this reason, anything specifically Semitic and Mosaic must be eradicated from their thinking.

You will find proof of our opinion in Deuteronomy 32. This chapter is commonly known as The Song of Moses.

'When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods; for the Lord's own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.

The "Lord" here is not The Absolute, but the god of the covenant of Israel: Jehovah. It is clear that all these Semites, under super-human leadership, occupied themselves with testimonies of gratitude;

'For [Moses] will proclaim the name of the Lord. Ascribe greatness to our God!' - Deuteronomy 32:2

'The Lord alone guided him [Jacob], no foreign god was with him' - Deuteronomy 32:12

This expression is typically dualistic. In the Original, the Absolute is absolute, but in duality even an archon can become greater through the obedience of his children. And he becomes extremely wrathful if they resist his will.

Moses was therefore a hierophant of the Jehovistic mysteries, the Semitic mysteries, just as every leading archon has his mysteries. No doubt he was a great man according to dualistic measures, but very apparently and emphatically an entity with an archon soul, who entirely accepts and heeds the "divine word" when his god say to him (Deut. 32:39):

See now that I, even I, am he;
there is no god besides me.
I kill and I make alive;
I wound and I heal;
and no one can deliver from my hand.

You know that the Semitic root race was divided into twelve tribes. This is his 'alloted share', the lot of Jacob. What has been done on account of this 'allotted share' we all know. When the nomadic tribes of the old Semites invaded Canaan, they massacred all the people living there and took their possessions. By the commandment of their god, no one was to survive. If there were a few humanists among the Semites who let some people live, this was scored against them very heavily by their god.

And later, when the Semitic people arrived in their stolen land, where they had destroyed a beautiful and sublime culture (the Egyptian), they went on with their orgies of murder. The worst of these was the tribe of Dan, which was not satisfied with its boundaries and occupied an adjoining state, massacred its people, and took possession of it in the name of Jehovah (see Judges 18:27). 'Dan' means "judge" or "justice"; well, the dualistic nature of this "justice" will not escape our attention.

There is no need to object to this, for all people in this world have received their souls from the power of the aeons. And right up to this hour you will find proof that the leading figures of this planet are the most humble and faithful servants of the aeons. 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth' -- the ancient Mosaic law, received from the hand of his god, is also today still the leading motive of the masses and of the individual, even though Jehovah is no longer mentioned and Christ is on their lips. Even a child can understand that this Christ is a false Christ.

All of us who are the descendants of the old root races and in whom all the suggestions of the grey past stir and boil out of the subconscious and out of the direct radiation of our lipika of the archons, all of us must understand that there is one solution for us: throwing ourselves into the Process of Liberation, so that one day it can be said of us also:

The power which is in you is from Me, the Christ, and your souls belong to the Absolute Kingdom.

"The Archons of the Aeons" - The Gnostic Mysteries of Pistis Sophia - Jan van Rijckenborgh