For reference purposes, here are some quotes about Archons from John Lash's book Not In His Image and from some of his online writings.
http://www.whale.to/c/john_lash.htmlAmazingly, whatever the significance of their content (and we have just barely begun to comprehend what that might be), the Nag Hammadi Codices (NHC) are rare original artifacts, the earliest surviving examples of bound books.
A close reading of these arcane materials shows that Gnostics were deeply concerned with alien intrusion into human affairs. The entities they called Archons appear to be identical to the ET’s of modern Ufology. Both Grey and Reptilian types are explicitly described in the codices. I would estimate that up to one-fifth of the core material in the NHC concerns the Archons, their origin, methods and motives.
John Lamb Lash, Not In His Image (Vermont:Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006),113.Deception and counterfeiting are signatures of the Archons: "Their
delight is in deception [apaton] . . . and their counterfeit [antimimon]
spirit" (Apocryphon of John, II, l:21). The Greek apaton denotes willful
intent to deceive, and antimimoa denotes the method of Archontic
deception: literally, "countermimicry." This means to copy something
but make the copy, the fake version, serve a purpose counter to the original
thing or idea.
John Lamb Lash, Not In His Image (Vermont:Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006),114.They are called Archons, from Greek archaia, "primal," "first," "from the beginning,"
because the formation of their world, the planetary system subject to inorganic
and mechanical laws, precedes the formation of the living earth.
John Lamb Lash, Not In His Image (Vermont:Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006),115.In the Gnostic perspective the Archons are nor only mind parasites, delusional
nodes in the human mind, considered as quasi-autonomous
psychic entities, if you will-they are cosmic imposters, parasites who
pose as gods. But they lack the primary divine factor of ennoia,"intentionality,"
"creative will." They cannot originate anything, they can only
imitate, and they must effectuate their copycat activity with subterfuge
and stealth, lest its true nature be detected.
John Lamb Lash, Not In His Image (Vermont:Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006),115.Archons do not respect
their proper boundaries in the cosmic
order. They do not belong to the terrestrial biosphere, but to the planetary
system beyond the earth. But they are invasive and they encourage
invasion.
John Lamb Lash, Not In His Image (Vermont:Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006),116.The dispossession motif is closely
associated with the deific pretension of the Archons: "And the Lord
Archon said to the authorities who attend him, 'Come let us create a
man according to the image of God and according to our likeness"'(II, I,
15.5). Here again is a familiar factor of biblical narrative, told with a
Gnostic twist. The Archons are themselves deluded in believing they
can create humans in their likeness. They do not succeed-all the
Gnostic materials are explicit on this point-but they insinuate into
human minds the belief that they have succeeded.
John Lamb Lash, Not In His Image (Vermont:Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006),116.Archons wrongly believe they can impress their mentality upon the
human species. They want to make humanity like themselves, but they
are constantly foiled by the superiority of the human species, "whose
origin is in the imperishable realm, where the virginal power dwells,
superior to the Archons of chaos and to their universe"
John Lamb Lash, Not In His Image (Vermont:Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006),117.But although
we can outhink the Archons, we do not always optimize the inborn
intelligence of our species, called nous by the Gnostics. When the faculty
of discrimination is weak, we are prone to let pretense and fantasy override
clear thinking. Failing to own and evolve the intelligence innate to our species, we risk being deviated by another kind of mind, an artificial intelligence through which we become unreal to ourselves.
John Lamb Lash, Not In His Image (Vermont:Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006),117.They insinuate their influence through religious beliefs-also through
scientific beliefs, when science assumes the role in society formerly held
by religion, as it largely does today-because such beliefs have rhe most
potent effect on our sense of humanity and human potential.
John Lamb Lash, Not In His Image (Vermont:Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006),159-160.Sophia shames
the Demiurge by declaring to him that the Anthropos, though yet
unborn, surpasses the Archons in intelligence, for humanity is an emanation
of the Pleroma, whereas the Archons arise outside the cosmic
core, without an act of emanation. Witnessing this reprimand, and
shocked by the arrogance of the Demiurge, the newborn star undergoes
a conversion: it chooses to align with Sophia against the realm of
Archontic forces, i.e., the inorganic planetary field.
To be continued...