My friend John who writes New World Border made what I thought was an excellent connection last night while we were talking on the phone. We both had listened to John Lash’s archon-alien interview earlier that day, and were comparing notes.

In the interview, Lash drives home the point again and again that the entities which the gnostics called archons (whom he believes are equivalent to modern day ET’s) interfere with human behavior because they are envious of us. They are soulless mechanical entities which lack the divine spark inherent to humanity. A quote on the subject from Lash’s site:

The take a keen, and not particularly healthly, interest in humanity. Gnostics taught that the Archons envy humans and crave to intrude upon the Earth. To do so, they must violate the boundary between the Heptad, the realm of celestial mechanics dominated by inorganic chemistry, and the biosphere. Gnostics repeatedly warn that the Archons are by nature inveterate boundary-violators.

While this to me is extremely interesting and freaky, John made the point that this is essentially the crux of the argument now being waged against “terrorists” by the Bush administration. Compare the above to a snippet from Bush’s speech in 2001:

Americans are asking, why do they hate us? They hate what we see right here in this chamber — a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms — our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.

Having this connection highlighted for me suddenly casts this essential aspect of the gnostic archon story in a completely new light. I wholeheartedly don’t believe it when Bush says it about “real” people, so it becomes even more difficult to swallow when it enters the realm of occult entities. Unless you push the comparisons even further between terrorism and archonic activity, as I did in a previous post. As set up to this quote, I’d been comparing the government to the demiurge, the false sub-god of the gnostics:

I was just thinking though, if you WERE a false god, and you wanted to set up a smokescreen to prove that you weren’t, you might set up a bad guy someplace else, to distract people and draw attention away from yourself. Enter Satan. Under this premise, Satan acts as a croney of the demiurge, and the two of them pretend to fight each other for the edification and indoctrination of fear into the puny human. Does this sound familiar to anybody yet? It should, because it’s exactly what Bush did with the terrorists […]

The other interesting aspect of this is that fundamental to many gnostic texts is the idea that the power of the archons - though scary - is strictly illusory. It can’t hurt you unless you feed it with your fear, and surrender your authority to it: certainly a relevant message for current events today.