On Abraxas
Channel: Rev Jonathan Barlow Gee
Date: 13/01/2023

M: How do you see Abraxas?
J: Well, Abraxas is a Gnostic parody of the Hebrew monotheist concept of Jehovah. Abraxas was not necessarily considered a real god, more of a satire or parody cartoon version of god as the demiurge, or the universal god as the universal demiurge. So it had the feet of snakes, which in Buddhism you find as being one of the three poisons; it had the breastplate or chest-piece of a boar, or wild pig, and that’s also one of the three poisons; and the head of a rooster or cock, which is the last of the three Buddhist poisons or symbolic semi- or Demi-subelements in Buddhist cosmology, equivalent to the tattwas in hindu and to salt, sulphur and mercury in Alchemy. I don’t know if Abraxas was necessarily; personally I tend toward atheism, personally. I don’t believe that there’s necessarily such a thing as a universal creator deity. I do believe that there are evil psychic forces on earth that possess people, evil philosophies that can possess people to do evil things; but I don’t see necessarily there being a real plethora of good philosophies that likewise possess people to do good things. So I tend to think that the majority of the earth psychically is ruled by what we would ourselves consider to be an evil force, or the devil, one could say. So in that regard, I’m more of a Cathar, in traditional historic beliefs. I believe that Jesus was, and that any great burner would be a manifestation of this force, or at least tempted to be, this evil, Satanic world-king type lust for power.