The Archons

Yaldabaoth, the creator and first of the Archons

**Archons** are a species of inorganic beings created by the Demiurge Yaldabaoth to be his main enforcers and builders of the physical universe. The Archons are known as the Lords of Order, as they represent the other side of the coin of the universe, they represent the Yang side of the cosmos, that is, the Archons personify order, light, time and masculinity, while the Lords of Chaos, the Aeons, represent the Yin side, that is, they personify chaos, darkness, space and femininity. Gnostics believed that Order is evil and Chaos is good.

## Overview

Archons are sort of aliens in a way that subliminally deviate the human mind from forming a higher level of intelligence. They do this under the order of Yaldabaoth who tries to keep humans from questioning his authority. They're not the only reason why humans may act inhumanely, for all humans have this potential, they do feed into their inhumane desires, causing them to act out and often become violent.

Archon are an authoritative force, for Yaldabaoth designed them to be sort of extensions of his will. They're tyrants in the most literal sense possible, they've even been called tyranny personified.

## Description

Archons are, or at least are supposed to be, completely mindless creatures with their only directive being to serve Yaldabaoth. Despite this, they have power beyond even that of an average deity, which makes them a dangerous threat to anything that deviates from Yaldabaoth's will. That being said, there have been multiple times where an archon has rebelled against Yaldabaoth, the notable one being Sabaoth.

They're not forces of evil though, nor are they forces of destruction, their only derivative is to maintain order. They aren't personified evil, more so personified error, something incorrect in a seemingly otherwise perfect universe.

While they are still spiritual forces, they're the most physically bound of all spirits.

## History

The Archons were created by Yaldabaoth in the Milky Way before the Earth was fully created. They were created to be his mindless servants so that he could fight against God's True Archangels and Aeons.

## Known Archons

### Main Seven Archons

* Yaldabaoth
* Iao
* Sabaoth
* Astaphanos
* Adonaios
* Elaios
* Horaios

### Other Archons

* Athoth
* Harmas
* Kalila-Oumbri
* Yabel
* Adonin
* Abbede
* Abrisene
* Yobel
* Armoupieel
* Melcheir-Adonein
* Belias
* Seth
* David
* Eloiein
* Paraplex
* Hekate
* Ariouth
* Typhon
* Iachtanabas
* Hundun
* Qiongqi
* Taowu
* Taotie
* Gonggong
* Zhurong

## Myths and Legends

Archons, at least in a Gnostic sense, are the designers of the physical world that which we live in.

## Quotes

*"No, they aren't evil per say, just... wrong. Let's just say that instead of being sin incarnated like the demons, these guys are more of 'error' incarnated. Walking manifestation of 'bugs' in the system." - Michael.*

*"Beautiful, aren't they? Of course, they aren't perfect. I am the only perfect being after all. But I have to admit, these creations of my aren't so bad at second place." - Yaldabaoth.*

*"And he united the seven powers in his thought with the authorities which were with him. And when he spoke it happened. And he named each power beginning with the highest: the first is goodness with the first (authority), Athoth; the second is foreknowledge with the second one, Eloaio; and the third is divinity with the third one, Astraphaio); the fourth is lordship with the fourth one, Yao; the fifth is kingdom with the fifth one, Sabaoth; the sixth is envy with the sixth one, Adonein; the seventh is understanding with the seventh one, Sabbateon. And these have a firmament corresponding to each aeon-heaven. They were given names according to the glory which belongs to heaven for the destruction of the powers." - Apocryphon of John.*

*"I don’t have the words to describe it. If the confrontation had taken place in the material realm, planets would have been shattered. I was destroyed utterly several thousand times. But the more of them I consumed and flung back at their beings, the less they could fight. And it was necessary, if painful and exhausting." - Grand Karcist Ion on how he destroyed some Archons.*

*"This is the reason why incorruptibility looked down into the region, so that, by the father’s will, she might bring all into union with the light. The rulers laid plans and said, 'Come, let us create a human that will be soil from the earth.' They modeled their creature as one wholly of the earth. The rulers have bodies that are both female and male, and faces that are the faces of beasts. They took some soil from the earth and modeled their man, after their body and after the image of god that had appeared to them in the waters They said, 'Come, let us lay hold of it by means of the form that we have modeled, so that it may see its male partner and we may seize it with the form that we have modeled,' not understanding the partner of god, because of their powerlessness. And he breathed into his face, and the man came to have a soul and remained on the ground many days. But they could not make him rise because of their powerlessness. Like storm winds they persisted in blowing, that they might try to capture that image which had appeared to them in the waters. And they did not know the identity of its power." - The Hypostasis of the Archons.*

## Trivia

* Some Gnostic sects used this term for demons associated with the planetspheres.
* They are likely the beings responsible for the extraterrestrial sightings seen on Earth, including the "abductions" of cows and humans.

## Common Powers and Abilities

**Authority:** The Archons have the power of authority; a power that grants them the right to rule, enforce orders, and establish laws within their dominion, even extending to the supernatural realm. This authority bestows upon them total control over their designated domain including supernatural elements, such as mystical forces, living entities, mythical creatures, and otherworldly dimensions that shape their environment.

**Demonic Divinity:** The Archons have the "Demonic" form of Divinity, and divine powers granting them an immense amount of raw power beyond the mundane, making the Archons divine demonic beings by nature and a dark divine being, a status which can be obtained by several different ways. The Archons can gain this type of divinity by having an dark divine ancestry (being born a demon-deity), being transformed into an divine demon either by another more powerful divine demon, a deity, higher being such as a transcendent demon, ascended transcendent demon, etc, Archons have dominion and godhood in the divine and demonic aspects which makes them formidable in both worlds capable of overcoming all manner of demonic entities by sheer will alone. However, at times Archons with the demonic divinities are more powerful or even weaker than other deities depending on the type of divine being they are in question, some may even equal original dark divinities due to both being connected to darker forces.

**Knowledge Manipulation:** The Archons can create, shape and manipulate any/all information/knowledge, they can insert new knowledge into the universe that becomes established fact and reality, or destroy it to do the opposite. An enemy could be made to forget how to walk, while an ally could be given the knowledge of an enemy's weaknesses or mastery of a fighting style.

**Morality Manipulation:** The Archons can manipulate morality, making people ethically good or immorally evil by psychically kindling the targets' minds so that they succumb to the voice of truth or to the urge of sin. The victim may feel the calling of the Almighty or some other cosmic force of good or succumb to all their inner sins. The effect may expire, but that may be years after the evocations.

**Order Embodiment:** The Archons are able to act as a physical manifestation or personification of order in their reality. They are thus lawful and dutiful and can cause others to become controlled and organized. The Archons can also impose laws on a plane of existence and bring structure to the chaos of reality. As the embodiment of order, the Archons becomes the personification of uniformity, orderliness, and immutability.

**Spiritualism:** The Archons can utilize spiritualism, a belief-system/religion postulating that the belief of spirits of the dead residing in the spirit world have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living. Anyone may receive spirit messages, but formal communication sessions (séances) are held by "mediums", who can then provide information about the afterlife.

**Taming:** The Archons have a skill for taming (tolerant of sentient presence) and/or training (teaching specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli) creatures, possibly to the point of domestication. The most skilled uses can even tame and train the most volatile and vicious of beasts.