By Brendan D. Murphy, from "The Grand Illusion - Book 2"
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I maintain that John Lash’s book is the best gnostic commentary available—partly because he himself is able to “walk between worlds” and has a manifest “paranormal” skill set that allows him to merge with nature in ways that most people on earth could not even begin to fathom at this stage.
In other words, he gets it.
I draw the bulk of my material on the gnostic cosmology from his excellent and highly recommended book "Not in His Image."
The Gnostic telestai (plural: those who were aimed/goal-oriented) were seers initiated into the Mysteries (they were also known as the Sons of Seth).
Sophia is the mythological name given to the intelligence that plunged into the earth. If Gaia is the planet, Sophia (a creative torrent of sound and light) is the Aeon who dreamed herself into the planet, becoming “trapped,” as it were. “She” is not the physical planet, to be clear.
Her plunge into our local solar system created an unexpected glitch in the “matrix” which was the arising of inorganic AI type beings called Archons, from the Greek archaia, meaning “prior,” “first,” and “in the beginning.” (The root “a” indicates “first” or beginnings as far as I have gathered, being the first/prior/primal letter of the alphabet.)
Chief among the Archons was/is the Demiurge, Ialdaboath (pronounced as “yahl-duh-buy-ot”), who mistakenly believes he is the creator of all he surveys.
This deluded “god” (equated with the Christian Yahweh by some) constructs his celestial home from residual/inert atomic matter, this being the planetary system we inhabit, though not including the sun, moon, and earth (the trinary “organic” system in Gnostic thought).
The Archons can be considered the primal cosmic elementals, as kabbalistic lore calls them.
My aforementioned seer friend informs me that the closest visual representation he has yet seen of what Ialdaboath would look like to us is the malevolent shadow being in Netflix show Stranger Things.
Interestingly, in this show, the being—known both as the Mind Flayer and the shadow monster—exists in its own parallel dimension (which the children dub the Upside Down—a Dungeons and Dragons reference) and it is constantly trying to break through to ours, first, by invading people’s minds, taking them over (possessing them), and controlling their thoughts, perceptions, words, and actions, exactly as we would expect an Archon to do.
It feeds, like the Archons, on rage, pain and suffering (human emotion), at one stage building a grotesque body for itself out of thousands of rats—which, my friend sagely observes, are a species that has suffered greatly at the hands of humans through scientific experimentation, for example. Thus, it is literally built out of pain and suffering.
Ultimately the Mind Flayer eventually succeeds in building an even bigger body out of its infected human hosts by drawing them to its lair (in the dark basement of an impersonal abandoned shed/warehouse, representing the fear, alienation, and general darkness of our industrial age, among other things).
It dissolves them from the inside out, congealing from their cellular goop a humongous repulsive body somewhat reminiscent of a giant spider—a creature that has long inspired fear in humans.
Thus, the pseudo-Ialdaboath draws its legions of infected, unconscious zombies into the dark and empty industrial bowels of fear and isolation where—full of hatred for mankind—it builds a body out of the aggregate unconsciousness and self-loathing of its mindless drones.
Its only goal is to seek out and destroy the one being who stands in the way of its agenda to consume and control: El (a contraction and adaptation of Eleven, which was the only name she had prior to escaping captivity; the homophone elle is also the French pronoun meaning “she”).
El is a young girl with enormous psi capabilities, including remote viewing and psychokinesis; she has suffered ongoing trauma at the hands of scientists experimenting on her at Hawkins National Laboratory where she was held captive and raised, a metaphorical lab rat.
In El, the Archontic Demiurge meets its match in the form of the Innocent, a child named after the master number eleven, which signifies highly developed intuition/psi among other things.
El(even) is a seer with immunity to the Archontic mind virus—she sees the dark illusionist for what it is. The Mind Flayer/Ialdaboath knows it can’t overtake her, it can only hope to destroy her—and if it fails it risks extermination at her reluctant (but powerfully magical) hands. She is also the Mage (specifically shaman), in Jungian terms.
Un-blinded (en-visioned) and unique, El is the fly in the shadow monster’s ointment of domination. She sees past superficial appearances and through the glamours of the Mind Flayer—“she” is conscious.
The embodiment of vision, El’s seership and in-sight (internal sight) is crucial to healing the inner wounded child. There is a beautiful moment in the show’s pivotal scene in Season 3 where she ventures into the tormented mind of the flayed proxy Billy, the neighbourhood rebel and bully—and older adoptive brother of Max, El’s friend.
Billy, operating as a drone of the Mind Flayer’s, has a weakened El pinned to the floor as the grotesque behemoth looms, looking to finish her off. Scanning Billy’s mind, El retrieves a precious long-forgotten childhood memory—a moment of pure youthful innocence shared with his now-deceased mother at the beach:
“…You ran to her on the beach…There were seagulls. She wore a hat with a blue ribbon; a long dress with a blue-and-red flower; yellow sandals—covered in sand. She was pretty…And you were happy.”
The recounting of this snaps Billy out of his hypnotic trance and breaks the pseudo-Ialdaboath’s psionic grip on him. The remembrance and integration of this submerged part of himself re-minds Billy of his humanity; he rises to his feet and faces the monster head-on—the demon no longer has him in thrall; he is no longer a vector for the mind virus.
Billy’s final act is essentially that of noble self-immolation as he uses himself as a human shield, allowing the monster to destroy him. It is seemingly only delaying the inevitable, but ultimately not in vain, since the group is saved when the Mind Flayer’s portal is closed and its connection to the Upside Down severed, killing it as it bares down on El and company who have no escape and no more tricks up their sleeves.
Billy’s absolution and redemption is in sacrificing his own life to protect human vision, innocence, consciousness, and free will from all-consuming fear, darkness, and tyranny.
The scene is reminiscent of Neo’s final act of self-sacrifice in the Matrix, as he allows the machines to plug into him and re-upload his consciousness back into the Matrix, in exchange for a truce between humans and AI. Archons (by some) are regarded as a form of "artificial intelligence," as it happens.
Eleven (11) is a doubling of one (1), with 1 representing both new beginnings and purity. El/Eleven has no hidden agendas, no desire to harm anyone, and just wants to be done with the unfolding chaos.
The shadow monster is fear and malice itself and, like the mind virus playing out in humankind, seeks only to replicate and dominate. (You could call it wetiko.)
El is a singularity, pure and untarnished; pristine awareness, while the Mind Flayer is the polar opposite: an aggregation of somnambulant humanity’s fear, trauma, pain, and malice—it is the shadow.
After infecting a host, the Mind Flayer/Ialdaboath has them in a sort of mindless waking trance—a good description of swaths of humanity at the moment unfortunately, who unwittingly infest themselves further with the Archontic virus every day (particularly via the mass media).
Left in unconsciousness or repression, the shadow monster spreads its Archontic virus unchecked; “seership,” or vision—the process of self-reflection and alchemical integration of our shadow—is the antidote to its reign of terror.
We need to see with the mind of El-even (11), with innocence and clair-vision, to create a new beginning both personally and collectively; by facing the darkness/dark night we gain the chance to become the “hero” and be born anew, empowered as never before.
I find it interesting that the Mind Flayer creates forms for itself that mimic life and ape it, but it cannot—like the Archontic demiurge it represents—truly create/emanate the way that the Pleromic Aeons can, being that they are deeply connected to the All and are direct emanations from the galactic centre.
Like Ialdaboath, the shadow monster of Stranger Things creates pseudo-lifeforms out of “dead” matter (it literally the dissolves bodies of the dead, be they human or rat); simulacra lacking nous and true creativity.
The Demiurge is “lord and master” of the Kenoma, the inorganic “dead” celestial matter of outer chaos—or so it thinks. Its first and most primary form of manipulation is not of matter but of minds which it seeks to invade and control (flay).
From there, a surrogate manipulation of matter can occur via infected hosts, exactly as depicted in Stranger Things. Lacking true creative agency, the Mind Flayer is a parasite of the highest order, and a psychic rapist of sorts.
It can hijack, infect, and co-opt, but—unlike its human targets and proxies—is bereft of true creativity.
The first and habitual targets of the Mind Flayer are the children as they, in their innocence and purity—with vision, courage, and integrity in tact—pose its greatest threat.
Hence young Will the “Wizard”—an incipient medium-shaman with one foot in the human world and one foot in the Upside Down/Archontic reality—being an initial target of the Mind Flayer.
Will, “channels the monster,” so to speak, albeit reluctantly. He and his friends—who come to include Eleven as the group’s resident oracle and protectress—must synergistically collaborate and thwart the Mind Flayer’s attempts to destroy them, and take over the entire human biosphere with its tyrannical control and enforcement of a homogenous zombie-like unconsciousness.
Collectively, El and friends embody the archetypes and traits of innocence, magic, vision/seership, will, courage, and the unmatched power of a group focused on their mission operating in harmony against the seemingly insurmountable power of the shadow and its seductive, hypnotic illusions.
We will need all of these to move forward together and prevent the globalist’s Archontic agenda of total technocratic control from eventuating. It is absolutely possible.
We only need to choose.
- Excerpted from Brendan D. Murphy, The Grand Illusion - Book 2
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