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" The Afterlives of the Archons: "


Document Type : AL
Record Number : 1067251
Doc. No : LA110880
Call No : ‭10.1163/2451859X-12340077‬
Language of Document : English
Main Entry : Matthew Dillon
Title & Author : The Afterlives of the Archons: [Article] : Gnostic Literalism and Embodied Paranoia in Twenty-First Century Conspiracy Theory\ Matthew Dillon
Publication Statement : Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical : Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
Date : 2020
Volume/ Issue Number : 5/1
Page No : 71–96
Abstract : This article analyzes the reception of the ancient Gnostic archons, or rulers, in contemporary conspiracy theories. In the classical Gnostic myth these nefarious beings rule the cosmos, mold primordial matter into a prison for Adam and Eve, and blind the Elect to their divine nature. These archons send cataclysms to earth and serve as celestial gatekeepers that keep the divine light trapped in their creation. Contemporary conspiracy theorists such as John Lamb Lash, David Icke, and Carol Reimer read the archons not as allegories or metaphors, but as real beings at work in contemporary politics, media and religion. Utilizing Michael Barkun’s concept of “superconspiracies,” this article examines how conspiracists Lash, Icke, and Reimer weave disparate conspiratorial discourses together through the classical Gnostic myth. The article concludes that the vast gulf between the anticosmic and anthropic dualism of the classical myth and the generally pro-cosmic and humanist thrust of modern esoterica leads these authors into paradoxical understands of cosmos, mind and eschatology. This article analyzes the reception of the ancient Gnostic archons, or rulers, in contemporary conspiracy theories. In the classical Gnostic myth these nefarious beings rule the cosmos, mold primordial matter into a prison for Adam and Eve, and blind the Elect to their divine nature. These archons send cataclysms to earth and serve as celestial gatekeepers that keep the divine light trapped in their creation. Contemporary conspiracy theorists such as John Lamb Lash, David Icke, and Carol Reimer read the archons not as allegories or metaphors, but as real beings at work in contemporary politics, media and religion. Utilizing Michael Barkun’s concept of “superconspiracies,” this article examines how conspiracists Lash, Icke, and Reimer weave disparate conspiratorial discourses together through the classical Gnostic myth. The article concludes that the vast gulf between the anticosmic and anthropic dualism of the classical myth and the generally pro-cosmic and humanist thrust of modern esoterica leads these authors into paradoxical understands of cosmos, mind and eschatology.
Descriptor : archons
Descriptor : Carol A. Reimer
Descriptor : conspiracy theory
Descriptor : David Icke
Descriptor : gnostic reception
Descriptor : John Lamb Lash
Location & Call number : ‭10.1163/2451859X-12340077‬
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