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I think that other names for:  Saklas, Samael, Yaltabaoth, Ahriman, Archons in Gnosticism refer to modern day;  Lucifer, Devil, Satan, Iblis; The Male Principal, the " Lower Psychism " but confined to matter. I believe that those demonic like spirits are an anomaly, a byproduct, mutations in spirit world, similar the DNA mutations that is occurring in material world discovered around year 1953, and those demonic like spirits are confined to matter. So, it seems what is conceived on earth stays on earth.

  I also think that; in spirit world there are only 2 principles that act as one: Feminine Principles

   I am the life of my Epinoia that dwells within every Power and every eternal movement, and (in) invisible Lights and within the Archons and Angels and Demons, and every soul dwelling in Tartaros, and (in) every material soul. I dwell in those who came to be. I move in everyone and I delve into them all. I walk uprightly, and those who sleep, I awaken. And I am the sight of those who dwell in sleep.

So, what does that mean to me.

   It means that a " Feminine Principle ", which is more so intuitive as " Male Principle ", is common to all beings in spirit world or in living matter.

Her opposite polarity is a " Male Principle " which in principal is passive until She moves Him into the action.

   So, when He is moved, by Her into action, He becomes a Form giver. Similar to Plato Forms.

One could see here, another principal is emerging that of; Mutual Consent. Mutual Consent IS needed in order that Her creation could exist.

In our earthly life is the father that is a form giver. That is why so called " Bridal Chamber " implies sexual overtones in its manifestation. That would suggest an intimate close relationship of Heavenly Mother with the catechumen Soul.

   Therefore the " Feminine Principle " is the driving energy of life, the universal life energy on this planet earth and other manifested parts of the univers to Us.

I think that the great majority of religions, cults and beliefs completely misunderstands Her position in the material and in the spiritual Universe.

bogdan

... A close reading reveals a crucial detail: after the initial formation of the embryonic Archon types, a second variant of “shadow body” arises, with distinct characteristics of its own. The Hypostasis of the Archons describes it as “an arrogant beast resembling a lion,” but this creature is also described (in another cosmological text, the Apocryphon of John 10: 5) as “a serpentine body (drakon) with a lion-like face.” Thus there are two distinct types of Archons: a foetal or embryonic type, and a drakonic or reptilian type. ...

COUNTERFEIT SPIRIT

- A type of evil spirit.
- The counterfeit spirit appears primarily in the Apocryphon of John: “And I (John) said, ‘Lord, from where did the counterfeit spirit come?’”
- The story of the origin of the counterfeit spirit is a Gnostic re-telling of Genesis 6:1 in which ‘the Lord’s angels went down to the daughters of men’.
- In general, Yaltabaoth’s demons created the counterfeit spirit as a means of reproducing bodies, and hence, the Hylic race. Through the counterfeit spirit, they also lead people astray through pollution and deception.
- After Yaltabaoth’s demons failed to beget offspring through ‘the daughters of men’, they changed themselves into the likeness of their partners (hence becoming a false image or ‘counterfeit’). Through this deception, they succeeded in begetting offspring through women: “He (Yaltabaoth) sent his angels (i.e demons) to the daughters of men, that they might take some of them for themselves and raise offspring for their enjoyment. And at first they did not succeed. When they had no success, they gathered together again and they made a plan together. (...) And the angels (i.e. demons) changed themselves in their likeness into the likeness of their mates, filling them with the spirit of darkness, which they had mixed for them, and with evil.(...) And they took women and begot children out of the darkness according to the likeness of their spirit.” (Apocrypon of John)
- The Gospel of Philip also mentions demons who take the form of men to deceive women and pollute them: “The forms of evil spirit include male ones and female ones. The males are they which unite with the souls which inhabit a female form (...) The lecherous men (i.e. demons), when they see a beautiful woman sitting alone, persuade her and compel her, wishing to defile her.” (Gospel of Philip)
- Since matter (hyle), which comes from the female, would not be able to reproduce without form (eidos) or spirit (pneuma), which comes from the male, the counterfeit spirit (antimimon pneuma) was created, as a false male power, to reproduce ‘copies of bodies’ through the female: “And he (Yaltabaoth) planted sexual desire in her who belongs to Adam. And he produced through intercourse the copies of the bodies, and he inspired them with his counterfeit spirit.” (Apocrypon of John)
- Unlike the Spirit from above, the counterfeit spirit ‘originates in matter’: “And they (the Archons) brought him (Adam) into the shadow of death, in order that they might form (him) again from earth and water and fire and the spirit which originates in matter, which is the ignorance of darkness and desire, and their counterfeit spirit.” (Apocrypon of John)
- In Pistis Sophia, Martha describes a ‘peculiar demon’ which, like the counterfeit spirit, ‘dwells in matter’: “I (Martha) have become like a peculiar demon, which dwells in matter, in whom is no light. And I have become like a spirit counterpart which is in a material body, in which there is no light-power.” (Pistis Sophia ch 39)
- The second purpose of the counterfeit spirit is to pollute, deceive and ‘lead astray’: “They (Yaltabaoth’s angels) created a counterfeit spirit, who resembles the Spirit who had descended, so as to pollute the souls through it. (...) They brought gold and silver and a gift and copper and iron and metal and all kinds of things. And they steered the people who had followed them into great troubles, by leading them astray with many deceptions.” (Apocrypon of John)
- “But those on whom the counterfeit spirit descends are drawn by him and they go astray.” (Apocrypon of John)
- The Gospel of Philip mentions a type of spirit, which is probably the counterfeit spirit: “Those who have gone astray, whom the spirit begets, usually go astray also because of the spirit. Thus, by one and the same breath (i.e. spirit), the fire blazes and is put out.” (Gospel of Philip) This passage confirms that the dual purpose of the (counterfeit) spirit is 1. to beget more bodies (‘the fire blazes’) and 2. to lead astray (the ‘fire goes out’).

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