The Pneu~ma may
blow whither it wants to, but the yuxh\ a)rxontikh/,
the archontic soul, travels the road
to a lake of poison, wherein it drowns and slowly decomposes but yields neither
fertilizer nor petroleum nor ought else that is useful for the body’s survival
or the soul’s ascent to Pneute.
Don’t follow leaders
Watch your parking meters.
So what is the archontic
soul? It is the evil spirit which causes us to remain locked in the Kosmos
in the worst way by causing us to pay more attention to political leaders who
would lead us from our natural quest and desire to escape from our material
incarceration. It tries to masquerade as the pneu~ma
and direct out attention towards political leaders who would like us to think
that there is nothing other than the
material world and that being subservient to them is the be all and end
all of human existence. This leads to the worship of the state, the “new idol”
as Zarathustra’s prophet called it, the death of peoples, the enslavement of
the individual’s soul.
Keeping on course is tough right now. Even if one isn’t on
social media—speaking of enslavement of the soul!—it is almost impossible to
avoid the spiritual, and sometimes even physical, bloodletting that is
currently happening. Our spiritual vision is obstructed by the storm clouds of bile
and our well being poisoned by the disease of hate.
The archontic soul
is the angel of our worst nature, to paraphrase Lincoln, and leads us away from
what we should be striving towards, a tremendous drain of energy better used
for our families and our spiritual efforts. Or, as one Nobel Laureate once put
it:
Watch your parking meters.
Fr. Probolé
