Alfar and Angels

Among the forces and entities involved in shaping manifested worlds as an environment for the evolution of mind, the most well-known and frequently mentioned are two: angels as “service” spirits that ensure the maintenance of the “energetic balance” underlying any materiality, and alves as divine forces of structuring and information, whose activity manifests in creating the very possibility of cosmos.

It is not surprising that both groups of beings are perceived by the human mind in a similar way — as figures of bright light — since the nature of angels is based on the Fohat of the Dinur stream, while alves are, in fact, built out of the Primary Light as the force that creates the possibility of description, and therefore the creation of worlds.

And in exactly the same way, contact with both groups of forces can be traumatic and even destructive for a being unprepared for extreme overloads of mind and its energetic supports. Indeed, the appearance of such a being — in a theurgic invocation or a spontaneous contact — is often instinctively perceived by a person as “benevolent” and “inspiring,” but it often ends very sadly. We have already noted that a common feature of these two groups of beings is that, despite their seeming “divinity” and “light-bearing” nature, they are characterized by marked hostility, and sometimes even open hostility toward humans.

Let’s examine this phenomenon in more detail. As we have already discussed, alves are beings that create semantic fields, translating logoi from the level of cosmogonic abstractions to the level of manifestation potentials, and therefore they are very sensitive to any distortions of meanings and semantic streams, whereas humans largely build their civilizations precisely on logoi that are partially understood accidentally or deliberately. Accordingly, the alves perceive humans (at least in the form expressed in Homo sapiens) as noisy, disorderly beings that pollute meaning-streams, whom they would prefer to eliminate. However, by virtue of their overall peacefulness and divine harmony, the alves prefer not to sink to direct aggression or destruction, and, with disdain, allow humans to live on. Alves possess a very high degree of freedom and individuality; their will is free from rigid rules, and they choose actions proceeding from pure cognition and creative impulse. At the same time, as we have already discussed, it was precisely the destructive character of humanity that pushed the alves — whose very nature is opposite to the ice of the Archons — to effectively side with the latter, “indulging” the further enslavement of people and their transformation into “batteries for the Interworld.”

However, from the angels’ point of view, humans are, in fact, “junior demons,” destroying the harmony of the material world and sinking ever deeper into consumerism. Indeed, if for the alves humans are an “information pollutant,” turning their obscurations into a cult and effectively resisting gnosis and the evolution of mind, then for angels humanity is an energy predator that long ago shifted from consuming to survive to consuming for its own sake, and by doing so often creates obstacles to the development of other life forms, which is a typically demonic trait. Their reaction is determined by the extent to which humanity corresponds to the original “task” of the universe — maintaining energetic balance.

Note that even in their original meaning, the activity of angels aimed at maintaining materiality as a principle separating the Descending and Ascending vortical currents never contributed to human freedom, supporting only its slow, gradual evolution, and opposing any transcendence, “enlightenment,” or “liberation.” And in this they also play on the same team as the Archons, whose main goal likewise consists in “keeping the worlds in check,” preventing their sliding either into the chaotic abysses of the Interworld or their flowing into the Higher realities of the Pleroma.

Although alves and angels rarely come into direct contact, zones of “shared responsibility” can arise between them. For example, when angels maintain energy flows, and alves build the informational and semantic structure of these flows. Thus, their joint influence becomes especially significant in zones of the formation of new worlds or major civilizational changes.

However, in their original position, alves, angels, and Archons are, in fact, “parallel” hierarchies, each with its own goals, functions, and aspirations, which rarely intersect and interact little with one another — yet humans have managed to set them all against themselves.

The Archons, who create the possibility of a lawful manifested reality, see humans as an overgrown weed that should be turned into a fodder base for the eternally hungry inhabitants of the Interworld. The alves, whose nature is to create spaces for the free manifestation of consciousness, are outraged by the counter-gnostic nature of humanity, which clings to the most benighted delusions. And the angels, whose main task is restraining the hungry hordes of forces of chaotic absorption, see in humans precisely such frenzied predators.

Thus, modern man must not only “stay afloat” under the pressure of predators and parasites, but also resist benevolent hierarchies that are likewise set on suppressing free will, which so far has brought the world only troubles and suffering. At the same time, despite the hostility that has formed, the possibility of constructive interaction with angels and alves still remains, provided the mind is purified of obscurations (for the alves) and energetic flows are harmonized (for the angels). We have already noted that a person can once again become an ally both of the alves (in particular, through the development of pure knowledge, aeonic yoga, and theurgic practices) and of the angels (through a transition from hyper-consumption to conscious management of energies). In any case, at present a profound revision of the human approach to being and development is absolutely necessary, as well as movement toward restoring the lost balance between freedom and responsibility. As technological singularity, when the role of man in the universe will once again inevitably be transformed, it is very important to establish relations precisely with the angelic and alvish forces, in order to avoid scenarios in which humanity will be finally displaced into the marginal layers of the universe.