Archons and the Multiverse

We have already discussed that, from the standpoint of the myth we’re considering, the Interworld, the Interval, is the totality of all possible states and manifestations — that is, as a hyperspace of all potentials of the Medium. In other words, all parallel realities and timelines, manifested or only capable of manifestation, overlap, interpenetrate, and coexist — and all of this is the Interval. We also said that realities that, from the point of view of one line of manifestation, are actual are ‘potential’ along other timelines; that is, say, our world is part of the Interval for parallel realities, in exactly the same way as those realities are “virtual” for us.

Since “as a whole” the Interworld contains every variant and developmental path, it is energetically neutral, because all possible forces in it have all possible intensities and directions, and therefore their vector sum is zero. Put differently, in the Interval it is impossible to identify a potential difference, since all possibilities in it are equiprobable, and therefore a flow of power cannot occur there.

However, such neutrality is valid only for the Interworld “as a whole”, while for any individual being that enters it, the Interval has “negative” energy, because the energies that are “potential” for a given line of manifestation (a given world or being) form a pair with the “actual” impulses that exist in it; and since the hyperspace of the Interworld as a whole tends toward equilibrium, it “neutralizes” these impulses as well — that is, it robs the being of kinetic energy. In other words, any being that enters the Interval experiences an “outflow” of energy due to the very properties of the Interworld, and any being that remains there for a more or less long time feels “energetic hunger”, because the very nature of the Interworld gradually “dissolves” it, “leveling” it with the other entities that, from its point of view, are potential.

From this position it is clear that no matter from which world or timeline a being comes into the Interval, there it cancels its selective actuality, moving into the same potential position where other inhabitants had been before.

This is precisely the reason for the “hunger” of the Interworld and the predatory nature of most of its inhabitants. No matter how great a being’s power may be — of gods, fomors, and so on — in the Interval they experience hunger and must adapt to it. Sometimes external forces help to cope with it — for example, the Light Alfar provide a current of energy to their descendants — the Sids and the Good faerie; or special tools pump energy into the Interval’s ‘Cities’ — however, all these methods, of course, are neither permanent nor reliable.

Only the Archons, as the Supreme Rulers of the Interworld, who simultaneously see all its potentials, survey all timelines and govern all possibilities, do not experience such hunger, since within them all energies are potential; they are cold, balanced, and dispassionate, being neither predators nor producers of energy. Nevertheless, since the Rulers strive to maintain the stability of the Interworld, they constantly supply inhabitants with needed energies (that is, from worlds and realities suitable for them).

In addition, kidemons, are not predators as such, in the sense that the energy they “take away” from beings is not needed by them; dwelling on the Edge, the Gatekeepers do not experience hunger as such; they use victims’ energy mainly to feed qlippoth, the space of absolute hunger, and second, to oppose the angels — that is, for performing their gatekeeping functions. In fairness, let us note that, having no principled need for “red light”, kidemons nevertheless do not refuse to consume it, although they do this rather out of greed than necessity, whereas the Archons look down on all chains of consumption.

Thus, although the Archons and the kidemons act as Supreme predators, strictly speaking, neither truly needs energy, and they only redistribute it, just as the Primordial Predator, Baphomet, carries out the “reverse transformation” of forces in its depths.

In general, it is important to understand that the “energetic hunger” of the Interworld is neither malicious nor an error; on the contrary, it turns out to be a direct consequence of the nature of this hyperspace, striving for equilibrium. In the same way, the Archons are not “evil” or “fallen” beings; they wholly belong to the potential side of reality, which nevertheless constantly falls out of equilibrium, giving birth to countless worlds and universes.

Accordingly, just as the kidemons located on the Edge between the involutive and evolutive sides of the universe take part in the great confrontation for darkness, the Archons, born on the Edge between the striving of the Great Spirit toward self-knowledge and the inertia that “returns” the universe to the unmanifest state, ensure, on the one hand, the isolation of individual potentials, but at the same time strive to keep them in equilibrium. And every time the Archons single out one world or another in the general flow of possibilities, they must ‘ignore’ other realities, proclaiming this world’s reality final, so that in the next moment they can then select another world the same way, and so on ad infinitum. The “blindness” of the Archons results from their role as mediators between dreams and reality, and their ‘malice’ stems from trying to ‘feed’ inhabitants of the Interworld, whom they perceive as “more important”, using worlds as a fodder base. And just as the “malice” of demons is their nature and not their choice, the “ignorance” of the Archons is likewise not something they can shed or abandon.