[esanamaserrn]

some of the gnostic texts have an interesting take on this, some interesting quotes from this as well.

"they sought to overpower humanity in its psychological and perceptual functions... although they saw that human thinking was superior to theirs... for indeed their delight is bitter and their beauty is depraved. and their triumph is in deception (apaton), leading astray, for their own structure is without divinity."

the passage is tight with ideas:

* some group attempted to overpower humanity.
* the field of attack was psychological and perceptual.
* human thinking was superior to theirs.
* something about their pleasure and beauty is off.
* they succeed, but only through deception because...
* ...there is such a thing as "divinity."
* ...it is implied that we have it.
* ...they lack it.
this stuff is from a mr. lash's site:

* the gnostics were seers, initiates, and shamans. they practiced many psychic arts and developed them to a very high degree. they developed "siddhis". they were remote viewers.
* they were "qualified to see and correctly evaluate other worlds".
* they were stargazers and cosmologists. their history of the solar system matches modern understanding in remarkable ways.
* they obtained their picture through direct observation.
* a massive and deliberate destruction of their documents, including the burning of the library at alexandria, took place from 150 ce to the middle ages. only the nag hammadi library documents survive.
* these were discovered in december 1945.
* they knew the structure of the galaxy (the "pleroma") and the position of our solar system within it.
* there is an infinite plenitude of other galaxies.
* occasionally, the galactic core emits plasmatic surges.
* the energy of these surges produces certain configurations in the galaxy.
* there are "tunnels" within our galaxy. he says that astronomers discovered these in 2003.
* the surges can give rise to certain forms of life.
* from their perspective, before the earth became a living environment, the solar system surrounded it like a crust.
* early in the life of our solar system, a galactic surge produced a wave that created inorganic forms.
* the earth is "captured" within the solar system.
* the solar system is "inorganic". only the earth within it is "organic".
* the picture corresponds to today's gaia hypothesis (lovelock and margulis) in which the earth is the only planet with a biologically alive atmosphere.
* other solar systems have biospheres similar to the earth.
* the gnostics were specifically concerned with "alien" intrusions.
* they described two types of aliens: reptilian and the "embryo" type that can be equated to modern "greys".
* they called the aliens "archons" (greek: authorities).
* these are equivalent to the "watchers" described in the book of enoch.
* archons were formed in the early stage of the solar system. therefore they are inorganic beings.
* archons cannot and do not live on this planet with us.
* the gnostics concluded that the archons are bullies. a predatory species.
* according to the "first apocalypse of james" (from the nag hammadi texts), "they will take away souls by theft." we would use the term "abduction".
* the archons are still with us.
* they are neither more powerful nor more evolved than we are.
* they lack our evolutionary drive. they are like cyborgs; a robotic race that can imitate but not innovate.
* from the "second apocalypse of james": "they are not over you but they are in the solar system with you and you must take account of that."
* they must be kept in their place. they don't observe their correct boundaries. life on earth depends on observing boundaries. they intrude.
* they envy us. they intrude into our reality and try to be like us. they envy our ability to innovate. that we are driven, goal-oriented. they are robotic. they lack what we have.
* they operate only by imitation and by taking orders. they do not have our "intention".
* there was no description of their hardware. the gnostics believed we needed to know about the "software" side.
* they describe the archons as engineers and mechanics who live in the solar system and maintain it.
* the archons are delusional and those who are associated with them become delusional.
* the most important thing about them is the way they intrude into our minds.
* their technique of intrusion and mind control makes use of simulation. the coptic word for this is "hal".
* the intrusion probably plays a great role in mental illness.
* they make something appear to happen that does not actually happen. they can induce a virtual reality experience.
* some mentally-ill people have perceived the archons but cannot deal with the experience. gnostics taught how to deal with them.
* certain religious beliefs such as divine redeemer / messiah are injected delusions.
* they observe our emotions as if they could absorb them and use them as their own.
* they feed on our fear. it's an energy that "gives them a kick" like a drug.
* the word for "terror" occurs frequently. it is connected with "error".
* what they are attempting is absurd. they can't succeed, but they are driven to do it anyway.
* jacques vallee: "the way to a man's belief is through absurdity."
* they can't overpower us but we can abdicate.

expanding on that last point, lash writes:

in their attempt to intrude upon humanity, which has been ongoing for millennia, the archons use a lot of bluff and bravado. they affect our minds to get us to believe they can do far more than they can actually do, but in so believing, we unwittingly surrender our power to them — the result is, they get their way with us, because we have betrayed our own capacities. hence the archons claim to rule over humanity, and even pretend to have been our creators, as is recounted in the sumerian cunieform record of the annunaki, accepted as true by zecharia sitchin and many other sincere investigators. the dead sea scrolls, discovered in 1947 at the very moment the nag hammadi texts were initially recognized to be rare gnostic materials, contain explicit accounts of direct threats posed by reptilians.