In time, I hope this page will be translated and edited in Swedish, but for the time being I'm too busy engaging myself in my ethnographic project alongside writing on the vampire-sequel REQUIEM. But I guess there are some details concerning the concept archontism which can be elaborated further for those who are interested.

After have been reading a draft of my ARCHONTECS, more than fifty readers were anxious to know more about this peculiar subject. I haven't been able to meet these requests until now and the reason why I ring the bell now is the actual publishing of my book. Questions will not cease coming up. So I hope the following will be of use to the dedicated reader.

Please note that the following does not affect the reading of ARCHONTECS. You can read this page before reading the book, as well as the other way round.

The term archontism (the word is pronounced 'arkontism') is as deep in meaning as any concept concerning the vast spectra of human belief and human inner life. When, for instance, human beings love each other very passionately, things happen within the psyche of these persons. Things actually happen; they do not just 'feel' or 'experience' something. The inner psychic life is as real as flesh and blood and this is easy to comprehend if one considers the major impact our intellect has had on the world's technical development. Without the inner compulsion to act, to mould the world, nothing would happen to the world. Or with us.

A metaphysical elaboration of this concept would be to put the question - as the Philosophy of Mind always has - whether this above mentioned immanent (and perhaps transcendent) feeling of love (or hate) is a thing, an entity, an actual concentration of 'something' which not only can be perceived emotionally and experienced, but also defined objectively and put under observation.

The positivist would say this is impossible, or at least that it is impossible to observe it empirically, since we cannot 'see' love. What we see is an action which can only be comprehended if we interpret it through a spectrum of cultural conventions and norms. The actual 'thing' love, cannot be perceived, the positivist maintain.

This is true of course. But what if we just lack the possibility to perceive this 'thing' love? What if we lack the sense of seeing this 'entity', this 'energy-concentration', this 'astral formation' or whatever it is, in like manner we cannot see nuclear radiation and radio waves?

The Philosophy
of
Paraphysical Causality

Bertrand Lyndon Soully

Bertrand Lyndon Soully has put this subject on the edge in a philosophical way in his The Philosophy of Paraphysical Causality. He states that the material world can never be the world of causation. The flesh cannot start World War III, but the mind can. And - Soully states - it can work independently of the flesh. It is a world in itself, he says.

Well, no one would deny the supreme position our thought life has in the psychophysical hierarchy of our personality. But Soully goes further. He states that our life proper is not in the material world but in the world of the psyche. The body is something hopelessly immature and suffers from being under extreme tension because of physical laws of disintegration and ageing.

And it suffers from the dictatorship of the senses which are under control of paraphysical powers emanating from the world's hidden spheres.

By stating this, Soully resembles the metaphysical views of those esotericists who talk about that dark and ominous concept archontism, the theory of paraphysical parasites.

Archontism, or archontal vampirism, is a phenomenon known to the initiates of all times. It is no supernatural thing. Well, it is most certainly preternatural, but not in terms of something impossible, something jerked out of a folklore saga and then sped up to frenzy by a twisted Hollywood-brain. It depends on the view of life. And if we can accept that our short stay on this rock in the middle of somewhere in the universe is part of something bigger, a means if you want, to something trancendental, something beyond our immediate scope of comprehension, then we can understand that powers are at work every second with everything and with everyone.

There is a meaning. And there is causation. Consequently there is an effect.

Whether we call this effect novel, preternatural or even eerie, depends on our starting point in our view of life. If we can accept there are physical laws, can we do the same if there were also laws governing our psychic life?

Natural Selection Laws
in
Human Psychic Life

Joord Maardeth

Joord Maardeth once wrote an interesting article in Nightwatch Monthly which she called Natural Selection Laws in Human Psychic Life. Her philosophical point of departure was in the concept of karmic presuppositions, i.e. the belief that magnetic properties accumulate in the soul of every human being if violating the laws of nature - psychic as well as physical. This implies a regulating force operating in the universe for the benefit of all. A supreme judge, so to speak. Maardeth argues that these correcting forces may take shape in our civilization as anthropomorphic icons, religious idols, since the laws must take their course within us. It's like the rain pouring down from the sky: it will finally reach the sea, whatever happens. And if the psychic laws are much more subtle and complex, they may be impossible for us to comprehend with our logical threedimensional thinking.

This is an attractive theory, since it implies justice. And if there is justice, there is an overarching idea underlying our existence. We live in something that is created by something we cannot comprehend. But if we accept the concept of 'divine' justice or whatever we prefer to call it, we feel akin to this creation since it reflects something we do understand - justice. Justice is intelligence and proof of a meaning behind this justice. Justice is a means to something transcendental. Thus something beyond the effect.

From the world of causation - the psyche.

But what has archontism to do with these metaphysical presuppositions? Well, consider the following. Running a big company is like conducting a symphonic orchestra. If the conductor has enough skilled musicians at his disposal, and he conducts well, delightful music will emerge. But if some musicians are bad instrumentalists or the conductor has flaws in his own competence, less delightful music will be produced. Similarly the company will go on well if everything is done according to the idea underlying the company and the company management knows how to make good use of their own knowledge of the market and of the employees competence potential.

But we know for sure there is no perfect orchestra or flawless company. And we know for sure we live in an imperfect world. Otherwise we wouldn't need justice.

But what is imperfect? We or the world? Perhaps both? Or the idea underlying the whole thing? Or the one who is responsible for this idea?

Now we're getting closer, folks.

Psychosis
&
Intervenient
Ethereal Elements

William Parker

The concept archontism does not necessarily define flaws in nature, but it certainly implies it. The concept 'evil', misinterpreted as it is, may be related to archontism, but not in a philosophical sense, rather in a functionalistic sense. According to esotericists like William Parker, who wrote the horrifying book Psychosis & Intervenient Ethereal Elements, the laws governing us from inside and outside are activated through the law of like attracts like and Parker himself argues on the analogy of the train of thought in the followers of Soully's theory of paraphysical causality. Soully rejects fatalism but maintains the position of potentialism, i.e. predestination within a range of possibilities set at the point of departure, at one of the crossroads, of the entities karmic dispositions.

Predestination and fate are infected philosophical topics. Nothing fruitful will emerge out of the classical dispute without a point of departure in the theory of paraphysical causation, or the like. We can never understand archontism as a natural phenomenon, notwithstanding the terrifying and bizarre thing it is, without a metaphysical view of life. There is a spiritual, psychic, world where the same nutrition laws prevail as in the world of matter. Our psyche, our soul, is very much in need of nourishment, and the soul can never acquire this 'food' without taking action within its own world. It must be taken from somewhere, from something - or from someone.

Soul is life, body is only existence, the initiates of all times maintain. Humans want to live, plain existence is not enough. But in the world of psyche, a lot of things exist, lots of ideas and conceptions created out of the natural human desire to live, develop and build stand tightly the one next to the other like books in a bookshelf. And we know that sometimes these conceptions influence our physical world without our 'conscious' permission. Take the National Socialism for instance. How could such massive exertion from the world of conceptions be made upon people so that practically the Hell itself was set free?

An answer to this question with an archontic-related point of view would be that the conceptions began to live. Literally, not metaphorically. When a sufficient number of human beings focus their attention on a highlighted conception, an archontal entity is created, the initiates state. This sounds bizarre, but view the well-known psychiatric phenomenon obsession. The thought-life of such wretched persons is out of joint. It is governed by a cyclic mental motion within a tightly wrapped conceptual framework. The obsession itself is planted in the poor creature from outside or raised to supreme rule from within through an astral magnetic structure which is in accordance with the deranged astral magnetic field surrounding the person in question.

William Parker and the parapsychologist Steve McKenzie argues that these obsessions are conceptions raised to life; they are actual living foci of astral substance. Once created and once 'alive' they demand further attention.

They begin to haunt, so to speak, the person who accomodate these conceptions.

And by stating this we have reached the core of the phenomenon archontism.

Archonts are concentrations of astral powers with a certain magnetic property. They are conceptions that have come alive. And they can obviously take absolute control over the actual body or personality system it occupies.

When Ferenc Rennman in 1985 wrote the acclaimed and highly alarming article Empirical Evidence of Somatic Vampirism During the Falkland Crisis, he stated that archontal entities in most cases are bound to the astral property they belong and can thus never transcend these properties. This is an encouraging thought. But he also stated that these paraphysical archontal entities actually are able to push away the mind of their victims and replace it with their own. This resembles the concept of possession. But the most terrifying of all are the empirical reports on already possessed people exerting archontal violence to other people.

British soldiers were actually witnessing somatic vampirism during the Falkland war. More than 30 cases were reported on human beings actually drawing blood from each other.

How is this possible? The ones who witnessed this must have fallen victim to a mass-psychosis, one may argue when hearing this. Or if the horrible incidents really took place, those poor humans must have gone totally mad because of the war, or the like?

Such objections are both 'plausible' and reasonable. But Rennman - who were there - and who is a psychic, a clairvoyant, saw the eyes on one of the slayers. The pupils and retinas were unaffected by the sun and totally lifeless. Rennman could perceive a dark and inverted shadowlike shape at the back of the slayer's neck, and for every penetration of the victims skin the shadow intervened and grew bigger. Rennman compared the whole spectacle to a man being stalked by a bloodsucker while the bloodsucker itself was haunted by a paraphysical entity. An entity which actually were feeding on both of them!

And such is the nature of this terrifying concept: life at the cost of life. The etheric and astral energies flowing trans-somatically around every human being are subject to parasitism, and by means of assimilating the blood – the physical substance of the human soul – the archontal entity is able to maintain its focus in matter. A focus which in fact is a stolen body of a human being.

The question still remains where the soul of the victim resides while its body is overshadowed, an overshadowing which in some cases can go on for decades – or even longer.

The occult science is still working on this problem. Some tentative theories have been launched, but the core of the mystery has not been penetrated in a satisfying way. I will update this page with further information when enough time is at hand.

In May this year, I will probably get the opportunity to meet Dr. Walter Kaller in Vienna. Kaller is one of the most renowned esotericists in Europe and according to records (which I consider must be sheer rumours) he has first-hand experience of somatic vampirism. His father was slain by an archontal entity in Rome 1959 and Walter himself escaped an attack in Alger spring 1987.

Please don't hesitate to mail my publisher if you have any questions concerning the concept archontism or about my book as well. I will try to answer these questions as quickly as possible. You can write in Swedish.

– Philip Arcan

© 2007, ALIR Förlag