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I wrote a piece in September about the roots of the word “anarchy” and wondered “if the deep meaning of anarchy is, in fact, our human struggle against vitaphobic, authoritarian and psychopathic forces known as archons”. [1]
The Swedish writer Per Shapiro [2] subsequently sent me a pdf of a 2014 essay by John Lamb Lash on the archons of gnostic tradition in which he likewise presents anarchy as the antidote to their domination.
In ‘The True Anarchy of Life on Earth’ Lash writes of “the scheme of the Archon mind-parasites to insinuate themselves into human reality and take it over, making humans become like them, robotic, slavish, incapable of intention, discovery, or novelty”. [3]
He stresses: “To fall under the spell of the Authorities is to concede power to their false magic: under the power of deception, we deceive ourselves about what power really is and lose all sense of our own power”. [4]
In order to resist this rule we need to embrace anarchy in the real [5] sense of the word: “We cannot realize our true humanity without beating the Authorities. There is more than one way to do so, but the central and decisive way is to choose anarchy in defiance of any authority that does not demonstrate benevolence toward life in all forms… Even the word carries the essential message: an-arch, ‘against authority, against archons’”. [6]
Lash equates the gnostic version of the archons with “globalist predators and serial killers, who are one and the same breed of conniving, murderous deviants”. [7]
Wondering what makes them so different from us, and how they achieve their deception and control, he suggests: “Archons and their human counterparts gain control over humanity through a particular ‘seizure’ that operates in the back of the brain and in the field of peripheral vision simultaneously” – this involves the “reptilian brain in its deviant or exaggerated mode”. [8]
“In large measure, the quasi-magical or occult power attributed to globalist perpetrators is a hoax, operating under the Wizard of Oz effect. Note that to enforce their presumed magical powers, the perpetrators need to exert enormous continual efforts of two kinds: brainwashing through the media, and threat of force through the military.
“Without a constant dual-barreled barrage, requiring the complicity of human beings to suppress and deceive their fellow creatures, their vaunted magic would quickly fade and dissipate…
“In reality, the NEWOs [New World Order psychopaths] can only sustain the illusion of magical supremacy as long as they suppress and deviate human potential, where the true magic abides: that is, in our species’ innate capacity for interactive magic with the animating powers of the planetary goddess. Unless the NEWOs can suppress that capacity in a brutal manner all the time, it will naturally and spontaneously assert itself”. [9]
This is how I also see anarchy – as the life force within humankind, constantly surging forth in each new generation and trying to break out of the industrial-imperial prison in which we have been locked up for so long.
Of course, the system has to lie about what anarchy is, as Lash sets out. “The supreme moral illusion confronting humanity operates like this: those who falsely assume authority over others demand obedience to their commands on the claim that disobedience would result in social chaos and anarchy.
“They claim to preserve social and moral order by rules and constraints imposed and maintained by sheer brutal force. The self-assumed authorities propagate the belief that human beings, left to their own impulses, would produce a world of disorder, conflict, and chaos.
“We are all potential terrorists in the mind of the Authorities. In our natural state of freedom and autonomy, we are dangerous to ourselves and must be curbed, leashed, and protected by a higher power. In short, the self-declared authorities claim to save humanity from the chaotic or anarchistic tendencies of human nature”. [10]
But in fact, as anarchists are always pointing out, normal human nature is not the same as that of the globalist deviants. Lash states: “The evidence that people act from innate goodness, without having to be told to do so, is strong enough, and it stands in contrast to guilt-driven action which has to be contrived and enforced from without – by threat of eternal damnation, for instance”. [11]
He is on similar territory in his analysis to Andrew M. Lobaczewski in his book Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes which I wrote about in October 2025 in an essay entitled ‘The psychopaths in power’. [12]
The Polish author says of such people: “They become experts in our weaknesses and sometimes effect heartless experiments. The suffering and injustice they cause inspire no guilt within them, since such reactions from others are simply a result of their being different and apply only to ‘those other’ people they perceive to be not quite conspecific”. [13]
And I was pleased to see that Lash recommends Lobaczewski’s work in his essay, explaining: “Derived from the Greek word poneria found in Gnostic writings, ponerology is the diagnosis and deconstruction of the causes and mechanisms of social evil.
“Lobaczewski uses the striking term pathocracy to describe the domination of a society by a faction of psychopathic members, estimated to be 4-5 percent of the population”. [14]
The great champion of life and humanity against the archons, in the gnostic tradition, is Sophia, the goddess of wisdom, to whom I dedicated a series of articles in 2024. [15]
The Nag Hammadi library (the “Gnostic Gospels”) consists of early Christian and gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. There, in the Apocryphon of John, Sophia declares of the archons: “The tree of their design is bitterness and its branches are darkened by death. Its leaves are hatred and deception, and its aroma reeks of evil (poneria)”. [16]
Lash writes: “Perhaps even the wisdom goddess herself did not anticipate how far the Archons would penetrate human reality and deviate the divine experiment she previsioned for the Anthropos.
“This might explain, in mythological terms, why it takes until the last minute before she catches the error and initiates her correction. On the Origin of the World presents a kind of prophetic warning pronounced by the wisdom goddess, suggesting a last-minute turnaround: ‘For at the consummation of your work, the entire defect that will have become visible in the light of truth will be abolished, and will be as if it never had been’.
“In this scenario, Sophia, before she morphs into the earth, foresees a moment when the Archontic powers will be defeated, the moment of the consummation of their works. In other words, their defeat comes at the moment of extreme desperation when they complete their agenda, the eleventh hour”. [17]
I, for one, am very much looking forward to the day when humankind is inspired into magical action by the life-affirming force of anarchy and the psychopathic archons are finally thrown into what Lash describes as “the gravity well (abyss) of the inanimate planetary system”! [18]
[1] Paul Cudenec, ‘Anarchy, acracy and the rule of the archons’, The Acorn 113, https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/09/25/the-acorn-113/
[2] See Paul Cudenec, ‘Choosing sides in the war for life’,
https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/05/29/choosing-sides-in-the-war-for-life/
[3] John Lamb Lash, ‘The True Anarchy of Life on Earth: The Human Role in Sophia’s Correction’. p. 3, https://winteroak.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/john-lamb-lash-the-true-anarchy-of-life-on-earth.pdf All subsequent page references are to this document, unless otherwise stated.
[4] p. 7.
[5]
[6] p. 13.
[7] p. 7.
[8] Ibid.
[9] pp. 7-8.
[10] p. 11.
[11] Ibid.
[12] Paul Cudenec, ‘The psychopaths in power’,
https://winteroak.org.uk/2025/10/22/the-psychopaths-in-power/
[13] Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes, (Ponerologia Polityczna) translated by Alexandra Chciuk-Celt, edited with Notes and Commentary by Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Henry See (Grande Prairie, Alberta: Red Pill Press, 2006), pp. 90-91.
[14] p. 13.
[15] Paul Cudenec, ‘The spirit of Sophia: wild air and wisdom’ and subsequent essays (links provided here), https://winteroak.org.uk/2024/09/12/the-spirit-of-sophia-wild-air-and-wisdom/
[16] Apocryphon of John, p. 56ff, cit. pp. 12-13.
[17] p. 6.
[18] p. 8.
