What the Archons Look Like to Me, Part I
Once more, if you found this post, you don’t need a definition as to what an Archon is. Years ago, at a very highly, highly, highly uneducated attempt to translate some original digital NHL texts online with the Google machine, my first sense of the source material was that Archons related to tax collectors. Am I surprised that someone was bitching about tax collection in ancient Greece/Roman times? Would I be surprised if the whole sensibility of Gnosticism was a gripe about church collection/state collection of personal funds? Absolutely not! Money makes the world go round, and human beings love it, cherish it, and will do whatever it takes to get more of it. If you take it away from someone…look out. Yet, that isn’t as exciting as some other work and thoughts on Archons. Archons being a symbol of the tax man? George Harrison would probably agree…but let’s pretend that Gnostic thought didn’t originate as a complaint about mo...