Occult Art : Visions of Gnosis

Yaldabaoth Creates the Seven Archons

"Yaldabaoth is the first ruler, who took great power from his Mother. Then he left her and moved away from the realms where he was born. He was strong, and created for himself other realms by means of a bright flame of fire that still exists. He mated with the Mindlessness that is in him, and produced his own Authorities…"

(The Secret Book of John, from Willis Barnstone’s The Other Bible, pp. 65, pub. A.D.1984)