“They are not what people think and he is not able to say any more about it!”

A somewhat suggestive morsel. I’m hooked already.

Not able to say any more? A bargain, compact or contract of silence? A tenuous link that will evaporate if put under scrutiny?

The plot thickens!

Below is an exchange from wordpress speculating on the possible archonic origins of the daoine sídhe.

https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/110201997/posts/7386#comment-593

goat777etc > neilrushton

Yes, there does appear to be a real barrier of perception. It seems to be primarily from our side. We are somehow cocooned. Sometimes I see it as a protection, like a collar around a sapling (positive) or an enclosure around a herd of cattle. (Not so positive). Other times it feels more like a test or game. “You wake up to find yourself in a dimly lit room….”
I am quite drawn to Gnostic thought and the Sophia mythos.
In the beginning….the goddess Sophia plunged impetuously, prematurely and in a spectacular surge of divine desire into the realms of chaos, later to become Gaia, our world. The great inrush of organic light into this chaotic backwater produced a kind of splatter effect. Under the impact of Sophia’s auto poetic animating force it became instantaneously organized; Self-ordering, but in an anomalous, un-natural way. This splatter caused a spectral, imitation life form, a mimic species to spring up in the ‘dema’; A life form that cannot really create anything because it lacks the power of intention proceeding from the ‘pleroma.’
The Gnostics named them archons, from the Greek archai, ‘In the beginning.’ They cannot originate anything, but they can imitate, copy and duplicate. This life form arose long before our blue and white marbled planet emerged and long before the human template, ‘anthropos’ was enacted here. They were here first; They are the old ones. Despite their reputation for dancing, music and merrymaking, there is also a profound melancholy and sadness associated with them. They are seen as outside the reciprocal ‘pleromic process’ (re-integration with the source). Theirs is a reflected light; Borrowed and not their own.

neilrushton > goat777etc

Indeed… the suppression of Gnosticism took us in a profoundly bad direction in my opinion. If the Gnostic gospels from the Nag Hammadi had been included in the New Testament, Christianity (and Western civilisation) would have taken another course. I think you’re right — the Sophia mythos is describing our separation from Oneness, and it’s this separation that prevents us from seeing beyond the membrane in which we’ve become trapped. The faeries seem to be one aspect of what we can experience when the membrane gets broken — they are perhaps part-representative of this archonic force. There does seem to be a consistency in the folklore (and modern anecdotes) that they are not creative; they are (in your words) borrowing our (human culture’s) reflected light. Subject matter for a future post here perhaps. Thanks again for your insightful thoughts

goat777etc > neilrushton

Yes, I would say the ‘archonic’ lead is worth pursuing. The ‘archon’ is not evil per se (whatever ‘evil’ means) they are just anomalous, arising apart from natural process. They are not subject to the pleromic feedback, which serves as a safety valve, guide and stabiliser. These are the lost ones; Outside the natural process. And there is a profound sadness and melancholy associated with that. Development has ‘been allowed’ to proceed with little guidance and we can see something akin to a ‘lord of the flies’ scenario. We also see the symbolism of Neverland, Peter Pan and the lost boys; An abandonment by the guiding and nourishing force.
There is also vast intelligence here. They are older than the hills. They existed aeons before ‘man’ set foot on this world. I can well see the justification for any jealousy. We hold within ourselves that feeling of ‘home’; Re-unification with the pleroma. They must warm themselves with only reflected light.
I imagine faerie guides have been most useful to many seekers of knowledge, for indeed their knowledge is vast and far reaching. There is always the element of trickery and word play involved though. Words and commands have far reaching effects and are binding. Much thought needs to be put into the questions asked, and any answers received are probably as much about what is not said, as to what is actually given.