DeConick A.D

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HELL WALKS AND STAR TREKS
strous Titans and myths of fallen angels like Lucifer and Samael. The
result is a new Gnostic story about the apostasy of the traditional gods,
lords who have turned to the dark side and taken control of the universe.
According to the Peratics, the consequence of this primordial insurrection
is that human spirits, the seeds of divine potential, are incarcerated by
the dark lords. The dark lord reigning over all creation is Kronos, the violent
Titan who quakes the earth and spews the waters of Tartarus upward
into the ocean. Kronos, the cannibal god who devours his own children,
is identified as the craftsman, the Demiurge, who brings forth human life
only to destroy it. He is the Father God who murders his children by eating
them, trapping their spirits in the cosmos.
This wretched situation requires drastic intervention from the two
other levels of reality. The transcendent Good and the upright divinities
must do something to alter this horrible predicament and liberate the
spirit. Here the Peratic story takes on a decisively Christian flare. Following
the narrative arc of the fourth Gospel, the Peratics taught that Christ
was sent down from the Good to save creation.
Christ was a powerful entity that embodied all three levels of reality—
the transcendent, the divine, and the human. When he was crucified he
joined the other celestial rulers as a god, as it is said in the fourth Gospel,
when the Son of Man was lifted up like Moses lifted up the serpent. He
took control of the highest and brightest constellation, becoming fixed
in the skies at the top of the celestial dome as the guardian god of the
luminous serpentine constellation Draco.
As such he became the good guardian of the star gate that controls the
flow of existence from the transcendent sphere into the cosmos and back
again. He opened the Draco portal, establishing a flow of divinity into and
out of the cosmos with every rotation of the celestial sphere. This is how
they understood the Christian aphorism attributed to Jesus in the fourth
Gospel: “I am the door” (John 10:7).
From Hell to Virgo
How do human spirits make their way back to the transcendent realm
through the Draco star gate? The Peratics claimed to know the secret, and
they promised to reveal the secret to anyone initiated into their mysteries,
secret ceremonies that are beyond words, simultaneously tremendous and