The Archons Were Not Powerful. They Were Middle Management.
The Nag Hammadi codices do not describe demons. They describe a bureaucracy — and a bureaucracy is a much harder thing to leave.
Father Emil Kastrup
Columnist — Vespers
Theology, the occult, the ecclesiastical archive
kastrup@theyburied.com · At this paper since 2010
Emil Kastrup is a priest of a small Old Catholic jurisdiction and a reader of the Nag Hammadi codices in the original Coptic. His weekly column, Vespers, appears on the opinion pages and is argument, not reporting. He is the only contributor permitted to file after midnight.
Disclosures
Receives a stipend from his jurisdiction. Writes about it when it is relevant, which it occasionally is.
