Resurrection of the Trickster King... Archon in Chief

 

Thou shalt have no other gods before me - Exodus 20:3

Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it - Donald J Trump

In my previous installment of the Resurrection of the Trickster King... I outlined how over the past eight years, I had referred to 45 (he who shall not be named) as the Great Robber Baron/Trickster King. I had chronicled his mobster past... his unlikely rise to the Presidency... the craziness and grift of his presidency... the genesis, rise, proliferation and mechanisms of his Maga Amerika... and of course the attempted coup d'état on January 6th, 2021.

However, based on constructive criticism concerning 45's worthiness of the title, I had determined that an edit was in order. Henceforth, 45 shall be known as the... Great Robber Baron/Pretender Trickster King  (the Great Pretender for short). This edit carries forward the dubious honor of his previous title, while additionally indicating 45 to be a fraudulent poser, un-deserving of the sacred designation: Trickster. 

And so it was that the Great Robber Baron/Pretender Trickster King ascended to the sun-king throne at the Republican National Convention. Clearly past his prime, drunk on power and the adoration of his faithful MAGA disciples and followers, the pick of J D Vance seemed like the recognition and reward of the most faithful. The Vance pick confirms Trump's strategy to dig deeper into the MAGA constituency, rather than to attempt any broadening of the Republican base. 

With that said, the following narrative is best considered as a mythology. For in our myths, we can present and contemplate deeper, more meaningful trains of thought. Beyond fiction, a myth embodies a belief regarding a phenomenon of experience... often in which the forces of nature and of the soul are personified... a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people... while fiction is a literary category using invented or imaginative writing, instead of, or in spite of, established facts.

So it is within the realm of mythology that we consider the recent fortunes the Great Pretender... his rise to the sun-king throne... and the horrific ramifications of the power and the glory he apparently seeks. Before naming it... a quick recap of current events.

  

Just prior to the Republican National Convention, the Great Pretender seemingly narrowly escaped a would-be assassin's bullet. I use the word seemingly here, in the spirit of baseless conspiracy theories... entertaining the possibility that the whole assassination attempt was itself a "false flag" operation, designed to gain support and sympathy for the anointed Orange One. Just sayin'.

As you know, the Great Pretender has courted the Religious Right, ever since his 2016 mojo within the 8 chan, Pepe the Frog community died out... ultimately abandoning and failing him in the 2020 Presidential race. With his original, organic Meme Magick gone... he turned to a more conventional and gullible contingency.

Specifically, the Great Pretender embraced the White Christian Nationalist movement, an extreme, far right, fascist contingent that has infiltrated and gained popularity within the Religious Right. Using Cultural War tropes and tactics, he effectively turned a culture war into a religious war. Like the Great Pretender, this far right faction uses Christian language to cloak sexism and hostility to Black people and non-White immigrants in its quest to create a White Christian Amerika.

Having survived the alleged attack, assuming the messianic crown offered him by the faithful and the gullible... the Great Robber Baron/Pretender Trickster King seeks to become... for Maga Amerika... the Word and Will of God on Earth. And yet he does so from a fractured, confused, deranged mental state of mind. Is this description beginning to sound familiar?

The ancient, pre-biblical mystery sects, known collectively as Gnostics, had a term for such a confused messianic figure. They named their insane creator god: Demiurge... and his legion of ethereal minions: Archons (in fact, in some Gnostic texts, the Demiurge is named as the chief Archon). Additionally, they used the same title in reference to the conquering Roman magistrates who oversaw biblical-era Judea... as Archons.  

The word Archon is from the ancient Greek: ἄρχων arkhon; that means "petty ruler" "prince" or "lord," often used as the title of a specific public office... derived from the same root as monarch.

The Gnostics viewed their world as an earthly manifestation... a material, mirror image... of their conception of Heaven. The trials and tribulations of the earthly realm, reflected the cosmic struggles and strife occurring in the heavenly realm. They reduced this complex metaphor to the simple, yet elegant phrase... "As above... So below" or... "On Earth as it is in Heaven."

They saw their earthly resistance to the Roman Occupiers as a reflection of a War in Heaven. Thus... the Gnostic insurgency sought to overthrow the Archonic Roman occupiers, while simultaneously overcoming the Heavenly Archonic powers who sought to enslave them spiritually. It is from this mythic foundation that we view the Great Robber Baron/Pretender Trickster King as Archon.

Viewing the Great Pretender as being analogous to an Archonic figure, allows us to utilize the "as above, so below" metaphor in developing our mythology. Ever since 2016, with the Orange One's infamous decent from on high... riding down the Trump Tower escalator like it was Jacob's ladder... he has himself fostered an image that his faithful MAGA followers misconstrue as divine.

He has done so in the fine tradition of Sinclair Lewis' 1926 novel: Elmer Gantry... that is, in the tradition of camp meeting, tent revival charlatans, selling salvation for a buck a pop. Like any religious charlatan, the Great Pretender must be charismatic, passionate, and he must be persuasive. As with any charlatan, he must convince his followers that his faith is sincere. And as we know... the Orange One is nothing if not persuasive.

 "When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag

and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism."

- Sinclair Lewis   

In the lead up to the 2024 presidential election, the Great Pretender has hawked Bibles... Sneakers... NFT (non-fungible tokens) collectable trading cards... and most recently... a crypto-currency platform called: World Liberty Financial. Such hucksterism would make even the notorious hoaxmeister: P T Barnum blush... 

 

So it is clear that the Great Pretender is... and always has been a shyster. However, his rise to divine status amongst his faithful, also elevates him to Archonic status... to the heir-apparent, American Archon-in-chief. He even has offered fellow American Archon Elon Musk a position in his proposed cabinet staff.

All the Trumpian grift... in concert with his vice-like grip on the fallen Republican Party... demonstrates his worldly dominion over MAGA Amerika. His status as Archonic overlord is set in stone with his unholy alliance with the White Christian Nationalists. He is poised to lead his followers into the worldly religious war that is destined to come... regardless of the outcome of the 2024 presidential elections. At this point, it is not even clear that he intends or needs to win the election. Either way, his fanatic minions will support either his victory, or the insurrection that is to come. As long as the money keeps flowing into his coffers, allowing him to continue to pay his vast legal defense apparatus.   

Within our mythology, as Archon-in-Chief, he and his worldly dominion are prepared to wage a cultural/religious war... on earth, as it is in heaven. From the Evangelical Right, this war is conceived through an eschatological, prophetic vision of end-times and Armageddon. This is their spiritual war, preceding the second coming. Donald J Trump is their savior... their messiah... leading them to righteousness... to the promised land of a White Amerika.

From a mythological Gnostic perspective, Trump is a false prophet... a Great Pretender, casting a shadow of deception over those who would follow him. As Archon-in-Chief, through conniving trickery, he maintains the great veil of Maya that keeps humanity in a state of ignorance. And it is maintaining this ignorance... literally ignoring the intuitive knowledge... or Gnosis... that is the ultimate goal of the Archon-in-Chief. For the Gnostics, salvation lay in the intuitive knowledge of a God-above-God... the true nature of a evolving and unfolding universe.   

The Archonic powers apparently represent a patrilineal, predator/dominator bureaucratic orthodoxy. By contrast, and as I outlined in my Rise of the Matriarchy series... the competition to the Archon-in-Chief appears to be an organic, popular uprising of feminine powers. Such feminine power is far older, more ancient that the patriarchy, which was ushered in by warring desert-religious tribes of the first century, BCE. Just as Sophia, the Gnostic creatrix counterbalanced the Demiurgic Yaldabaoth... so too does the groundswell of modern feminism, in alliance with the LGBTQ communities and factions of pop cultural high weirdness rise to counter the fascist, Archonic, White Nationalist Right. 

Again, the Archon mythology serves to express subtle, cultural currents and influences that point to something bigger... deeper... more mysterious... that seems to be going on. Our worldly polarization that began as a xenophobic rant, targeting populations south of our border in 2016... has become more of a misogynistic assault, driven by 45's bombastic, self-aggrandizement of appointing 3 ultra-conservative justices to the Supreme Court, and the resulting overturning of Roe v Wade.

This egregiousness has fostered the impending patrilineal/matrilineal power struggle arising... not only on Earth... but as our mythology reveals... as it is in Heaven. The waning predator/dominator paradigm will not go quietly into the night as Mother Earth's feminine powers rise, nurturing the Partnership Model, as championed by Raine Eisler and Terence McKenna. The Archaic Revivalist in me holds out hope for just such a paradigm shift.     

The age-old idea of a primal, dynamic ebb and flow of the masculine and feminine principles is as archaic as duality itself. Perhaps this is the essential war in heaven... the mysterious yin/yang, dynamic dance of divine discord. As the discordians amongst us know... such a divine dichotomy is, in reality, the eternal balance of seriousness and humorousness. As I've quoted many times... if you don't have a sense of humor... it's just not funny. An so dear readers... Ciao for now... or should I say Chao?

 

Editor's Note: On Sunday, September 15th... an apparent second assassination attempt was thwarted by Trump's Secret Service detail. This second incident puts the first attempt in a different light. Does the second attempt point to a worldly conspiracy against Great Pretender? Is the Deep State out to get the Orange One come hell or high water? Does this second incident reflect a stepping-up of an unfolding war in heaven?

One of the best/worst features of conspiracy theory is that any reasonable argument to the contrary can be dismissed as itself part of the conspiracy. This reinforcement loop serves to deepen the resolve of any conspiracy theorist, left or right. One thing for sure... the situation keeps getting stranger and stranger... the next 50 days will prove to be exceedingly consequential, moving forward.

Part One