After seeing UFOs in a park the witness experienced a period of missing time. Later he was able to recall the incident fully. He saw a noiseless alien craft come down and land. He saw a ramp open as if inviting him inside. He went up the ramp ducking as he went in. The floor of the ramp felt strange on the bottom of his feet. Almost like a skin more than a metal ramp. Inside it was dimly lit, his cousin that had accompanied him was nowhere in sight. Inside he saw huge octagonal metallic walls or doors, about 9 feet high.

The inside of the craft appeared to be larger than the outside of the craft. Each wall had a large symbol that looked like a different complex pattern burned into it. He began to receive messages in his head and turned to see three grey skinned humanoids with large heads and child like bodies sitting around some sort of biological hi tech computer device. They wore tight fitting diver suits; they did not look up at the witness. He asked questions in his mind and received quick answers. He was informed that they were advanced bipedal animals with the soul or spirit of demons with great scientific knowledge that people on Earth could not begin to understand.

The frightened witness began experiencing heart palpitations, shallow breathing, and tunnel vision. He began to pray. The craft was surprisingly simple and the floor had an interesting structure and design similar to cutting an orange in half and seeing those lines coming out from the center of a single focused point. There were no windows. He asked them how they navigate through space and survive. He was told that they use their minds for navigational purposes. It took three humanoids to properly fly and navigate this craft for interstellar travel. He also saw the top of a cylinder that was like looking at an advanced 3-d computer monitor with images stacked over images, like a hologram.

The screen was round like a computer monitor that was laid face up. He saw star charts or lines connecting constellations and it had an alien font or hieroglyphic data on the outer rim of this device. They told the witness that they made it work by placing their hands on what he could only describe as a control panel. The humanoids had two fingers with an opposable thumb.

For a first-hand look at the testimony, let's consider a passage from The First Apocalypse of James (NHC V, 3), a revelation dialogue in which an unnamed teacher (the "Lord" or "Master") confers secret knowledge upon a Gnostic named James:

When he also says to you, "Where will you go now?"

You are to say to him, "To the place when I came, the Source, there shall I return." And if you respond in this manner, you will escape their attacks.

(NHC V, 3. 33 - 34: 1- 25. Translation from NHLE 1990, pp. 265-6 and Kurt Rudolf, Gnosis, p. 174-5.)

Considerable information is packed into this exchange. The resemblance to contemporary reports of close encounters is undeniable: the Archons induce a state of mortal panic, they often appear in threes, they perform abductions ("take away souls by theft"). These details present a striking match to contemporary ET/UFO lore. But in an equally striking departure from the current literature, the Gnostic teacher gives explicit instructions on how to face the alien entities.

The vast amount of testimony on the ET/UFO phenomenon available today presents almost nothing on defence against alien intrusion. Contactees and abductees are passive witnessed, overwhelmed and overpowered by the aliens. But Gnostic writings not only describe such encounters, they also prescribe defensive action. The Master offers cogent counsel for keeping the Archons in their place.

Gnosis is a remembering of our origins. The student is instructed to remember the cosmic birthright of humankind, and to affirm its direct link to the Pleroma, the Source. Specifically, the student is taught to recall and repeat the key episode in Gnostic mythology, the fall of the Aeon Sophia, and thus effectuate a defence against the Archons. By recounting the myth of their origins, the student demonstrates initiated knowledge of the origin and identity of the entities s/he is facing.

Intentional recall of cosmic matters disempowers the Archons. This, at least, is a clear inference from the above passage. The tactic of remembrance accords closely with indigenous wisdom — consider, for instance, the saying of the Na-Khi, a Tibetan people of southeastern China: "One must relate the origin of the medicine, otherwise it cannot work its magic." Shamans heal, not only by their knowledge of the properties of plants, but also by their recounting the story of the plant. Likewise, Gnostics defeated the Archons with the "medicine" (occult power) of mythological recall.

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