... 'You know that the rulers [archons] of the Gentiles lord it over them, ...
The word 'Archon' was also used by the Gnostics as a technical term related ...

For some Gnostics the Archons were the gods of the planets, the guardians who
barred the way to the human soul when it tried to ascend through the spheres ...

The archons see what has happened, and in their dismay they curse Adam and Eve
and ... The Fullness of the Gnostics is without qualities in and of itself, ...

These evil spirits the Gnostics called archons or eons, recalling the apostolic
... The Gnostics usually distinguished the archons, often seven in number, ...

... the way of the ascending mystic do not share the evil qualities of the
Archons ... in fact, the God of the Jews was considered by the gnostics an evil
...

Seven "archons" (rulers) are named, associated with the gates of the various
heavens, ... account of the other Gnostics. The chief of these archons ...

... It is quoted in Hypostasis of the Archons 86:20-25 as a thematic
introduction. ... a resultant tendency for Gnostics, and especially Christian
Gnostics, ...

... the Gnostics believed that the seven Archons, commanded by the Jewish god,
waited for the souls who were leaving their bodies in order to overcome them;
...

The revealer warns James that "Jerusalem is the dwelling-place of many Archons"
(V, 3, 25.18). As explained above, Gnostics viewed the Archons as an alien ...

the Hypostasis of the Archons, namely the Gnostics, ... Gnostics, Doresse
plausibly conjectured that the two might be the same.31 Conversely he accepted
...