>>931"Archon" is greek for "Ruler" and is used in the new testament to refer to the spiritual and worldly powers of oppression by the apostle paul. Also in gnostic literature, the Archons are seen as servants of the "demiurge" ("creator") who is born from Sophia (wisdom). Sophia is an Aeon (Age) who descends from the Pleroma (True Heaven), yet all Aeons manifest with a masculine and feminine counterpart. Sophia attempted to create an image of herself without a masculine partner, leading to the Demiurge, who is the "chief ruler" of the material world (described by Paul in 2 Cor 4:4) and who employs 12 subsequent Archons for his evil deeds. You can read the primary source:
<Something imperfect came out of her. Different in appearance from her. Because she had created it without her masculine counterpart. She gave rise to a misshapen being unlike herself. Sophia saw what her desire produced. It changed into the form of a dragon with a lion’s head And eyes flashing lightning bolts. […] She named him Yaldabaoth. Yaldabaoth is the chief ruler.http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/apocjn-davies.htmlThis being has obvious relationship to YHWH then, even as Christ says in The Book of John:
<You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%208%3A44&version=NIVThe Great Beast is also symbolically related to descriptions of YHWH, as we may read:
(Hosea 13, Revelation 13)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2013%3A2%2CHosea%2013%3A4-8&version=NIVIn Daniel 7, we also get a description of Christ and the Father, who is called the "Ancient of Days" defeating the beast. The Beast in common theology is seen as Rome and the whore of Babylon is seen as Jerusalem. Early gnostics such as Basilides calls the True God "Abraxas", who is the head of the 365 Aeons:
<They make out the local position of the three hundred and sixty-five heavens in the same way as do mathematicians. For, accepting the theorems of these latter, they have transferred them to their own type of doctrine. They hold that their chief is Abraxas; and, on this account, that word contains in itself the numbers amounting to three hundred and sixty-five.https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/basilides.html