What are Archons?

Archons are 'rulers' or 'power centres'. They live in the plane of Zurvan called Archeia - which is the plane of origination of action and influence.

Archons are supernatural beings (i.e. beings who are 'above' the natural beings - the zoions - by being more abstractly defined than them). Thus Archons are not particular people exactly. However one or more individual people can take control of an archon, so that their wishes are reflected in the action of the archon. We can call these people the clients of the archon.

Contrary to what the ancient gnostics said archons are not necessarily evil. In fact there are both good and bad archons and plenty of shades of grey in between.

For convenience we talk about three kinds of archons. However these are ideal types and real archons may not exactly fit into a single category:

1- SPENTARCHON - a good archon, This is an archon inspired by the Spentaman or life-promoting spirit and which thus tries to serve the common flourishing.

2- HETHARCHON - a heathen (selfish) archon. This is an archon that serves a particular community or group of people. It is inspired by desire for that community to become strong and to flourish.

3. AZARCHON - a power-driven archon. This is an archon that serves a group of people like a Hetharchon but where the motivation is to take power over others. In other words the Azarchon serves the power-lust of its clients. Whereas a Hetharchon may be content with living side-by-side with other Hetharchons , an Azarchon wants to take control over everybody else and thus is ultimately an enemy of all other archons.

AZIDAK THE TYRANT
As the natural behaviour of an Azarchon is to attack and overwhelm all other archons in its domain this leads naturally to a single Azarchon becoming dominant in any particular place. When this happens we name this top Azarchon as Azidak.

AZORDA - Azidak's army
Orda is a Turkic word meaning army and has come into English as 'Horde'. The Azorda is the army of Azidak. This is the being that puts into practice the Archon of Azidak - i.e. the rule of Azidak - which is the collective will of the human clients of Azidak.

Like the Spada Spenta (the Holy Army), the Azorda is made up of many corpores (organisations) each with different noia (understandings) . They are arranged in pyramidal fashion so that the top corpus influences the noia of the corpores on the level below and so on down the levels with the aim that the whole Azorda implements a single Archon.

AZIGENS - the clan of Azidak (or of an Azarchon)
The Azigens is the group of people who are behind an Azarchon. The Azigens is a clan or extended family who have control of an Azorda - i.e. they are a mafia. However individual members will have varying roles in the Azorda depending on their particular strengths and weakness as well as their status in the Azigens. Some members of the Azigens may play little part in the Azorda at all, but nevertheless get special privileges because of their family relationship with those that do.

November 4021
From 2016:

Arkons - Definition One
.. are beings which govern. Arkons have power to shape or partially influence poions - the productive beings - to align to the goals of the Arkon. Arkons depend on certain (leading) mentons to produce the goals and plans and then usually generate mentivaions to impact other (subservient) mentons in a way that draws the activities of these other mentons to become useful to the goals of the leading ones. Arkons can either tend to work for the common good or else for a narrower interest.