Selection and the Selectors

We have noted more than once that humanity’s development, from the very beginning, unfolded under the influence of two opposing forces and drives: an inner constructive striving of the mind toward development, creativity, realization, and the imprinting of experience — and destructive tendencies aimed at producing and dissipating the maximum amount of energy.

The first group of forces, which advances the evolution of the mind, is traditionally called luminary influences, understood as “anticipations of perfection,” whereas the totality of “entropic” influences is known as the dual oppression of Archons and Demons.

Yet it was precisely the selective pressure exerted by predatory forces — by destructive tendencies — that drove human development from the simplest forms toward ever more complex behavior and interaction with both physical and psychic reality.

The human form of the mind’s manifestation, in the sense we know it today, arose about 700,000 years ago and quickly revealed itself in three distinct branches. Each had its own physical, energetic, and psychological traits that made it selectively attractive. These branches are known in the Tradition as the Hyperborean, Lemurian, and Atlantean races — and in modern scientific discourse, respectively, as Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Cro-Magnons.

At first, the formation of each species’ biological traits proceeded as an attempt to “try on” the human level of mind. Each species was shaped predominantly by one of the Archons, who embedded the features they considered most useful for producing large quantities of vital energy.

Neanderthals, Children of Earth, were created under the guidance of Sabbatai and possessed a powerful physique, ideally adapted to survival in the harsh conditions of glacial Europe. Their physical power and dependence on stable environmental conditions reflect Saturnian traits and limitations. A massive skeleton, short limbs, and a broad torso retained heat in a cold climate. Powerful muscles provided exceptional strength, enabling them to hunt large animals effectively, including mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses. The Neanderthal skull was large, with a prominent nose and developed brow ridges, which may also have served them well in their environment. Yet the same build that mastered the cold made them less mobile and less adaptable than the lighter Cro-Magnons. This became a liability when the climate shifted and conditions demanded flexibility and speed. High endurance also required vast amounts of food, leaving them exposed when resources thinned.

Denisovans, “People of Water,” unlike Neanderthals, displayed greater ecological plasticity. As the creation of the “lunar” Archon —Choreus— they expressed fluidity, softness, and an ability to adapt. Denisovans lived across radically different regions, from the highlands of Tibet to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, which points to their capacity to endure diverse climatic conditions. Their physical traits included high-altitude adaptations and, possibly, a metabolism suited to harsh mountain environments. Denisovans likely had an intermediate build between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, granting both strength and relative mobility. But their scattered habitation in isolated populations — and the absence of narrowly specialized adaptations — made them less competitive. Their numbers were also relatively small, which increased their vulnerability to change and pressure from rivals.

Cro-Magnons, “People of Fire,” early Homo sapiens, possessed the most universal physique. They were the product of Adonin— the Archon of Mars. Their light yet strong bodies ensured high mobility, and elongated limbs allowed them to cover long distances efficiently. This made them super-predators: hunters and explorers of new territories. Cro-Magnons had a higher forehead and a smaller face than Neanderthals, which is associated with the development of the frontal lobes and the capacity for complex thinking. Their adaptability to different climates was ensured not only by physiology, but by clothing, shelters, and tools. Yet unlike Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons lacked comparable raw strength, which made them less effective in close combat with large animals. They compensated through collective hunting and ranged weapons. This universality was their advantage — and also a risk, because it fostered dependence on technologies that can vanish in crisis.

Already at that early stage, three behavioral strategies also crystallized. They later manifested at every stage of human development and are known as expressions of three basic destructors, or three Archdemons —Bael, Asmodeus, and Belial.

Neanderthals were steadfast, enduring, and devoted to their group, but their central weakness was low learnability and a pull toward conservatism — the result of Bael’s activity. These qualities shaped their psychological profile. Neanderthals formed deep social bonds within the tribe. They cared for the sick and the elderly and buried their dead, which testifies to a developed capacity for attachment and empathy. Yet their world remained predictable and stable. That stability gave psychological comfort — and made them brittle in the face of change. They did not experiment or accept new ideas readily, which narrowed their options as the climate shifted and competition with more inventive Homo sapiens intensified.

The strong side of the Neanderthal character was reliability. They were calm, patient, and bound to tradition. But the lack of flexibility and the repetition of obsolete behavioral patterns became fatal. Faced with new challenges — resource depletion, pressure from the more numerous Cro-Magnons — they failed to adapt. Their limited capacity for learning and innovation left them behind Homo sapiens, who quickly adopted and spread new technologies. Later generations inherited both some of their genes and certain energetic features — above all, the habit of clinging to foundations.

Denisovans, by contrast, were marked by emotional lability inspired by Asmodeus, which, despite their outward friendliness, became their main weakness. They tended to maintain numerous but superficial ties. This trait helped them survive in isolated populations, where interaction was rare, yet they did not know how to form deep emotional bonds that could have strengthened their groups.

Denisovans were socially open, ready to interact not only with their own group but with other species as well, including Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons. This openness could have facilitated hybridization and gene transmission. Yet the inability to form deep attachments limited their capacity to build strong alliances and internal coordination. Emotional volatility and unfaithfulness destabilized their social structures. Under crisis and competition, this made them less resilient and less cohesive.

Another result of Denisovan formation under Asmodeus’s heavy influence was greed, which in their descendants manifests as a tendency toward obesity. With populations scattered and contacts rare, competition for resources bred accumulation as a survival reflex for periods of scarcity. Without strong bonds inside the group, the drive to hoard became dominant. Unlike Neanderthals, who cared for the sick and elderly, Denisovans invested less in mutual aid. Their weak social structure cultivated individualistic traits.

The strength of Denisovans was flexibility in relationships and friendliness, which helped them establish many contacts. The weakness — an inability to build depth and weak social integration — left them vulnerable before the more organized and cohesive Cro-Magnons.

Cro-Magnons possessed an aggressive, ambitious character fostered by Belial, which became their chief advantage — and their chief vulnerability. Their group aggression expressed itself in both the conquest of new territories and conflict with other Homo species. Cro-Magnons pursued active competition for resources, which drove the displacement of Neanderthals and Denisovans from their traditional lands.

The strong side of the Cro-Magnon character was energy and purposefulness. They were not only aggressive, but inventive, which allowed them to adapt quickly, deploy new technologies, and find survival solutions under pressure. Their ambition fueled expansion, seizure of territory, and the creation of complex social structures.

Yet their aggressiveness also became an obstacle. Intra-group conflicts driven by competition and the struggle for leadership periodically weakened their communities. Group aggression also led to resource depletion and overexploitation of the environment, which later not only divided human society, but set people at odds with nature and the Fair Folk. Even so, their ability to cooperate inside the group — and their use of language to coordinate action — largely compensated for these flaws and quickly made them the dominant species. Modern society is therefore a product of Belial’s influence, which forged in people a unity-in-opposition that, on one hand, ensured survival, and on the other, dissipated enormous energy zaam—wrath. These behavioral features are believed to have formed about 50,000 years ago and have changed very little since.

As a result, through a successful combination of physical, cultural, and psychological factors, it was the Cro-Magnons who survived. Their hyper-aggressiveness ensured vigor, initiative, and the ability to seize new territories, while hypersexuality accelerated population growth and hybridization with other Homo species. These traits allowed Homo sapiens to dominate other representatives of the genus Homo and adapt to a rapidly changing world.

As noted above, Neanderthals, who lived in glacial Europe and Western Asia, became known in myth as Hyperboreans— inhabitants of the far North, associated with wisdom, steadfastness, and natural harmony. In this sense, Hyperborea is historically Doggerland, now a submerged plain between France and Great Britain. Hyperboreans are described as a people living in eternal winter, close to the gods and possessing unique strength, yet cut off from the world of change. These traits resonate with the image of Neanderthals. They lived in balance with the surrounding world, without destroying it and without trying to remake their way of life. Yet they were unprepared for change: when the climate shifted and competition with the more mobile and inventive Cro-Magnons intensified, Neanderthals could not adapt. Like the Hyperboreans who, according to legend, vanished with the coming of a new age, Neanderthals also left the stage of evolution, leaving only traces of their existence in the genes of modern people.

Denisovans, who populated vast expanses from Tibet to Australia, are known in myth as Lemurians— inhabitants of the lost oceanic continent of Lemuria (or Sunda, a landmass that once united most of Southeast Asia’s islands, including present-day Sumatra, Java, Borneo, part of continental Malaysia, and adjacent territories). In myths, Lemurians are marked by changeability, softness, and an ability to connect, but also by emotional instability and fragmentation. They lived in a “world of dreams,” only loosely touching the manifest world — and that looseness carried them into disappearance.

One branch of Cro-Magnons that settled in North Africa is known as the Atlanteans. At the end of the last glacial period (~12,000–8,000 years ago), the world ocean rose by 120–130 meters, flooding the low-lying coastal areas of North Africa. Archipelagos formed there, and on them the civilization of the Atlanteans developed. These lands were fertile and densely populated. Atlanteans possessed considerable power, creative abilities, and expansiveness, but also pride and a tendency toward destruction, which led to their fall. These traits also clarify the evolution of North African Cro-Magnons. Cro-Magnon Atlanteans carried a particular gift for adaptation and creation. In Upper Egypt, as well as on the Nabta Playa plain, they laid the foundations for agricultural societies that later evolved into the great civilizations of Ancient Egypt. They brought a high level of organization, took the first steps toward structuring society, mastered complex technologies, and initiated a sedentary way of life.

For completeness, note that this global alchemical laboratory also contained a fourth, hidden element: the most ancient autochthonous stratum, which ancient mythology called “the blameless Ethiopians.” These groups carried in their mind manifestations of Gorias and the principle of Air and represented a “wild” line that initially slipped free of the Archonic press. Their nature was so informational and volatile, so lacking in mineralizing heaviness, that they left almost no bone remains in the Middle World: air does not crystallize into fossil decay; it moves unceasingly as a fluid wandering current. For the Selectors, this etheric people — dwelling in natural macrocosmic resonance (which Homer described as regular “feasts with the gods”) — was nearly useless as an obedient generator of energy, because it was difficult to fix in place. Nevertheless, the Grigori (Watchers) managed to integrate even these free tribes into their project. By allowing precise genetic fusion, they inoculated the predatory, expansive nature of proto-sapiens with the cutting airy gift of Gorias — the vector of abstract intelligence and structuring speech. The “children of Air” themselves dissolved into history, never accepting the laws of the approaching technogenesis, yet part of their genes and their energy have been preserved in some African tribes to this day.

Modern civilization, in fact, grew from the “Children of Belial”: the Cro-Magnon Atlanteans who, after the destruction of their homeland, first spread through the Near East and then across the world — mixing with other groups, displacing and eliminating Neanderthals and Denisovans, and becoming the dominant species. At the same time, three basic destructors took root within it — ignorance, greed, and wrath — becoming steady suppliers of energy for the Qliphoth, while three physical features — passivity, attention deficit, and dopamine dependence— formed the basis of energy outflows into the Interspace.

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