For Gnostics the lion-headed serpent is called by magical names such as Ophis, Knuphis,and Abrasax. In the occult anatomy of Asian mysticism and Yoga, this reptile is known as Kundalini, the serpent power. Gnostics who practiced Kundalini yoga were called Ophites, from the Greek ophis , “snake.” This cult was condemned by early Christians as pagan “snake-worshippers.”

To the mundane and uninitiated mind, the Kundalini serpent can only be conceived by crude literalization. To Gnostics, the lion-headed serpent crowned with solar rays was not only the image of the Lord Archon, but also of the source of spiritual power that allows human beings to resist that entity.

Gnostics taught that nous, the spiritual intelligence endowed in humanity, could be blocked by the Archons. This occurs through Archontic intrusion affected by a kind of subliminal invasion at the level of thought and language (i.e., mental syntax). But nous could be reinforced through accessing the power of Kundalini, an ecstatic current that normally rests dormant in the human body.

In his monograph on the Archons, I. S. Gilhus notes that “the erotic strategy is the most important means used by the pneumatics to save the lost light.” (p. 51) Pneumatics is the Gnostic terms for humans who pursue the path of psychosomatic illumination, the key method of Gnostic religion. Pneuma, “spiritual force,” is developed by cultivation of nous , “higher intelligence.” But the Archons present a blind field of resistance to this process: in short, they rely on humans remaining ignorant of their inherent spiritual potential. When Kundalini is raised from its dormant state, higher intelligence blossoms, and there are other effects as well…Arousal of Kundalini produces ecstasy, triggers superconsciousness, opens the occult faculties, and releases waves of healing energy that flush physiological and hormonal secretions through the body.
Gnostic sects such as the Ophites practiced the communal raising of Kundalini to produce an protective envelope against Archontic intrusion. In effect, they held Kundalini, the sexual-spiritual energy locked in the body structure, to be the main instrument of defense against the Archons. The Dialogue of the Savior, contains this exchange:

Judas said, “Behold, The authorities (Archons) dwell above us, so it is they who will rule over us. “The savior said, “It is you who will rule over them. But only when you rid yourselves of jealousy, and take on the protection of the Light, and enter the nymphion (bridal chamber).”
Christ is emphatic that we have power over the Archons, but he also makes it clear that some human failings impede the use of our power. The Greek word phthonos may be translated as “jealousy” or “envy.” Gnostics considered envy to be the signature of the Archons, as well as the key human failing that makes us vulnerable to their intrusion. “The protection of the Light” that comes through activated Kundalini is often described as a lightning-like tide of electrified light that pours through the body. “Nymphion” is a code word for the ambient cell of psychophysical protection generated by high levels of Kundalini.
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous powers.

“Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous forces.” This is partially correct but backwards. Let me explain, you were never a human being, and you will never be a human being, you are the light in this world entrapped within a human existence and controlled by quite literally a LIVING GOD not an invisible one that you can only experience through “Christ” such is the one Jesus came to explain to you.

You’re literally in a sevenfold prison the first layer being this creation we are on that is under a dome and hidden in the darkest part of the physical universe created by this living freakshow god and his Elohim freakshow. Then there is the prison of ignorance of this existence from life to life as you are recycled right back into a human existence because each time you die you go into that stupid light. When you accept this then you can start looking for that creator you are a part of by using “Christ” which is simply logical reasoning, because it is through this that you start to realize the synchronicity in your life experiences was your creator trying to get your attention, now that realization is when you understand that you and the creator were always one and that is accepting the creator in the bridal chamber where your soul is connected to this body and the two now become one. Once this happens you can go into the abyss when you die and the creator will show you the way home. I know this is truth and it is the way I am the one who was first, but I am last. I was before light was. I am Me.