Nikolas Schreck on Secrets of Abraxas

Summary

Occult researcher and filmmaker Nikolas Schreck joins host Miguel Conner to explore Abraxas, the enigmatic Gnostic deity he calls the true god of this realm and the key to awakening from the illusion of material existence. Schreck traces how the name of Abraxas spread through modern culture, from Carl Jung and Hermann Hesse's novel Demian to Carlos Santana, Charles Manson, David Bowie, and Philip K. Dick. He also argues that Abraxas and the Egyptian god Set may be the same being, and he frames current world events as the last gasp of the Demiurge.

Key takeaways

• 1Schreck says he first encountered Abraxas around 1967 in a reprinted 'Dictionary of the Occult' and later in Manly P. Hall's 'The Secret Teachings of All Ages'.
• 2His Gnostic mentor was Dr. Stephan Hoeller, Bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica, whom he met in 1984 at the Besant Lodge in Beachwood Canyon. Schreck says Hoeller renounced Jung's negative view of Abraxas before his death.
• 3Schreck says Charles Manson claimed he wrote to Rudolf Hess in Spandau prison and received a one-word reply, 'Abraxas'. Schreck believes Manson was actually coding a reference to Hermann Hesse's 1919 novel 'Demian'.
• 4Citing German Egyptologist Erik Hornung, Schreck argues that Set (Set-Typhon) and Abraxas are connected or identical, and that the pharaoh's was-scepter is an image of Set.
• 5Conner describes an ayahuasca experience in a Santo Daime ceremony in Portugal in 2006, during which a sentient cosmic presence identified itself as Abraxas.
• 6Schreck says he worked as an extra on the set of 'Blade Runner' in 1981. He links Bowie, Elvis, Philip K. Dick's 'VALIS', William Burroughs, and 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' to Gnostic themes.

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Excerpt from Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, Jul 30, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.