Simon Magus is a figure of early Gnosticism (1st century A.D.), considered the first Gnostic and father of heresies by the Church Fathers. The archive integrates him into the cosmology of its own Gnosticism.
His name points to the Gnostic Church of Antiterra, whose doctrinal tree includes the Syriac tradition in which Simon operates, and to the cosmological frame of Abraxas, god of cyclical time, with whom he shares the root of late Gnosticism. In the cosmology of the planes he functions as the archetype of the heretic-mage who crosses the Material Plane seeking the Pleroma, the divine fullness, without subordinating himself to any archon.