http://gnosis.org/naghamm/1ja.htmlThe Lord said, "James, do not be concerned for me or for this people. I am he who was within me. Never have I suffered in any way, nor have I been distressed. And this people has done me no harm. But this (people) existed as a type of the archons, and it deserved to be destroyed through them. But [...] the archons, [...] who has [...] but since it [...] angry with [...] The just [...] is his servant. Therefore your name is "James the Just". You see how you will become sober when you see me. And you stopped this prayer. Now since you are a just man of God, you have embraced me and kissed me. Truly I say to you that you have stirred up great anger and wrath against yourself. But (this has happened) so that these others might come to be."
I see 2 things:
1)
Was the author saying that the ''Jews'' (in the original post-70 Gospel: the real killers of Jesus) allegorized the same spiritual ''archontes of this aeon'' ? Is this a mythicist claim? Afterall, the ''Jews'' were destroyed by the same archontes of this aeon: the Pagan deities (demons for the Jews) acting behind Titus in the 70 CE.But this (people) existed as a type of the archons
2)
Note the sequence of events:Now since you are a just man of God, you have embraced me and kissed me. Truly I say to you that you have stirred up great anger and wrath against yourself
1) James is Just man of God: the God who is meant is the evil Demiurge (called ''Just'' by Marcion).
2) being a man of the demiurge, James ''kissed'' Jesus: it is a real betrayal.
3) ''by kissing'' Jesus, James has ''stirred up great anger and wrath against himself'', exactly as Judas will do in the Gospels.
Therefore: the Apocalypse of James is a Gnostic writing meant to co-opt the Jewish-Christian figure of James: he does a conversion (just as Paul was a converted from the Gnosticism to the proto-Catholicism!) and now he is a Gnostic hero and icon.