This week we shall consider “Gnosticism,” a movement which was similar in some ways to Christianity but in other ways very different. Readers should be aware the term Gnosticism refers to “knowledge” ...

However, “gnosis” and “Gnosticism” are present in many different ... malevolent being called the demiurge. Some Gnostics conflated the demiurge with what they called the “Jewish god.” ...

the “demiurge,” and the highest “god” were separate beings, and the rest of the gnostic beliefs flowed out of that idea.

Gnosticism was a religious and philosophical ... From among the Aeons, there emerged a powerful being called the Demiurge, who was responsible for creating the material world which we know.