hmmm....but according to national geographic yes leh.....the
gnostics believe the one who is not the true god is the demiurge
(this thelogy is condemned by Christians as heresy). So what's the
message u want to convey? Is it that all of us have a inner self
that need to be awaken and then rejoin god/nature? Sound abit like
Taoism leh? Mebbe u read gospel of judas in a different light than
the gnostics?
Let me do a research for u:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04707b.htm
"according to Greek philosophy
the world-maker is not necessarily identical with God, as first and
supreme source of all things; he may be distinct from and inferior
to the supreme spirit, though he may also be the practical
expression of the reason of God, the Logos as operative in the
harmony of the universe. In this sense, i.e. that of a world-maker
distinct from the Supreme God, [b]Demiurge became a common term in
Gnosticism. The Gnostics, however, were not satisfied merely to
emphasize the distinction between the Supreme God, or God the
Father, and the Demiurge, but in many of their systems they
conceived the relation of the Demiurge to the Supreme God as one of
actual antagonism, and the Demiurge became the personification of
the power of evil, the Satan of Gnosticism, with whom the faithful
had to wage war to the end that they might be pleasing to the Good
God. The Gnostic Demiurge then assumes a surprising likeness
to Ahriman, the evil counter-creator of Ormuzd in Mazdean
philosophy. The character of the Gnostic Demiurge became still more
complicated when in some systems he was identified with Jehovah,
the God of the Jews or of the Old Testament, and was brought in
opposition to Christ of the New Testament, the Only-Begotten Son of
the Supreme and Good God. The purpose of Christ's coming as Saviour
and Redeemer was to rescue us from the power of the Demiurge, the
lord of the world of this darkness, and bring us to the light of
the Good God, His Father in heaven. The last development in the
character of the Demiurge was due to Jehovah being primarily
considered as he who gave the Law on Sinai, and hence as the
originator of all restraint on the human will. As the Demiurge was
essentially evil, all his work was such; in consequence all law was
intrinsically evil and the duty of the children of the Good God was
to transgress this law and to trample upon its precepts. This led
to the wildest orgies of Antinomian Gnosticism"[/b]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge
Yahweh
Some Gnostic philosophers (notably Marcion of Sinope:
[color=orange]this is disputed as some theologians believe there is
a difference between Marcionites and gnostics) [b]identify
the Demiurge with Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament, in
opposition and contrast to the God of the New Testament. Still
others equated the being with Satan. Catharism apparently
inherited their idea of Satan as the creator of the evil world
directly or indirectly from Gnosticism. Or, they may well have
gotten the idea directly from the New Testament, which refers to
Satan as "The God ['ho theos'] of this age" in Second Corinthians
4:4. Also, the NT asserts that the "whole world lies in the power
of the evil one" in 1 John 5:19. Though nowhere in the New
Testament is the creator of the world or the universe identified as
Satan, although Yahweh declares in Isaiah 45:7 that He "makes good
and creates evil [Hebrew "ra"]. Nor in the old or New Testament is
nature or earth created by the creator referred to as evil, unlike
the so-called Gnostic "sectarians." (Unless one sees the attribute
of Creatorship as inherent in the concept of "God," and therefore
the title "The God of this Age" applied to Satan becomes a powerful
indicator that Satan is indeed the creator. Other modern-day
Cathars see a further indication of this in the epithet
"Kosmokrator" [Koine Greek, kosmokratoras, which literally means
cosmos-sovereign, or even cosmos-might] which is applied to Satan
in Ephesian 6:12, as a further indication of the creatorship of
Satan and his identity with the Demiurge)[/color][/b]
