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  1. The demiurge came into existence around 360 BC, but the ideology is much older, and that earlier religion was where the gnostics took their knowledge from. It can be traced back to ancient Iran (Persia) and the Shaitan, which became a "devil." It's from ancient cosmological dualism in Zoroastrianism or "Mazdayasna." There, they had a split personality of God as being only good and evil - the yin and yang. Dialecticalism is that way, there's a good and bad side, with nothing other; there's no grey area in between, thus, the oppressed and the opressor. The idea of Shaitan, it was said, was changed when the Persians invaded the Levant, where they began calling the inhabitants the Shaitan for their enemy. The idea of Satan sprang from this as being a separate entity. They still teach about the demiurge in theological classes at university. I watched a session from Yale about it, and had to laugh at the absurdity of it.
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