According to the Nag Hammadi, HAL, or the illusory planetary realms of our Solar system, had its Creator – the Demiurge. He was the deity eventually called God by monotheistic patriarchal religions. Can you see why the Gnostics (and later Cathars) were violently removed wherever they appeared, offering an alternative view to ‘established’ faiths? According to the Gnostic texts, ‘He’ (the Demiurge) was an angry, demented, impostor-god who envied human divine imagination – the Anthropos.

Under the instruction of this Architect God-figure (who believes he is the creator of all he beholds), along with the Archons, they are said to build planetary systems, excluding the sun and our ‘original earth’. The Demiurge/Yaldabaoth instead creates a ‘fake earth’ (a fractual copy), or matrix world based on the original earth.

Read more: Paradise Falling 2 – A Demented God