this material world was made by an ill-intentioned demigod who bungled the job. Jesus was a supernatural emissary from the unknown high God, the Father, who came to enlighten those human beings, the Gnostics, who are trapped in this material world but truly belong with the Father in his transcendent world. Jesus brings them the knowledge of their true identity. The Gnostic Christ was not really human, but merely adopted human forms in order to appear in this world. He did not, for example, die.
