>>9160301well, the pagan gods (which I believe are fallen angels) is half true, but it ommits the one the gods/angels come from, God.
Basically just like the gods the angels (the Elohim) are forces and aspects of creation, the embodiment of them. Book of the Secrets of Enoch for example goes into detail how God created the world by commanding aspects of the world, specifically the solid/matter (called Adoil here) to come out of the invisible and set itself at the lowest of creation.
So when the other mythologies explain how the gods or the aeons/archons created the Universe it speaks of the angels being created and told to take this certain form and state of being which subsequently make up this world. Generally where as other myths go in great detail which god did which deed the Bible treats them, that is the angels, more as a tool of God, stating God did this, occasionally mentioning the angel he sent.
In the same sense you can imagine that God creates this infinite light (the Ein Soph in this case) and fractals himself through a bunch of prisms/lenses to create this realm with matter as the lowest spectrum of the light that we perceive with the Sephiroth functioning as the angels shaping the light into the form they take in the lowest form, the Malkuth
So when the Demiurge (basically Satan) created the world in gnosticism I believe its more about the world being created through the demiurge which after rebellion started not working as he should have and tempting people through egoism, materialism and hedonism which became the foundation of satanism as we know it.
However this World was not created by him but the true God, not as a Prison, but more like a sandbox or containment area. Imagine a bunch of children in range of the big red cosmic selfdestruct button on which stands "DO NOT PUSH". It would be pushed pretty much instantly, and the same would be if the drooling retards we are were to get our cosmic powers. So we are here to learn first
