Let's finish up "On the Origin of the World" and take a 30,000 ft flyover view of the author's blasphemous message - which is best summed up as "believe me because I'm smarter than you."
How did gnosticism happen? Why did these men feel the need to write blasphemous and disgusting tracts that twist the Scriptures when the Church was doing them no harm?
Because it was the principle of the thing. Let's dive into the topic of gnostic projection and start fighting back the way the Church should always have done.