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With regards to the history of Gnosticism, how did Gnosticism originate?
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Gnosticism is a religious movement that originated in the second century CE. It was based on the idea that the world is evil, and that the only way to escape the world is through enlightenment. Gnostics believed that the world was created by a demiurge, a lesser god, and that the world was evil because it was created by a lesser god.