I'm trying to read Andrew Phillip's Smith "The Secret History of the Gnostics", but it seems to start thundering Everytime I do.

I only partly believe it but I think the "Demiurge" is trying to scare me away from finishing it.
I tell Him/Her I'm not a Gnostic.
I don't believe in any texts.
Just basic principles shared by many others.
Probably across the entire Universe