The evil God Yaldabaoth

While you’re waiting, don’t forget this forum now has 12 years of posts and people who are not here any more have talked about most things before, so it’s always worth trying the search.
Like here:

Just try “yahweh yaldabaoth” in the Search and few things come up.

There’s no real consensus - some people thing they’re the same, some don’t. I don’t because historically they are documented very differently and come from different traditions. Yaweh has a clear path of evolution from being an old war god of a desert tribe, and the demiurge is it’s own thing invented by the Gnostics. Completely different cultures. time periods religions and worldviews.

Info on Yahweh’s history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdKst8zeh-U&t=1528s - Yaldabaoth does not feature in it’s story.
Buuuut, then there’s this, that the old Yahweh became conflated with the Demiurge later:

Personally, when looking for who I want to work with, I go for the oldest sources and avoid the stuff tacked on from later human developments as there’s so much politicking that happens I don’t trust it’s “real” or even honest from an occult perspective.

When in doubt, call the entity and ask it, make your own relationship with it and don’t worry too much about the words of those who we just don’t know were more wishful thinking, or operating on agendas, or not.

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