The mixture of symbolic and traditional ideas presented in the gnostic texts can be difficult to grasp at first. Modern religion is ironed flat by thousands of years of editing and conditions us to believe that it has no seamly wrinkles. Gnostic texts are rough in comparison. They don't claim to be literal history. They seek the symbolic truth within that gives energy to the outer form.
Gnostic belief allows several creation stories to be true, all aspects of a greater truth.
The Gnostic writings are fertile ground for Light Travelers. They contain tremendous truth about the attitude needed to prepare for the transition into light and the vision of the light body. They are written in the language of the initiates, who use symbols like milestones to propel our thoughts into the light. They are deep philosophy in a living story, the kind our soul knows firsthand. The direct perception of that light is the spiritual initiation into that circle of being.