I am currently reading through the Nag Hammadi codices, and just

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I am currently reading through the Nag Hammadi codices, and just finished the theTripartite Tractate. Compared to the previous writings it was a lot more informative but also quite abstract and vague so I had trouble understanding a few things and would appreciate if anyone knowledgeable can help to clear out a few things.

What exactly is "the Word"? If I understood correctly it created the material world and the text said that it put the Demiurge as its ruler, and that it gave the humans made by the Demiurge life from the higher existence without him knowing. Thus it seems to be at fault for trapping us in this world but it isn't being accused or condemned for such actions so what's the deal here? It also seems to be in good relations with the All after it turned away from the deficiency and illusion described (which happened before the occurrences I mentioned above) which makes it even more confusing. And what is this "aeon of images" it created?

Also, what exactly are "the right" and "the life" that are mentioned after the creation of the world? The Demiurge regime and the forces in conflict with it (the devil maybe)? Or is it to do with the spiritual type of man and the psychical one?