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Demiurge   Listen
noun
Demiurge  n.  
1.
(Gr. Antiq.) The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.
2.
God, as the Maker of the world.
3.
According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.





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"Demiurge" Quotes from Famous Books



... represents in philosophy the Gnostic ideas about God which were widely held by the heretics, Jewish and Christian, of the second century. He divides the Godhead into two separate powers: (1) the impersonal Being behind all reality, free from all activity whatsoever; (2) the Demiurge or active governor of the universe, who again is subdivided into a transcendent and ...
— Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria • Norman Bentwich
... intention was purely malevolent. And the prevalence of dualistic theories from the earliest times to the present day—whether in the shape of the doctrine of the inherently evil nature of matter; of an Ahriman; of a hard and cruel Demiurge; of a diabolical "prince of this world," show how widely ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley


Words linked to "Demiurge" :   god, divinity


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