DEMIURGE

Demiurge

The demiurge is a concept from the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy for an artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe. The term was subsequently adopted by the Gnostics. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily thought of as being the same as the creator figure in the familiar monotheistic sense, because both the demiurge itself plus the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are considered either uncreated and eternal, or the product of some other being, depending on the system.

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demiurge

Noun

  1. Something (as an institution, idea, or individual) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power.
    that too was a gain in spiritual balance, provided the machine was not conceived as a demiurge that ruled all other human needs —


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