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demiurge

The supernatural maker of the world who is subordinate to the Supreme Being or God. The term comes from the ancient Greek philosopher Plato's myth in the Timaeus about the divine creation of the universe. Plato's demiurge copies the Forms on to the receptacle of space-time or womb of becoming.



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