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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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I very much want to dismiss Yahweh as the ancient Gnostics did," Bloom writes,</p> <pre> finding in him a mere demiurge who had botched the Creation so that it was simultaneously a Fall.
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