How To Use demiurge In A Sentence
- Esoteric Christianity doesn't typically support the theory of the Demiurge. It believes that creation is inherently good, and as such so is the Creator.
- The lower story, the psychical, was created or furnished by the Demiurge, or sub-divine creator of the natural system, while the top-story, or pneumatical self, was a Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
- Esoteric Christianity doesn't typically support the theory of the Demiurge. It believes that creation is inherently good, and as such so is the Creator.
- Call it the demiurge cycle, after the Gnostic notion that our world is governed by a mad ersatz God.
- The word means all-powerful, hence the Latin omnipotens, and was probably framed to counter the gnostic claim that a demiurge had created the visible universe.
- Gnosticism says that there is a good God, but that God is not responsible for the mess we endure, which is the creation of a demiurge or evil god.
- A demiurge from a distant realm, who had once heard of bees, might have created it. "An insect from the moon"—Ernst Jünger's Glass Bees
- Gnostic teaching distinguished between a perfect and remote divine being and an imperfect demiurge who had created suffering.
- Their mother dwells in that place which is above the heavens, that is, in the intermediate abode; the Demiurge in the heavenly place, that is, in the hebdomad; but the Cosmocrator in this our world. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
- Proclus 'eighteen arguments took their point of departure from the myth of Plato's Timaeus, which, according to Proclus, was best and most consistently interpreted according to an eternalist reading: the surface talk of a world being constructed by a divine ˜demiurge™ is part of the mythical framework, not a literal, philosophical claim. John Philoponus
