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demiurge

NOUN
  1. a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe

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
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