• term demiurge. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the creator figure in the monotheistic sense, because the demiurge itself...
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  • Look up Demiurge or demiurge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Demiurge is an artisan-like figure in some philosophies responsible for fashioning and...
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  • A demiurge was a magistrate in Peloponnesian and other Ancient Greek city-states, including Corinth, Mantinea and Argos, and in their colonies, such as...
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    Gnosticism (section Demiurge)
    supreme God who emanates divine beings; one, Sophia, creates the flawed demiurge who makes the material world, trapping souls until they regain divine knowledge...
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  • Demiurge Studios, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 2002 by Albert Reed, Chris Linder, and...
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    Latin: Ialdabaoth; Coptic: ⲒⲀⲖⲦⲀⲂⲀⲰⲐ Ialtabaôth), is a malevolent God and demiurge (creator of the material world) according to various Gnostic sects, represented...
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    temps ("The Fall into Time"), Gallimard 1964 Le Mauvais démiurge (literally The Evil Demiurge; tr. "The New Gods"), Gallimard 1969 De l'inconvénient d'être...
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  • must be a demiurge or a god, a figure Timaeus refers to as the father and maker of the universe. And since the universe is fair, the demiurge must have...
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    Placidus. The concept itself can be traced back to the original misread term demiurge. The origins of the name Demogorgon are not entirely clear, though the...
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    that God had sent Jesus Christ, who was distinct from the "vengeful" God (Demiurge) who had created the world. He considered himself a follower of Paul the...
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  • are flawed. Valentinians identified the God of the Old Testament as the Demiurge, the imperfect creator of the material world. Man, the highest being in...
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  • Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God, and the Demiurge, "creator" of the material universe. The Gnostics considered the most essential...
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    inferiority of Neanderthal Man, an abomination and manifest creation of the demiurge... Of all the races on earth, the Aryans alone preserve the memory of their...
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  • example of a black theodicy, with similarities to gnosticism with Yakub as demiurge, as well as the story of Genesis. It has also been interpreted as a reversal...
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  • unknown to the Demiurge, and in the same way he created this same Demiurge to correspond to Nus, the son. The Archangels, creations of the Demiurge, are models...
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    cosmologies, Samael's role as a source of evil became identified with the Demiurge, the creator of the material world. Although probably both accounts originate...
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  • are separated by their goals, as evidenced in "The Demiurge", where they fight over the Demiurge's fate but have a brief but intimate encounter in the...
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    In the pre-Christian religion of Eastern and Southern Slavs, Rod (Slovenian, Croatian Bosnian: Rod, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian...
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  • especially those deriving from Valentinius, a lesser deity known as the Demiurge (see also Neoplatonism, Plotinus) had a role in the creation of the material...
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  • called the demiurge (δημιουργός "craftsman"). Neoplatonism and Gnosticism continued and developed this concept. In Neoplatonism, the demiurge represents...
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  • Demiurge Unit Limited is a LED design company with offices in New York and Hong Kong. Founded by LED artist Teddy Lo in New York, Demiurge Unit expanded...
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    God—the Demiurge—as distinguishable from the true, unknowable God of the New Testament, the Monad or the One. Jesus transcends the domain of the Demiurge, revealing...
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  • Demiurg or demiurg in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Demiurg may refer to: Demiurge, the deity responsible for the creation of the physical universe and the...
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  • of being. Midway between the supreme God and the material world was the Demiurge, who created the latter, and under whose jurisdiction the lower, animal...
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  • Plotinus, the power of the Demiurge (the 'craftsman' of the cosmos) is derived from the power of thought. When the demiurge creates, he governs the purely...
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  • to the Gnostic notion of an Aeon, noting the influence in the use of a demiurge in one episode, and that the relationship between the main characters parallels...
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  • a universe of adorable creatures worshipping Billy as a god named 'the Demiurge'. Loki and America have been trying to hide this from Billy for a while...
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  • Philosophers and idealists like Plotinus treated the dyad as a second cause (demiurge),[citation needed] which was the divine mind (nous) that via a reflective...
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  • emanations from the First Intellect produce the Second Intellect, the Demiurge, who comprehends the cosmos as well as himself, and creates Matter. Farthest...
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  • in September 1995, consisted of 374 cards. An expansion called Project Demiurge with 90 cards was planned for a June 1996 release, but as a result of poor...
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