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Examples of demiurge
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They also mimic the actions of the demiurge as the creator of the material world.
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The gnostic demiurge bears resemblance to figures in Plato's Timaeus and Republic.
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A pagan demiurge named Zorba goat-footed his Dionysian way through Zorba the Greek.
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The nous of the demiurge proceeds outward into manifestation becoming living ideas.
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In most of the systems, this demiurge was seen as imperfect, in others even as evil.
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Demiurge cut loose, he would lash out at Rosalie, his wife, or throw her into the bathtub.
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In the Timaeus, Plato writes that the world is divine, the ordered creation of the demiurge.
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It is the demiurge or second emanation that is the nous in Plotinus.
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Acts as a demiurge, creating the structure of the material world.
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- A subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe
- The demiurge is a concept from the Platonic, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy for an artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe. The term was subsequently adopted by the Gnostics. ...
- Demiurge is a fictional character, a cosmic entity in the Marvel Comics universe, based loosely on the concept of the Demiurge. It is the sentient life force of Earth's biosphere, and the father of Atum.
- Something (as an institution, idea, or individual) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power
- The subordinate being that fashions the perceptible world in the light of eternal ideas; A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Old Testament
- (Demiurges) have mastered their power and are transforming the world using what's already there.
- (Greek-Latin) The artisan of the universe, creator of all worlds (especially in Plato and the Gnostics).
- In Platonism, the demiurge was the creator of the universe. Although Plato did not see the demiurge as a specific deity, Medieval Christian scholars equated the demiurge with God.
- In some belief systems a creationary deity which is believed to have shaped and designed all or at least a significant part of the universe, but which is not the supreme creationary deity.
