demiurge
Plato's divine shaper
A demiurge is a powerful creative force or being responsible for shaping the material world.
In Platonic philosophy, the demiurge is a divine craftsman who fashions the physical universe from preexisting matter.
Gnostic traditions cast the demiurge as a flawed or malevolent creator god, distinct from the true supreme deity.
More broadly, demiurge describes anyone who shapes or controls a domain with godlike authority: The director was the demiurge of his cinematic universe.
Greek city-state magistrate
One who produces something
- shaperDevice that contours material
- architectBuilding design professional
- universeComplete system or domain
- genesisPoint of creation
formation · primordial · ordering · cosmos · fashioner · matter · cosmology · origin
Skilled manual worker
- nousFaculty of rational thought
- cosmosOrderly totality of existence
- world-soulSpirit animating all existence
- receptacleContainer for items
paradigm · teleology · cosmogony · intelligible · sensible · Plato · becoming · logos
archon
Greek city-state magistrate
creator
One who produces something
- shaperDevice that contours material
- architectBuilding design professional
- universeComplete system or domain
genesis · formation · primordial · ordering · cosmos · fashioner · matter · cosmology · origin
craftsman
Skilled manual worker
- nousFaculty of rational thought
- cosmosOrderly totality of existence
- world-soulSpirit animating all existence
receptacle · paradigm · teleology · cosmogony · intelligible · sensible · Plato · becoming · logos · good
subordinate
One lower in rank
- intermediaryAgent linking two parties
- emanationSomething that flows out
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
immanence · theodicy · heresy · orthodox · heterodox · dualism · matter · spirit
- deitiesZeus, Odin, Thor, goddess, Ra
- supernatural beingsghost, demon, phantom, specter, banshee
- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- Greek philosophyAristotle, Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras, Academy
- ancient philosophyPlato, Aristotle, Socrates, Platonism, Epicureanism
- Gnosticismgnosis, aeons, archons, aeon, archon