ब्रह्मांड के निर्माता कुछ दर्शनशास्त्र में एक अधीनस्थ देवता

Noun:

सृष्टि में सहायक देवता, (प्‍लेटो के दर्शन में) सृष्टिकर्त्ता (ईसाई धर्म में भी),

demiurge's Usage Examples:

Marcionites, named by Clement of Alexandria Antitactae (revolters against the Demiurge) held the Old Testament economy to be throughout tainted by its source; but they are not accused of licentiousness.

Some, however, accepted three first principles (the evil, the just, the good); others held by two, but regarded the Demiurge as the god of evil, i.e.

For the Demiurge now appears as an inferior being, who in reality executes the purposes of the good God.

Since no one could keep this law, the whole human race fell under the curse, temporal and eternal, of the Demiurge.

Only in two tnces, however, did a local god ever obtain wide acceptance se capacity of demiurge: Ptah of Memphis, who was famed n artist and master-builder, and Khnum of Elephantine, was said to have moulded mankind on the potters wheel.

The demiurge of the Valentinians always clearly bears the features of the Old Testament creator-God.

The two have been compared in that Adapa was demiurge and Logos; and Seth figures as the Messiah in later Jewish tradition.'

Of course, the earthforming animal is a preternaturally gifted one, and is on the line of development towards that magnified man who, in a later stage, becomes the demiurge.'

Then a higher God, hitherto unknown, and concealed even from the Demiurge, took pity on the wretched, condemned race of men.

The demiurge of the Mandaeans, and corresponding to the Ialdabaoth of the Ophites, he at the instance of his father frames the earth and men - according to some passages in conjunction with the seven bad planetary spirits.

demiurge's Meaning':

a subordinate deity in some philosophies the creator of the universe

Synonyms:

deity, divinity, immortal, god,

Antonyms:

earthly, mortal, finite, inferior,