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Demiurge   Listen
noun
Demiurge  n.  
1.
(Gr. Antiq.) The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.
2.
God, as the Maker of the world.
3.
According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.






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"Demiurge" Quotes from Famous Books



... ichor of star-dust, the mysterious Demiurge of the Universe, keeps the suns and planets to their orbitary revolutions, so must environment mark the Fas and Nefas of Genius. Plato's Idea of the Archetypal Man was due, perhaps, as much to the serene weather conditions of Academe as to the marvelous mentality of Plato. What ...
— The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor • Wallace Irwin

... good monk and retrace our steps to the Hermitage, rolling meanwhile in our mind that awful remark about the Hermit's love of money. Blindness and Plague! even the troglodyte loves and worships thee, thou silver Demiurge! We can not believe it. The grudges of monks against each other often reach darker and more fatal depths. Alas, if the faith of the cheese-monger is become adulterated, what shall we say of the faith of our ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani

... Shaddai, Adonai, Jah. Associated Words: theism, deism, atheism, theocracy, theocrasy, theology, theomachy, pantheism, acosmism, pancosmism, theocentric, thearchy, theomania, theosophy, theochristic, theodicy, theophany, demiurge, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphology, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming



Words linked to "Demiurge" :   deity, immortal, god, divinity



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