One of the more central elements of the game is that the Demiurge has disappeared since just before the 20th century, and since then Astaroth, the Archons and the Death Angels have been struggling for power.

He taught that the visible world and heavens were not made by the supreme being, but by a lesser power ( Demiurge ) distinct from him.

Fearing they would hurt Earth's evolving life-forms, Gaea summoned and mated with Demiurge to conceive a son with the power to destroy the other gods: Atum, the sun god.

Before Numenius of Apamea and Plotinus ' Enneads, no Platonic works ontologically clarified the Demiurge from the allegory in Plato's Timaeus.

“ wisdom ”), the Demiurge ’ s mother a partial aspect of the divine Pleroma or “ Fullness ,” desired to create something apart from the divine totality, without the receipt of divine assent.

He is Demiurge and maker of man, but as a ray of light from above enters the body of man and gives him a soul, Yaldabaoth is filled with envy ; he tries to limit man's knowledge by forbidding him the fruit of knowledge in paradise.

According to Marcion, the title God was given to the Demiurge, who was to be sharply distinguished from the higher Good God.

And as Achamoth herself was only the daughter of Sophía the last of the thirty Aeons, the Demiurge was distant by many emanations from the Propatôr, or Supreme God.

The first, or material men, will return to the grossness of matter and finally be consumed by fire ; the second, or animal men, together with the Demiurge, will enter a middle state, neither Pleroma nor hyle ; the purely spiritual men will be completely freed from the influence of the Demiurge and together with the Saviour and Achamoth, his spouse, will enter the Pleroma divested of body ( hyle ) and soul ( psyché ).

Gnosticism attributed falsehood, fallen or evil, to the concept of Demiurge or Creator ( see Zeus and Prometheus ), though sometimes the creator is from a fallen, ignorant or lesser, rather than evil, perspective ( in some Gnosticism traditions ), such as that of Valentinius.

He writes, " The first, or carnal men, will return to the grossness of matter and finally be consumed by fire ; the second, or psychic men, together with the Demiurge as their master, will enter a middle state, neither heaven ( pleroma ) nor hell ( whyle ); the purely spiritual men will be completely freed from the influence of the Demiurge and together with the Saviour and Achamoth, his spouse, will enter the pleroma divested of body ( húle ) and soul ( psuché ).

This Illusion was created by the Demiurge to hold humanity prisoner and to prevent mankind from regaining the divinity it once had.

The intelligible-intellectual moment also consists of three triads, and the intellectual moment is a hebdomad ( seven elements ), among which is numbered the Demiurge from Plato's Timaeus and also the monad of Time ( which is before temporal things ).

Plotinus here then reconciles the " Good over the Demiurge " from Plato's Timaeus with Aristotle's static " unmoved mover " of Actus et potentia.

Because of this, Jesus was able to free himself from the material powers ( what other Gnostics call Archons, the Demiurge, etc .).

John M. Dillon in his " Pleroma and Noetic Cosmos: A Comparative Study " states that Gnosticism imported its concept of the ideal realm or pleroma from Plato's concept the cosmos and Demiurge in Timaeus and of Philo's Noetic cosmos in contrast to the aesthetic cosmos.

In some versions of Christian gnosticism, especially those deriving from Valentinius, a lesser deity known as the Demiurge had a role in the creation of the material world in addition to the role of the Monad.

The Ophite Diagrams are ritual and esoteric diagrams used by the Ophite Gnostic sect, who revered the serpent from the Garden of Eden as a symbol of wisdom, which the malevolent Demiurge tried to hide from Adam and Eve.

During the era in which the first single-celled organism formed on Earth, the Elder God Demiurge achieved consciousness after being formed and coalesced from the Earth's biosphere.

Seeking a way to protect the innocent life that was growing on the planet, Gaea mated with the Demiurge creating Atum, the first of a new generation of gods that would protect the world from the " Demonic Elder Gods ".

The first of them was a being known as the Demiurge, born from Earth's natural magical energies.

Numenius also draws much from Plato ’ s Timaeus which presents a story of a great creator called the Demiurge who created everything in the likeness of Platonic Forms.

The Demiurge, isolated, did not behold his mother, nor anyone else, concluded that only he himself existed, being ignorant of the superior levels of reality.

The devil resides in this lower world, of which he is the prince, the Demiurge in the heavens ; his mother Sophia in the middle region, above the heavens and below the Pleroma.

In Gnosticism, Demiurge is symbolised as Lion-headed serpent, and his mother is Sophia.

Sophia Achamoth, or “ Lower Wisdom ”, the daughter of “ Higher Wisdom ”, becomes the mother of the Demiurge, identified with the God of the Old Testament.

However, the Nag Hammadi Codex III closes its text with the prayer “ Jesus Christ, Amen .” An additional distinction, with regards to the Christian framing of the texts, is that Nag Hammadi Codex III goes into greater detail about the descent of the Christ / Savior figure into the prison-world of Demiurge and his role in facilitating the reawakening and liberation of mankind.

But Plato said nothing about the Demiurge architect-of-the-world himself being perfect.

This is the Good above the Demiurge, and manifests through the work of the Demiurge.

The dyad is energeia emanated by the one that is then the work, process or activity called nous, Demiurge, mind, consciousness that organizes the indeterminate vitality into the experience called the material world, universe, cosmos.

He thought that the world was the work of a good Demiurge, and that this was why order and harmony prevailed in the world.

Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: his act of creation occurs in unconscious semblance of the divine model, and thus is fundamentally flawed, or else is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality.

In this act of separate creation, she gave birth to the monstrous Demiurge and, being ashamed of her deed, wrapped him in a cloud and created a throne for him to be within it.

Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: his act of creation occurs in unconscious semblance of the divine model, and thus is fundamentally flawed, or else is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality.

However most of these schools do agree in attributing the creation of the world to a Demiurge rather than the supreme being and in accepting reincarnation.

The idea of ideas ( Eidos-Eidôn ), provides a model of the Paradigm of the Universe, which the Demiurge contemplates in his articulation of the ideas and his creation of the world according to the Logos.

* Demiurge, the deity responsible for the creation of the physical universe and the physical aspect of humanity in some belief systems.

However, while many scholars take for granted the Gnostic character of the Gospel of Mary, the Gnostic beliefs concerning creation theory and the Demiurge that would suggest an extreme dualism in the creation is not present in the portions currently retrieved ( De Boer 2004 ).

lower creation was made by the Logos through the instrumentality of the Demiurge.

The Demiurge had created a bestial imitation of humanity in the form of proto-human " robots " like Neanderthal Man, and intentionally consigned his creatures to an endless cycle of involuntary reincarnation on the earthly plane to no higher purpose.

Here, at the summit of this system, the Source and Demiurge ( material realm ) coexist via the process of henosis.

The latter is under the jurisdiction of the Demiurge, an inferior godlet whose realm is the physical planet earth.