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demiurge and on
Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily thought of as being the same as the creator figure in the familiar monotheistic sense, because both the demiurge itself plus the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are considered either uncreated and eternal, or the product of some other being, depending on the system.
Whereas Plato's demiurge is good wishing good on his creation, gnosticism contends that the demiurge is not only the originator of evil but is evil as well.
However, in dualistic theologies such as that of Gnosticism, the two deities are not of equal rank, and the role of the Gnostic demiurge is closer to that of the Devil in Christian trinitarian theology than a diarch on equal terms with God ( who is represented in pantheistic fashion, as Pleroma ).
He learns that all the visions are true, and far more besides ; the Party leader is not only alien, he is an almighty, godlike being — perhaps a demiurge, perhaps God himself — and one that is a predator on all living things.
Adam's second wife is portrayed as a docile, subservient partner created by the demiurge at the request of Adam, who could not cope with an independent woman on equal footing with him.

demiurge and them
They exhort that Moses was blind in not seeing that there was a higher God than the God of the Old Testament who was to them, an evil demiurge called Yaldabaoth.
Valentinian Gnosticism sees the demiurge as ambivalent and that ignorance is what clouded them from God ( more Neo-Platonic ).

demiurge and their
The Neoplatonic philosophers, including Plotinus, rejected followers of gnosticism as being un-Hellenistic and anti-Plato due to their vilification of Plato's creator of the universe ( the demiurge ), arriving at dystheism as the solution to the problem of evil, taking all their truths over from Plato.
Whether the dualism of the Paulicians, Bogomils, and Cathars and their belief that the world was created by a Satanic demiurge were due to influence from Manichaeism is impossible to determine.
Since the unintelligent creatures are in their appearance less fair than intelligent creatures, and since intelligence needs to be settled in a soul, the demiurge " put intelligence in soul, and soul in body " in order to make a living and intelligent whole.

demiurge and was
The word " demiurge " is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek, dēmiourgos, literally " public worker ", and which was originally a common noun meaning " craftsman " or " artisan ", but gradually it came to mean " producer " and eventually " creator ".
In most of the systems, this demiurge was seen as imperfect, in others even as evil.
But the previously mentioned demiurge of evil ... gradually brought back idolatry under the appearance of Christianity. It was also seen as a departure from ancient church tradition, of which there was a written record opposing religious images.
Phanes – the strange, monstrous, hermaphrodite Orphic demiurgewas the child or father of Nyx.
They held that the physical world was evil and created by the demiurge Rex Mundi ( Latin, " King of the World "), who encompassed all that was corporeal, chaotic and powerful ; the second god, the one whom they worshipped, was entirely disincarnate: a being or principle of pure spirit and completely unsullied by the taint of matter.
The Gnostics ( see Sethian, Ophites ) believed that God ( the deity worshiped by Jews, Greek Pagan philosophers and Christians ) was really an evil creator or demiurge that stood between us and some greater, more truly benevolent real deity — although there is no reason given why the higher deity is not a creator-god as well, nor why the higher deity allows the realm of the evil demiurge as flawed and unjust to continue to exist.
The Bogomils were dualists in that they believed the world was created not by the Abrahamic God, but by an evil demiurgethe Devil.
Marcionites held maltheistic views of the God of the Hebrew Bible ( known to some Gnostics as Yaltabaoth ), that he was inconsistent, jealous, wrathful and genocidal, and that the material world he created was defective, a place of suffering ; the God who made such a world is a bungling or malicious demiurge.
In Marcionite belief, Christ was not a Jewish Messiah, but a spiritual entity that was sent by the Monad to reveal the truth about existence, and thus allowing humanity to escape the earthly trap of the demiurge.
This may have been due to the unwillingness of Marcionites to believe that Jesus was the son of both God the Father and the demiurge.
Unlike true Gnostics that followed him, Cerinthus taught that the demiurge was good, more like Philo's logos than the evil demiurge taught by Valentinus.
The demiurge, being good, wanted there to be as much good as was the world.
( Later in history the term " demiurge " became a term of vilification by Gnostics who purported that the demiurge was a fallen and ignorant god creating a flawed universe, but this was not how Plato was using the term.

demiurge and Sameness
The demiurge combined three elements: two varieties of Sameness ( one indivisible and another divisible ), two varieties of Difference ( again, one indivisible and another divisible ), and two types of Being ( or Existence, once more, one indivisible and another divisible ).
The demiurge gave the primacy to the motion of Sameness and left it undivided ; but he divided the motion of Difference in six parts, to have seven unequal circles.

demiurge and ).
In order to reconcile Aristotelian with Platonian philosophy, Plotinus metaphorically identified the demiurge ( or nous ) within the pantheon of the Greek Gods as Zeus ( Dyeus ).
According to Hegemonius ( 4th C .) Mani ( 3rd C .) vilified the creator God of the pagan philosophers ( Plato's demiurge ) and the creator God of Judeo-Christianity ( creator ).
In Gnostic dualism, the demiurge is an imperfect spirit and possibly evil being, transcended by divine Fullness ( Pleroma ).
God appears as demiurge ( Greek: craftsman ) and cosmoplast ( Greek: universe molder ).
Urizen has clear similarities with the creature called the Demiurge by Gnostic sects, who is likewise largely derived of the Old Testament god ( more specifically, like Blake's Urizen, the demiurge is a radical remodelling of that figure achieved by expanding that figure's original contextual setting, or by removing him to one that is almost completely new ).
Marcionism, similar to Gnosticism, depicted the Hebrew God of the Old Testament as a tyrant or demiurge ( see also God as the Devil ).
And since the universe is fair, the demiurge must have looked to the eternal model to make it, and not to the perishable one ( 29a ).
The demiurge is said to bring order out of substance by imitating an unchanging and eternal model ( paradigm ).
Therefore, the demiurge did not create several worlds, but a single unique world ( 31b ).
Indeed, the round figure is the most perfect one, because it comprehends or averages all the other figures and it is the most omnimorphic of all figures: " he demiurge considered that the like is infinitely fairer than the unlike " ( 33b ).
Gnostics also referred to the demiurge as the mediator between God ( whom they considered the only being to be singular and whole, and thus also referred to as Monad ), and creation ( which they considered intrinsically evil, rather than evil as the consequence of some human error ).
Church Fathers opposed a literal reading of Genesis and notions appearing in pre-Christian creation myths and in Gnosticism — notions of creation by a demiurge out of a primordial state of matter ( known in religious studies as chaos after the Greek term used by Hesiod in his Theogony ).

imparted and on
Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.
His father, a professional engraver and an amateur landscape painter, took his sons on numerous hunting expeditions, and imparted to them his knowledge and love of nature.
In pre-industrial cities, craftsmen tended to form associations based on their trades, confraternities of textile workers, masons, carpenters, carvers, glass workers, each of whom controlled secrets of traditionally imparted technology, the " arts " or " mysteries " of their crafts.
According to the biblical narrative, Abraham fell on his face and laughed when Elohim imparted the news of their son's eventual birth.
All of the processes imparted an adequately high pH in studies conducted by the European Commission on Preservation and Access, the Library of Congress, and a team of scientists from the Centre de Recherches sur la Conservation des Documents Graphiques in the early and mid-nineties.
Adler went on to note that from those she interviewed and surveyed in the U. S., she could identify a number of common factors that led to people getting involved in Paganism: the beauty, vision and imagination that was found within their beliefs and rituals, a sense of intellectual satisfaction and personal growth that they imparted, their support for environmentalism and / or feminism, and a sense of freedom.
For a typical " pumping " configuration, the work is imparted on the fluid, and is thus positive.
Pump efficiency is defined as the ratio of the power imparted on the fluid by the pump in relation to the power supplied to drive the pump.
His playing on the original studio recording of " Layla " imparted a sublime quality for which the song is distinctly memorable.
The second character is qi in Mandarin, and thus wok hei is sometimes rendered as wok chi in Western cookbooks ) is the flavour, tastes, and " essence " imparted by a hot wok on food during stir frying.
Other flavour components are imparted from partial fermentation due to the particular malting process used and to Maillard reactions on flaking and toasting.
Since the force imparted by a magnetic field is proportional to the charge on the particle, and the acceleration is proportional to the force divided by the mass of the particle, the magnets required to contain uranium gas would be impractically large ; most such designs have focussed on fuel cycles that do not depend upon retaining the fuel in the reactor.
Depending upon mission profile, the structural subsystem might need to withstand loads imparted by entry into the atmosphere of another planetary body, and landing on the surface of another planetary body.
While there, he had the opportunity to hear operas by Meyerbeer and Halévy, which imparted a strong influence on him, especially the latter's La Juive.
That Cleopatra takes on the role of male aggressor in her relationship with Antony should not be surprising ; after all,a culture attempting to dominate another culture will endow itself with masculine qualities and the culture it seeks to dominate with feminine ones ” -- appropriately, the queen's romantic assault is frequently imparted in a political, even militaristic fashion.
Marie's conduct was such that she forced her son to banish her from France, where she was encouraging her other son, Gaston, to rebel ; and the victory Richelieu at last won over her ( on the Day of the Dupes ) was due solely to the discovery the cardinal made, and imparted to Louis XIII, of secret documents relating to the death of Henry IV.
The historian Ephorus, building on a fragment from Hesiod that attests to a tradition of an aboriginal Pelasgian people in Arcadia, developed a theory of the Pelasgians as a people living a " military way of life " ( stratiōtikon bion ) " and that, in converting many peoples to the same mode of life, they imparted their name to all ," meaning " all of Hellas ".
These draw stops can be adjusted to suit the archer's optimum draw-length, which helps the archer achieve a consistent anchor point and a consistent amount of force imparted to the arrow on every shot, further increasing accuracy.
It recounts how after the flood mankind was having difficulty growing food for itself, being dependent solely on rainwater ; it further relates that techniques of irrigation and cultivation of barley were then imparted by the gods.
The heat from the core of the earth that is imparted to the mantle causes the mantle to convect much the way boiling water convects in a pan on the stove.
Implemented on gun-launched ammunition, the rotation imparted on the projectile causes the lock to disengage from a " safe " condition to an " armed " one.
The rapid build-up of propellant gases imparted rearward pressure on a long-stroke piston, driving it backwards, while an extension of the bolt carrier interacted with a helical camming slot machined into the bolt carrier, converting this linear movement into an angular velocity and forcing the bolt into a rotary motion, clearing the locking juts and unlocking it near the end of the bolt carrier's travel.
Damage inflicted is related to the kinetic energy imparted by the projectile on the target, which is 1 / 2 the projectile's mass multiplied by its velocity squared.

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