demiurge

/dem-ee-urj/US // ˈdɛm iˌɜrdʒ //UK // (ˈdɛmɪˌɜːdʒ, ˈdiː-) //

妖怪,恶魔之城,恶魔,恶魔之神

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : Philosophy. Platonism.the artificer of the world. a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- : a public official or magistrate.

It was one of the forms symbolic of the Demiurge or Maker of our universe.
The realm of his influence as a kind of Prometheus, or even as a demiurge, extends very far northwards.
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.
By the “works of the Demiurge,” which the Christian is to flee, he meant the whole “service of the perishable.”