Topic: “Demiurge”

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Demiurge

In Gnostic and Platonic traditions, the creative craftsman or lesser deity who shapes the material world.

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He Is a Lesser Divine Being Who Serves as the Instrument of the Higher Powers

What this secret tradition reveals is that the one whom most Christians naïvely worship as creator, God, and Father is, in reality, only the image of the true God. According to Valentinus, what Clement and Ignatius mistakenly ascribe to God...

Source: The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

🧵 Narrative Threads containing “Demiurge”

The World Was Moving She Was Floating Above It

From the top of the world every which way is down.