| Gnostic teaching distinguished between a perfect and remote divine being and an imperfect demiurge who had created suffering. |
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| The same doctor has to be a combination of priest, demiurge, counsellor, pharmacologist, horologist, talkshow host and healer. |
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| Call it the demiurge cycle, after the Gnostic notion that our world is governed by a mad ersatz God. |
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| Only after these creations did the three gunas evolve followed by Brahma, the demiurge. |
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| Western concepts of God have ranged from the detached transcendent demiurge of Aristotle to the pantheism of Spinoza. |
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| The Egyptians imagined a world in a state of perfect equilibrium conceived by the solar demiurge. |
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| Gnosticism says that there is a good God, but that God is not responsible for the mess we endure, which is the creation of a demiurge or evil god. |
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| On the basis of Timaeus 39e7-9 he believes that the demiurge encompasses all Forms in him. |
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| Yet, the evidence of the demiurge functions of these institutions remains incontrovertible. |
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| Nature itself remains the original demiurge in the enhancement of its own being. |
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| In this context, the function of the Mbombog can be compared to that of the demiurge. |
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| The word means all-powerful, hence the Latin omnipotens, and was probably framed to counter the gnostic claim that a demiurge had created the visible universe. |
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| The muta has indeed very much the same function as the demiurge of Neoplatonist cosmology. |
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| Being perfectly good, the demiurge wishes to communicate his own goodness. |
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| Far from the demiurge, voluntary modelling his work by the sweat of his brow, we revealed ourselves as a passage place, the inconscious occasion of an update. |
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| In fact, there is no separate domain where art dwells, just as there is no higher world over which a god or a demiurge presides. |
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| His metaphorical answer in the Philebus was that a psychic demiurge wrote onto the soul a true copy of the logos. |
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| These are small, fictitious boats tied to these extraordinary powers that the filmmaker does not nudge like a demiurge, but follows as a free spirit. |
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| More specifically, it results from reflection on the Form of the Good in Republic VI, the demiurge and the world-soul of the Timaeus, and the One of the Parmenides. |
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| Helnwein represents the type of artist who has left behind the notion of the artist's monadic existence as a visionary demiurge shut away in his studio. |
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| Oh right, some of the Gnostics identified the Demiurge with the Old Testament Hebrew god Yahweh. |
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| Such a reading hardly implies a doctrine of creation since it understands matter as eternal and subsisting independently from the Demiurge. |
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