| On the basis of Timaeus 39e7-9 he believes that the demiurge encompasses all Forms in him. |
| Only after these creations did the three gunas evolve followed by Brahma, the demiurge. |
| Nature itself remains the original demiurge in the enhancement of its own being. |
| For the demiurge now appears as an inferior being, who in reality executes the purposes of the good God. |
| Gnostic teaching distinguished between a perfect and remote divine being and an imperfect demiurge who had created suffering. |
| The realm of his influence as a kind of Prometheus, or even as a demiurge, extends very far northwards. |
