From the Greek, Demiourgos, craftsman. From Plato's Timaeus, the demiurge is the creator of the world. Greek Christian church fathers used the word to describe God as creator; however, the best known usage is by the Gnostics, who used it to refer to the inferior creator of the material world, whom they held as a seperate entity from the supernal deity. The Gnostics called this Demiurge Ialdabaoth; his birth was a consequence of Sophia's wish to create a copy of herself.

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