WARNING!! NUDITY!! Pictures of The Demiurge. Plato saw The Demiurge as Good. Tricksters have Demiurgic Qualities and I Honour that side of Them too. The Demiurges out there know about Chaos and Create Order out of it. They can easily take that Order away as well, and return it to Chaos. They are a lot like me working with Chaos. So I connect to Them. I don't see Matter as evil, so I don't see The Demiurge as evil. Apparently, Charles Fort stated that The Demiurge was like a Cosmic Trickster/Joker, neither good nor evil. Demiurge (from the Greek δημιουργός dēmiourgós, Latinized demiurgus, meaning "artisan" or "craftsman", literally "worker in the service of the people", from δήμιος "of the people" + έργον "work") is a term for a creator deity, responsible for the creation of the physical universe. In the sense of a divine creative principle, the word was first introduced by Plato in Timaeus, 41a (ca. 360 BC). It subsequently appears in a number of different religious and philosophical systems of Late Antiquity, besides Platonic realism most notably in Neoplatonism and Gnosticism: For Plato, the demiurge is a benevolent creator of the laws or the heaven or of the world in Timaeus. Plotinus identified the demiurge as nous (divine reason), the first emanation of "the One" (see monad). Neoplatonists personified the demiurge as Zeus. In Gnosticism, the material universe is seen as evil, and the demiurge is the evil creator of the physical world. Alternative Gnostic names for the Demiurge, include Yaldabaoth, Yao or Iao, Ialdabaoth and several other variants. The Gnostics identified the Demiurge with the Hebrew God Yahweh (see the Sethians and Ophites). He is known as Ptahil in Mandaeanism. Plato has the speaker Timaeus refer to the Demiurge frequently in the Socratic dialogue Timaeus circa 360 BC. The title character refers to the demiurge as the entity who “fashioned and shaped” the material world. Timaeus describes the Demiurge as unreservedly benevolent and hence desirous of a world as good as possible. The world remains allegedly imperfect, however, because the Demiurge had to work on pre-existing chaotic matter. Plato's Demiurge is a fleshing out of Hesiod's cosmology from Hesiod's work Theogeny, within the realm of dialectical discourse between Timaeus and the other guests at the gathering in the dialog of Timaeus (also see Symposium). The concept of artist or creator and even the Platonist conflict between the poet and philosopher (see Plato's Republic) has a link in Plato's expression of the demiurge in his works. For Neoplatonist writers like Plotinus, however, the demiurge represents a second creator or cause (see Dyad). The first and highest God is the One, the source or the Monad. The Monad emanated the Nous, which Plotinus referred to figuratively as the demiurge. In this he claimed to reveal Plato's true meaning, a doctrine he learned from Platonistic tradition that did not appear outside the academy or in Plato's text. Plotinus also elucidates the equation of matter with nothing or non-being in his Enneads[1] which is to express the concept of idealism in connection with the nous or contemplative faculty within man.[2] This tradition of creator God as nous can be validated in the works of pre Plotinus philosophers such as Numenius. The Demiurge is not the supreme deity of Plato or Neoplatonism. As Nous, the demiurge is part of the three ordering principles: arche - the source of all things, logos - the underlying order that is hidden beneath appearances, harmonia - numerical ratios in mathematics. Plato in Timaeus states that it is "blasphemy to state that the universe was not created in the image of perfection or heaven". The Demiurge creates the Cosmos in the image of the eternal and transcendent Living Thing in the world of Forms. The cosmos being dynamic in essence and changeable since it is a copy of the world of forms. It appears that Gnosticism attributed falsehood, fallen or evil, to the concept of a creator in at least the Judeo-Christian and Hellenic paganism traditions, though sometimes the creator is from a fallen, ignorant or lesser rather than evil perspective in some Gnosticism traditions. The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus addressed within his works what he saw as un-Hellenic and blasphemous to the demiurge of Plato. An example of vilifying the Judeo-Christian creator would be to attribute the term “Kosmokrator” to the Old Testament creator as the fallen Gnostic demiurge (see Marcion and the Cathars). Though this would be at one point also to diverge from Philo and Plato as well as the New Testament. If one sees the attribute of Creatorship as inherent in the concept of “God,” then the title “The God of this Age” applied to Satan becomes a powerful indicator that Satan is indeed the creator. http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Demiurge I own nothing. I thank the respected artists for their work.

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