Demiurge

  1. Proper noun.  (context, Platonism) The subordinate being that fashions the perceptible world in the light of eternal ideas.
  2. Proper noun.  (gnosticism) A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Hebrew Bible.
  3. Noun.  Something (as an institution, idea, or individual) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power.

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