Associations to the word «Demiurge»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

DEMIURGE, noun. A subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne