And again in the Gorgias, he relates the fable concerning the three fabricators, and their demiurgic allotment.
But from the Timaeus you may obtain the theory about intelligibles, a divine narration about the demiurgic monad, and the most full truth about the mundane gods.
From the City of Baal to the City of Demiurgic Dollar is not in fact a far cry.
And is it not natural that the Demiurgic Dollar should be the national Deity of America?
Is it not strange that this son of Superstition and Trade can not find solace in the fact that in this Pix of Business is the Host of the Demiurgic Dollar?
As befits a demiurgic nature, AEschylus conceived and executed upon a stupendous scale.
They had their list of demiurgic agencies, Titans and deities, some of them dramatically personified in the poems of Homer and the legends of Olympus, others but vaguely indicated by the names of Earth and Ocean, Heaven and Time.
Much that has been described as Asiatic in the genius of AEschylus may be referred to what I have called his demiurgic force.
I have hitherto been occupied by what appear to me the essential features of the genius of AEschylus--its demiurgic faculty of creativeness, and its capacity of dealing with heroic rather than merely human forms.
I wish it to be distinctly understood, that I am endeavoring to show, only, that the language of Scripture will admit of an indefinite interval between the first creation of matter and the six demiurgic days.
But if we allow any period between its creation and the six demiurgic days, it is no more derogatory to Scripture to make that period ten millions of years than ten years.
But those fathers of the church cannot be supposed under the influence of any such bias; and, therefore, we may suppose the passage in itself to admit of the existence of a long period between the beginning and the first demiurgic day.
The Sabbath, or seventh day, in which God rested from his work, has not yet terminated; and there is reason to suppose the demiurgic days may have been at least of equal length.
And even those who are inclined to adopt it do also believe in the existence of a long period between the beginning and the demiurgic days.
From the earliest times, however, in which we have writings upon the Scriptures, we find men doubting whether the demiurgic days of Moses are to be taken in a strictly literal sense.
Where is the motive, operative, demiurgic force, ready to translate such an idea into reality?
He forms the limbs of Osiris (the primitive soul) in contradistinction to Ptah, who, as the strictly demiurgic principle, forms the visible world.
It is he whom an ancient monument represents as the demiurgic principle creating the mundane egg.
The scarabaeus was the emblem of the demiurgic god Phtha.
Gnostic conceptions respecting the relation of the demiurgic agency to the supreme God would appear to have passed through three stages.
Demiurgic ideas of some Gnostics not of the Mosaic religion, 558-m.
Balzac's characters, to whatever class they belong, bear the royal and passionate stamp of their demiurgic creator.
Art is the free play of generous and creative imaginations with the life-blood of the demiurgic forces of the universe in their veins.
The new cult of the "will to power" which Nietzsche originated is nothing more than the olddemiurgic life-illusion breaking loose again, as it broke loose in the grave ecstasies of the early Christians and in the Lutheran reformation.
One is strangely conscious in reading him of the presence of some great unuttered power--some vast demiurgic secret--struggling like a buried Titan just below the surface of his mind, and never quite finding vocal expression.
That the sun was here regarded as symbolizing the intermediate father, or demiurgic creator, cannot be doubted.
He states that the demiurgic creator, being good, gave it a soul to make it intelligent, because without the soul, the universe could not have been as intelligent as it ought to have been.
By cause, he means Intelligence; for, in the system of Plato, it is Intelligence which plays the part of demiurgic creator.
Nothing with a nature different from the atoms could produce anything with the atoms, because no demiurgic creator could produce something with a matter that lacked continuity.
Besides, how could (the demiurgic creator) then be in all?
Besides, what necessity was there for the mother of the demiurgic creator to have formed him of matter and of an image?
How could this newly formed image (the demiurgic creator) have undertaken to create by memory of the things he knew?
It was to express this idea strikingly that Plato[231] represents the demiurgic creator as admiring his handiwork, which would lead us also to admire the beauty both of the model and of the idea.
They often consider this discursive intelligence as the creative soul, and they consider this to be the demiurgic creator mentioned by Plato, because they were entirely ignorant of the true nature of this demiurgic creator.
But their demiurgic creator could not have proceeded thus.
To ask (as do the Gnostics) why the world was created, amounts to asking the reason of the existence of the universal Soul, and of the creation of the demiurgic creator himself.
They also suppose that this demiurgic creator separated himself from his mother, Wisdom, and from him they deduce the whole world even to the extremity of the images.
