Demiurge
The Demiurge is portrayed in the Gnostic Gospel of Judas as the Old Testament God, distinguishable from the true, unknowable God of the New Testament. Judas understood this distinction, recognizing the Demiurge as a lesser deity whose domain Jesus transcends.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 360 BCE
- Attested period
- -360 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Concept appears in Gnostic Gospel of Judas, denounced as heresy in 180 CE by Irenaeus.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- the Monad, Supreme Being, Aeons, Good God, Sophia, YHWH, Monad, Yaldabaoth, Logos, Bythos, Parent, Satan, Christ, Jesus
- parent of
- the devil
- child of
- Sophia
- manifested by
- Second Intellect
- served by
- Archons
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Judas understood the Old Testament God (the Demiurge) as distinguishable from the true, unknowable God of the New Testament, the Monad or the One.”
#1161 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the Demiurge is also the maker, out of the appropriate substance, of an order of spiritual beings, the devil, the prince of this world, and his angels. But the devil, as being a spirit of wickedness, is able to recognise the higher spiritual world, of which his maker the Demiurge”
#25515 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“In some versions of Christian gnosticism, especially those deriving from Valentinius, a lesser deity known as the Demiurge (see also Neoplatonism, Plotinus) had a role in the creation of the material world separate from the Monad.”
#25542 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Demiurge – Creation spirit in some schools of philosophy”
#25578 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The creation of the Demiurge, also known as Yaldabaoth, is also a mistake made during this exile. The Demiurge proceeds to create the physical world in which we live, ignorant of Sophia, who nevertheless manages to infuse some spiritual spark or pneuma into his creation.”
#25627 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001