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| Demiurge, watching, waiting, beware(?) |
Today, boys and girls, let's talk about the Demiurge for a lot of you are worshiping this entity thinking it is your guardian angel.
The word "demiurge" literally means a public worker, demioergós, demiourgós, and was originally used to designate any craftsman plying his craft or trade for the use of the public. Soon, however, technítes and other words began to be used to designate the common artisan while demiurge was set aside for the Great Artificer or Fabricator, the Architect of the universe, maker of heaven and earth.
Plato used the term in the dialog Timaeus, an exposition of cosmology in which the Demiurge is the agent who takes the preexisting materials of chaos,
arranges them according to the models of eternal forms, and produces
all the physical things of the world, including human bodies. The
Demiurge is sometimes thought of as the Platonic
personification of active reason. The term was later adopted by some of
the Gnostics, who, in their dualistic worldview, saw the Demiurge as
one of the forces of evil, who was responsible for the creation of the
despised material world and was wholly alien to the supreme God of
goodness.
In Esoteric philosophy the Demiurge or Logos, is simply an abstract term, an idea, like “army.” As Madame Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine, the Demiurge is not a single personal creator god, but a collective "host" of lower creative angels or builders (Elohim) who fashion the material universe based on divine ideation. They are not the supreme absolute deity but the architects of form, often identified with the Gnostic Ialdabaoth and the Old Testament Jehovah.
The Demiurge is generally considered evil, malicious, or deeply flawed in Gnostic tradition, acting as a "false god" who imprisons souls in the material world. Often called Yaldabaoth, this figure is seen as ignorant, arrogant, and jealous, rather than the true supreme deity.
Finally, if you are a Buddhist like me, the Demiurge is just another heavenly deity who might be out to get you if you wallow in the lower worlds. But if you keep your life force high, He/She/It can't touch you.
~~ Eso Terry
