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Demiurge

The craftsman: in Plato’s Timaeus, the divine maker who shapes the cosmos after the eternal model.

Also: demiurgos

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

The demiurge, craftsman, is the divine artisan who, being good and without envy, orders the chaotic receptacle after the pattern of the Forms, making the cosmos as like the eternal as possible. Some Gnostics reinterpreted the demiurge as an ignorant or malevolent creator.