0 in some early belief systems such as Platonic philosophy and Gnosticism, a god who creates, shapes, or controls the physical world --
According to gnostic tradition the demiurge created the world.
By mimicking the demiurge, the individual is returned to the cosmos to implement the will of the divine mind.
In most of the systems, this demiurge was seen as imperfect, in others even as evil.
This demiurge exists alongside another remote and unknowable supreme being that embodies good.
The demiurge is said to bring order out of substance by imitating an unchanging and eternal model (paradigm).
And since the universe is fair, the demiurge must have looked to the eternal model to make it, and not to the perishable one (29a).
Therefore, the demiurge did not create several worlds, but a single unique world (31b).
The demiurge or nous is the first sentience, a reflective duality that in the process of perpetual recurrence is man, himself.
