demiurge

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A powerful creative force or personality.
2. n. A public magistrate in some ancient Greek states.
3. n. A deity in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and other religions who creates the material world and is often viewed as the originator of evil.
4. n. A Platonic deity who orders or fashions the material world out of chaos.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A maker or creator; the Creator of the world; specifically, a supernal being imagined by some as the creator of the world in subordination to the Supreme Being. In the Gnostic system the Demiurge (also called Archon, and Jaldabaoth, or son of Chaos) was represented as the chief of the lowest order of spirits or eons of the Pleroma. Mingling with Chaos, he evolved from it a corporeal, animated world. He could not, however, impart to man the true soul or pneuma, but only a sensuous one, psyche. He was identified with the Jehovah of the Jews, and was by some regarded as the originator of evil.
2. n. In some Peloponnesian states of ancient Greece, one of a class of public officers who in some cases appear to have constituted the chief executive magistracy.

Wiktionary

1. n. Something (as an institution, idea, or individual) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Gr. Antiq.) The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.
2. n. God, as the Maker of the world.
3. n. According to the Gnostics, an agent or one employed by the Supreme Being to create the material universe and man.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe