demiurgic

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Such a man is demiurgic, for he puts down a hand on action through the sky From a happy or sufficient genius came the golden maxim, "Think of living."

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  • I suggest that a weakening of Floridi's demiurgic information ecology is needed in order not to forget the limitations of human actors and / or of their surrogates, digital agents. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • There ends the cone of shadow which the earth projects, and which produces night; there ends the sojourn of night and darkness; to it the air extends; but there we enter the pure substance The Egyptians assigned to the Moon the demiurgic or creative force of Osiris, who united himself to her in the spring, when the Sun communicated to her the principles of generation which she afterward disseminated in the air and all the elements. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • Such a man is demiurgic, for he puts down a hand on action through the sky From a happy or sufficient genius came the golden maxim, "Think of living." —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864
  • II.) It seems to me that it would rather refer to his demiurgic, creative power Footnote 2: All these titles are to be found in Sahagun, Historia de Nueva Espańa He was said to be formed of thin air and darkness; and when he was seen of men it was as a shadow without substance. —  American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent
  • Balzac's characters, to whatever class they belong, bear the royal and passionate stamp of their demiurgic creator. —  Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
 

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