demiurgus

Marcus's dualism is more absolute than that of Marcion himself: the demiurgus is the absolute evil principle.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

(ὅφις) because he had revolted against Jehovah, to whom they referred under the Cabalistic term of the "demiurgus," [112] and still more of the Cainites, so-called from their cult of Cain, whom, with

Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

Gnostics and Manicheans for the demiurgus lived again in these rebels against the social order.

Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

He had to account for the existence of the Old Testament and he accounted for it by postulating a secondary deity, a demiurgus, who was god, in

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Again, the Babylonian presentation amplifies the plain narrative of creation with the account of the choice and of the deeds of a demiurgus: it is highly figurative and anthropomorphic to the highest degree.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

[401] These included the distinction between the god of creation (the demiurgus) and the god of redemption (redemption corresponding to emanation, not to creation), the abandonment of the Old Testament god, the dualistic opposition of soul and body, the disintegration of the redemptive personality, etc.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

Aqd one of thefc eftablifhes in the one demiurgus of the world every thing proceeding from thence; but the other evocates all things into progreiTioii: and the third converts all things to himfelf.

The Description of Greece 1794

_day_, when used in relation to the inaugural manifestation of creative power in that vast drama which introduces God to man in the character of a demiurgus or creator of the world, indicated one stage amongst six; involving probably many millions of years.

Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822

Judas Iscariot, they regarded as noble victims of the demiurgus. [

Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

And to Aos and Dauke a son is born called Belos of whom they say that he is the creator of the world [demiurgus]. "

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913