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The basic grammar of Gnostic language: powers, worlds, divine depth, false creation, awakening and return.
Gnostic cosmos & myth
Also: world-maker, craftsman, blind god
The lower craftsman or maker associated with the formation of the material cosmos. In some Gnostic systems the Demiurge is ignorant, arrogant or hostile to the higher divine reality.
Gnostic cosmos & myth
Also: fool, foolish god
A name for the foolish Demiurge in some Gnostic texts. It stresses ignorance more than omnipotence.
Gnostic cosmos & myth
Also: blind god
A name associated with blindness or the blind god in some Gnostic contexts, often connected with Yaldabaoth or archontic ignorance.
Gnostic cosmos & myth
Also: Saklas, Samael, blind god
A name often given to the Demiurge or chief archon in Sethian Gnostic texts, frequently portrayed as blind, arrogant and ignorant of the higher source.
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Modern terms for algorithmic attention, machine mediation, digital possession, prompt religion and technological versions of old control patterns.
AI, technology & archonic systems
Also: machine demiurge
A contemporary metaphor comparing artificial intelligence or machine-mediated reality to the Gnostic Demiurge: a maker of worlds that may shape perception without wisdom.
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