Gnosticism. Excerpt taken from “The Battle about God: Where do Gnostics stand?” – Dr. Stephan Hoeller. Illustrated with pictures and text.

* Some Gnostics used the term ‘Demiurge/Demiourgos’ to indicate the creator of the material forms, contrasting the Uncreated Spiritual substance, because they were quite saturated in Platonic philosophy. They adopted the term in their ways of expressing a specific paradigm in which there is a dualism between the created material forms and the Uncreated Spiritual forms. There were other terms used to indicate the creator god, also.