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Demiurge

in some of the Peloponnesian states the name of a magistrate, probably corresponding to the tribunes Rome. It is also a name given by the Platonian philosophers to an exalted and mysterious agent, by whom God was supposed to have created the universe.

He corresponds to the Logos or Word of St. John and the Platonizing Christians of the Early Church.

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