Demiurge
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In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the Demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. Variou
A lion-faced, serpentine deity found on a Gnostic gem in Bernard de Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures, a depiction of Yaldabaoth
Samael
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Samael, also spelled Smil, Samil, or Samiel, is an archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic tradition—a figure who is the accuser or adversary, seducer, and destroying angel.
Demiurge
…world by himself: Now the archon ["ruler"] who is weak has three names. The first name is Yaldabaoth, the second is Saklas ["fool"], and the third is Samael ["blind god"]. And he is impious in his arrogance which is in him. For he said, 'I am God and there is no other God beside me,' for he is ignorant of…
Angel of Death I (1880) by Evelyn De Morgan
A relief of the Archangel Samael in red robe, shown on the left side of the altar at Saint Bartholomew's Church, in Sydenham, London.
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Gustave Doré (1855)