This page is almost finished. It’s that I am an old geezer and suffering from some kind of illnesses I didn’t finish it yet. But I yet published it so you would be able to read what I already wrote about it.
Something about the Demiurg
This is the detour I was talking about on the page about what the oldies said, because the Demiurg is/was a sub-god ages ago and therefore deserved a seperate approach.
But first I wanna mention that all this talking about this Demiurg is’nt more important than the core of this site althogether. The core of this site – that we can only long for things we already know and the consequences that has for our lives – is by far the most important. Anyway, over to the Demiurg.
In the old days they were talking about God and the Demiurg, or Demiurge, where God was the Creator and the Demiurg was kind of a sub-creator aside of or opposite to God. Or thought as being in line with God, on a next to God lower level.
‘Demiurg’ means literally a craftsman or builder, responsible for shaping, designing and maintaining the physical universe. (According to the Wikipedia, which I value very much; see my note at the end***). The difference between God and the Demiurg is that God is the creator who is creating something – life? – out of nothing and that the Demiurg could (only) create something out of something what’s already there. It would have been better to call him ‘the Transformer’, but they didn’t. Anyway.
What the Demiurg does is like what we do, creating something out of something – we do that all the time – but we can’t even create the smallest thing out of nothing, (what God does). We can’t even create an atom out of nothing. And we think of ourselves as heroes, creating things out of things we already know, old rubbish that is, things that are basically already dead. That’s why I said we crete old rubbish out of old rubbish. And this Demiurg also can’t even create the smallest thing out of nothing.
The question arises if this Demiurg is an independent creating force or is it a force within us. (A question you could ask about God also, but anyway.)
To me this Demiurg is the ‘creating’ force within us, and outside of us, because it was already there way before us (I assume. You can’t pinpoint something if it was’nt there before you). A force within us, people only discover in a later state of their growing awareness, but which force is/was always there and working (I assume). This Demiurg is consciously used by people who say they use the Law of Attraction. Because using this Law of Attraction is the same as using the Demiurg, it’s just a different name. And this Law of Attraction is of course the same as Gravity, the basic attraction there is. Or this Demiurg is the same as Gravity, whatever. There is just one form of attraction in our lower realm, the realm we live in. But people don’t say Gravity is the same as the Law of Attraction, because they don’t understand it’s the same, they probably didn’t even think about it.
So this ‘Demiurg’ is a lower creating force, lower than God. But it’s drenched in everything, like God. We can use it consciously or not consciously, but it’s always working inside of us or outside of us, even when we are not using it consciously. Even when we are not aware of it. It’s the same when we use the Law of Attraction, Gravity, consciously or not consciously, which is how we ‘create’ things. (Re-create, is better said, because we can’t create new things.) (And even when we don’t use the Law of Attraction consciously, it works, because the core of it’s working is the visualisation that we always do (consciously or not-consciously). Even when we are not aware of the relation between visualisation and the following ‘creation’.) And like the Law of Attraction, Gravity, this Demiurg is always working, also if you are not aware of it, that’s the trick. (We are mostly not aware of our visualisations and what followes out of them.)
These three forces, Demiurg, Law of Attraction, Gravity – influences is maybe a better word – are one law which always works. It’s not some guy who says at a certain moment: “Mmm, let me do this or that today (with those people).” It’s not some guy with whom you can bargain with to get what you want at the moment you want it, It’s always there. And working. And it’s not fór us and not against us, which is important to know, it’s neutral. Our visualisations and this law they work with(in), are neutral. We aren’t, but our visualizations are. This law doesn’t care what we want. It gives us what we want when we ‘ask’ for it. But it also gives us what we subconsciously ask for…
But… when you create something out of something else what already exists, like this Demiurg (force) does, it’s basically the same as what we do when we are (trying to*) satisfy our longings. Then we also (try to) create something, the something we long for, out of something which already exists: the longing itself. Which already exists as a thought in our mind. And we know them, those somethings, those thoughts, those longings, because they are based on the past. And we know the past, (as far as our mind permits us to), that’s why these thoughts, longings, are old. That’s why they are dead. (Although we probably aren’t aware of that.)
*I said ‘trying to’, because you can’t be sure it works. Well, it works, it always works, but you can’t be sure the result, a result, is what you want. Certainly when you want subconsciously something else. Then there could be all kinds of obstacles, emotional or mental.
And, moreover, you can’t long for something which you don’t know, which is impossible to know, which is impossible to create a thought of, which is impossible to visualize. So you can’t create something out of something which you don’t know. And this Demiurg couldn’t either. (And the realm of things we (and he-no capitol-) don’t know is infinite.) (Did you get that? O man, this is even for me, who discovered this teaching, sooooo tricky. And now I am trying to explain this trickyness to you. Help.)
So this ‘Demiurg’ is quite a familiar phenomenon for me, because it’s the same as what we do. He does, and can, only create something out of something you already know, what he already knows, something which exists already on some level. He, we, can only transform something which is already in our awareness, which we already have created in our mind. He can only transform something known into something else on another level of known. But this something else on another level of known (but coming from something known from an earlier level of known) is still old, (that’s why it’s already known), so this something else he gets out of it is also still old. As old as where it’s transformed from. Only the (stage, phase, of) form differs*. It’s a something known, old, transformed into another something known, but in the core it’s the same old, the same known where you began with. He, this Demiurg, probably also does that outside of our awareness, but we don’t know that, because it’s, ehh, outside of our awareness. (See also the ‘In between’ at the end of the page about the Oldies.)
* Let me give you a concrete example of some phases I mentioned: Suppose you get tired of walking and then you start fantasizing about an aid to make life, walking, easier. (We do things like that all the time.) Say you start fantasizing about a bike, and then about a moped and then about a regular car and then about a red Ferrari. The phases before the bike, the moped, the regular car and then the red Ferrari are immaterial, because they grew in your mind. But once you’ve realised the bike, the moped, the regular car and then the red Ferrari you are in the material phase. Butttt… this material phase, although you could say it is new, is basically as old as the immaterial phase, because they are as known as the immaterial phase.
In short: you took this immaterial red Ferrari out of your mind, where you created it on this immaterial level, where it already existed in a certain sense, it was already in a certain state ‘real’, and materialized it (by a builder of cars, or you did it yourself). Brought it doing so into another ‘real’ level, materealized it, the life we call ‘real’, but which isn’t. But this so called ‘real’ life is just another level of existence of the same old. That’s why it isn’t real, it’s still dead. Got it? (I hope so.)
But, since this Demiurg force only can create something out of something which already exists, which is unavoidably old, it can only ‘create’ something of the next phase old. Because everything that already exists, is old. There you go. Only the form changes, is different. Ehh, let’s say ‘new’, which in the core it isn’t. (Sigh.)
And God creates life, out of nothing, something really new, something alive. (Which lives on it’s own, like anything living around you, like trees or birds – or ourselves – but it basically lives on God’s force. And we ca’nt even pinpoint life, life in the phase before we can recognise it as something living. Let’s say a tree before it’s a tree. We can only pinpoint meterialized phases of living ‘things’. So the tree when it became this tree.) How does God do that? How does He create life? IIIII dòòòòn’t knòòòòw. It’s from the other side of the magical mirror. Ehh, it’s even from beyond what is on the other side of the magical mirror. (* See for the magical mirrorr the page about what the oldies said.)
Is the Demiug the Devil (like it was often said in the old days)?
So, you see, God creates life and the Demiurg ‘creates’, shapes, surrogate life, in the (form of the) physical universe, from already existing stuff, better said dead stuff. The Demiurg can’t create life. Therefore some religious groups, sects, institutes, called this Demiurg the Devil (like I read about). And when you see that this Demiurg only creates something existing out of something existing, which is old from old, which is basically dead from dead, and that it is is never really living, then it’s understandable that those groups, sects, institutes, said that this Demiurg was (equal to) the Devil. Because He only creates old rubbish, something old, dead, and he burdens us with it. (And we burden ourselves getting along with him/it doing the same.) He brings us on a side path with all those dead rubbish. But it’s like what we also do in and from our minds, our brains, our trees of knowledge. We burden ourselves with the old rubbish we ‘create’. And doing so we bring ourselves on a side path. We focus on the dead things, like the materialized things, the things which are a follow-up of life, like emotions*. We don’t focus on life itself, which maybe not even be possible, but which IS possible, this focusing on life itself, when you live spontaneously, using your intuition. (* I didn’t talk much about emotions, but emotions are also second hand. Something happened and then the emotion comes (if it comes).)
So, is what we do, creating something dead from something dead, from our dead longings, demonic? I don’t dare to say that. I assume I have already enough people who disagree… 🙁
You could also say that this ‘Devil’, this Demiurg is equal to plucking fruit from the tree of knowledge, the brain, but I don’t know if they said that in the old days. But it sure is the same.
To me this ‘Demiurg’ (force) is the same as the Law of Attraction, which is just a modern name for ‘Demiurg’, and Gravity. Demiurg = the Law of Attraction = Gravity in my opinion. And it can be used on purpose, partly!!!, but it always works. Also when you don’t use it on purpose. It also works then. And gravity creates the universe…
But this Demiurg isn’t totally useless. Nààà, but there hides a very dangerous risk in it, a great risk. That risk is if you think you can get everything you want with it*. Like the fans of the Law of Attraction say and, I’m sorry to say this, also the Bible says in Mark 11:24. Not even God can give you (in answer to your prayers) something you don’t know, because you can only pray for things you already know.** You can only long for things you already know, thus pray for things you already know. Which is proof that you always have to watch out what you believe, even when it’s written in the Bible.
* I don’t know if they attributed that to the Demiurg in those days, but it may be well possible.
** Don’t let me be misunderstood: God gives you every millisecond things you don’t know, also if you didn’t pray for that. That is given to you by God already, even before you asked, prayed, for it. But you aren’t aware of that, as long as you are just trying to pluck fruit from the tree of knowledge, your brain. Then you are only focused on using your brain. Use your intuition instead. Be spontaneous. It opens the door to the New.
See also Bible Psalm 23 “The Lord is my shepherd; I SHALL NOT WANT.” (Capitols are mine.) Because God already gave you what you want, even before asking. Only you have to use your intuition to get it. So live spontaneously.
So there was a discussion: To believe in God or to believe in the Demiurg. Which was basically the choice between Life and Death. And ‘Death’ meant in the spiritual sense. The sense of standing still in your life. Being dead in your life. (Like Lot’s wife – see the Oldies.) Or maybe even worse, living backwards, (like Plato’s story suggested), living focused on the past, re-creating old rubbish, which I hopefully explained to you already. (See for Plato in the chapter of the Oldies.)
In short: the Demiurg can’t create something (really) new, he can only (re)create something what’s already there. And we, (with our Law of Attraction, Gravity, our Demiurg), can’t also create something (really) new. We also can only ‘create’ something old from something old, something dead from something dead.
So, what kind of detour was this, huh? Yes, it was a detour. But still close to the core of what I’m writing about. Because the Law of Attraction, which causes the misery I was writing about, is close to or the same as the Demiurg.
*** At the end I wanne make a plea for the Wikipedia. They are sooooo important to us, people who study all kind of matters. So that’s why I ask you to donate them, because they are always suffering shortage of money. Please.
Greetings, Ronald.