Demiurge

But that this one is the Father of the Son, the Demiurge of all things, the Lord Almighty, we have postponed to that examination in which we promised to discourse against the heresies, showing that this is the only one proclaimed by Him.

For the Demiurge, called god and father, he addressed as image of the true God and as prophet, but Sophia as painter, of whom the moulded thing is the image, unto the glory of the invisible—since whatever comes forth from a conjugal pairing is fullnesses, but whatever from a single one is images.

but if He destroyed it to this end, namely, that He might not touch the different kind, then it is not these counterfeits of the Demiurge who destroy death—those who breathe into the soul from the middle state, their own image, the life from above according to the heresy of their doctrine, even if they say this comes about through the mother.

the Father, and the Demiurge, and the King of all that is after him.

and the Demiurge, ignorant of his mother, much more of the Father, the image of Nus, who knows the Father?

Otherwise the Demiurge was so far not master of things—namely, that spiritual things should accrue to the census of the animal by reason of his weakness—that, thinking himself alone, he made proclamation:

Thus that eternal god brought forth this perfectly blessed god.

Wherefore he enclosed intelligence within soul, and soul within body.

This reasoning, then, the maker and fashioner of the universe, the god, held:

For "our people," they say, "not even the Demiurge himself steadily approved as men, since he reckoned them a drop of a bucket and the dust of a threshing-floor and spittle and locusts, and even made them equal to irrational beasts of burden.