Plato's Creation and Gnosticism Similiarity - Big Fire #shorts #spirituality

Plato wrote the "Timaeus", a dialogue which contains a creation myth. In that myth the divine creator, defined as the demiurge ("artisan"), creates the physical world based on the eternal pattern in the world of immaterial forms. The product of that creation is the best of all possible worlds.

A similarity of dualism can be found in Gnosticism, where a radical distinction is made between the material world below and the immaterial divine world above. Some Gnostics have even launched the Platonic term for the creator, the Demiurge. But for the Gnostics this world is by no means the best of all possible worlds, nor is it eternal. Its creator is a god who is ignorant at best and even evil in some gnostic systems.

[deusvult]

This is the truth. The gnostics had it right.