What is the Hermetic God & Demiurge?

Описание: The concept of the Demiurge is often associated with the demonic cosmos creator of the Gnostics. But, what do we know about the ancient Hermetic Demiurge? Emerging from the world of Greco-Egyptian religion and philosophy, Hermeticism was a powerfully optimistic means of reuniting one's high consciousness (Nous) with the Divine Parental Light after exorcising one's body of fatalistic daimonic infestation. But, the Hermetic Spiritual Philosophy is ambivalent about the place of any Demiurge in it's cosmology and means of salvation. Yet, some texts do speak of a magnificent Solar Demiurge as the conduit and cosmic artisan. Just what is the place of the Demiurge in Hermeticism?

Demiurge 1 -    • What is the Demiurge - Pt 1 - How the God ...  
Demiurge 2 -    • What is the Demiurge - Pt 2 - The Evil Cre...  
Demiurge 3 -    • What is the Demiurge - Pt 3 - Simon Magus ...  
Demiurge 4 -    • What is the Demiurge? Pt 4 Why the Demiurg...  

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Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination - https://amzn.to/4r7cRRB
Hermetica I: The Corpus Hermeticum, Asclepius, and Nag Hammadi Hermetica Ordered as a Path of Initiation - https://amzn.to/47P4kvf
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The Demiurge in Ancient Thought: Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators - https://amzn.to/49tSc3Z