The Demiurges

15 Apr, 2024

The Demiurges met to address the question of which of them had in fact created the world and Mankind. Each had been claimed by some group or another as the architect of our world, having brought it forth from chaos—whatever else anyone might have to say of Them—but They could come to no agreement amongst Themselves beforehand as to which of Them had actually done so. It was perhaps inescapable, given Their natures, that most assigned to Himself that unique and central role, yet doubts always crept round the corners, vexing Them and causing Them a great mental anguish. Doubts were not something to be brooked by such lofty and soi-disant divine Beings. “We,"—He would of course use the majestic plural and was by no means the only to do so—“alone created the Heavens and the Earth," Yaldaboath boasted with His characteristic arrogance. “It was Us,” Samael said, “We created Mankind in Our image.” Then Saklas, too, spoke, saying, “We created the Seven Heavens and the four corners of the Earth and all that dwell within,"—appropriating for Himself this highest honor and glory. Ariel, the Elohim, and Abraxas the Great Archon each staked in turn Their claims to the act, their words being so much more of the same, with each declaring His own unique role as the Creator; as did the one who would call Himself only the Demiurge. As usual somewhat out of step with Their peers, Ptahil and Gabriel were more circumspect. “We did not wish to do so, but were commanded," They both said, each claiming only some reluctant part in the world’s birth, having been instructed in the requisite ways and set at the task of Creation. They admitted furthermore to being aided in the work by others, though Abathur and Ruha were not invited to tell their tales as they were not strictly of the company. Even Satan took part in this council, though he was an unwelcome guest for many of the assembly who thought him a foolish upstart, a foe even, certainly neither Creator nor equal and hardly fit to share the table with the rest. Nevertheless there he was to press his claims, even if he was to be ignored. In the end, the summit came to nothing and could only be thought an abject failure, for no accord could be reached between Them and none could be persuaded to give up His claims. And so all went Their separate ways, each convinced more than before of the truth of His own account.