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Demiurge
Noun. Creator of the physical world and its emergent psychic/mental world. Co-prisoner in existence
Traditionally equated with the Old Testament God.
Called "The Blind and Idiot God", as it is just as, if not deeper into, the illusion of the world as the rest of us sentient beings, despite the amount of time it had and the power it has.
Divine Spark
Noun. Am infinitesimal fraction of the Infinite/God/The Tao/etc found within all sentient beings.
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21
In contrast to the Demiurge, a creature which is also subject to the marks of existence, there is a part of us that is eternal, pure and free.
Sophia
Shekinah
Noun. A presence or manifestation of the True and Infinite God within the world, a crack in the prison the Demiurge built.
Usually equated to the Christian concept of "The Holy Spirit"