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    Numenius' demiurge is not ignorant or a less-than-good creator analogous to the Gnostic demiurge.

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    The demiurge is the source of generation, not of being86%The demiurge transmits that goodness to the world it creates.85%The demiurge is a recipient of the goodness of the highest God.82%The first God brings about a second intellect, the divine demiurge.81%

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    Numenius faces two challenges. First, how can the first God be the ultimate cause of everything, as it appears it ought to be (fr. 16.1–2, 9), if it is inert? Second how can it be simple, as Numenius has claimed, if it is, as he has also claimed, an intellect that thinks? Numenius maintains that the first or highest God, or first intellect, brings about a second one (frs. 13, 21.7), in fact the divine demiurge, and uses this second intellect as an instrument of its thinking (fr. 22.1–2). It is
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