Derived from a Greek word meaning "artisan(職人、熟練工)" or "public worker," the Demiurge was first described by Plato in his dialogue Timaeus, in which he identifies the Demiurge as the force that fashioned(創り出す)the world from the preexisting materials of chaos. In Gnosticism(グノーシス主義), the Demiurge is regarded as an inferior deity who created the imperfect, material world and belongs to the forces of evil opposing the supreme God of goodness.