Editing Demiurge (section)

== Later representations ==
=== Cathars ===
[[Catharism]] apparently inherited their idea of Satan as the creator of the evil world from Gnosticism. [[Gilles Quispel]] writes, "There is a direct link between ancient Gnosticism and Catharism. The Cathars held that the creator of the world, Satanael, had usurped the name of God, but that he had subsequently been unmasked and told that he was not really God."<ref>Quispel, Gilles and Van Oort, Johannes (2008), p. 143.</ref>

=== Modern influence ===
[[Emil Cioran]] also wrote his ''Le mauvais démiurge'' ("The Evil Demiurge"), published in 1969, influenced by Gnosticism and [[Schopenhauer]]ian interpretation of Platonic ontology, as well as that of Plotinus.