Editing Timaeus (dialogue) (section)

===Purpose of the universe===
Timaeus continues with an explanation of the creation of the universe, which he ascribes to the handiwork of a divine craftsman. The demiurge, being good, wanted there to be as much good as was the world. The demiurge is said to bring order out of substance by imitating an unchanging and eternal model (paradigm). ''[[Ananke]]'', often translated as 'Necessity', was the only other co-existent element or presence in Plato's [[cosmogony]]. Later Platonists clarified that the eternal model existed in the mind of the demiurge.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}