This is a direct mirroring of the creation of man within Plato’s Timaeus, which states that man’s bodily creation was tasked by the lesser gods, not the creator. Plato writes “The subordinate gods take over from the demiurge… encase it in the globe of the skull, and form the ...
day. But they have nothing to do with the interpretation of Plato, and in spirit they are opposed to him. They are the feeble expression of an age which has lost the power not only of creating great works, but of understanding them. They are the spurious birth of a marriage between phi...