Demiurge
1. A powerful creative force or personality.
2. A public magistrate in some ancient Greek states.
3. A deity in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and other religions who creates the material world and is often viewed as the originator of evil.
4. A Platonic deity who orders or fashions the material world out of chaos.

The word is derived from the Greek δηµιουργ-ός (Latinized dēmiūrgus), literally a public or skilled worker. According to the OED the word is first recorded in English around 1678.