Demiurge

English

usually capitalized a in Platonism: the subordinate god who fashions the sensible world in the light of eternal ideas b in some Gnostic systems: an inferior not absolutely intelligent deity who is the creator of the material world and is frequently identified with the creator God of the Old Testament
something (as an institution, idea, or individual) conceived as an autonomous creative force or decisive power
that too was a gain in spiritual balance, provided the machine was not conceived as a demiurge that ruled all other human needs
-- Lewis Mumford