Personal Daemons

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I know some greek philosophers talked about having a personal Daemon (that was the term used if I recall correctly) which might I guess be interpreted as some personal spirit etc. I wonder if any of you kind minds may point out some piece of literature where this idea is expanded upon. I think ,among others, Plato claimed being in contact with his, but I can't recall.

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These wikipedia articles sums it up pretty good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(c ... mythology)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia

The article relies heavily on 'Walter Burkert - Greek religion'. Which was the Harvard standard text for a long time. I highly recommend reading it because it isn't just "greek mythology", the book actually touches on different classical texts and compares them to each other and archaeological evidence to showcase a much broader view of greek religions.

ISBN-13: 978-0674362819
https://www.amazon.com/Greek-Religion-W ... 0674362810

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"Come, then, let us now endeavor, so far as we are able, to straighten the complicated problem in respect to the personal daemon, which is likewise made the theme for various objections. So, therefore, to speak plainly, the treatment of the subject in respect to the personal daemon is twofold, theurgic and technic: the one evoking him from the categories above, and the other from the visible periods in the world of generated existence. The former makes no use of the art of casting nativities, but the latter is devoted to such pursuits. The former pays honor to the daemon more generally as superior to the province of nature, but the latter specifically as pertaining to the realm of nature altogether. Hence thou seemest to have brought down strangely the most perfect sacred performance to regard as a mere human affair, and to have put thy questions upon this subject as in a gymnastic exercise."

Iamblichus, Theurgia or On the Mysteries of Egypt: Part IX, Chapter 17, The Personal Daemon.

http://www.esotericarchives.com/oracle/iambl_t3.htm (scroll down towards the bottom of the page)

Basically, as far as I'm concerned and based on the scholarship, the Personal Daemon is the same thing that more recent occultists call the Holy Guardian Angel.



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Very much appreciated. Cheers

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