What we do know is that the daimon always represented some sort of occult force, some nameless power that overcame people like a dark wave and withdrew them from the bright lights of social encounters. Under the influence of the daimon, the causes of a person’s actions became arcane and veiled to the human realm. Something took hold of them and

Because just as your holy daimon believes in you, so do I.

How should I make use of the black mirror? A black ocean, a current through the mirror. Swim. For which functions can I enquire of Aratron? The duration within time and within the body. Works of preservation and destruction. For which functions can I enquire Tzaphkiel? The ascending and descending. Works of motion within time and across the planes.

Plato makes it clear that this light which helps us see, or these ideas which help us remember, come from the immortal part of our soul; all other parts of it vanish at our death. Both metaphors illustrate how the nous surpasses both the material and human realms.

HE ORIGINAL technical meaning and the etymological origin of the Greek δαίμων (daimon) is lost in the darkness of ancient history. Our understanding of the word, ‘a lowly spiritual being of a preponderantly dangerous and evil character’17 is strongly influenced by the works of Plato and Xenocrates, which were composed between 396 – 313 BCE. The

You matter because your life sends a ripple across this planet and up into the sky. You matter because over the course of your life hundreds, thousands of spirits will be watching you, observing you, and trying to learn from you what they do not have and often do not understand: free will, ethics, kindness, and firmness, and when to use each of

One doesn’t pray with words, one prays with their hands. Whoever is praying with words is begging. One doesn’t beg. The spirit knows quite well what you require. When the palms touch each other, the Left is closed by help of the Right inside man to form a chain. That is how the body is bound firmly, and through the tip of the fingers, pointing

Because your daimon is a raw, pure, essential reality: it simply occupies a different realm. So let’s mirror this in our work. Walking this path is not about our personal dreams, dramas, desires, or preferences. It is about the work that has to be done. Nothing else. That work is to turn your senses into vehicles for, rather than obstacles to, the

The idea is this: that from the moment of birth until we leave our mortal bodies, a good being is assigned to us, watching over and supporting all our efforts to draw down the divine into matter and so make matter sublime.