Unlocking the Soul’s Hidden Guide
- Eidolon (εἴδωλον): A ghostly phantom or illusory double in Greek mythology, reflecting an unreal or idealized image of a person or thing.
- Daemon (δαίμων): A divine or spiritual being in Greek philosophy, acting as a guiding force or moral conscience between gods and humans.
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The soul of each of us is given a unique daimon before we are born, and it has selected an image or pattern that we live on earth. This soul-companion, the daimon, guides us here; in the process of arrival, however, we forget all that took place and believe we come empty into this world. The daimon remembers what is in your image and belongs to
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We can’t know why the Daimon wants to pursue certain things and refuses to engage in others; its long view cannot be corralled into the pedestrian confines of human conceptual models and narratives. All we can do is trust the inner whispers, under moral oversight.