daemon

‘Every soul has existed from the beginning; it has therefore passed through some worlds already, and will pass through others before it reaches the final consummation. It comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its previous life.’ ORIGEN (EARLY-CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR)

Your person is not a process or a development. You are that essential image that develops, if it does. As Picasso said, “I don’t develop; I am.”

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

A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim. The daimon does not go away.

Under normal circumstances the Daemon exists in isolation within the non-dominant hemisphere (usually the right). As the major speech centres of the brain are located in the dominant (usually left) hemisphere the Daemon simply cannot access the mechanisms that will allow it any form of verbal communication with the outside world.

Who and what is Ananke? First, she is extremely potent among the powers of the cosmos. Plato cites only two great cosmic forces: Reason (nous or mind) and Necessity (ananke).17 Reason accounts for what we can understand, for what follows reason’s laws and patterns. Necessity operates as a “variable”— sometimes translated as “erratic,” “errant,” or

In many aspects the eros, or epithumetikon as opposed to the thumetikon, can be imagined as the complete opposite of the thumos. Whereas the thumos rules over the positive (social) emotions, the eros yearns to set free the (biological) desires and urges. Whereas the thumos represents the vitalizing force of spiritedness, the eros reveals our basic