Sublime

• 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.

Referring to the medieval idea of the “daemonic,” Jung writes that “demons are nothing other than intruders from the unconscious, spontaneous irruptions of the unconscious complexes into the continuity of the conscious process. Complexes are comparable to demons which fitfully harass our thought and actions; hence in antiquity and the Middle Ages

Using the word devil is a strange thing; let’s use the word dīmon. For the Greek, the dīmon was the energy of your life, and the energy of your life doesn’t obey the rules necessarily that your head puts on it. So the dīmon becomes a danger—a demon—for people who are stuck with their head trip, and consequently those people call such powers devils.

Jung’s life-long exploration of the powerful, archetypal forces of the unconscious led him to conclude that they “possess a specific energy which causes or compels definite modes of behavior or impulses; that is, they may under certain circumstances have a possessive or obsessive force (numinosity!). The conception of them as daimonia is therefore

A man could not control whether he was the subject of a good or an evil daimon, which made for fortune or misfortune. This is how the terms ‘good’ and ‘evil’ daimon, the agathodaimon and kakodaimon, need to be understood. Originally they did not refer to different categories of spiritual beings, but rather the effects, for better or worse, that the

For the early Greeks, the daimon was both evil and creative; it was the source of destruction as well as spiritual guidance, much like those primitive demons described by Freud. The word daimon was sometimes used by Plato as a synonym for theos or god; and mighty Eros was also a daimon. Daimons were potentially both good and evil, constructive and