daimon
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A daimon was a guardian spirit that would help someone through life and guide them to the underworld.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates claimed his daimon told him to philosophize so he could awaken the Athenian people.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
One is the Lesser Zadkiel, an assistant to the Recording Angel; the other is a daimon called Maimas, who steered Francis Cornish through his existence.
From Time Magazine Archive
A daimon of this kind, under whose influence Hamlet acts, is described in the second scene of the fifth act.
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob
For no wise woman on the physical plane could awaken the daimon in the soul, unless the daimonic force were latent in the soul itself.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry
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