daimon
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daimones,
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daimons
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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
Poets seem to me the homeliest and most hardworking of mankind—'t is a man in possession, not a daimon nor a disease.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
And when it appears in a person, we call it a daimon.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison
Indeed we see that the daimons, i.e., spiritual beings, and the gods themselves, needed explaining.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison
These new chords, the new musical daimons that he had summoned from the abyss of sounds, were used to build clear symphonies, vast, sunlit buildings, like the Italian cupola'd basilicas.
From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Gilbert Cannan
Plutarch says that the Mysteries gave deep understanding of the true nature of the daimons.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison
Therefore initiates went back to beings of a higher nature than daimons or gods, and this was characteristic of the essence of the wisdom of the Mysteries.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison
According to von Schroeder there was, among the Aryan peoples generally, a tendency to regard the dead as assuming the character of daimons of fertility.
From From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Laidlay Weston
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