On daimons
May. 22nd, 2013 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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@cole_tucker: It's exceedingly rare for me to receive a positive request from the Gods. Even with the daimonic, only within certain pacts. The dead more so, but that's hardly a devotional frame.
It's logical that daimons and the deceased, both souls in some respect, would be more likely to seek such things. It gets complicated with the question of daimons in a divine series, because they act on a God's behalf on a lower plane. Porphyry somewhere says that it is daimons that actually metabolize the subtle side of the physical offering. Strengthening the daimons in a divine series reinforces a temporal structure that catalyzes contact with the eternal Gods, but the distinction between the Gods themselves and the daimons in their series is theoretically important, in my view.
@cole_tucker: Honestly, I find it a bit confusing, the Gods interacting with us directly & also through (homonymous) daimons in their series.
Daimons are used to create temporal structures of worship, things that require a soul. Platonists will also say that, for example, a woman has intercourse with a daimon in a divine series to conceive a hero. Or when Aphrodite is injured on the field of battle rescuing Aeneas, this is a Aphrodisian daimon.
@cole_tucker: It's exceedingly rare for me to receive a positive request from the Gods. Even with the daimonic, only within certain pacts. The dead more so, but that's hardly a devotional frame.
It's logical that daimons and the deceased, both souls in some respect, would be more likely to seek such things. It gets complicated with the question of daimons in a divine series, because they act on a God's behalf on a lower plane. Porphyry somewhere says that it is daimons that actually metabolize the subtle side of the physical offering. Strengthening the daimons in a divine series reinforces a temporal structure that catalyzes contact with the eternal Gods, but the distinction between the Gods themselves and the daimons in their series is theoretically important, in my view.
@cole_tucker: Honestly, I find it a bit confusing, the Gods interacting with us directly & also through (homonymous) daimons in their series.
Daimons are used to create temporal structures of worship, things that require a soul. Platonists will also say that, for example, a woman has intercourse with a daimon in a divine series to conceive a hero. Or when Aphrodite is injured on the field of battle rescuing Aeneas, this is a Aphrodisian daimon.
