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All that is or ever will be in nature, all that we men feel, think or do, all is dependent on eternal and immutable causes; and these causes have each their Daimon who interposes between us and the divinity and is symbolized in golden characters on the vault of heaven. The letters are the stars, whose orbits are as unchanging and everlasting as are the first causes of all that exists or happens."
For him, it is not a divinity, but it is something which leads man to God. Eros, or love, is for him not divine, for a god is perfect, and therefore possesses the beautiful and good; but Eros is only the desire for the beautiful and good. He thus stands between man and God. He is a "daimon," a mediator between the earthly and the divine.
A daimon of this kind, under whose influence Hamlet acts, is described in the second scene of the fifth act. The passage is wanting in the first quarto. Hamlet tells Horatio how he lay in the ship, and how in his heart there was a kind of fighting which would not let him sleep. This harassing condition, the result of his unmanly indecision, he depicts in these words:
the long delicate hands on which two tears had fallen. He sat down again, and she recovered herself and calmly went on with her story: An author had at last launched her. He had discovered in the strange little creature a daimon, a genius, and, even better for his purpose, "a dramatic type, a new woman, representative of an epoch."
The growing and increasing force within him is his daimonic element, that within him which pushes out beyond himself. "Man's daimon is his destiny." Thus strikingly does Heraclitus make reference to this fact. He extends man's vital essence far beyond the personal.
The thymos appears in Homer to be merely a function of the psyche, in any case it does not represent a separate personality alongside of the psyche, and the same thing is true of the daimon.
The Eniautos Daimon. Tammuz earliest known representative of Dying God. Character of the worship. Origin of the name. Lament for Tammuz. His death affects not only Vegetable but Animal life. Lack of artistic representation of Mysteries. Mr Langdon's suggestion. Ritual possibly dramatic. Summary of evidence. Adonis Phoenician-Greek equivalent of Tammuz.
When, after several weeks, he took to going out again and seeing other men, while none of his friends, except Georges, had any suspicion of what had happened, the daimon of improvisation pursued him still. It would take possession of Christophe just when he was least expecting it.
Leaning far over the edge of the boat he seized the floating garment of the drowning creature it was a woman, no Daimon nor shade and drew her towards him. He succeeded in raising her high out of the waves, but when he tried to pull her fairly out of her watery bed, the weight, all on one side of the boat, was too great; it turned over and Antinous was in the sea. The Bithyman was a good swimmer.
All at once, my daimon that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui. She was a famous danseuse, who danced Napoleon in and out, and several other dynasties besides. Her last appearance was at the age of seventy-six, which is rather late in life for the tight rope, one of her specialties.
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