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Updated: May 11, 2025
In Cyprus, at the autumnal equinox, i.e., the beginning of the year in the Syro-Macedonian calendar, the death of Adonis falling on the 23rd of September, his resurrection on the 1st of October, the beginning of a New Year. He is the Eniautos Daimon. The duration of the feast varied from two days, as at Alexandria, to seven or eight.
The personality is the vehicle of the daimon, which is not confined within the limit of the personality, and for which the birth and death of the personality are of no importance. What is the relation of the daimonic element to the personality which comes and goes? The personality is only a form for the manifestation of the daimon.
But his creative daimon knew it perfectly, and in those days begat some of his loveliest songs of sorrowful love. Some time passed before he saw her again. He was obsessed by thoughts of Olivier's troubles and his health. At last one day he came upon the address she had given him and he made up his mind to call on her. As he went up the steps he heard the sound of workmen hammering.
This daimon too must have been to school; it acquired in a former life what it puts into force in a later one. In this form, and this form only, did the thought of eternity pass before the mind of Heraclitus and other Greek sages. There was no question with them of a continuance of the immediate personality after death.
The roads were full of people, and the nearer they came to the Nekropolis the denser was the throng. As they skirted the town walls they took counsel together. Being perfectly agreed that the girl who had touched Philip's hand could certainly be no daimon who had assumed Korinna's form, they were inclined to accept the view that a strong resemblance had deceived their brother.
It was, however, something, so they maintained; for they had seen it; the dead man had spoken; the dreamer had questioned him. Was it +psychê+, was it +pneuma+, was it +nous+, with whom one had conversed in the dream? One imagined a phantom, an airy figure: it was +skia+, it was +daimôn+, a ghost from the shades, a little soul of air and fire, very unrestricted, which wandered I know not where.
That which I called the daemonic I had encountered for the first time outside my own mind in Lermontof's hero. Petsjorin was compelled to act in pursuance of his natural bent, as though possessed by his own being. I felt myself in a similar manner possessed. I had met with the word Daimon and Daimones in Plato; Socrates urges that by daemons the Gods, or the children of the Gods, were meant.
Thus did the Mystic experience his birth into the Divine. The Mystic called the power that flashed up within him a daimon. He was himself the product of this daimon. It seemed to him as though another being had entered him and taken possession of his organs, a being standing between his physical personality and the all-ruling cosmic power, the divinity. The Mystic sought this his daimon.
This is, with little enough alteration, the very point from which we set out in the remote dawn of our endeavour to interpret the mystery of the world about us. The only difference is that Sir William has his daimon for a tipping table and the savage had his for a flowing spring. Sir William may be right but primitive man was wrong.
"I'm up among the architects here," continued Clay; "nothing but the janitor's family between me and the roof." We talked awhile longer, and on taking leave, I said: "I shall be on the lookout for something big from you one of these days. You know what we always expected of you. So don't lose your grip, old man." "Who knows?" he replied. "It doesn't rest with me, but with the daimon."
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