Daimonic

But in my own case it's not so much fear of the unknown that drives me as it is a sense of numinous uncanniness, verging into Rudolf Otto's "daemonic dread," at the very fact of existence itself -- which, crucially, includes not just the disenchanted world of physical nature that's visible to empirical science but the world of immediate, first-person experience with all of its daimonic psychological oddities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the other hand, in the past few years I've also grown increasingly attached to the daimonic theory of consciousness, which invokes in quasi-metaphorical fashion the ancient idea of the daimon or personal genius, the accompanying spirit that houses a person's deep character, life, pattern, and destiny. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Supposing, just for a second, that we take these metaphors literally; what we would basically be saying is that God -- that Supreme Being, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient -- is the real evil, while Lucifer and Christ were both good guys, both trying but failing to wake humanity up to its daimonic -- which is to say divine -- potential. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

Embrace your unborn daimonic creativity -- no matter how young, primitive or ill-formed it is, let it speak, dance, cry, and spit up. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In preparation for that decision the daimonic devotee repaired to the great shrine of his faith, at Bayreuth, in Northern Bavaria. ❋ CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN (1994)

A mystical treatise, including a ritual for daimonic invocation. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Xenocrates theorizes that daimonic souls exist between the divine and the human on the analogy of the isosce - les triangle existing as a semi-perfect form between the equilateral triangle (perfect) and the scalene trian - gle (imperfect). ❋ HELEN P. TRIMPI (1968)

Then all at once (how could an impulsive manner of action be better described?), before he could 'make a prologue to his brains,' Hamlet lets himself be overcome by such a daimonic influence. ❋ Jacob Feis (N/A)

Where you get the grand creations, the unfitful shining, -- there you get evidence of a balance: with genius -- the daimonic force -- no greater than, perhaps not so keen as, that of those others, you find a strong moral will. ❋ Kenneth Morris (1908)

To be sure, he departed so far from his normal _bonne foi_ as to affect to think there could be no certainties while parading a hundred of his own, and with these some which were but pretences; and his pet doctrine of daimonic fortune is not ostensibly favourable to social science; but in the concrete, he is more of a seeker after rational law than any humanist of his day. ❋ Unknown (1894)

In the intermediate tragedy of blood, the circuitous action had been preserved, and withal the revenge was attained only in the general catastrophe, by that daimonic "fortune" on which Montaigne so often enlarges. ❋ Unknown (1894)

Diotima, the priestess, awakened in Socrates the daimonic force which was to lead him to the divine. ❋ Rudolf Steiner (1893)

The growing and increasing force within him is his daimonic element, -- that within him which pushes out beyond himself. ❋ Rudolf Steiner (1893)

One who becomes conscious of the daimonic element within him does not recognise it as innocent and in its first stage. ❋ Rudolf Steiner (1893)

The daimonic experiences through which he has passed are enough to prove to him his own immortality. ❋ Rudolf Steiner (1893)