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No. 2212
Socrates’ Daimon

The first written data on contact with a positive Entity in Western culture come from Socrates. He mentions an Entity who manifested itself as an inner voice and guided him through life. These words of Socrates are preserved in extant documents: “The favor of the gods has given me a marvelous gift, which has never left me since my childhood. It is a voice which, when it makes itself heard, deters me from what I am about to do and never urges me on.” The inner voice came from a spiritual Entity whom Socrates called his Daimon. Later, a word with negative connotations was derived from this name – “demon”. Daimon unerringly guided Socrates through life’s troubles and finally sent him to his death in a state of complete calmness and peacefulness. Hence, Socrates’ conduct has been for ages an example of sublime morality for many. Socrates did not hide from his environment the voice that instructed him to act wisely. He would often pause, listen to what his Daimon had to say, and act accordingly. He usually informed men he had discourse with of the content of the message.

Official psychiatry of today would probably classify Socrates’ experiences as audible hallucinations. He perceived the voice of Daimon as something angelic or divine, apart from his being, which had a pure motive to guide him through life along the correct path. Socrates’ critics and opponents laughed at his statements about Daimon’s voice, because it advised him in less important situations, but did not say a word during his arrest and trial. Socrates answered:

“That prophetic voice, the voice of divinity, has recently appeared very often and warned me even concerning most trivial things when I was going to do something wrong. Now, as you can see, the thing that could be considered the greatest evil happened. Yet that godly voice did not object neither this morning when I left home, nor when I came to this trial, nor at any point in my apology as I intended to say something. In other cases it would stop me in the middle of a sentence. How do I explain it? Well, this is how: I reckon that what happened to me, happened as a good thing. We, who believe that death is something evil, can never understand it.”
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Do any /fringe/ wizards here receive direct spiritual guidance from a bodiless entity like Socrates was in contact with?

No.2214
>>2213
This is me drawing from my own experience.

However, I think it's similar to the Holy Spirit, intuition, Holy guardian angel or just using synchronicity to divine meaning.

It's a very common phenomenon.

You'd definitely know it if you have it, because your experience with it would be unforgettable.

As far as extreme hallucinations [auditory,visual,and just feeling another 'presence'] though I've only ever had them in moments of intense crisis.

So I can relate to Socrates in a sense. I do take immense comfort in a sort of faith I have in my ability to take full advantage of the kairos, because it seems 'something' has been training me to do so and there's no better comfort in knowing that you've done the best you could do with what you have.



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