Table Of ContentHoly Daimon
holy
daimΩn
Frater Acher
SCARLET IMPRINT
LONDON · MMXVIII
Holy Daimon © Frater Acher 2018
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
1HISTORY
Among the Chaldeans
Among the Zoroastrians
Among the Ancient Greeks
2MEMORY
Communion with my Holy Daimon
3PRACTICE
Systasis with your Holy Daimon
Trust
Joy
Darkness
Encounter
Selected resources
I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your
expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to
mine.
You are you and I am I.
And if by chance we find each other, it’s
beautiful,
If not, it can’t be helped.
Fritz Perls
For you are I, and I am you;
your name is mine, and mine is yours.
For I am your image.
PGM VIII, 36 – 38
Preface
Where does this doubt come from, I ask you. From weakness of faith?
No! It derives logically from the unconscious awareness that too few
among the priests are fiery enough to search for the path of
sanctification, as do the Yogis and Sadhus of India. There are too few of
them who take the heavenly kingdom by force. Trust me: there are more
paths towards resurrection than the Church would ever dream of! The
loud hoping for ‘mercy’ sure enough is not enough. How many of your
rank is it who can say of themselves: ‘As a deer pants for flowing
streams, so pants my soul for you, O God’?1
But where there is danger, there grows also what saves.2
There are three reasons why you are holding this book in your hands. While
only the last one truly matters, all three shall be mentioned here.
The World
Many books have been written about achieving communion with our holy
daimon. Unfortunately the vast majority of them have brought an exclusively
magical lens to the subject. Magic, however, is worth nothing if it doesn’t
stand in the service of something greater. The best magic stands in the service
of life. The magic of creating communion with our holy daimon is one of the
most powerful forms of serving life—not only our own lives, but especially
those of the many beings, large and small, visible and invisible, around us.
Even to the casual observer it could not be more obvious why such a goal
would matter so critically these days. We are living in times that no longer
have any appreciation of the status quo. The relative calm and peace the West
experienced after the Cold War seems to be quickly fading to a distant
memory. It is being pushed aside in particular by the many forces that run
counter to the achievement of the UN’s sustainable development goals.
Among these are the following dynamics:
•A continuation of competing territorial interests over increasingly scarce
natural resources and fewer remaining emerging markets.
•An institutionalized economic operating system built on a double loop of
exploitation: exploitation of labour for value creation (e.g. services and
goods) and exploitation of capital for financial short-term gains (e.g.
dividends).
•A new wave of crusades, just like their medieval predecessors, utilizing
organized religion as a means to rally the masses, create collective enemy
stereotypes, and distract from pressing local issues.
•New technology and ‘social’ media creating the illusion of constant
immediacy and ubiquitous instant gratification despite an increasing reality
of individual isolation and passivity.
•A natural environment finally beginning to fight off the destructive virus
called humanity which for decades has conveniently paid only lukewarm
attention to its warning signs.
•And particularly in the West, a factual loss of the collective memory of the
horrors of the Second World War as the first generation grows up whose
grandparents did not experience those horrors firsthand. Thus nationalist
agendas are on the rise again and the Pan-European social contract is at
risk.
Surrounded by such disruptive and largely destructive forces, it’s quite
easy to quit caring. More than that, while these dynamics work at a global
level, we still all suffer from them within our individual realities. The
relentless pace of our lives, the mental numbing from the constant onslaught
of images and news, the atomization of local communities, and the suffering
caused by floods and storms—all these lead to a continual degradation of
personal as well as collective resilience.
Standing skinned and naked in life is a powerful spiritual and often
necessary experience. Being left alone without support in these moments is
not.
So this is the first reason why this book exists. Living a life constantly
