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The Stoics, in particular Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, repeatedly speak of how we need to get in touch with our personal daemons. The daemon is like one's inner guiding spirit, or, like a guardian angel, so to speak.

6:53 AM · Jul 8, 2020Twitter Web App

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antoine sugar

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Jul 8, 2020

After Christianity conquered the pagan world, the Christians interpreted daemons as being evil (of course, they would) and so the term has come down to us as 'demons' or some kind of sinister entities. The daemons were seen as non-Christian and thus 'wicked'.