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Holy Daimon holy daimΩn Frater Acher SCARLET IMPRINT LONDON · MMXVIII Holy Daimon © Frater Acher 2018 Published by Scarlet Imprint under the Bibliothèque Rouge banner; edited by P. Grey & A. Dimech; designed & typeset by A. Dimech. The digital edition was made by CPI Antony Rowe. eISBN 978 1 912316 03 8 All rights reserved: no part of this book may be reproduced in any form, without written permission from the copyright holder. SCARLETIMPRINT.COM HOLY DAIMON WAS PUBLISHED BY SCARLET IMPRINT IN 2018 IN THREE EDITIONS, COMPRISING: A STANDARD HARDBACK LIMITED TO 600 COPIES BOUND IN DARK GREY BOOKCLOTH; A FINE EDITION OF 60 COPIES HALF BOUND IN DARK GREEN GOATSKIN WITH MARBLED BOARDS; AND AN UNLIMITED PAPERBACK EDITION. 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