What are some good texts on tutelary spirits or daemons besides the classic works of Plato, Plotinus, Porphyry? I've found that contemporary books (e.g. Consorting with Spirits) are often focused on ritual magick and spirits that you summon rather than those which are familiar to a person.
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>>41662961Bummer you haven't got any replies, OP, because this is an interesting thread.I've always worked with familiars for personal reasons so I don't have any info for you myself. I see threads about familiars from time to time but I don't think I've ever seen one like. Maybe there isn't really anyone here with much information on that.Since you're a cool guy who actually reads, though, you might find something in this thread here>>>/t/1218061
>>41665440Thanks for the tip. It might help to be more precise, although I don't want to get too personal. Since I was very young (around six/seven years old) I've known a being that I today regard as my daemon. Of course as a kid I didn't know what a daemon was but I was the type who always had my head in the clouds playing fantasy games, so I saw her as one such friend and played with her. Skipping over my spiritual explorations in the interim, I identified her as a daemon when I read Plato because she resembled Socrates' description of his daemon as one who held him back from error rather than urging him directly. Plotinus provides a framework for daemons based on the Timaeus' description of a unique allotted spirit which is the highest part of the soul, differing according what principle dominates or has dominated in the soul's incarnations and determining how they will be reborn. As I mentioned, Porphyry also writes on daemons, and there are other antique writers like Iamblichus I'd like to check out, but classical figures like these are working with limited access to a broader range of texts and traditions. You'd think that there'd be a comparable modern literature building on that, but I've not been successful in finding it. I'm not looking to summon my daemon because well, I don't really need to; throughout my life, I've gradually become more attuned to her, often by accident. I know how to connect with her, her particular signs. I'm looking for a more taxonomical or philosophical approach that helps me understand her and the ways that she differs from or is distinct within the framework of a guiding familiar spirit.This video is one of the few I've found on this topic directly but it mostly covers the above mentioned Neoplatonic literature in addition to a passage on daemons in Plutarch I hadn't heard of and some analogous ideas in Christianity/Zoroastrianism. It's a good video for those unfamiliar however.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LcB8cdCqxk
>>41662961>>41665802I'm another anon, i this is my first post in this threadSince kid my tutelary is a kind liminal entity too, so I don't know how commonplace that is, my life start to be easier when i start to help in straydog rescue, and adopted 3 of them all.My tutelary is a kind of hellhound/blackdog.So probably the tutelaries are capableof some kind empathic feeling.Hope it helps you
>>41665802Have you read any Jung?
>>41666254I haven't, although I've seen it suggested that he is illuminating on this topic. But his works are forbiddingly extensive. Could you point me to the relevant writing?
