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The Chaldean Oracles assert that terrestrial daimons dwell in the soul which is replete with irrational affections:

δὸν δὲ γὰρ ἀγγεῖον θῆρες χθονὸς οἰκήσουσιν.
For the wild beasts of the earth shall inhabit thy vessel.

[...] And such is revenge, and other passions of a similar kind.

(Thomas Taylor on the Wanderings of Ulysses. Chaldean Oracles fr. 157.)

μηδ' ἐπὶ μισοφαῆ κόσμον σπεύδειν λάβρον ὕλης,
ἔνθα φόνος στάσιές τε καὶ ἀργαλέων φύσις ἀτμων
αὐχμηραί τε νόσοι καὶ σήψιες ἔργα τε ῥευστά·
ταῦτα χρεὼ φεύγειν τὸν ἐρᾶν μέλλοντα πατρὸς νοῦ.

Do not hasten to the light-hating world, boisterous of matter, where there is murder, discord, foul odors, squalid illnesses, putrefaction, and fluctuating works. He who intends to love the Intellect of the Father must flee these things.

(Chaldean Oracles fr. 134.)

Or, briefly, two wrongs don't make a right.