Here's Thomas Taylor's: "[The dæmon-kind possesses the power and virtue] to transmit and to interpret to the Gods, what comes from men; and to men, in like manner, what comes from the Gods; from men their petitions and their sacrifices; from the Gods, in return, the revelation of their will. Thus these beings, standing in the middle rank between divine and human, fill up the vacant space, and link together all intelligent nature. Through their intervention proceeds every kind of divination, and the priestly art relating to sacrifices, and the mysteries and incantations, with the whole of divination and magic. For divinity is not mingled with man; but by means of that middle nature is carried on all converse and communication between the Gods and mortals, whether in sleep or waking. Whoever has wisdom and skill in things of this kind is a dæmoniacal man: the knowing and skillful in any other thing, whether in the arts, or certain manual operations, are illiberal and sordid. These dæmons are many and various. One of them is Love."
I trust Taylor more than the others here, and anyway assigning these powers to dæmons generally matches the rest of the Neoplatonists. The reason I tend to equate these powers with Love specifically, of course, is that my dæmon is under the rulership of Venus, which has a tendency to conflate and confuse and mingle such things!
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Date: 2023-07-04 02:48 pm (UTC)I trust Taylor more than the others here, and anyway assigning these powers to dæmons generally matches the rest of the Neoplatonists. The reason I tend to equate these powers with Love specifically, of course, is that my dæmon is under the rulership of Venus, which has a tendency to conflate and confuse and mingle such things!