(1) A guardian spirit or guardian angel often associated with the communication of advice and inspiration. (2) The inspiring or indwelling spirit of a place or thing. (3) An entity or intelligence of a particular force. (4) A minor deity, such as a deified hero. (5) An artificial elemental created by a person or group for a specific purpose or force

An intermediatory between man and a God often in the form of a spirit. Sokrates believed a daimon acted as a guardian and counselor during his career. Daimones (pl.) can be either or neither benevolent or malevolent.

daimon No English equivalent, but is close to spirit in the sense of pneuma, breath, or the Chinese concept of ch'i, sometimes translated as "vital breath"

A Greek term meaning "divine spirit" or "divine entity."

one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief

a supernatural being but not a god

A complex concept, which evolved with time, and which Yeats was probably never entirely sure about. The Daimon is the supernatural opposite of the human being, but part of a single continuous consciousness with the human, and can even be viewed as the same elements in a different dimension. To a certain extent it controls human destiny, but needs its human counterpart to complete its knowledge of the whole. See the Human Being and the Daimon.

(Greek, divine power; in late Church Greek, an evil spirit daio, to light up, blaze) a god, goddess; the Deity; fate, destiny, fortune. daimonion (neuter of daimonios) deity, divinity, or divine operation, (Latin numen, the Divine will).

Originally, a value-free, driving force, a spiritual energy which leads to the creative formation of individuality; for Socrates, an inspiring and guiding spirit.