Encountering the Inner Demon – The Shadow, the Daimon, and the Chaosgnostic Path
Encountering the Inner Demon – The Shadow, the Daimon, and the Chaosgnostic Path By Tommy Eriksson Within the Chaognostic tradition, the human being is not regarded as a finished or static entity, but as a being in a continual state of becoming. True initiatory work therefore does not consist in submitting to external dogmas, but in gradually awakening the forces that already exist within. Throughout history, these forces have been described in different symbolic languages according to the culture and philosophical tradition from which they emerged. Carl Gustav Jung spoke of the Shadow (with a capital "S" when referring to the psychological archetype, just as one may speak of the Devil or Satan with a capital "S"), Plato spoke of the individual's daimon, the Roman tradition referred to the genius, within Thelema we encounter the concept of the Holy Guardian Angel, while within the Luciferian and Chaognostic traditions we often speak of the Inner Demon. At first ...