8/4/89 Eidolon

8/4/89 I came across author Anthony Peake and his wonderful books on the Daemon and Eidolon. It got me thinking:

In familiar alchemical illustrations we see two serpents devouring one another. The winged serpent signifies the Universal World Spirit; the bottom serpent signifies our Matter, the Virgin Earth. The crowned, winged serpent is the Cosmic spirit which brings everything to life, which also kills everything and takes all the forms of nature. It is everything and nothing. This upper serpent has the material serpent by the tail. The lower serpent of matter also has the winged serpent by the tail.

This then symbolizes the continuous process of the union of the internal world and the external world, the eternal 'now' with the present 'now'.

The 'fusion' of the two serpents- is an inner (spiritual) process; part of the Great Work on the Self, one of the aims of which is the unification of (inner) opposites eg Light and Dark, Moist and Dry, Masculine and Feminine etc etc. One of the symbols for successful completion of this inner work is the Ouroboros, another is the Phoenix and still another is The Golden Child.

I am wondering if the union of the Daemon and the Eidolon also falls into this category...

The way I see it, when the Eidolon and the Daemon are working together as a fully functioning single unit, they become the third 'self', like the ouroboros, or the golden child, or the ultimate life. They are both halves of the same whole. Wouldn’t respecting both be living life as it should be lived?