from the book "Reading Judas" page 140 by Elaine Pagels, & K. King
......."Jesus calls Judas the "Thirteenth god". The word translated "god" here is daimon, which Christians will LATER understand as a negative entity (demon),however,
In Greek thought the term "daimon" was used to indicate gods of a lower rank, or sometimes an individual's lot or fortune.
Indeed, Plato wrote that everyone possesses a "daimon"
........"As regards the most lordly kind of soul found in us, we must
conceive of it like this: we declare that God has given to each of us a daimon that kind of soul which is housed in the top of our body, and which raises us up from the earth towards our kindred (suggeneian) in heaven.,seeing that we are not an earthly plant but a heavenly one"
from Timeaus 90a-b VolIX translated by R. Bury Loeb Classical Library Edition pg. Cambridge MA Harvard University Press, pg. 245.
By cultivating this life this daimon, one can achieve likeness to God and immortality, which is one's supreme happiness (eidamonia) literally, the state of a good daimon) IF on the other hand, a person cultivates the lower parts of the soul, which are devoted to mortal things like wealth and appetite then that person truly becomes mortal.
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