who saw the daemon as a potentially dangerous lesser spirit: Burkert states that in the Symposium, Plato has "laid the foundation" to imagine the daimon as being with Eros, who as a mediator is neither god nor mortal but in between. His metaphysical doctrine of an

incorporeal, pure actuality, energeia ... identical to its performance: 'thinking of thinking', noesis noeseos is the most blessed existence, the highest origin of everything. 'This is the god. On such a principle heaven depends, and the cosmos.'