![]() ![]() ![]() The central drama in The Northern Lights, the first book in His Dark Materials trilogy, concerned the efforts of the Magisterium – a ruthless, all-powerful church – to separate daemons from children, and thereby attempt to make them ‘pure’. However, daemons can also learn things independently and some people have the ability to separate from them, witches in particular, as did Lyra, as a consequence of her journey to the world of the dead in the final book of His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass. In Pullman’s trilogies His Dark Materials and the related The Book of Dust, a person’s daemon exists outside the body in the form of an animal. ![]() ![]() Some gnostics believed that in the right circumstances the daemon can be visible as a twin who acts like a guardian angel or a spirit guide. A companion to our mortal lower self, the daemon is an immortal higher self, or soul. The ancients as far back as Plotinus wrote about an individual’s daemon. How painful then to break up with your actual innermost self, as heroine Lyra Silvertongue and her daemon Pantalaimon do in the latest instalment from Philip Pullman. The new series from the author of the bestselling His Dark Materials continues in The Secret Commonwealth.įor young adults, breaking up with a lover who seems to know your inner thoughts is a heart-wrenching experience. Tags: Fiction/ His Dark Materials/ Philip Pullman/ The Book of Dust/ The Secret Commonwealth PHILIP PULLMAN The Secret Commonwealth: Volume Two of The Book of Dust. ![]()
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