good demon

By "demon" I mean "eudaimonia" in the pagan sense. Eudaimonia is a process. The demon is a particular instance of that process. I think of the deity as the process itself, not as a particular being. Incidentally, that leads to the paradox of believing in god, while denying that god exists. Anyway, according to the classical explanation, souls enter the world through a portal somewhere at the bottom of the world, and exit at death through a portal somewhere at the top. In between is the experience of life. The soul, plus its unique fate, constitutes the person, i.e., "demon." According to this plan "above" and "below" or "higher" and "lower" don't mean "bad" and "evil" or "better" and "worse", but rather the state of the soul's progress. By analogy, college-level studies are "above" pre-college classes. The "lower" grades are not "worse" than the higher and are a pre-requisite. The pagan cosmology also accounts for our notion of "conception", how new lives are created, and for the separation of the "soul" from the physical body at the end of life.