ABSTRACT
Daemons are the lowest reality that do not perish and have everlasting being, which is George Gemisttos Plethon’s definition of divinity. On the contrary, because of their mortal body, humans do not belong among the gods, even those of the third order, who are the lowest of all. Plethon conceives the human nature as ‘not undefiled’, that means, as necessarily attached to the mortal body, but still immortal. Plethon then argues that if they were united permanently the mortal part of the human being would be immortalized because of the continuous contact with its immortal part and man would no longer play the role of the common boundary, necessary for the completion of the universe. The human soul is divided into two parts, the rational and non-rational one. The ‘symbols in the souls,’ mentioned by the Oracle are thus interpreted by Plethon as the ‘images of the intelligible Forms’.
