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This particular function of the Overself was known also to the more percipient among men of the Middle Ages and of antiquity. Thus Epictetus: "Zeus hath placed by the side of each, a man's own Guardian Spirit, who is charged to watch over him."

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 3 : The Overself's Presence > # 302