"However, we must understand that the dominant type of the soul, the one that God has given to each of us, is a daemon. It is the one that, as we said, resides at the top of the body and elevates us from Earth to our kindred heaven. Because the truth is that we are plants not of the Earth but of the heavens."
(Plato, "Timaeus" 90a)

"The influence that "Timaeus" has had from Aristotle to the present day is in itself a labyrinthine chapter in the history of philosophy. No other Platonic dialogue, but perhaps no other philosophical text, has been read or commented on as much as Timaeus. Until the 17th century, Timaeus was essentially all Platonism: it was the refuge of the mystic and the mathematician, the manifesto of the teleological view of the universe, the strongest link connecting Christianity with Greek thought."
(Vasilis Kalfas)