To be recognized.
Every recognition is an awareness of form.
Hence in our enfeebled modern vocabulary we might say that the way they imposed themselves was first and foremost aesthetic. Behind what the Greeks Called eidolon, which is at once the idol, the statue, the simulacrum, the phantom, lies the mental image. This fanciful and insubstantial creature imitates the world at the same time subjects it to a frenzy of different combinations, confounding its forms in inexhaustible proliferation. It emanates a prodigious strength, our awe in the face of what we see as invisible. It has all the features of the arbitrary, of what is born in the dark, from formlessness, the way our world was perhaps once born.