Samkhya Tattvas, Alchemical Stages, Nidanas, and the Twelve Greek Gods Correlated with the Dignities of the Demiurgic Intellect Ring

Twofold Zeus

The dignities of the twelvefold metaphysical chart are listed on the inside of the circumference of the circle, and the twelve signs of the zodiac are listed on the outside. In each house, the dignities are in the order rulership, exaltation, detriment, and fall, reading counterclockwise.

Also, in each house, the dignities are bracketed by another planetary glyph. The glyphs that bracket the dignities are the dignities of houses 9-12, distributed so that the house-9 dignities are in the first quadrant, the house-10 dignities are in the second quadrant, the house-11 dignities are in the third quadrant (but note that the Dragon’s Head is listed in house 9 instead of the “empties”), and the house-12 dignities are in the fourth quadrant. Damiani sometimes refers to this configuration of dignities as the “Jupiter ring” or “Demiurgic Intellect ring.”

Inside the circle is a vesica, which is divided in twelve by the twelve houses of the metaphysical chart. Each of the four gnostic functions is correlated with one of the cardinal points of the vesica. Each sector of the vesica is associated with a Samkhya tattva, a link of the Buddhist nidana chain, a stage of the twelvefold alchemical process, and one of the mundane/liberated gods of the Orphic theogony.

In each sector, arrows point from the dignity in the Jupiter ring to these various principles.

Close to the center of both the circle and the vesica is a second Jupiter ring, which in this case must refer to something other than the Demiurgic Intellect.