Twofold Zeus

Twofold Zeus

In this twelvefold circle, for each of the dignities of Jupiter, there is a description of the meaning of that dignity. Thus this chart symbolizes the Jupiter henad.

Near the center of the circle, the dignities of houses 9-12 of the metaphysical chart are 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, and the house-12 dignities are in the fourth quadrant of the vesica. Damiani sometimes refers to this configuration of dignities as the “Jupiter ring” or “Demiurgic Intellect ring.”

In the upper right, the dignities of houses 9-12 are listed and a few of them are briefly explained.

Each of the Jupiter dignities is associated with one of the sixteen states of consciousness, where each of the four states—turiya, prajna, taijasa, and vaishvanara—is, in turn, divided into four, so there is, for example, turiya-turiya, turiya-prajna, turiya-taijasa, and turiya-vaishvanara.

In this diagram, when determining the name of the state that applies to a dignity, the ring determines which of the states comes first, and the quadrant determines which of the states comes second. For example, Jupiter in Pisces is associated with turiya-vaishvanara because it’s in the rulership ring, so it’s a form of turiya, but it’s in the fourth quadrant, so it’s the vaishvanara form of taijasa—turiya-vaishvanara.