How the Demiurge Assimilates the Twelve Ideas

Twofold Zeus

The dignities of houses 1-12 of the metaphysical chart are listed in four rings inside a twelvefold circle, and the short-form meanings of the twelve zodiacal signs according to T. S. Row are listed outside each house. The rings, from outermost to innermost, consist of rulerships, exaltations, detriments, and falls.

Inside the circle is a vesica, which is divided into twelve sectors by the twelve houses of the circle.

Inside the vesica, 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 (the “empties” in Aquarius are represented by the glyphs of five of the seven Chaldean planets), 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.”

At the center of the vesica is a twelvefold circle, labeled “cosmos,” and each of the twelve cosmic, or mundane, gods of the Orphic theogony is associated with one of its houses.

Each of the four states of consciousness is associated with one of the four quadrants, as well as with the dignities in the four rings in house 8 of the metaphysical chart.