About the diagram archive: Damiani created diagrams that used astrological symbolism to represent the intertwining of cosmological and metaphysical ideas. You can view below the diagrams in these sketchbooks (the names assigned to the sketchbooks don’t represent a chronological order), or click here to learn more about them.
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Handwritten Text

Exposition of the Neoplatonic Tradition through Proclus

Ms. Composition Plans


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The One as Fourfold and Sevenfold

The One


Keyword(s): fourfold: One, Being, Life, Intellect; Samkhya tattvas; Saturn henad and Body monad; sevenfold: One, Being, Life, Intellect, Soul, Nature, Body

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The Samkhya System Mapped on to the Second and Fourth Quadrants

Samkhya


Keyword(s): Samkhya tattvas; Saturn henad and Body Monad

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The Samkhya System Mapped on to the Third Quadrant

Samkhya


Keyword(s): Samkhya tattvas

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Seven Categories of the Imagination; Extraversion and Introversion

Astrology Theory


Keyword(s): four elements; four psychological functions (Jung); Saturn henad, seven categories of imagination

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Handwritten Text

Rulerships: Extraversion, Introversion, and Centroversion

Astrology Theory


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The Twelve Rulerships

Astrology Theory


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Causal, Subtle, and Gross Levels of the Inerratic Sphere, Planetary Spheres, and Sublunary Elements

Nature (House 12)


Keyword(s): five elements; four psychological functions (Jung); inerratic, planetary, sublunary; seven chakras (Hinduism)

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Handwritten Text

The Implications of the Vesica for Philosophy and Religion

Ms. Composition Plans


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How the Categories of Imagination Create the Subject-Object Split within the Primal Thought

Epistemology


Keyword(s): astrology theory; primal image; seven categories of imagination

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The Samkhya System Mapped on to Saturn in Aries and a Vesica of Houses 10-12

Samkhya


Keyword(s): bhavas of buddhi; knowing, willing, feeling; Samkhya tattvas; Saturn in Aries

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The Samkhya System in the Context of Saturn in Aries

Samkhya


Keyword(s): bhavas of buddhi; Jupiter in Sagittarius (Being of Soul); Samkhya tattvas; Saturn henad and Body monad; Saturn in Aries

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Handwritten Text

The Formation of Bodies

Short Written Pieces


Keyword(s): cognitive isness; form (essence) and matter (prakriti)

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The Fivefold Scheme of the Vedantists

Vedanta


Keyword(s): anna rasa; five koshas; vesica (houses 10-12)

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The Nidana Chain, Skandhas, Elements, and Chakras Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): Buddhist Logicians; five elements; four essential dignities (Astrology); seven chakras (Hinduism); six realms of existence (Buddhism)

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A Ring View of the Second, Third, and Fourth Quadrants

Metaphysical Chart


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The Twelve Liberated Gods and the Nidana Chain Contrasted

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): twelve liberated gods (Orphic); vesica (houses 10-12)

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The Twelve Liberated Gods and the Nidana Chain Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): twelve liberated gods (Orphic)

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Handwritten Text

Individual Substance as a Metaphysical Compound of Form and Matter

Short Written Pieces


Keyword(s): alaya-vijnana and manas (Yogacara Buddhism); astrology theory; degrees; form and matter; gunas; vasanas (tropes)

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The Fourteen Lokas

System of Nature (Houses 10-12)


Keyword(s): seven chakras (Hinduism); fourteen lokas; Gods, Monads, Souls, Atoms, Bodies (Theosophy)

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The Samkhya System and the Five Skandhas Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12

System of Nature (Houses 10-12)


Keyword(s): bhavas of buddhi (Samkhya); four elements; inerratic, planetary, sublunary; metaphysical chart; nidana chain and the five skandhas (Buddhism); Samkhya tattvas

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Table

Twelfth-House Table: Principles of a Human Being

Nature (House 12)


Keyword(s): Atma, causal, subtle, gross (Raja Yoga); five elements; five koshas (Vedanta); five skandhas (Buddhism); inerratic, planetary, sublunary; Samkhya tattvas; seven chakras (Hinduism); seven principles of man (Theosophy); six soul vehicles (Neoplatonism)

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The Three Intellects and the Divided Line

Three Intellects: Divine, Cosmic, and Human


Keyword(s): Divided Line; four intellects (Scholastics); three lights; three souls; twelfth house; vesicas

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Preliminary Drawings

Proclus Chart

Preliminary Drawings


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Handwritten Text

Notes about Diagrams

Ms. Composition Plans


Keyword(s): alchemy; art; Kabbalistic trees; nidana chain (Buddhism); Orphic theogony (G. R. S. Mead); thirty-six tattvas of Kashmir Shaivism

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The Mars Henad Correlated with the Twelve Notes of the Chromatic Scale

Henads


Keyword(s): Mars henad; One as immanent (Being, Life, Intellect) and transcendent (fourfold); sevenfold: One, Being, Life, Intellect, Soul, Nature, Body

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The Second Quadrant Diagrammed as Kabbalistic Trees

Intellectual-Principle


Keyword(s): Kabbalistic trees (second-quadrant dignities); Orphic theogony (G. R. S. Mead)

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The Four Intellects and the Categories of Plotinus, Kant, and Aristotle Mapped on to the Divided Line

Divided Line (Plato)


Keyword(s): categories of Plotinus, Kant, and Aristotle; four gnostic functions; four intellects (Scholastics); Plotinus IV.3.30

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The Essence of Soul and Soul of the All

Soul


Keyword(s): five genera (Plato's Sophist); Soul essence

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The Seven Planetary Functions and the Saturn Henad

Astrology Theory


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The Consciousness of the Sun and the Twelve Bases of Cognition

Buddhist Epistemology


Keyword(s): form and matter; twelve ayatanas (Vaibhashika)

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Handwritten Text

Key Passages from Plotinus's Enneads about Soul

Soul


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Three Buddhist Schools in the Context of Universal Manifestation (Houses 9-12)

Buddhist Epistemology


Keyword(s): eight consciousnesses (Yogacara); Sautrantika; seven planetary functions; Universal Soul informing matter; Vaibhashika

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The First Quadrant Diagrammed as Kabbalistic Trees

The One


Keyword(s): Kabbalistic trees (first-quadrant dignities)