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

The Concept of Vasana

Short Written Pieces


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Table

Three Ways of Viewing the Seven Planetary Functions

Astrology Theory


Keyword(s): Body monad; dignity and nondignity; Jupiter henad; Saturn henad; Soul monad

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Possible Ways of Reading Degrees

Astrology Theory


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Universal Soul Informs the Matter of the Fourth Quadrant

Twofold Zeus


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

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Two Streams of Soul (Universal and Individual) Meeting at the Sun in Aquarius

Twofold Zeus


Keyword(s): five genera (Plato's Sophist); Universal Soul informing matter

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Jupiter in Sagittarius (Demiurge) and Saturn in Aries (Matter) as Principles of the Fourth Quadrant

Twofold Zeus


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Preliminary Drawings

A Threefold Circle

Preliminary Drawings


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Universal Soul as Informing Both Tenth-House Matter and the Gnostic Functions of the Cosmic Soul

Twofold Zeus


Keyword(s): Demiurgic Intellect; particular soul (Intellect, Life, Being)

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Some Elements of the Horoscope

Astrology Theory


Keyword(s): Divided Line; four elements; four essential dignities (Astrology); four intellects (Scholastics); four psychological functions (Jung); seven planetary functions

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The Idea of Man in Being

Idea of Man


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The Twelfth House: The Inerratic, Planetary, and Sublunary Spheres

Nature (House 12)


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

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How Being Is Suspended from the One

The One and Intellectual-Principle


Keyword(s): houses 4-6; rulerships; Triad

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Nous Viewed as Being, Life, and Intellect

Being, Life, Intellect (Intellectual-Principle)


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Demiurgic Intellect and Particular Soul

Twofold Zeus


Keyword(s): Demiurgic Intellect; four elements; particular soul (Intellect, Life, Being)

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The One Viewed as the First House

The One


Keyword(s): Eight Hypotheses (Plato's Parmenides)

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The Five Skandhas in the Context of Universal Manifestation (Houses 9-12)

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): Vaibhashika

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Gnostic and Fabricative Powers: Soul and Demiurge as Dual Sources of Planetary Function

Astrology Theory


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The Nidana Chain in the Context of the Three Levels of the Cosmos

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


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The Being, Life, and Manifestation of the Idea of Man

Idea of Man


Keyword(s): henads

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The One and Intellectual-Principle (with Separative Intellect)

The One and Intellectual-Principle


Keyword(s): twelve rulerships; separative Intellect (exaltations); Triad

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The One as Fourfold and Sevenfold

The One


Keyword(s): four states of consciousness (Mandukya Upanishad); fourfold: One, Being, Life, Intellect; sevenfold: One, Being, Life, Intellect, Soul, Nature, Body; Triad

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Prakriti, Karana Akasha, and Aviveka Mapped on to Houses 10-12

Samkhya


Keyword(s): being of tenth-house Idea; psychoid, psychic, physical (Jung)

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The Transcendent Act of the One

The One


Keyword(s): One, Dyad, Triad

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The Relation between the Life Aspect of the Intellectual-Principle and the Detriments of Houses 5-12

Being, Life, Intellect (Intellectual-Principle)


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The Heliocentric Perspective

Astrology Theory


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Handwritten Text

Saturn in Capricorn as the Indeterminate Matter of the Sensible World

Short Written Pieces


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Demiurgic Intellect Ring and Particular Soul Ring

Twofold Zeus


Keyword(s): Demiurgic Intellect; four tanmatras; particular soul (Intellect, Life, Being); regular aspects (Astrology)

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Two Perspectives on the Relation between Hiranyagarbha and Vaishvanara

Vedanta


Keyword(s): five elements; five senses; intellectual gods (Greek); mystic fire; sixteen states of consciousness (based on Mandukya Upanishad)

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The Upper Solar World and the Three Material Worlds

Chaldean Theogony (G. R. S. Mead)


Keyword(s): inerratic, planetary, sublunary

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Handwritten Text

The Six Forces of Nature and the Five Cosmic Skandhas

Short Written Pieces


Keyword(s): five skandhas (Buddhism); Fohat; six forces of Nature

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Preliminary Drawings

A Partially Drawn Circle

Preliminary Drawings


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The Internal Structure of Each Idea as Found Paradigmatically in the Metaphysical Chart

Being, Life, Intellect (Intellectual-Principle)


Keyword(s): four states of consciousness (Mandukya Upanishad); Idea of Man; metaphysical and ontic charts

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Two Ways of Diagramming a Henad

Henads


Keyword(s): Mars Henad; Triad

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Two Ways of Diagramming the Mars Henad

Henads


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Soul and Body Monads

Monads


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The Four Worlds of the Kabbalah

Kabbalah


Keyword(s): houses 9-12

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Saturn in Aries as the Source of the Mind and Matter of the Fourth Quadrant

Saturn in Aries


Keyword(s): Twofold Zeus

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Three Perspectives on Saturn in Aries

Saturn in Aries


Keyword(s): Divine Numbers; One, Dyad, Triad, Tetrad; prakriti (Samkhya); Saturn henad and Body monad

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Handwritten Text

Intellectual-Principle as Act and Object

Short Written Pieces


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Handwritten Text

The One as the Paradigm for the Ideas of the Intellectual-Principle

Short Written Pieces


Keyword(s): One and Dyad

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Handwritten Text

The One as the Paradigm for the Ideas of the Intellectual-Principle

Short Written Pieces


Keyword(s): One and Dyad

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The Intersection of the Divided Line as the Gnostic Functions of Individual Soul and the Universe Fabricated by the Demiurge

Divided Line (Plato)


Keyword(s): bhavas of buddhi (Samkhya); four states of consciousness (Mandukya Upanishad); four gnostic and seven fabricative functions

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Four Dignities (Substance) and Seven Planets (Function) in the Natal Chart

Astrology Theory


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The One above, in, and after Being

The One


Keyword(s): Eight Hypotheses (Plato's Parmenides)

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Prakriti, Karana Akasha, and Aviveka Correlated with Houses 10-12

Samkhya


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Handwritten Text

Soul's Immediate Knowledge of the Cosmos

Short Written Pieces


Keyword(s): manas (antahkarana); mundane gods

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The Elements, Liberated Gods, and Chakras Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12

System of Nature (Houses 10-12)


Keyword(s): four elements; twelve liberated gods (Orphic); seven chakras (Hinduism)

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Handwritten Text

Spreading Out the Neoplatonic Tradition

Ms. Composition Plans


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Preliminary Drawings

A Circle

Preliminary Drawings


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The Metaphysical Chart as a Paradigm for the Structure of Each Idea

Intellectual-Principle


Keyword(s): Idea of Man in Being

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Prakriti, Karana Akasha, and Aviveka Mapped on to Houses 3-6, 7-10, and 11-2

Samkhya


Keyword(s): psychoid, psychic, physical (Jung)

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Unmanifest and Manifest Levels of the System of Nature (Houses 10-12)

Samkhya


Keyword(s): Absolute Soul informing matter

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The Idea of Man in Being, Life, and Matter

Idea of Man


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The Idea of Man in Being as a Fourfold

Idea of Man


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The Mars Henad

Henads


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The Seven Planetary and Four Gnostic Functions in the Context of Universal Manifestation

Astrology Theory


Keyword(s): Demiurgic Intellect; four elements; four essential dignities (Astrology); four gnostic functions; particular soul (Intellect, Life, Being); seven planetary functions

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The One above Being and the One in Being

The One and Intellectual-Principle


Keyword(s): rulerships; Triad

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The One as Fourfold and Sevenfold

The One


Keyword(s): Double Act; four states of consciousness (Mandukya Upanishad); fourfold: One, Being, Life, Intellect; sevenfold: One, Being, Life, Intellect, Soul, Nature, Body

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The Transcendent One as Prefiguring the Quadrants and Rings of the Metaphysical Chart

The One


Keyword(s): Double Act; quadrant (substance) and ring (function)

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Handwritten Text

The Double Act of the One as the Coalescence of Substance and Function

Short Written Pieces


Keyword(s): Double Act; quadrant (substance) and ring (function)

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The Samkhya System Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12

Samkhya