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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How the Demiurge Assimilates the Twelve Ideas

Twofold Zeus


Keyword(s): Demiurgic Intellect; sixteen states of consciousness (based on Mandukya Upanishad); metaphysical chart; seven cosmic tattvas (Theosophy)

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Twofold Zeus

Twofold Zeus


Keyword(s): Demiurgic Intellect; Jupiter henad; sixteen states of consciousness (based on Mandukya Upanishad)

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Twofold Zeus and the Twelve Cosmic Gods

Twofold Zeus


Keyword(s): Demiurgic Intellect; four elements; four intellects (Scholastics); Jupiter henad; Samkhya tattvas; seven cosmic tattvas (Theosophy); tanmatras; twelve mundane gods or twelve cosmic gods (Orphic)

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Henads and Monads Suspended from the Triad

Henads and Monads


Keyword(s): Being monad; Mars henad; Mercury henad; sevenfold: One, Being, Life, Intellect, Soul, Nature, Body; Triad; Venus henad

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Three Ways of Symbolizing the One, Dyad, Triad, and Tetrad

The One and Intellectual-Principle


Keyword(s): four states of consciousness (Mandukya Upanishad); Idea of the Good; Intellectual-Principle; One, Dyad, Triad, Tetrad; One, Infinity, Bound; Phanes (12 Ideas); sevenfold: One, Being, Life, Intellect, Soul, Nature, Body

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How the Demiurge Assimilates the Twelve Ideas

Twofold Zeus


Keyword(s): Demiurgic Intellect; four states of consciousness (Mandukya Upanishad); four gnostic functions; four soul vehicles (Neoplatonism); Idea of Man; metaphysical chart; seven cosmic tattvas (Theosophy); seven principles of man (Theosophy); twelve mundane gods or twelve cosmic gods (Orphic)

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The Demiurgic Intellect and the Twelve Cosmic Gods Nested within the Metaphysical Chart

Twofold Zeus


Keyword(s): Demiurgic Intellect; metaphysical chart; twelve mundane gods or twelve cosmic gods (Orphic)

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The Orphic Theogony Mapped on to the Metaphysical Chart

Orphic Theogony (G. R. S. Mead)


Keyword(s): Chaldean theogony; Proclus chart

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Six Cosmic Tattvas, Four Intellects, Four Gnostic Functions, and Six Theosophic Principles of Man Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12, Nested within the Metaphysical Chart

System of Nature (Houses 10-12)


Keyword(s): Aristotle’s four causes; Demiurgic Soul; determinate cognition and indeterminate cognition (Buddhist Logicians); five chakras (Buddhism); four elements; four essential dignities (Astrology); four gnostic functions; four intellects (Scholastics); eight consciousnesses (Yogacara Buddhism); inerratic, planetary, sublunary; metaphysical chart; Phanes (12 Ideas); seven cosmic tattvas (Theosophy); seven principles of man (Theosophy); six realms of existence (Buddhism)

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Six Cosmic Tattvas and Six Theosophic Principles of Man Mapped on to a Vesica of Houses 10-12, Nested within the Twelve Ideas

System of Nature (Houses 10-12)


Keyword(s): Being, Life, Intellect; Demiurgic Intellect; inerratic, planetary, sublunary; Saturn in Aries; seven cosmic tattvas (Theosophy); seven principles of man (Theosophy)

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Samkhya Tattvas, Four Elements, and Supercosmic and Cosmic Orders of Orphic Gods Mapped on to Houses 9-12

Universal Manifestation (Houses 9-12)


Keyword(s): Aristotle's four causes; Buddhist stupa, symbolism of; Demiurgic Intellect; five elements; inerratic, planetary, sublunary; Samkhya tattvas; soul; supercosmic gods (Orphic); twelve mundane gods or twelve cosmic gods (Orphic)

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The Metaphysical Chart as the Divine Numbers 1-7

Metaphysical Chart


Keyword(s): One, Dyad, Triad, Tetrad, Pentad, Hexad, Heptad; Samkhya system; sixteen states of consciousness (based on Mandukya Upanishad); thirty-six tattvas of Kashmir Shaivism

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The Components of the Buddhist Mandala

Nidana Chain and the Five Skandhas (Buddhism)


Keyword(s): Buddhist Logicians; eight consciousnesses (Yogacara Buddhism); five chakras (Buddhism); five Dhyani Buddhas; five elements; five functions of manas (Awakening of Faith); four essential dignities (Astrology); metaphysical chart; nidana chain and five skandhas; seven cosmic tattvas (Theosophy); seven principles of a human being (Theosophy); six realms of existence (Buddhism)

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The Chart of the Orphic Theogony

Orphic Theogony (G. R. S. Mead)


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A Chart of the Thirty-Six Tattvas of Kashmir Shaivism

Kashmir Shaivism


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A Chart of the Ten Sefirot of the Kabbalah

Kabbalah


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How the Demiurge Assimilates the Twelve Ideas

Twofold Zeus


Keyword(s): Demiurgic Intellect; four elements; four gnostic functions; four intellects (Scholastic); metaphysical chart; Noetic-Noeric triad (Orphic); Samkhya tattvas; seven cosmic tattvas (Theosophy); seven principles of a human being (Theosophy); sixteen states of consciousness (based on Mandukya Upanishad)