Synopses of Astronoesis Chapters

(Handwritten versions)

by Anthony J. Damiani

Paper V09P

3-LETTER CODE: ASN

TOPIC: Astronoesis

SUBSUBJECTS: One, Intellectual-Principle, Soul

ORIGINAL LOCATION & FILE NAME (of PDF used for typing): AD SUPPB 1-7.PDF

BOOKS QUOTED FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Plotinus, The Enneads (MacKenna translation, 4th ed.)

PLOTINUS QUOTES REFERENCED: VI.1.6

AD HANDWRITING: All AD handwriting

COMPLETENESS: Synopses of four Astronoesis chapters

PUBLISHABILITY: Probably not

ALTERNATE VERSIONS: Many AD Astronoesis synopses/outlines exist

DATE WRITTEN ON SCAN OF THIS PAPER: July 9, 1981

VERSION OF PAPER IN ASTRONOESIS: Yes – as Outline versions

TYPED by MP 2020; FORMATTED by JF 2021-2023; REFORMATTED/CORRECTED by IT, MW 2025

NOTES:

• RETYPED AD PAPER (V09P).

• The first five entries concern Astronoesis but the last two are miscellaneous entries found in AD SuppB 1-7.PDF.

• Page 7 = AD note dated July 9, 1981 about canceling Kalachakra.

• Planetary glyphs spelled out in square brackets.

SYNOPSES OF ASTRONOESIS CHAPTERS

[AD Supp p. B1]

Progression from the Absolute, or the Transcendent and its alternate form. Our discussion commences from Plotinus [VI, 1, 6] without preliminaries we will plunge immediately into this problem regardless of its antiquity and attempt to re-word and illustrate it symbolically thru the use of the cosmic mandala. At the very outset we are confronted with a theory of The One as a continuum and as diaresis [diairesis].

[AD Supp p. B2]

The One or the Absolutely transcendent can be conceptually more available when the cosmic mandala is fully expanded and amplified. When the totality of significations are spread before us in pictorial form with their assigned meanings, then and only then will a unified presentation of man's rich philosophic inheritance become usefully depicted. The implications are profound and descend even into the subterranean recesses of our functioning - its value observable until man's intuitiveness has sufficiently evolved to dispense with it.

The One is to be thought of as a continuum within which dieresis [diairesis] may be conceived without sundering the unity.

[AD Supp p. B3]

Soul - Twofold nature at the highest level Zeus. [bracketed together:] objective subj. [subjective]

The wisdom the [sic] supervises the fabrication of the universe from the most causal to the gross. envelops and surrounds the individual soul - provides it with the necessary vehicles for experience and is the logos of our world. of which individual souls participate. That which Plotinus refers to as Providence.

[AD Supp p. B4]

Outline:

I. Nature of The One

II. Its internal structure viewed from our mentality: ie that is the relationships of the (varied) parts within it in this distinctionless mode, or The One and its power (dyad).

III. Which brings into consideration the notion of the unities and the 9 hypothesis [sic] of Plato in order to understand all that is to follow

IV. The [Head] or number has that which co-ordinates the ideas with their functioning intelligibles the derivation of ideas from [the Head] (#)

V. Resulting in the production of the I.P. [Intellectual-Principle or Nous]

[AD Supp p. B5]

The Nature of the I.P.

A duality in unity - the special nature of each idea and how it may be displayed in the chart as a unique version of the I.P.

[AD Supp p. B6]

The trying days, weeks, months and years: that pass into naught but like the traces of rain left behind in Space …

[AD Supp p. B7]

July 9

30 days --

cancel reservation in Wisc. [Note: Dalai Lama, Kalachakra 1981, Madison, Wisconsin.]

[Note: AD SuppB 8-29.PDF = additional outlines & fragments on the One.]