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About the document archive: The bulk of the documents are class transcripts, but they also include papers written by Damiani or students and presented in class, student notes of classes, drafts of chapters for Damiani’s book Astronoesis, and annotated abridgments of books and articles. Search the documents below, or click here to learn more about the document archive.

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Keyword(s): “Twelve Signs of the Zodiac” (T. Subba Row)

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Keyword(s): Metaphysical Chart, Two Intellections

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Keyword(s): Metaphysical Chart, Two Intellections, Five Genera (Categories of Being), Soul

Student notes of a class/seminar

Keyword(s): Samkhya/Buddhist/Greek Vesicas, Nidana Chain, Number, Mundane Gods

Class held on multiple days

Columbus, OH

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Keyword(s): Idea of the Good (Triad), Twofold Zeus, Matter, Parmenides, Soul, Idea of Man, Five (Seven) Dhyani Buddhas, Three Intellects, Vesica of Houses 10-12, Four Intellects, “Six Doubts Concerning the Nature of Ideas”

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Keyword(s): “The Immortal Overself,” Soul, Epistemology, Reflective Consciousness, Idea of Man, World-Mind/Intellectual-Principle, Metaphysical Chart

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Keyword(s): “The Immortal Overself,” Plotinus, Idea of Man, Soul, World-Mind, Intellectual-Principle, Metaphysical Chart, Essences, Ego

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Keyword(s): “Introduction to the Parmenides” by Thomas Taylor, Intellectual-Principle, Metaphysical Chart, Demiurge, Nature, Imagination

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Keyword(s): Soul, Twofold Zeus (Demiurge), 3rd/4th Quadrants, Tentative Illumination of Matter, Cosmic Soul, Individual Soul, Sheaths, Timaeus, Four Intellects, Matter, Plato

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Keyword(s): 12 Houses Symbolization, Mandalas for the Idea of Man in Soul & Idea of Man in Cosmos

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Keyword(s): Mandalas of the Idea of Man in Being, Idea of Man in Soul

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Keyword(s): 5th House Idea, Double Knower, 4th House Idea

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Keyword(s): Three Idea of Man Zodiacs, 12-fold Idea of Man, Relation of Soul and Nous

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Keyword(s): Idea of Man in Soul, Four Intellects, Astrology Theory

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Keyword(s): Subtle Physiology, Buddhism, Plotinus, Samkhya, Soul-Nature-Body Connection

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Keyword(s): Idea of Man in Soul, Three Zodiacs, Animate, Divided Line

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Keyword(s): Soul-Nature-Body Connection, Mercury in Sagittarius, Causal and Subtle Physiology, Seed-Thoughts, Drops, Gods, Daemons, Platonism, Astral Body

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Keyword(s): Gods, Daemons, Soul, Metaphysical Chart

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Keyword(s): Cosmology, Matter, Samkhya, Metaphysical Chart, Demiurge, Ratios, Four Elements

Columbus, OH

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Keyword(s): Metaphysical Chart, Astrology, Animate, Soul Powers, Embodied/Unembodied Soul, Fate/Free Will, Reincarnation, Body as System of Nature for Soul, Felt Body, Witness-I, Vasanas, Hua T’ou, Mars Amputates Base Matter, Ego, Epistemology, Deck (“Is Nature Real for Plotinus?”)

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Keyword(s): Astronoesis Working Draft Outlines (One, Intellectual-Principle, Soul), Metaphysical Chart Symbolization, Intellectual-Principle, Number, Genera of Being

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Keyword(s): Astronoesis Working Draft (One, Intellectual-Principle, Soul, Nature Outlines, Invocatory Prelude, One: Exposition, One: Symbolization), Metaphysical Chart Symbolization, Consciousness vs. Intelligence, Transcendent and Immanent

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Keyword(s): Sixth House Idea, Six Holy Forces, Power, Soul Powers, Number, World-Idea, Soul, Astrology, Metaphysical Chart

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Keyword(s): Divided Line, Astrology Theory, Solar Logos, Cosmology, Separative Intellect, Metaphysical Chart, Samkhya, Vedanta, Buddhism, Bhavas of Buddhi

Class held on multiple days

Columbus, OH

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Keyword(s): Soul, Cosmology, Meditation, Metaphysical Chart, Astrology

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Keyword(s): “Birth of the Universe,” Buddhism & Vedanta, Cosmology, Solar Logos, Soul, Intellectual-Principle, Metaphysical Chart, Causality