“After all, the greatest joy that a human being can have is to try to fathom the Unfathomable.” — Anthony Damiani, American Philosopher, Columbus, Ohio, 1977 In March 1984, a group of students met with Anthony Damiani (1922 –1984) an American philosopher and teacher under whose guidance and direction they had studied comparative mystical philosophy for many years. Damiani, largely an autodidact, had immersed himself in the various aspects of the perennial philosophy, East and West. He was also a close student of the late Paul Brunton (1898–1981). Their discussion remains germane to the contemporary reader and to students of the perennial philosophy. Damiani’s was a uniquely comparative approach to the wisdom tradition, basing his work primarily in the Neoplatonic philosophy of Plotinus along with the modern writings of Paul Brunton, both of whom he considered to have had the highest order of insight and philosophical development. This foundation, along with his unique coupling of this wisdom, presents the symbolic image of the Living Cosmos, the body of God, as cosmic astrology. Today’s reader will find a rich source of Wisdom, all within the context of a friendly discussion among teacher and students. Contents Preface Friday The Fallacy of Divine Identity The Nature of the Soul or Overself The Undivided Mind of the Earth and the Divinity of the Sun Our True Self and Its Unfoldment Poltinus, PB and Philosophic Understanding, True Initiation PB’s Schema: The Embodied Psyche and the “Witness I” and “Insight” The Master Stroke Saturday On PB, The Nature of Thinking, Illumination Overself World-Idea World-Mind Stages of Illumination: The Who am I? and the What am I? The Ego and Its World Plotinus’s Teaching The Traditionalists The Chasm between “The Real and the Lower Intellect” and Its Symbolic Meaning The Absolute within PB and Plotinus The “Witness I” and the Double Nature of Soul Astrological Unfoldment of the Individual Mind of the Earth Sun Consciousness The Double Knower Meditation — “The Master Stroke” Symbolic Thought and Contemplation Quotes on Meditation: Overself and Spiritual Knowledge, with Commentary Sunday Ideas in the Mind of God and Cosmic Astrology Meaning of Words Sense in the Sensible Maya Synthetic Approach: Magical Mythological Conceptual The Complexities and Levels of Philosophy Philosophy of Cosmic Astrology Glossary Appendixes Astronomia by Anthony Damiani The Metaphysical Chart The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac by T. Subba Roe The Undivided Mind of the Earth and the Divinity of the Sun by Paul Brunton Epilogue from Search in Secret Egypt by Paul Brunton Solar Logos: Gayatri Mantra PB’s Night Mediation