2. The Ancient Typology on the Mandala of Characters.

The diagram below shows an Ancient Typology. I came across this diagram on the internet someday.

I found this diagram sometime after I became interested in personality theories. It means Ancient Typology was the third typology I learned. The first was Enneagram, and the second was Carl Gustav Jung’s “Psychological Types”.

This diagram inspired me a lot. This inspiration leads me to rediscover the Ancient Typology.

To the above diagram, I added a circle. I added it to put different types of characters on it.

The Ancient Typology in the Mandala of Characters has a special role. It is because it is the foundation of the Mandala. So, on this ancient foundation, I placed all elements from which Mandala is built.

Above we can see that I have placed Ancient Typology inside the Mandala of Characters.

We can see, among other things, where the four ancient temperaments are. That is:

• Sanguine,
• Choleric,
• Phlegmatic, and
• Melancholic.

On temperaments, among others, Hippocrates and Galen worked in ancient times.

In the Mandala of Characters, there are three types of characters for each temperament.

The shape of the Ancient Typology is due to Aristotle.

Aristotle created the diagram on which he placed:

• So-called Classical Elements, that is:
  — Air,
  — Earth,
  — Fire, and
  — Water.
• And qualities of these Classical Elements, that is:
  — moist-wet,
  — dry,
  — cold-cool, and
  — hot.

The Classical Elements and their qualities play a very important role in the Mandala. Particularly important is the deep and ambiguous symbolism of these Elements.

Due to the universality of the Classical Elements and their profound, symbolic and ambiguous content, I decided to use them to name 12 types of characters that I distinguish on the Mandala. So, I called them as follows:

• Hot Air
• Air
• Moist Air


• Dry Fire
• Fire
• Hot Fire


• Wet Water
• Water
• Cool Water


• Dry Earth
• Earth
• Cool Earth

Thus, to create the names of the individual characters I used:

• four Classical Elements: Air, Earth, Fire and Water, and
• the properties of Classical Elements: dry, moist-wet, hot, and cold-cool.

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