the enneagram

Ancient Theory of Everything,

The Enneagram
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tephen Hawkings claimed 30 years ago that
not only would physicists soon find a theory
of everything, but that it would happen by the
year 2000. Hawking argued that the unification of
quantum mechanics and general relativity into
one theory was inevitable and that the coming age
of computers would render physicists obsolete.
Don’t worry if you missed the announcement
of this momentous discovery in 2000, because it
never happened. In fact it all got so messy with
things like dark matter, most of the universe
being ‘unaccounted for’ and the emergence of
things like multiple universe theory, string theory
and a whole host of other weird and wonderful
untestable ideas, that by 2010 Hawkings had to
state that physicists may never find a theory of
everything. Instead he proposed that a “family
of interconnected theories” might emerge,
Above: Joseph Wright’s 1768 painting depicts a natural
each describing a certain reality under specific philosopher, a forerunner of the modern scientist, recreating
conditions. Which in plain speak means “Reality one of Robert Boyle’s air pump experiments before a fascinated
is whatever you believe it is maaaan!” My hippy audience. At the time these early scientists were part of an
art teacher never qualified for being the worlds enlightened endeavour to discover the ‘hidden’ forces that
‘smartest man’ but he did actually suggest that were at work behind the natural worlds of Creation.
idea to me way back in the late seventies.
The real problem–and the ancient worlds wisest of life. Is it really so great that we now have fantastic
man would have pointed this out to the modern ‘giant’ plasma TV’s, and yet they are still really just
worlds smartest man–is that as in the story of the home portals for the mass media’s daily propaganda?
three little pigs, if you build a house out of straw the So sure, modern science has given us some great
‘wolf ’ of practical reality will eventually blow it down! benefits at the material level of our existence (even
The ‘new’ mechanistic science crystallised during though most of them are slowly killing us!) but the
the industrial revolution had concluded that the mechanical, ‘clockwork’, gravity based model of the
universe was simply a giant matter/energy machine universe has failed to produce a modern cosmology
without a ‘soul’ or any kind of purpose or meaning and that can explain what life and the universe is really all
that the whole thing could be easily explained by a set about. Hence it has simply come to a dead end in the
of fundamental mechanical laws. pursuit of a theory of everything because it is a ‘straw
Of course if the universe was just a lifeless house’ held together by various mathematical ‘fudge’
mechanical machine, then that is a reasonable thing factors, that camouflage the fact that the model is
to assume, but because it is not, explaining it by a fundamentally wrong.
purely mechanical model is like trying to explain your
mother’s kind and caring nature by talking about how THE ANCIENT THEORY OF EVERYTHING The
her skeletal system works! funny thing is that modern science actually began
Yes mechanistic science has got us to the moon and with genuinely curious and inspired people trying
given us pacemakers and plasma screen TV’s but from to find and understand the laws of nature. This
a deeper point of view why would a human want to eventually became diverted into other things due to
go to the moon anyway? Certainly it is not a suitable the huge profits that could be made out of the public’s
environment for human life is it?, and what really ever increasing desire for labour saving devices and
causes our hearts to get ‘diseased’ in the first place? technical novelties. Meanwhile the laws of nature
because ancient wisdom would have said it comes and life never went away. Now don’t be fooled into
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purely philosophical, they are every bit as real as the and working principles of the universe and the human
proven laws of applied science. In fact they are the system. One could then not only come to learn fully
exact same laws but expressed differently. what was possible for human life but also understand
For example science calls the mysterious force that how to use that knowledge or sacred science to be
attracts and binds everything to large celestial bodies successful within it. Hence the enneagram is the visual
gravity, but it is really the cosmic law of attraction isn’t representation of an ancient knowledge of everything
it? We even use the same word in that context when rather than just a ‘theory’ of everything and certainly,
we say things like “Well I tend to gravitate towards having used it as a ‘template’ for developing my own
that side of the argument”, meaning that particular life and career over the last 30 years it never ceases to
argument and its proponents attract you more amaze me just what a profound, totally practical ‘bible’
strongly than the other. for living the enneagram actually is.
Or the idea that ones daily life ‘orbits’ around the
central ‘pull’ of family, religion, career or even stamp THE ENNEAGRAM ARRIVES IN THE WEST
collecting (for some!) The enneagram and the knowledge behind this form of
Another law, that, “Electricity always finds the path it were first introduced into the West by G.I.Gurdjieff
of least resistance”, turns up in human life as people in St Petersberg and Moscow in 1916.
tending to take the easiest option. Like when I go to
Subway, point and say, “Can you just give me one like
in the picture please?”,–trying to avoid the hassle of
answering a series of annoying questions–“Certainly,
Sir, but what kind of bread?...toasted or plain?...melted
cheese?...”
Or entropy, the second law of Thermodynamics–
commonly known of as a measure of disorder–, which
sharing a home with messy teenagers I call the law
of “Constant sh*t and chaos!”, “This place looks like a
tip, can’t you just put things back where you got them
from? and would it kill you to do some dishes!”
Or when people say things like, “Those who never
learn from history are bound to repeat it.” Well that is
a good example of Newton’s first law of motion where
“Unless a force acts upon it, a stationary object will
remain at rest.” However for object insert ‘fixed views’ Above: The diagram of the enneagram as it was originally
because the reason people keep repeating history is introduced by Gurdjieff to his study groups in St Petersburg
they don’t change how they think about things and and Moscow in 1916.
therefore remain held in place by the same influences, Although many have tried to show the enneagram
which inevitably lead to the same results, or ‘history’. existed before this time, no one has yet been able to
Which of course connects to another law, because come up with it in this exact form and certainly not
the reason personal and collective change is so difficult with the teaching behind it. So perhaps it is best at
is that, “Every action has an equal and opposite this stage to quote what Gurdjieff had to say about it
reaction”, or as in the Esoteric expression of that law, from P.D. Ouspensky’s famous book “In Search of the
“You lean against that which resists you”, which means Miraculous”;
there needs to be a third force to break the deadlock “Speaking in general it must be understood that
of the force of new initiative (desire to change) being the enneagram is a universal symbol. All knowledge
automatically cancelled out by the force of the status can be included in the enneagram and with the help
quo, better known of as the collective resistance to of the enneagram it can be interpreted. And in this
change. connection only what a man is able to put into the
Now sure, at this human/unseen worlds level, these enneagram does he actually know, that is, understand.
laws aren’t as readily obvious or instantly fatal as What he cannot put into the enneagram he does not
the effect of gravity upon you if your parachute fails understand. For the man who is able to make use of
to open, or that of electricity when you try to get a it, the enneagram makes books and libraries entirely
jammed piece of toast out of the toaster with a knife unnecessary. Everything can be included and read
and electricity uses you as the path of least resistance in the enneagram. A man may be quite alone in the
into the ground. No they are infinitely more subtle but desert and he can trace the enneagram in the sand and
just as fatal over the long term, if not understood and in it read the eternal laws of the universe. And every
used correctly. This is in fact one of the key reasons time he can learn something new, something he did
why the ancient symbol of the enneagram was brought not know before...The enneagram is the fundamental
into existence in the first place, to function as a symbol hieroglyph of a universal language which has as many
or diagram that could explain all the fundamental laws different meanings as there are levels of men.

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The enneagram process of learning to drive

Above: The ennegram used to show all 9 stages that have to be gone through in order to learn to drive a car and gain a drivers licence.

The enneagram is perpetual motion, the same best to introduce the enneagram and how it works by
perpetual motion that men have sought since the going through it with a real world example.
remotest antiquity and could never find. And it is clear Gurdjieff did some practical work with his students
why they could not find perpetual motion. They sought on the enneagram by marking it out on the floor,
outside themselves that which was within them; and placing a person on each of its nine points and
they attempted to construct perpetual motion as introducing a series of movements to be done at each
a machine is constructed, whereas real perpetual stage. He explained, “It is possible to experience the
motion is a part of another perpetual motion and enneagram by movement. The rhythm itself of these
cannot be created apart from it...The understanding of movements would suggest the necessary ideas and
this symbol and the ability to make use of it give man maintain the necessary tension; without them it is not
very great power. It is perpetual motion and it is also possible to feel what is most important.”
the philosopher’s stone of the alchemists...” With that in mind lets journey through this with
something that we do all have practical experience
UNLOCKING THE ENNEAGRAM FOR USE with and that is the processes of learning a new skill.
I don’t know about you, but I prefer my esoteric This we have all done, wether it be learning to read,
knowledge in practical form, other wise what’s the drive, play a musical instrument, learn a new recipe,
point if you can’t do anything with it? So I thought it start a new job or even learn a different language. So

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lodged unconsciously in ourselves is a sense of what This ‘contemplation’ stage is also the very thing
things like INSPIRATION-CONTEMPLATION- that advertisers aim to bypass and cause you to not do
STRUGGLE-ACTION-EXAMINATION-SUCCESS thoroughly. Because if you thought too much about
etc.. actually feel like, along with the sense of what the what they are trying to get you to buy you might
different, natures, intensities and rhythms of them are. decide that you don’t really need it after all!
So lets look at the enneagramic cycle of what goes 3–Action Can you remember that if you did decide
into learning to drive and gaining a drivers licence. yes, it was at this point where you really got enthused
1–The Idea The whole process of becoming a about the whole thing. A surge of energy arrives to
qualified driver begins with the idea of it. This is the enable you to actually do it, and it is going to need
seed that gets into your head to begin a new learning plenty of energy to get through it all. This is the
experience. I remember in my case, at the age of 15, a POWER arriving, and 3 is all to do with power. If you
government sponsored driver education unit arrived look at the diagram you will see that stages 1-2-3 are
at our school and it was free. Having not really thought all ‘unseen’. Unless you are talking about it no one
much about it beforehand, the seed was suddenly will have a clue what idea you have, or what you are
planted in my head that I could learn to drive, and if contemplating. That part of the process is all internal.
I decided to take up the opportunity it would happen Its between you and what is influencing the process to
the very next week! In the readers case it might have occur. You can see that point 3 is where the triangle
been the fact that your best friend had just gained their shape touches the outer circle where the linear
licence, or maybe you needed it to get a job, or simply process of events is occurring. It also touches at 6 and
being a teenager you wanted to gain some freedom again at 9 where the cycle completes. This triangle, or
and independence for yourself. ‘triad’ really represents the 3 fold power that energises
Now if you don’t drive perhaps it was getting the and drives the whole of creation. All of the ancient
idea to learn to play a musical instrument or learn a cosmologies refer to the original ONE, dividing itself
new language or even how to cook, but what ever it was into TWO. Light and Dark, Father and Mother, Sky and
just take a moment to think back and re connect with Earth, Growth and Decay etc. Even modern physics
what it was that caused you to get the idea to acquire echoes this in the idea that the universe began in a
that new skill in the first place. This is important, tiny singular point which expanded out of itself with
because obviously in this context we can’t engage in the appearance of laws and energy. Ancient wisdom
sacred dance work to demonstrate the working of the held that because the ‘TWO’ were opposite polarities
enneagram, but we can connect to the results of real to one another, that the original generating power of
life experience of this enneagramic process working the ‘ONE’ had to act as a neutralising, binding force
within us to make it more down to earth and tangible. so that the ‘TWO’ wouldn’t cancel each other out.
2–Contemplation The next stage is that having had Hence there is a natural dynamic tension throughout
the idea you then had to think about it didn’t you? The the universe, as the ‘THREE’ are locked in eternal
pros and cons have to be weighed up before you can interaction with each other, generating the power
make a decision. “Do I really want to do this? Can I for the universe and all things as a perpetual energy
afford it? Can I be bothered, Can I cope with the test?, source. Gurdjieff referred to these three as the Active
because I always freak out over tests!” force, passive force and reconciling force. Anyone
Here is set of words that all refer to the number who has been married for a long time will know full
two process; Think about, meditate on/over, consider, well how the constant ‘tension’ between two opposing
ponder, reflect on/about, mull over, muse on, dwell on, forces, held in check by the third reconciling force of
deliberate over, cogitate on/about, ruminate on/about, a common goal and purpose, naturally generates the
chew over, brood on/about, puzzle over, turn over in energy and growth of the relationship!
one’s mind, weigh up. So 3 is where you decide to do it (or not) and you
As an interesting point, the current number of may even think, “Well I’m not ready yet.” and then
words in the English language is 1,025,109 and every come back to it at a later time. If you decide YES then
single one of them can be placed within one or other its all on, you have committed yourself to action. Now
of the nine points of the enneagram, (which we will 3 is also one of the points that Gurdjieff referred to as
see more clearly as we proceed.) a ‘shock point’ and this is a point where extra force is
Take a moment and see if you can reconnect to required to continue to the next stage of the process.
this stage of the process in your self, because this If you are fully decided about something, this happens
part can take seconds, minutes, hours, years even, naturally, as the human system is designed to add
but the process can not move past this point until the energy to what ever you say yes to, or commit yourself
contemplation has been done and a decision is made. to. You only have to see what happens when you give
My son is only 8 years old, but being a huge fan of a listless ‘tired’ mopey teenager $50 to go and treat
the BBC programme ‘Top gear’ he has already decided themselves. Watch how the tiredness miraculously
that not only will he be learning to drive as soon as his and instantaneously converts into a burst of energy, as
feet can reach the pedals, but it has to be a manual, they leap off the couch and head to the mall!
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4–Materials The next thing you are going to need

is time, a car, road code manual, an instructor and
money. It’s curious that money really is a physical
manifestation of power because the more of it you
have the greater means you have to realise your ideas.
Maybe if you decided ‘no’ it was simply because you 1 2

didn’t have enough of it to fund the project.

If learning to play guitar, cook or learn a new
language it will be the same process, but of course the
materials and equipment will be different accordingly.
5–Knowledge This is the stage which we mostly
associate with learning a new skill, but as we can see,
it really is only 1/9th of the full process. With learning
to drive it’s finding out about all the rules of the road,
what gears and a clutch are for, parallel parking etc.
3 4
With a guitar it will be how to tune it, some music
theory, a few chords, and how to read basic rhythm
notation. With a new language it will be some key
words and phrases and perhaps a little history about
the culture that it comes from.
6–Struggle This is where one has to then apply the
knowledge and put theory into practice. A certain
amount of will power and tenacity is needed here
because it will be difficult, as you have never done
this before. I remember with the school driving class 5 6
we were arranged in small groups of 3 that went out
with each instructor. My team had two other highly
competitive teenage boys, so when you didn’t let the
clutch out properly and ‘bunny hopped’ they would
snigger in the back seat and make an ‘L’ shape on their
forehead with thumb and index finger–talk about
pressure! So this stage is awkward, uncomfortable,
difficult and requires intense concentration because
you are quite literally forcing your idea, decision and
inspiration into becoming a reality.
This then is also the point where one might feel like
giving up and abandoning the project. Thoughts may
appear like, “I don’t think I can do this!” You can see
in the diagram that 6 is the third point where the triad
connects with the circle and it is the next ‘shock’ point 7 8
where extra energy is required to ‘break through’ to the
next stage in the cycle. Now what is very interesting Above: Great art throughout the ages has been used to
is that there are ‘lines’ going across the enneagram express this knowledge of the ‘law of 3’, and how it is the
driving power that keeps the perpetual motion machine of
connecting up certain points which indicate this is the universe for ever active. Although expressed in different
not just a linear, cyclic process, but that it is also an forms and styles by different cultures–being a universal
interconnected, ‘holographic’ process as well. When principle–it is always an expression of the same cosmic triad.
that thought goes through your head, “Oh, this is too Key: 1. Three Gods of Palmyra, 2. The Matres 3. Brahma,
tough, I think I should give up”, a number of other things Vishnu & Shiva 4. Fuk, Luk & Sau. 5. The three Buddhas, 6.
will then automatically kick in. For example your mind Osiris, Horus & Isis, 7. The Trinity, 8. The three Graces.
will flash back to 3 and your enthusiasm and ‘vision’ of
being able to have freedom and independence, which quietly with a drink, revisiting stage 2 and then going
then reminds you why you wanted to do this in the through all the pros and cons once again to reinforce
first place. It summons that “second wind” and a new in yourself that it was the right decision to do this.
burst of energy to push through. Or it might be simply Psychology comes in very strongly at 6 because
remembering that S.A.S guy on a documentary saying how you think about the struggle stage and what your
“Pain is just weakness leaving the body! For others it attitude is can swing it either way. After all the principle
might be flashing back to 4 and remembering that you of effort and struggle is a big part of life isn’t it? I met
paid good money for this and don’t want to waste it! Or a woman once who had been going to University for
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then start another, because she loved the gaining esoterically it’s really a filter or gateway of criteria and
knowledge part, or stage 5, but didn’t like the difficult standard. In the learning to drive example there will
practical application part in the real world! So you get be a national standard that has been decided upon–
this in life don’t you? Some people just love to have mostly for safety reasons–as a car in unskilled hands is
the ‘ideas’, others just love ‘thinking’ about everything. without a doubt a lethal weapon. With guitar playing
Then you get those ‘enthusiastic action people’ who it’s no where near as serious but there is a general
love the nature of stage 3. Or those who are entirely consensus as to what people will find acceptable or
focussed on the 4 of material acquisition. There are not. So having passed through the filter imposed
even those who love the nature of 6 and are always by that criteria of acceptance, one at last becomes
finding things to do that are super difficult and ‘accomplished’.
challenging (like Bear Grills!) If you don’t pass through the ‘gate of 8’, then an
7–Result At long last the instructor lets you drive interesting thing happens and we come back to those
solo, that song you have been learning on the guitar internal connecting lines of the enneagram once
actually sounds recognisable, you created a soufflé again. What naturally happens is that you then have
without any help from Chef Ramsey, or you can speak to look backwards and across the process to see which
enough German to catch a bus, buy a beer and find stage let you down. For example Was it stage 4 and
the toilet! There is always a feeling of satisfaction that the car you used? or was it the instructor? Perhaps a
comes with this stage, a sense of your intention finally professional instructor would work better than your
being realised and like the 7 notes of the musical scale grumpy Dad? Was it the 5? Did you need to swot
there is something ‘pleasant’ and ‘harmonious’ about harder on the information part of it? Perhaps it was
it all. In fact when ever you find yourself saying to 6 and you simply need more practice, or perhaps
someone, “You look pleased with yourself ” they will you didn’t really try hard enough in the first place?
most likely be in the 7 of what ever it is they have been Maybe its the 8 stage itself? and you get so uptight
doing. Finishing the housework, where everything is with examinations of any kind that some relaxation
clean and restored to how it was meant to be carries technique might help. If it’s none of these then its time
that sense as well doesn’t it?–provided you can push to look all the way back to 1, 2, and 3. Was it really
through the stage 6 of actually making the effort to do such a great idea?, did you think it through thoroughly
it! enough?, Is it really that important, or in other words
It’s a curious thing about 6, because the more the is it what you really want to do?
consumer society ethos makes things ‘easier’ for us, This is where we get to see from another angle how
the more the world conditions people to think that this enneagramic process is inter dimensional rather
there is something wrong with having to struggle or than simply linear because all of these processes are
work hard in ones life, when in fact it is one of the 9 interconnected and in ‘perpetual motion’. When you
natural principles of the Universe. think about it your C.V. is a summary of all the 1-9
8–Test So its all looking good, everything has cycles of your work history, which create further
come together, but its not over yet is it? because you opportunities in the line of that process, but also
still have to pass the drivers test, first in the theory exclude others. For example its no use at the age of 50,
and then a practical test with a traffic officer. This is having been an accountant for 30 years, applying for
another ‘shock’ point really, because you will have to a job as a Graphic Designer. This is also why the ‘mid
bring full intensity and concentration to bear once life’ crises’ involves much ‘flashing’ back through 7, 6,
again because the result is not yet guaranteed. The cop 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 to determine if you are really happy
failed my friend because he could do everything well about how the 7 of your life is turning out!
enough but he was too ‘cocky’ about it! 9–Accomplishment Having met the criteria and
In other areas it is a little more subtle. It might just ‘passed’ we are now accomplished at a beginner
be playing the song you learned to a friend, or making level. There is something quite special and deeply
a meal for your family, or arriving in Germany and satisfying about the 9 stage because in terms of the 7
trying to tell the taxi driver where you want to go. fold musical scale we have entered a new ‘octave’. It is
In the main diagram you can see in the centre of the the completion of a cycle. It then does a curious thing
enneagram a car upside down with some awkward because your success can inspire someone else to do
people standing around it. This is an actual picture the same, or seed them with the idea, create a new ‘1’
from a newspaper report of some poor person rolling so to speak. It also adds to the collective experience
the car while doing their practical driving test! in the world of all the drivers that have ever been.
With the guitar it will be how people react to your How many guitar players have been ‘inspired’ to be so
playing that will let you know if you ‘passed’ or not. If from seeing Hendrix, Clapton, Satarini etc. It adds to
the family screw up their faces while eating the meal the morphic field of ‘idea’ energy that can then seed
you just learned to make and your son blurts out, “Oh others, which is why 9 is at the top of the circle rather
my god this is disgusting!” that will be a ‘fail’. With a than 1, as it represents this ‘morphic field’ of collective
new language it will be the simple fact of wether you human experience that the ideas come from that get
can communicate with others successfully or not. into human minds and ‘influence’ them to do things in
What is interesting here, is that we call it a test, but the first place.
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Oliver Stone said that he made the movie “Wall

Street” to tell the story of the dire consequences of
economics driven by greed. However what he learned
many years later was that thousands of College
students saw his movie and were so inspired by how
much ‘easy’ money there was to be made, that they
dumped their studies and headed off to Wall Street!
The 9 of his accomplishment seeded thousands of
brains all over the world with the idea of wanting to
learn how to become just like Gordon Geko!
10–Repetition or Elevation The circle the
enneagram is contained in represents 0 or the
containment of all processes, so the number 10
represents one complete cycle. After that one of two
things can happen. The completed cycle becomes
a new ‘wheel’ of process in your life and goes into a
repetition where you accrue more experience in what
you have already accomplished. Getting a drivers
licence doesn’t make you a good driver, that takes years
of experience or many turns of the ‘wheel’.
Or you may decide to take that first accomplishment
to a whole new level, or elevate it, such as becoming a
driving instructor yourself, a formula one racing driver,
or even a pilot, which is learning to ‘drive’ a far more
sophisticated machine. This is where the numbers Above: Having gone through the enneagramic cycle of
11, 12, 13 etc. come in, because numerologically they acquiring a new skill it can either become a ‘wheel’ of
indicate going through the enneagramic cycle again repetition that accrues more experience or it can be elevated
but at a higher or more advanced level. into a new level of accomplishment.
natural to the originating criteria of that life.
LEARNING TO DRIVE THE HUMAN VEHICLE A palliative care nurse who spent her entire career
Using the example of the enneagramic cycle of caring for terminally ill patients, discovered that
learning a new skill gives an introductory idea of the single most common regret of the dying was, “I
what the enneagram can reveal about the laws of life, wished I had the courage to live a life true to myself,
because it is something familiar that enables us to get a and not the life others expected of me”. In other words,
sense of how these laws really are at play in everything being near to the 8 of life and intuitively ‘flashing’ back
that we do. However the deeper implication of it all through the 9 enneagramic stages of it, they could feel
suggests that life itself is a process of acquiring an quite distinctly that they had not managed to translate
accomplishment of some kind. Certainly we have to and fulfil the meaning of their particular existence and
become accomplished in enough skills to be able to knew it was now too late to change the result or ‘7’ of
earn a living and keep a roof over our heads, but what it all.
about life itself, what are we supposed to be learning Many ancient myths and esoteric traditions talk of
in that enneagramic cycle of the journey from birth the number 11 being to do with a passage or ladder
to death? into another dimension or higher realm. The modern
At school it is official policy now to teach our world view would have us believe that there is nothing
children that the universe and life happened by beyond matter and money (4). That this is all there
accident, that it has no meaning and therefore there is, so just be happy learning (5) and struggling (6), to
is nothing deeper to learn. However, if these universal become successful (9), in getting more of it all (7), and
laws exist–and laws always indicate reason and if you serioulsy challenge that, we will crush you (8).
purpose–then perhaps we are also meant to learn to All physics, chemistry, biology etc. is a study of
drive the organic/spiritual vehicle we have been born only the enneagramic stages of the 4 through 7 of the
into while we are here? If that is the case then surely manifest world. This is why those Physicists failed in
there is also some kind of ‘exam’ to pass, a criteria to coming up with a theory of everything because their
meet, a “Gate of 8” to pass through? world view won’t let them percieve the truly causitive,
It is interesting that the Ancient Egyptians, who unseen realms of the 1, 2 and 3. The enneagram
were absolute masters of these universal laws–and however is a natural law encyclopedia of the causes,
clearly knew a thing or two about what happened after principles and reasons behind life and how to
death–characterised the number 8 stage of life, or accomplish immortality, hence it is the ‘Philosophers
death, as the ceremony of ‘The weighing of the heart stone’ and the imperishable gold long sought after
against the feather of truth’, or what had accrued at the by the alchemists, a subject to be expanded upon in
heart of one’s life, measured against what is real and future articles. n D.J.Carville © 2015
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