 In
Search of the Miraculous and the Enneagram
Fragments
of an Unknown Teaching
by P.D. Ouspensky
"Speaking in general, it must
be understood that the enneagram is a universal symbol. All KNOWLEDGE
can be included in he enneagram and with the help of the Enneagram it
can be interpreted. And in this connection only what a man is able
to put into the enneagram does he actually know, that is understand. What
he cannot put into the enneagram, he does not understand. For the man
who is able to make use of it, the enneagram makes books and libraries
entirely unnecessary. Everything can be included and read in the enneagram.
A man may be quite alone in the desert and he can trace the enneagram
in the sand and in it read the eternal laws of the universe. And everything
he can learn something new, something he did not know before.
If two men who have been in different
(esoteric) schools meet, they will draw the enneagram and with its help
they will be able at once to establish which of them knows more and which,
consequently, stands upon which step, that is to say, which is the elder,
which is the teacher and which is the pupil. The enneagram is a fundamental
hieroglyph of a universal language which has as many different meanings
as there are levels of men.
The Enneagram is perpetual motion,
the same perpetual motion that men have sought since the remotest antiquity
and could never find. And it is clear why they could not find perpetual
motion. They sought outside themselves that which was within them; and
they attempted to construct perpetual motion as a machine is constructed,
whereas real perpetual motion is part of another perpetual motion and
cannot be created apart from it. The enneagram is a schematic diagram
of perpetual motion, that is, of a machine of eternal movement. But of
course it is necessary to know how to read the diagram. The understanding
of this symbol and the ability to make use of it give man very great power.
It is perpetual motion and it also the philosopher's stone of the alchemists.
The knowledge of the enneagram has
for a very long time been preserved in secret and if it is now, so to
speak, made available to all, it is only in an incomplete and theoretical
form of which nobody could make any practical use without instruction
from a man who knows.
In order to understand the Enneagram,
it must be thought of as in motion, as moving. A motionless enneagram
is a dead symbol; the living symbol is in motion."
By P.D. Ouspensky, from In
Search of the Miraculous
The Enneagram is a map of
the human psyche based on the wisdom of many ancient spiritual traditions,
while drawing upon the most profound developments of modern psychology.
0156445085 - published 1974,
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