Table Of ContentThe
INTELLIGENT
ENNEAGRAM
SHAMBHALA
Boston & London
- 1996
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Blake, A. G. E. (Anthony George Edward)
The intelligent enneagram / A.G.E. Blake.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-57062-213-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Enneagram I. Title.
BF698.35.E54B57 1996 96-14474
155.2'6—dc2G CIP
No learning can substitute for intelligence, which is a sense of
what is real; a sense of one’s own being and the presence of the
world. The wise imagine what they can see, feel what they
can touch and reason about what they experience.
—Stephen Vizinczey, The Rules of Chaos
In expressing the laws of the unity of endless diversity a symbol
itself possesses an endless number of aspects from which it can
be examined and it demands from the man approaching it the
ability to see simultaneously from different points of view. Sym
bols which are transposed into the words of ordinary language
become rigid—then, they grow dim and very easily become “their
own opposites” confining the meaning within narrow dogmatic
frames, without giving it even the very relative freedom
of a logical examination of a subject.
—Gurdjieff speaking in
In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky
Contents
List of Figures xi
Preface XV
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: A Place in Time 1
Preamble 1
Carrier of a Teaching 2
Gurdjieff and His World 4
Beelzebub’s Story 13
Intelligence 15
Part One: The Frame of Transformation
1. The Symbol 23
The Diagram 23
Calculations 29
To Feel and Sense 32
2. Overview 39
Form and Content 39
Asymmetry and Buildup: Transformation 40
Intelligence 42
Triunity 42
3. Form of Sequence 44
In Music and Painting 44
Change and Order 50
4. The Symbolism of Making and Becoming ' 54
Octaves of Achievement 54
Shocks or Enablement 59
The Evolutionary Sequence and Physical Science 62
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5. Sevenfold Architecture 68
The Law of Seven 68
Seeing in Depth 72
Seven into Three 75
5. I Put Three Together 80
The Law of Three 80
The Three 85
Creation 87
Evolution 89
The Logos 90
Triamazikamno 92
Part Two: The Hazard of Transformation
7. Four Paradigms of the Enneagram 99
The Simple Action 99
The Impossible Object 103
The Problem Solution 105
The Three Versions 107
8. The Metabolism of Perception 110
The Secular Ritual of the Kitchen 110
Centers of Gravity 116
The Intervention of Point 6 122
Going Beyond 123
The Restaurant (at the End of the Universe?) 125
9. A Computer Running on Air 130
The Analogue 130
Three Bodies 131
Spirit and Soul 133
Matter, Energy, and Information 134
Consciousness and Sensitivity 135
State and Station 138
Hardware and Software 139
What Are Bodies Made of, and Who Has Them? 143
10. Being in Life 147
The Human Life Cycle 147
The World of Sex 153
The Physical Symbol 168
Contents
11. Drama 171
Legominism 171
Weaving a Plot 176
The Art of Interpretation 183
The Turn and the Latch 186
The Measures of Interpretation 187
Dramatic Progression 190
Form of Recurrence 193
12. An Enneagram of Crisis 199
Rise of the Technosphere 199
The Three Octaves 207
The Inner Lines of Regulation 210
The Structure of Sustainable Development 214
The Logos of the Biosphere 218
Part Three: The Purpose of Transformation
Wheels within Wheels 225
Into Eternity 225
Acceleration 228
The Design of the Enneagram 231
They Leave Our Story Here 234
Worlds and Cosmoses 236
Cosmic Interlude 241
Immortality and Finer Impressions 241
The Trouble Spots 243
Transmitting Influences 245
The Lateral Octave and the Solar System 254
The Greater Present Moment 260
Enneagram of Worldviews 260
Change of Epoch 267
Correlation with Centers 272
Interpreting Progress 274
Lines of Work 281
Overview 284
The Great Amen 288
Praying in Three Worlds 288
Contents
The Traditional Forms 292
Striving to Know Ever More and More 297
17. TheTescooano 301
How Deep Is Reality? 301
Apparatus of Perception 304
Vision 312
18. Recurrent Meaning 318
The Paths of Experience 318
Structure of the Week 324
Intentional Method 326
Backward and Forward 332
19. Remember to Remember 338
The Transformational Present 338
The Inner Lines 343
Remembering 347
Every Day 348
Reading the Enneagram 350
Afterword: The Beginning of Dialogue 360
Glossary 363
References 369
Index 379
List of Figures
1.1. The enneagram symbol 23
1.2. Forms in the symbol 24
1.3. Process sequence 25
1.4. Unity in multiplicity 26
1.5. Triad in circle 26
1.6. Openings in the process 27
1.7. The periodic figure 27
1.8. Progression of hydrogens 31
2.1. The trimurti of the enneagram 43
3.1. The musical scale 46
3.2. The octave in the enneagram 47
3.3. A celestial octave 48
3.4. Botticelli’s octave 48
4.1. Changes in level and time 55
4.2. Patterns of transformation in pot-making 58
4.3. Diagram of shocks 60
4.4. Energy levels 64
5.1. Sevenfold hierarchies 69
5.2. Ecological hierarchy 69
5.3. Levels of abstraction and time-span capacity 71
5.4. Implicit laws of the enneagram 73
5.5. The octaves in triplets 76
5.6. The octave as a form of the triad 76
6.1. Holy Trinity 82
6.2. Uncertainty and the third force 83
6.3. Three categories of existence 86
6.4. Action space defined by the logos 92
7.1. Filling a glass with water 101
7.2. An impossible object, after Opus 2B by Oscar
Reutersvard 103
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XU List of Figures
7.3. Borromean rings 105
7.4. Problem-solving sequence 106
7.5. Celestial analogue 107
8.1. Commands in the circle of the process 112
8.2. Face-off at the apex 114
8.3. Centers of gravity 118
8.4. Transformational community 124
9.1. The dynamic of awareness 135
9.2. The will forms of the three bodies 144
10.1. The circle of a human life 153
10.2. Enneagram of sex 161
11.1. Implications of the initial points 178
11.2. Plot of The Terminator 179
11.3. Sketch of the “music of life” 184
U.4. Turn, and latch 186
11.5. Diagram of text with crossover links 187
11.6. Design of Total Recall 189
11.7. Basic structure of drama 190
11.8. Enneagram of the Scriptures 194
12.1. Biosphere, technosphere, and noosphere 206
12.2. Nine points of evolution 208
12.3. Developmental curves 215
13.1. Three octaves 226
13.2. Enneagram of perpetual motion 226
13.3. Enneagram of concrete situations 227
13.4. . Enneagram of food transformation 228
13.5. Cumulative effect of octaves 229
13.6. Step symbol 230
13.7. The first octave 231
13.8. The second octave 232
13.9. The third octave 232
14.1. Cosmic octaves 246
14.2. Branching from the main octave 248
14.3. Life coupling Sun and Earth 252
14.4. The requirement for further intervention 255
14.5. Life in the solar system 255
14.6. Planetary synchronicity 256
15.1. Making a new world 267
15.2. Enneagram as a diagram of centers 273
