The symbol of the Enneagram was first used by Gurdjieff when he began teaching esoteric subjects in Russia a hundred years ago. He claimed to have learned it from a secret “monastery” of the “Sarmoun” or “Sarmoung Brotherhood” in Central Asia. After his death in 1949, a number of teachers and writers on esoteric traditions claimed Sufi origins of many of Gurdjieff’s teachings, including about the Enneagram: J. G. Bennett (a student of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff), Idries Shah (who claimed t...
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