According to the Ptolemaic system of Hellenistic astronomy, the ascending order of the spheres between the earth and the highest heaven is Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
(1) Many years ago, I had the idea of applying this planetary order to the Enneagram circle, and to my surprise, the figure of a seven-pointed star appeared. I included this figure in my doctoral dissertation (1986), in which I cited this as evidence that the Enneagram may have been ...
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