Thomas Garrett Isham

G.I. Gurdjieff called the enneagram an alchemy of the soul. As such, he viewed the enneagram as a means of transforming the soul, so as to give it a new identity and new powers. In doing so, he indirectly evoked the religious quest as well, a quest which aspires after regeneration or rebirth into new life.

It is instructive to place these three — enneagram, alchemy, religion - in proximity to one another, to locate a harmony of ideas in three modes, thus shedding ...

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