The Sufi Enneagram: Sign of the Presence of God (Wajhullah): The Secrets of the Symbol Unveiled Paperback – Illustrated, 26 Oct. 2013

This little book takes serious students of the Enneagram to a whole new level. I've learned a lot about the Enneagram's history and its relationship to Astrology and sacred geometry. While I found some of the details complicated, I was relieved to get away from the 'pop psychology' presentations of the Enneagram that omit the wider applications of this beautiful mathematical system and are, unfortunately, so common in the West.

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Hints and rumours of a purported Sufi origin of the Enneagram symbol have long circulated, but hitherto a clear demonstration of such a provenance had been wanting - until the appearance of this very valuable work, a luminous unveiling of the wisdom of the Wahjullah. Renowned Islamic scholar and translator Laleh Bakhtiar here expounds the genuine sacred science, the Sufic 'Knowledge of the Nine Points', revealed through contemplation of the Enneagram, as the foundation of an authentic 'psychologia perennis' in the Avicennan tradition: this concentrated tome is a very rich and substantial exegesis of the Enneagram and effectively restores the true Sufic bases of this paradigmatic design(Naqsh), unfolding its application in the fields of traditional ethical teachings regarding conduct and manners(Adab), inner transformation and spiritual realisation: Dr Bakhtiar reveals a depth of fascinating and valuable insights in her hermeneutics of the Enneagram, illustrating the astrological and alchemical dimensions of significance which are contained within this archetypal image: this work conveys a unique wealth of initiatory knowledge regarding the Enneagram in its original Islamic Sufi context and the information this book imparts functions effectively as the key to the volumes which follow and which constitute a precious corpus of teachings of the symbolic sciences and gnosis of Islamic esoterism. If you desire to understand the genuine traditional significance of the Enneagram as a pattern of psychic and spiritual harmony and inner realisation, as well as an archetypal design encoding profound cosmological cycles and alchemical concepts this book is, without doubt, essential reading. In a providential and timely manner Dr Bakhtiar has restored, clarified and transmitted the genuine Irfanic 'Knowledge of the Nine Points', preserved through the ages by the Khwajagan, the sages and masters of the Tradition.