Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas

by A.H. Almaas

While psychological processing is a necessary part of the work, no amount of psychological processing can release the soul from the ego fixation. Ultimately, Essence must emerge and transform the consciousness. For this reason, work on the Enneagrams of the egoic dimensions, like those of the Fixations and Passions, cannot be fully completed except by penetrating to the delusions underlying them, and these delusions cannot be penetrated except by direct experience of the Holy Ideas. Only this direct experience of the dimension of Being, and its integration in such a way as to illuminate the delusions as delusions instead of as incontrovertible truths, can fundamentally free the soul from its fixations. The initial enthusiasm that one experiences through learning the Enneagrams of the Fixations and Passions, and the clarity it adds to one’s experience, must not be allowed to obscure the fact that freedom from the Fixations and Passions is not an easy matter. It is not enough to see one’s psychological patterns for one to be free from them, and, moreover, it is not possible to see oneself completely and accurately without the presence of the experience of Being. Knowing the map of the Enneagram of Fixations, regardless of how deeply and in how much detail, is not sufficient to bring about transformation, let alone liberation.