In fact, the Enneagram was first invoked in the 1800s by George Gurdjieff and, after him, by Rodney Collin who used it as an astrological device for explaining character and personality. The origins of the Enneagram are believed by some to be ancient, invented by the Desert Father, Evagrius, along with the seven deadly sins. Ian Cron and Suzanne Stabile provide descriptions of each number in terms of health and unhealth, whereas Richard Rohr occasionally uses the word “redeemed” for a person living into his or her optimal self. Each number is associated with a particular sin and takes on the characteristics of the numbers on either side, the wings. The nine numbers are grouped by three - those of the head, those of the heart, and those of the gut. The Enneagram, a personality system configured around a circle of nine types, promises to help the spiritual seeker break free from sin, peel back layers of dysfunctional ways of thinking, and find inside him or herself the essential, God-given gem.
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