Ouspensky, on the enneagram and centers

 

 

There was yet another drawing of the enneagram which was made under his direction in Constantinople in the year 1920. In this drawing inside the enneagram were shown the four beasts of the Apocalypse — The bull, the lion, the man, and the Eagle– and with them a dove. These additional symbols were connected with centers.

 

 This particular passage represents, in my estimation, concrete evidence that Gurdjieff associated the law of octaves with the centers, and, furthermore, that each note represented a center.

 

  

 

Excerpt taken from In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky, pub. Paul H. Crompton Ltd, 2004, p 295.