Holy Ideas for Each Enneagram type - taken from Facets of Unity by A.H Almaas

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Separate IdentityThe Effort to Control

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Disconnection from the Source

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--- Start of Attachment Triad descriptions ---

Point Nine

HOLY LOVE

The Heart of TruthNonconceptual PositivityAbsolute Goodness

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Localized LoveThe Inferiority Complex

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Falling Asleep to RealityThe Superficial Life

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Point Six
HOLY STRENGTH,?HOLY FAITH

The awareness that the Cosmos is a self-regulating mechanism, existing in a state of balance, and as long as the objective laws which govern this balance are respected, an individual can exist in a state of harmony with Reality, moving toward his own personal fulfillment. Faith is a Holy Idea, not a belief. It is the certitude that each of us has an Essence and that this Essence coming from God, belongs to God.

The Essence of the SoulEssential Faith

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CynicismInsecurity and SuspicionBarriers to Essential Faith

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The Importance of the View of RealityThe Transforming Effect of the Ideas

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Point Three
HOLY HARMONY, HOLY LAW, HOLY HOPE

Dynamic OnenessPerceptions of the Dynamic Flow
This means that everything that we see is the manifestation of Being, which is completely inseparable from Being, because it is Being itself manifesting itself in the various forms that we see. So God is not something that creates the world; God is the world when we recognize it in its unity. Quoting Ibn Arabi again, he says:

And His Creation springs, not from nothingness, from something other than Himself, from a not-Him, but from His fundamental being, from the potencies and virtualities latent in His own unrevealed being. . . . The Creation is essentially the revelation of the Divine Being, first to himself, a luminescence occurring within Him, it is a theophany (tajalli ilahi). (Corbin, 1969, p. 185)

The latter quote points to the third way of experiencing the Holy Law. This is the experience that reality is inherently and constantly self-revealing. So everything that we see is nothing but the revelation of Being, the true reality of the universe. This self-revelation highlights the inherent creativity of Being, the fact that it is spontaneously creative, and that this creativity is continuously revealing its richness and its treasures. From this angle, all movements and transformations are seen as the spontaneous self-revealing creativity of Being. The focus here, then, is on the spontaneous magical unfolding and flowering, which is pure appearing.

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More exactly, creation or the flow of Being is basically replacement: One unified appearance is replaced by another unified appearance. The word creation might make you think that something new and different is being created, but from the perspective of self-revelation, Being is simply revealing itself through the innumerable manifestations of objects, beings, and events that we experience. So by seeing this flow as a self-revelation, we see that there is no distinction between what is created and what is creating.


Here, then, the continuity of Being is its self-revelation, through which we are able to perceive it. As long as there is perception of Being, it is always perceived through the forms it manifests. When you perceive Being without any form, there is no perception. This is the divine coma, the cessation of experience. The forms through which we perceive it are the manifestations of Being itself, so it is not as though Being is manifesting us. Being is manifesting itself, and we are part of that Being.


So we have seen Holy Law as a flow of Being, a creativity, and a self-revelation. Experientially, there is a different flavor to each of these perceptions, and they are progressively more subtle. The self-revelation has more of a magical quality: The whole of reality is Being, magically displaying its qualities and potentialities by making them appear just like that, out of nothing. But that appearance is Being itself, not something separate.


This sense of the flow as a magical unfoldment is close to the fourth, even more subtle way of experiencing Holy Law, in which everything is experienced as a manifestation of Being. This perception is described by Longchenpa, in the following quote:

(Longchenpa, 1987, p. 32)

[Because all buddhas, sentient beings, appearances,


Existences, environments, and inhabitants]


Arise from the quintessential state of pure and total presence,


One is beyond duality.


. . .


Because all phenomena do not exist apart from me,


One is beyond duality. I fashion everything.


(Longchenpa, 1987, p. 35)

Each of the ways of perceiving Holy Law adds a slightly different subtlety. Together, they provide a more complete perception of Holy Law. The difference between self-revelation and manifestation may appear very small when discussing it, but experientially, the difference is considerable. In self-revelation, Being is revealing whatever is in it, while in manifestation, Being is the unending spontaneous manifestation. This subtlety has a very different feel experientially.


A fifth way of experiencing Holy Law takes the last quote still further. This is the perception that everything occurs according to one universal will. In other words, there is one reality whose will manifests through all events, movements, and changes. This perception is the closest to the notion of a creator God with a Divine Will. But here, we see that this God is not an entity separate from what is created, so the created and the inner nature of the created are experienced as inseparable. In addition to this inseparability, there is the sense of one unified will moving everything, the sense that Beingness with its own will is transforming itself.


Through the sixth way of experiencing Holy Law, we gain a more complete understanding of it. Here, we experience Being as an inherently dynamic presence. The dynamism is completely inseparable from Being, so it is not as though there is Being and it has a creative quality. From the beginning, Being is constantly dynamic. So it is not only pure presence, but this presence by its very nature is dynamic, energetic, and in a constant state of aliveness and renewal. It is always transforming its appearance, without there being a transformed one and a transforming one. So Being is a living, seething, dynamic, energetic presence, whose dynamism and movement never detract from its stillness. To see the aspect of self-revelation of Being is to appreciate intimately the depth of awareness that appears as the forms of manifestation, to perceive that the Divine Awareness is never left as form arises.


In the experiences of the Holy Law as the revelation or manifestation of Being, there is some sense of you being a witness in the experience, perceiving things unfolding. In the experience of the inherent dynamism of Being, you are not experiencing that things are manifesting; you are yourself in a constant dynamism. There is no distinction between the witness and the revelation or the manifestation. Witnessing itself is part of the dynamism. The dynamism, then, is inherently self-aware.


To understand that the totality of the universe is constantly renewing itself radically changes our notion of death. Personal death is simply Being manifesting at one moment with a particular person as part of the picture, and in the next moment without that person. From this perspective, all the issues about death change character. Death disappears into the continual flow of unfolding, self-arising change.


There are many other ways of experiencing Holy Law; we are mentioning just a few of them here. This is the most difficult Idea to understand intellectually, as well as to grasp experientially, because the entirety of our lives is based on a completely different perspective.


Harmonious FlowObjective OptimismThe Separate Doer

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Ego Helplessness and StrivingFreedom from the Separate SelfWorking with Helplessness

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Working with Helplessness