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Foreword Oscar Ichazo’s book, The Enneagrams of the Divine Forms— Perfect, Eternal, Unchanging Truths, begins with the scientific foundation upon which the entire Integral Philosophical Teachings are based. This leads into the connection to The Scarab and its Eighteen Spheres of Perception and Reality.
The Divine Forms reveal Objective Reality, from which the entire material world is created. This Reality manifests from the Transcendental Mind of The Scarab (Sphere 1).
Chapter 1 Introduction In De Anima (On the Soul), Aristotle tells us in the most determinate proposition, but put in a casual and loose way, “All is Soul, so to speak.” Integral Philosophy reaffirms this fundamental premise, asserting that, in fact, the Soul or the Sentient Being is a structure composed of an organic body with its organic systems, which is the foundation for a super–structure of another seventeen independent spheres (see The Scarab), each one with a distinct reality that functions in accordance with the Laws of Trialectics, or the logic of process in a reality that is cyclical.
The ‘organism in itself ’ has one main purpose as a whole and that is the basic ‘will to live,’ which is the basic function of survival. Aristotle tells us in the Nicomachean Ethics that all organisms have, as a primal function, the desire for the ‘good in itself ’ and the maintenance of life.
This description was improved by the Stoics, who qualified this fire as the pure mind of clear awareness which, in fact, was Anaximenes’s pneuma (Gk) or a ‘spiritual air’ that permeates our entire organism and our entire existence. It has been observed that this concept of a spiritual air permeating and sustaining all existence can also be found in the idea of prana (Skt) in the Hindu traditions and practices. This whole organic body is the basis of the eighteen spheres of a super–structure (The Scarab) that constitute the human Soul in Integral Philosophy.
The nine ego–positions show nine effects or particular points of view that are in reality obscurations of the corresponding nine Divine Forms, and consequently there are nine distorted and erroneous points of view that do not fit with reality, which can be perceived only across the clarity of the nine Divine Forms.
The Divine Forms are then reflections of the Transcendental Divine Mind of God.
Mind that is awakened to Objective Reality, the Transcendental Reality of what is Universal, and consequently lives not in a subjective, private, obscure, and narrow world, but is awakened into the Light of the Universal, common world, where intercommunication exists because of the common Objective and Divine Fire that permeates both our common Universe and our common humanity.
The strict difference between the Relative Mind of the inferior ego and the Absolute Mind of the Superior Divine Self is that the Absolute Mind is transcendental in all its nine Spheres. This is to say that these Spheres can only be discovered and disclosed by way of a Mind of Transcendentality that as such necessarily abides in total quietude, serenity and peace, as well as in the clarity and transparency of a Mind that is pointing at itself in a profound Self–remembering of the Pure Nature of the Absolute Mind as being the union of the Calm–abiding Quietude of Mind, a Mind that has entered into a State of Ataraxia (Gk), which is without any mental movement—just staying or abiding in the natural Mind without thoughts.
processes of the multiple and plural discriminative judgment of the Relative Mind of Concepts and Language, the Natural Mind arises.
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The Enneagrams of the Divine Forms by Oscar Ichazo presents key insights from the Gurdjieff tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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