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Loose notes on Diamond Approach’s ‘Enneagram of Holy Ideas’

8: truth, or the reality of the undying organism and its indominable nature (but refusal of the dying/vulnerable self) 5: transparency, or the omniscience (and redundancy) of the self as a pattern within patterns (and the isolation created from boundaries) 2: will, or the innate and sincere desire to make an effort (and control the narrative)

1: perfection, or the ideal that the organism can compose and complete change (but refusal of the uninhibited/chaotic self) 4: origin, or the focal point/singularity of self-consciousness (and simultaneous inferiority/superiority complexity) 7: wisdom, or the perception of the present moment and the world as whole and pre-perfect (and the fear of missing out on some part of it)

9: love, or the bedrock for the interrelationship of the organism's inevitable selves (but refusal of the defined/solidified self) 6: faith, or the strength to admit weakness and seek cooperation (from the hibernating psychosis of predator and prey) 3: hope, or the clarity and simplicity of the object as law (and the subjective pitfalls of self-standardization)

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The game according to Three

The view from Holy Hope/Holy Law¹ is that there are no exceptions to the way things work -- the same forces apply to everyone and everything all the time, which is something you can continuously count on. The distortion of this for type 3 becomes the discovery that there's no real such thing as cheating reality, only different ways of taking advantage of the reality that's already unfolding, and then positioning yourself within it.

This leads to over-identifying with the things you've done as a way to identify with anything at all. If there's no such thing as cheating reality, and you made this thing happen all on your own, that means you are objectively the best unless someone can do it better. In a paradoxical sense, it's recognizing that the rules are the same for everyone, but those same rules built you different/made you better: it's nothing personal, you're just the best.

This is also why the burnout is so diffuse at 9 if this feeling gets snatched, because there's really no one to blame -- other people were just playing the game like you.

AH Almaas, Facets of Unity: The Enneagram of Holy Ideas (1998)

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Holy Ideas

In the original spiritual model of the Enneagram, the abstract explanation of ego fixations was that they were thought to have formed from the loss of certain Holy Ideas. Fixations were observed to compensate for individuals who believed a certain holy idea to not be present within their reality. Gaining the knowledge and understanding of the lost idea, accepting it as existing and true was thought to take a person onto the path of enlightenment. From my own observation, the Holy Idea lost seems to be present in the type at the point of integration. This may have led to the development of the lines of connection, as they direct us towards the the type most aware of our own lost holy idea. Taking these ideas on board, we are able to view Enneagram types not simply from the perspective of having lost connection to a Holy Idea but rather being the embodiment of another. Therefore: Type 1 would show us Holy Origin.

Type 2 would show us Holy Truth.

Type 3 would show us Holy Love.

Type 4 would show us Holy Freedom, Holy Will.

Type 5 would show us Holy Planning, Holy Wisdom.

Type 6 would show us Holy Hope, Holy Law.

Type 7 would show us Holy Perfection.

Type 8 would show us Holy Omniscience, Holy Transparency.

Type 9 would show us Holy Faith.

I won't explore the Holy Ideas in too much depth here as they are all stand alone ideas and would require a lot more detail than what I can provide within one post, although if you are interested in learning about them I recommend this article. But again the main point is looking at the positive aspects of types, which are often overlooked. If my theory is correct, these may point us to the spiritual gifts of the types. We may have lost connection with one idea, but their are still 8 other ideas we can still be connected to, and one in particular that is innate within our type. So what is your opinion? How well do you relate to the suggested Holy Ideas above?