Three-Body Gurdjieff Enneagram of the Body, Spirit, and Soul

As to the vibration points for the third body, the Soul, we must rely on Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous" Chapter 7 where the 'do' of the Soul has the same 'hydrogen number" of 48 as the 'mi' of the Spirit and 'sol' of the Body which places it between 'sol' and 'la' in the same way that the 'do' of Spirit was placed between 'mi' and 'fa' of the Body. The placement at the triangle points is implied by the 'lungs' being after 'mi', 'being-Tritoehary' (Liver) in Beelzebub's Tales: Holy Planet Purgatory. This led to fig 39 in that chapter of Ouspensky which I improved upon by continuing from 'la' of Spirit and 'mi' of Soul'

Body:

The missing Stopinder 'la' of the Food Octave of Gurdjieff's BT Holy Planet Purgatory was added by me and assigned to the Endocrine System using 'la' 24 of the Body Octave.

Spirit:

For the Spirit Octave, I looked at Tradition Chinese Medicine as a guide:

In the Su Wen (The book of Plain Questions - a dialogue between the Yellow Emperor and his medical advisors). In this book, it says that there are five yin-organs that produce five kinds of ch'i (qi): joy is from the heart, anger is from the liver, pensiveness is from the spleen, anxiety is from the lungs, and fear is from the kidneys (adrenal gland).

It is for this reason that I reserved four organs for the Spirit octave which relates to emotion (leaving out the liver which was already part of the Gurdjieff Body position 'mi'). The Lungs are clearly the 'do' of the Spirit Octave and the Heart (the Fourth Chakra called the Heart Chakra) would be 're' of the Spirit Octave.

The Thymus at position 'mi' of the Spirit octave is basically viewed by Medical science as a discarded organ, useful in youth and atrophied in old age (sounds like a metaphor). However, like the derivation of its name after the Greek word 'thymos', it is the source of courage and passion. Plato has it as the center of one's being mediating between the reason of the brain and carnal desires. It is an active player in the early immune system and is the location of the gorilla-like thump on the chest. One can view it as a catcher's mitt of the heart. This would be the Fifth Chakra known as the Throat Chakra.

Next, referring to the dialogue of the Yellow Emperor organs, we have the Spleen and the Kidneys that relate to the Spirit Octave. When we observe that Ouspensky's hydrogen diagram of the Spirit line goes down to the body at position 'fa' and 'sol', these assign perfectly as Spleen at 'fa' and Kidneys at 'sol'.

For the last position 'ti', I have assigned the famous Pineal gland shaped like a pinecone shown in the pinecone statue at the Vatican is often called the door of consciousness. This is often referred to as the Third Eye as the Sixth Chakra called 'the seat of the Soul' (although clearly 'the seat of the Spirit' is more correct.), thus it fits better as the seventh Chakra known as the Crown Chakra. Many agree with this.

Its action is like the "Vesica Pisces" which is created by two spheres with the same radius, which intersect within each other’s circumference.

For the second to last position 'la' is the hypothalamus which is similar in importance to the pineal gland. Its main role is to keep the body in homeostasis as much as possible, thus maintaining a healthful, balanced bodily state. The hypothalamus acts as the connector between the endocrine and nervous systems to achieve this. It plays a part in many essential functions of the body such as body temperature, thirst, appetite, and weight control, emotions, sleep cycles, sex drive, childbirth, blood pressure and heart rate, production of digestive juices, balancing bodily fluids. As different systems and parts of the body send signals to the brain, they alert the hypothalamus to any unbalanced factors that need addressing and it responds by releasing the right hormones into the bloodstream to balance the body. Most importantly, it maintains an internal temperature of 98.6 °Fahrenheit (ºF) thus if it is too high, it tells the body to sweat; if it is too cold then it creates internal heat by shivering. It fits better as the Sixth Chakra, the Third Eye Chakra. The pituitary gland, which is often attributed to the Throat Chakra, is attached to the hypothalamus, but the pituitary gland relates more to the Endocrine System.

Soul:

As to the Soul Octave it is clear that all of these vibration locations must be in the brain:

I decided to use the five senses: Touch, Taste, Smell, Hearing, and Seeing as the note 'do' of the Soul Octave.

The Vestibular System and Proprioception System are also acknowledged to be real senses by Wikipedia, as follows:

• The Vestibular System adjusts balance and attention. This system accounts for the perception of our body in relation to gravity, movement, and balance. It provides information related to movement and head position. It is important for the development of balance, coordination, eye control, attention, being secure with movement and some aspects of language development. It measures acceleration, g-force, body movements, and head position. (e.g. knowing that you are moving when you are in an elevator, knowing whether you are lying down or sitting up, and being able to walk along a balance beam.) (Interestingly, the corresponding 're' in the initial Ouspensky diagram was located at the chest level which was probably due to the concept that balance is at the center ones being. It supports my choice of separating as an actually Stopinder. Now, it probably would be assigned to the head.)
• The Proprioception System manifests the ability of spatial prediction, intuition, and awareness of self. It is the sensing of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement. It was developed by the nervous system as a means to keep track of and control the different parts of the body. (e.g. A normal person can move a finger, knowing where and what the finger is doing. With little effort, the normal person could just put his/her finger to his/her nose easily. Without it, the brain cannot feel what the finger is doing, and the process must be carried out in more conscious and calculated steps, using vision to compensate for the lost feedback on the movement of the finger. Thus, it is used in sobriety tests by the police.) (Interestingly, the corresponding 'mi' in the initial Ouspensky diagram was located at the lower body level which was probably due to the concept that awareness of self comes from the ground up. It supports my choice of separating as an actually Stopinder. Now, it probably would be assigned to the head.)

It is interesting to observe that the often parroted necessity of "attention, impartiality, and awareness of self" in "the Work" is similar to these senses. Perhaps, our bodily senses have been in the "Work" all along! Just the act of taking off your glasses and getting out of bed after reading some "New Age" book or this essay by a Gurdjieffian idiot like me has used both these two senses. In the humor of Gurdjieff, I called it the "VP" method of becoming a "Man/Woman" in capitals! (wink).

Given the importance of these two sense systems in the Gurdjieff System, I have made them part of the Soul Octave. I assigned the Vestibular System, which adjusts balance and attention to be 're' and Proprioception, which manifests the ability of spatial prediction, intuition, and awareness of self, to be 'mi' of the Soul Octave.

These senses are part of the body, but the vibration centers of the Soul from 'fa' to 'ti' are not. These last vibrations are assigned to the four lobes of the brain, but they are just vague concepts that transcend the measured functions of the brain. They must exist beyond the death of the brain to complete the Soul:

• The Parietal Lobe processes to integrate sensory information about temperature, taste, touch, and parietal lobe, recognize faces, and read words
• The Occipital Lobe is primarily responsible for vision turning what the eyes see into meaningful information
• The Temporal lobe is responsible for memory, speech, learning and sense of smell. The right temporal lobe manages the recognition of faces and other visual objects. The left temporal lobe helps with remembering and understanding language, which is part of verbal memory.
• The Frontal lobe is important for cognitive functions and control of voluntary movement or activity.

In associating mental organs with the mind and therefore the Soul, many experts think there are three ways we store memories: first in the sensory stage; then in short-term memory; and. ultimately, for some memories in long-term memory. People tend to more easily store material on subjects that they already know something about, since the information has more meaning to them and can be mentally connected to related information that is already stored in their long-term memory. That's why someone who has an average memory may be able to remember a greater depth of information about one particular subject. This relates to Gurdjieff's "Form and Sequence" where it is important to build your brain with important interests that are of value.

Parieto-frontal integration theory: Richard Haier and Rex Jung compiled a list of all the brain areas previous neuroimaging studies had found to be related to intelligence, placing greater emphasis on those areas that appeared multiple times. The list they came up with suggests that most of the brain areas thought to play a role in intelligence are clustered in the frontal and parietal lobes. (July 26, 2007)

The hippocampus lays down memories of this rapid sense of satisfaction, and the amygdala creates a conditioned response to certain stimuli.

Having associated the three octaves of Body, Spirit, and Soul with an organ of the body, it is possible to create a Three-Body Enneagram. Here are the completed octaves of Body, Spirit, and Soul and the Soul's completion as part of the Holy Sun Absolute and the Megalocosmos:

Next let us see if these choices can be verified by looking at Gurdjieff's Cosmoses and other systems such as the Tarot, Buddha Eightfold Path, Jesus' Lords Prayer, Genesis/Sumerian Creation and Science

With the objective of lining up the Tarot Cards from my essay: Placing the Major Arcana Cards of the Tarot on the Kabbalah with the seven realms of creation,
I found Atlas and Zeus from Tarocco_Siciliano Tarot Deck to be a better fit for position 21 and 20.:

Thus position 20 could be: the last two Major Arcana positions 20 (incorrectly marked as 19 in this deck) shows Atlas holding the globe of the Earth (similar to the World Card 21 in the Rider-Waite deck showing Ezekiel's Ox, Lion, Eagle, and Man in the corners which is the Zodiac:

  

Eliphas Levi's Seal of Solomon

or

Son-Sophia (Holy Wisdom)

The reasoning here follows from my insight that the Major Arcana cards Star 17, Moon 18, Sun 19, and Cards 20 & 21 were not just meaningless symbols of unknown relationships, but actually supporting cards of the Soul after the death of the Physical Body. (See Four Realm Chart shown further down where the background positions are lilac color to show Beyond Body meaning that the lobes of the brain must have an energy replacement beyond the brain.)

Thus, we now have the 7 cosmoses of the Universe as given by Gurdjieff in Ouspensky's "In Search of the Miraculous" (from bottom to top ) (dense to light) (moon to Holy Sun Absolute):
1. Philosophers Stone Gurdjieff's Moon in Ouspensky's diagram (symbolic of inorganic life) (Major Arcana: Tower - Vestibular System (Balance))	2. Earth (Howling at the Moon) (Card 17: Moon)  (Note that Moon 16 is swapped with Star 17) (which assigns it to the Sense: Proprioception (Spatial Orientation))	3. Solar System (Card 18: Stars ) (not Stars but the moving stars of the planets against the Zodiac)
4. Sun (Card 19: Sun)	5. Milky Way Galaxy (Card 20: Galaxy)	6. All Galaxies (Card 21: All Galaxies) (Megalocosmos)
7. Absolute

By ascribing Buddha's Eightfold Path to mental activity and therefore to the Soul (as defined by Gurdjieff), the order of these becomes important. They are often listed as:

• 1. Right View (samma ditthi) ('Reality' is the Cause of Suffering)
• 2. Right Intention/Resolve) (samma sankappo) (Peaceful Non-attachment)
• 3. Right Speech (samma vaca) (Not associating, but Comprehension)
• 4. Right Action (Conduct) (samma kammanta (Golden Rule)
• 5. Right Livelihood (samma ajiva) (Knowing ones Place in the Cosmos)
• 6. Right Effort (samma vayama) (guarding the sense-doors)
• 7. Right Mindfulness (samma sati) (Bare Attention)
• 8. Right Concentration/ Contemplation) (samma samadhi)

However, it is quite possible that the passing down of the true words of Buddha are as hazy as the New Testament, therefore not necessarily correct.
Thus, I have reordered them to better match the physical organs associated with each as shown:

Just as the Buddhist teaching is more related to mental characteristics reacting to knowledge, the teaching of Jesus is more related to emotional characteristics and therefore of the Spirit octave reacting to music. (The twenty-third Psalm parallels this.)

This next table from lower to higher associates the three octaves of Body, Spirit, and Soul with the physical organs of the Body and the related philosophies, myths, and religions. (Note that some also show the points of action within the octaves.)

See Genesis-Sumerian Creation for the reasons for the slight modifications to Creation. For Quantum Creation, see Photonic Octave in Photonic Soul .

Three Body Octave (position)	Gurdjieff Physical Organs	Gurdjieff Cosmoses	Tarot Cards	Genesis/ Quantum Creation	Sumerian Creation	Eightfold Path/Lord's Prayer	23rd Psalm	Music /Knowledge
(Body) do (0)	Stomach		Magician	Photon
re (1)	Duodenum		High Priestess	Ultra-violet Photon
mi (2)	Liver		Empress	Electron
AA (3)	AIR (Lungs)			(Gravity)
fa (4)	Cerebellum		Emperor	Proton
sol (5)	Cerebrum		Hierophant	Neutron
IA (6)	(being-Partkdolg Duty)			(Charge Field)
la (7)	Endocrine System		Lovers	Elements
ti (8)	Sexual System		Chariot	Compounds
Do (9)	Completed Body (Ternoonald )
(Spirit) do (3)	Lungs		Lion			Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name	The Lord is my shepherd	Rhythm
re (4)	Heart		Hermit			Thy kingdom come	He maketh me to lie down in green pastures	Melody
mi (5)	Thymus		Wheel of Fortune			Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven	He leadeth me beside the still waters.	Timbre
AA (6)	(Agape Love)					Give us this day our daily bread	He restoreth my Spirit
fa (7)	Spleen		Devil			Forgive us our debts	He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.	Harmony
sol (8)	Kidneys (Adrenal)		Hanged Man			As we forgive our debtors	the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me	Dynamics
IA (9)	insight/epiphany
la (10:1)	Hypothalamus		Death			Lead us not into temptation	Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me	Texture
ti (11:2)	Pineal Gland		Last Judgment			Deliver us from evil	Thou preparest a table in the presence of my enemies	Form
Do (12:3)	Completed Spirit (Podkoolad)					Thine is the Kingdom, Power & Glory	Thou anointest my head with oil (kingship)
(Soul) do (6)	Five Senses	1.Microcosmos (photon (having mass, charge and spin): spun up to ultra-violet photon, electron, meson, proton, neutron), brain cell (neuron), and zygote (fertilized egg)	Angel	Day 7 (left out of Creation Story) The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ('knowing' in the Biblical sense) Male and Female are like God having procreation (See Lecture: "The Soul is Sex but Sex is not Soul (Kundabuffer and the Limbic System)" Genesis 2:16,17,18,21,22: And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. Genesis 3:1-7: Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;	Sumerian Text Initially human beings were unable to reproduce on their own, but were later modified with the help of Enki and Ninki. Thus, Adapa was created as a fully functional and independent human being.	Right Effort (samma vayama) (guarding the sense-doors)		Facts
re (7)	Vestibular System (Balance)	2.Tetartocosmoses elements, neural networks, Man/Woman	Tower (Balance)	Day 6. Genesis 1:26-31 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them... Genesis 2:6,7 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Man/Woman is created with the ability to contain a SPIRIT, born of Air)	Tablet 6a. Marduk asks Enki to create humans to serve the gods. Kingu, the husband of Tiamat, is chosen to be sacrificed for the necessary the blood to create the 'Lulu'.	Right Action (Conduct) (samma kammanta) (Golden Rule)		Processed Data
mi (8)	Proprioception (Spatial Orientation)	3.Tritocosmos 3rd order suns (Planet Earth)	Moon (Howling at the Moon)	Day 5. DNA experimentally creates the ANIMALS (moved from Mankind Creation day) of the land, sea, and sky. (Chance and fitness determine survival.) (Animals are symbolic of the Physical body) Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.	Eridu Genesis: An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursaga create the animals.	Right Livelihood (samma ajiva) (Knowing one's place in the Cosmos)		Structured Data
AA (9)	(Holy Planet Purgatory/Eden/Elysium)
fa (10:1)	Parietal Lobe (temperature, taste, touch and movement)	4.Mesocosmos middle cosmos (solar system)	Solar System (Moving Stars)	Day 4. The LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE control the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars. Genesis 2:10-14 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads (Ganges, Nile, Tigris, Euphrates)	Tablet 5 - Marduk sets up the constellations of the stars, and the moon and marked the divisions of the year, he created the Tigris and Euphrates. He presented the Tablet of Destinies to Anu. All honored him as their Victorious King.	Right Intention/ Resolve) (samma sankappo) (Peaceful Non-attachment)		Intuition
sol (11:2)	Occipital Lobe (vision, perception)	5.Defterocosmos 2nd order suns (Sun)	Sun	Day 3. The Sun's solar factory creates the building blocks of organic life. Genesis 1:9-13 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.	Tablet 4b - Marduk took the Tablet of Destinies from Kingu. He smashed Tiamat's head and split her body in two down the middle. One half of her he set up and stretched out as the heavens and the other to the Earth.	(Right View) (samma ditthi) ('Reality' is the Cause of Suffering)		Knowledge
IA (12:3)	Active Mentation
la (13:4)	Temporal Lobe (contains the hippocampus, memory, speech, hearing, and comprehension)	6.Macrocosmos large cosmos galaxy (Milky Way)	Milky Way Galaxy	Day 2. Genesis 1:6-8 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters and God called the firmament Heaven. Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.	Tablet 1a-4a When Enki's magic removes Apsu. The anger of Tiamat unleashes all the demons of Chaos. Marduk leads the attack and kills Tiamat and the demons are imprisoned.	Right Speech (samma vaca) Not associating, but Comprehension		Understanding
ti (14:5)	Frontal Lobe (cognitive functions & control of voluntary movement)	7.Protocosmos the first cosmos Megalocosmos	All Galaxies (Megalocosmos)	Day 1. The CREATOR is composed of active force (LIGHT) and passive force (DARKNESS) which creates the middle potential of CREATION (neutral force - TWILIGHT) Genesis 1:1-5 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night	Tablet 1a. Salt water Tiamat (The Deep) combines with Fresh Water (Apsu) to create the mud of fertility (Lahmu & Lahamu).	Right Mindfulness (samma sati) (Bare Attention)		Wisdom
(DO) (IA of Soul) (15:6)	Completed Soul: (Anklad Body)			Day 8. PRAISE the CREATOR (The existence of Source (Father/Mother)	Tablet 6b-7. Praise for Marduk. In heaven and netherworld he stationed 600 gods. Gods 1-50 are recited: Marduk is first.	Right Concentration/ Contemplation) (samba samadhi)

The Three-Body Enneagram can be shown in a spreadsheet with I call the Four Realm Chart which was first presented in my lecture Placing the Major Arcana Cards of the Tarot on the Kabbalah

Here is the condensed ("Four Realm Chart")

(Observe the black and gray lines in the seal of Solomon:

where the segregation of the adjacent organs is essential
such as the dividing of the Cerebellum from the Cerebrum (the avoid automatic thinking)
and the Endocrine system from the Sexual System (to prevent the hormones from contaminating sexual energy)
and the Temporal Lobe from the Frontal lobe (to form lasting consciousness).

Returning to the three body enneagram, it must be remembered that the enneagram shows the position of the seven notes of the octave from 'do' to 'ti', but is built with nine points, thus there are two places where these notes are activated by two points of an inner triangle which represents the action of the Law of Three inside of the Law of Seven. These two places I have labeled as (+ active) and (= neutral) and they are between 'mi' and 'fa' and 'sol' and 'la'. Note that the labeling of the enneagram starts at '1' at 're' leaving '9' at the lower 'do' / higher 'Do' at the apex of the triangle which I have labeled as (- passive). Shown are three engines of three (passive, active, neutral) each beginning at a discontinuity for each octave with the fourth position being a completion of that octave being of the quality of the next octave assisting in that octave: