Where on Earth Did The Enneagram Come From?

Perhaps The History We Seek Begins In Uruk, ASettlement On The Eastern Bank Of The Euphrates, km From Modern BaghdadUruk, Which May Be The Origin Of The Modern Countryname Irak, Was At Its Height In The rd Millennium Bce And Is Important To This History Because There Was ATemple There cassin Et Al, : , That Is To Say, APlace Of Meeting For The Human Community, An Incipient Vestige Of AGreat Civilization: The Chaldean And The BabylonianThis City Is Described At The Beginning Of One Of The Oldest Jewels Of Literature: The Epic Poem Of Gilgamesh, Who Was At One Time King Of UrukAs We Will See, This Relic Of Mesopotamian Culture Would Be Mentioned By John Bennett, One Of Gurdjieff?s DisciplesThe Ancient World, In Which The Wisdom Of The Enneagram Was Forged, Was Not Divided Into Nation States, Nor Were The Frontiers Between Countries Those That We Know TodayKnowledge Flowed, Sooner Or Later, Between Those Truly Interested In The Fundamental Questions Of Human Beings And Of The WorldIn Spite Of The ?for Us? Precarious Modes Of Transport, In The Centuries Before The Common Era There Was AGreat Exchange Of Information And Practices Between Those Who Sought To Further The Development Of The Mind And The Potential Of Men And WomenThe Categorical Division Between East And West Clouds Our Perception Of Reciprocal Influences In Ancient TimesThere Is Evidence Of Contact, For Example, Between The Chinese And The Area Where We Are Going To Focus AGreat Deal Of Our Attention: TurkestanAn Outstanding Scholar Of Taoism, Doctor Of Philosophy And Translator Of The Tao Te Ching Into Spanish, Iñaki Preciado Writes ?towards The End Of The rd Millennium Bce, As AResult Of The Huaxia Expansion, Some Tribes That Had Until Then Lived On The Plains Of Central China, Were Expelled And Had To Move To The Lands Of Present Day Turkestan? According To Another Version, AChief Of The Zhou Tribes Sent One Of His Advisors To The Region Of The Pamir Where He Founded AKingdom? lao Tsé [preciado], : Both Accounts Refer To Areas In Which Gurdjieff Travelled Before He Founded His School, At The Same Time They Are An Example Of How Relative Historical Statements Can BeThere Are Also Similarities Though Not Necessarily Through Direct Contact Between Greek And Chinese Writings In The th Century Bce: ?? There Are No Fundamental Differences In Eastern And Greek Thought During The Presocratic PeriodIt Is From Plato And Ari
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