ACCORDING TO GURDJIEFF, the enneagram is "the fundamental hieroglyph of a universal language." Gurdjieff's use of the word hieroglyph, of course, points to Egypt. In this context, it is interesting to consider the nine deities established at Heliopolis in the Early Dynastic Period as part of the cosmogonic or creation myths. These cosmogonic tenets are given in the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom. The frontispiece of the Arithmologia by the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, published in 1665, shows a figure not identical but somewhat similar to the enneagram. Like The Fourth Way itself, the enneagram has not been known up to the present time. "The enneagram," said Gurdjieff, "has for a very long time been preserved in secret and if it now is, so to speak, made available to all, it is only in an incomplete and theoretical form." This, and the fact that it is a part of a teaching, has not deterred those who have sought to market the enneagram, divested of its deeper meaning and application, as a psychological tool. See The Gurdjieff Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2, "The Marketing of the Enneagram." See also Taking With the Left Hand.