The Enneagram is a circular diagram
on which personality types
numbered one through nine are symbolically represented
at nine equidistant points on the circumference.
The numbers are then connected
by arrows in significant patterns
which point the way
to health ("integration") or
to neurosis ("disintegration").
Each human personality is said
to fall into one of these nine types.
This number is said to reveal the hidden motivation
for everything a person does.
Intelligence is given three centers: thought, emotion, and instinct,
which are always imbalanced.
The result of this imbalance is
that a person's "true self" is always hidden beneath a "false self".
The Enneagram is supposed
to enable a person to gain knowledge of his true self,
exposing the true motivations for actions and illusions developed
regarding himself and regarding how to deal with the world.
