Here is part of a paper by the late Malachi Martin who wrote “Hostage to the Devil.”
As a matter of fact google " Enneagram Heresy" and a lot of papers come up.
This is on the net in full at:
members.toast.net/rjspina/The%20Enneagram.htm
The Enneagram Is Nitroglycern to the Soul
The Enneagram Is Nitroglycern to the Soul Two characteristics of the Enneagram Method comprise moral teachings that are irreconcilable with the basic moral teachings of Catholics in particular and Christians in general. The basic presumption presented to the mind by the Enneagram Method is that each individual is self-perfectible, morally speaking, within that individual’s personality type. This presumption is in reality a late revival of an ancient heresy known as Pelagianism. It is at odds with the basic Christian teaching that we absolutely depend on the action of divine grace for all moral perfection.
Of ourselves, we are helpless. Not only are we not infinitely self-perfectible; we will never of ourselves even escape the grip of our sinful nature. Only supernatural grace enables us to do that. And that grace is simply gratuitous on God’s part. The teaching of the Enneagram Method cuts both God and his grace out of the loop. In fact, there is no longer any loop at all. The individual is cut off from effective knowledge of his or her dependence on God and his supernatural grace for ultimate perfection. He or she is confined to an inalterable personality type, which has been laid out by Enneagram Masters.
The second faulty moral characteristic of the Enneagram Method completes the damage caused by the first. Having fatalistically accepted one’s own category, the participant is dependent for perfection on the Enneagramatic exercises suitable for one’s personality type. In other words, the soul of the Enneagram disciple is opened out and made docile, with the goal of receiving the promised self-knowledge congruent with his or her type. The soul becomes an apt and classic receptor-an aspiring vacuum-ready for the approach of an intending Possessor. In such a setting, the intending Possessor may come as what St. Paul described with dramatic precision as an Angel of Light. But the danger is all the more insidious than that. For in such a situation, the condition commonly called “perfect Possession” may be the result. As the term implies, a victim of perfect Possession is absolutely controlled by evil and gives no outward indication, no hint whatsoever of the demonic residing within. He or she will not cringe, as others who are Possessed will, at the sight of such religious symbols as a crucifix or a Rosary. The perfectly Possessed will not bridle at the touch of Holy Water, nor hesitate to discuss religious topics with equanimity. If convicted of crimes against the law, such a victim will frequently acknowledge “guilt,” and even the moral “badness” of the acts committed. More often than not, such a person will petition that his physical life be forfeited; that he be executed for his crimes. Thus, in his own way, he voices the insistent Satanist preference for death over life, and the fixated desire to join the Prince in his dark kingdom.
Because there is no will left to call the victim’s own-and because some part of the victim’s will is necessary for any hope of successful Exorcism-remedy is unlikely to succeed even in the event the Possession should somehow be uncovered and verified as the problem. In a very real sense, all of us, the Possessed, the professionals who must so frequently deal with them; the parents who fear for their children; everyone who lives in a society degraded by happenings that were only recently unimaginable to us-all are in the same boat. Even such a sober-sided and rationally minded publication as “The New York Times” sees fit from time to time to print the most somber laments and predictions. Take, for example, the March 15, 1992 article by Robert Stone in which he says flatly that “our nation signifies the virtual apotheosis of the interested self.” And in which he goes on to point out that “human nature rejects [self-interest] as an end, requiring something higher and finer.” Then, speaking pointedly of the younger generation among us, Stone raises a bleak warning: 'If we cannot furnish them with a cause beyond the realization of their individual desires, all [of America’s] past successes may be rendered meaningless." That is but one warning parents all across this land might well see fit to tack on the door of every recalcitrant bishop, every unbelieving churchman.
They might justifiably tack on those doors as well a reminder of St. Paul’s admonition to the sorcerer Elymas. On the pretext of instructing Sergius Paulus, “a prudent man,” Elymas attempted instead to corrupt him. Never one to suffer such duplicity or to mince words, always prepared to bare his own soul, Paul, we are told “filled with the Holy Ghost,” rounded against the pretender. “Oh full of all guile and of all deceit”-Paul said that day-“son of the devil, enemy of all justice, you do not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord.” Yet surely the most important reminder to our churchmen is also the simplest and the most direct. A reminder of the admonition of Christ Himself to His Apostles as they were beset in their little boat by the fury of a storm on Lake Gennesaret: “How is it that you have no faith?”
By *Malachi Martin
