trine

I call this the trinal approach to personality: the handwriting, the Enneagram and drawings.

Received power rate Direct path 95.81% Single reflected path 3.24% Double reflected path 0.83% Trinal reflected path 0.12%

But, without elaborate cross-references from the doc trinal points in Shahrastani to the earlier Sufi portions, students, in my experience, have found the section distracting rather than illuminating.

Berger points to and derides astounding expressions suggesting the deification of the Rebbe already heard from messianist believers--statements that the Rebbe is "divinity in physical garb," that he is "liberated from corporeal existence," that he be referred to as boreinu (our creator), and that "he never died in the first place." All these represent to him not "mere" doc trinal deviance but quintessential avodah zarah (idolatry).