Samstag, 28. Februar 2015

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the Akhaldan society founded Old Egypt

and so these surviving members of the Akhldann Society looked for another place on that continent for their permanent existence more suitable for carrying on their work, which demanded complete seclusion.

They found a suitable place in the valley of the large river flowing northward on that continent and they all migrated there with their families, in order to continue in seclusion to fulfill the tasks undertaken by their society. The entire region through which this great river flowed they first named 'Sakronakari.' This name was afterward changed several times and today that region is called 'Egypt,' while the great river then known as 'Nipilhooatchi,' is now, as I have already said, called the 'Nile.'

Beelzebubs Tales
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Dienstag, 10. Februar 2015

Gurdjieff was a great man

I say Gurdjieff was a great man because, having seen, he went on looking and never was satisfied until the end of his life. Nor did he ever set himself up for one who had reached finality. People with revelations are rare but not very rare. Humble people are rare; but people who see something and remain humble are very, very rare.

J.G. Bennett - Making a Soul p.82
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Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015

Five points of Objective Morality

The five points of objective morality are like the five fingers of a hand for handling situations:

1. Number one means keeping the three brains of the body serviceable. 

2. Number two is constantly to be pondering the meaning and aim of existence - not necessarily with any hope of solution. Man exists to be the mind of God and as mind ultimately to understand the meaning and aim of existence. Preoccupation with this problem makes all other problems relatively easy.

3. Number three is the obligation to make Being-effort: the effort of doing. This is not necessarily a visible activity, or concrete work, but it is effort. Obligation of this kind is to keep oneself exercising - effort-making.

4. Number four is to cooperate with others who aim at the same objective reason.
 
5. Number five is duty - to ease the burden of His Endlessness. Unless you make effort, it must be made for you. Now the burden is just upon His Endlessness.

A.R. Orage
source: Orage with Gurdjieff in America
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Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2015

Civilizations of Atlantis survivors in Beelzebubs Tales

Continent Grabontzi (Africa)

After Samlios, their next center was established on the continent of Grabontzi. 
 
...the region in the middle of the continent of Grabontzi where, after the loss of Atlantis, there was formed the leading 'center of culture,' as they called it, for all the three-brained beings there - a region that in those times was the most flourishing part of the surface of your planet and is now a desert, known as the Sahara.
 
As for the three-brained beings who existed in the middle of the continent of Grabontzi, they dispersed over the whole surface of the planet.

Continent Ashhark (Asia)

Tikliamish
Capitol: city of Koorkalai
today known as Turkmenistan, Karakum desert
Most of the three-brained beings populating Tikliamish moved to the southern part of the continent of Ashhark, to the country later called 'Persia,' while the rest moved north and settled in the regions afterward called 'Kirghizcheri.'


Maralpleicie - Goblandia
Capital: city of Gob
today known as Gobi desert and Taklamkan
As for the beings inhabiting the country of Maralpleicie, some wandered eastward, while the others, the majority, went toward the west. Those who went east, after crossing high mountains, settled on the shores of a large 'saliakooriapnian' space, in the region later called 'China.' "And those beings of Maralpleicie who had sought safety by moving to the west, after wandering from place to place, ultimately reached the neighboring continent, later called 'Europe.'


Pearl-Land (Hindustan, India)
Capitol: city of Kaiamon.
At first they populated only two particular regions around the mouths of two great rivers, which flowed from the interior of the continent of Ashhark and emptied into the vast water space just where many of the 'pearl-bearing beings' bred But as their numbers continued to increase, they also began to settle in the interior of the country, although their favorite regions were still the valleys of the two rivers.
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Montag, 19. Januar 2015

Sherborne Academy Exercises

J.G. Bennett´s german student Bruno Martin has published two books in german language containing spiritual exercises, mostly from the Gurdjieff-Bennett-Tradition:


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Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014

Fourth Way related literature published 2014

 G.I. Gurdjieff - Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931

Marshall May - Gurdjieff Group Work with Rita Romilly Benson

Ocke de Boer - Higher Being Bodies: A Non-Dualistic Approach to the Fourth Way

Wim van Dulleman - Gurdjieff's Movements: The Pattern of All and Everything

William Patrick Patterson - Gurdjieff: The Man, the Teaching, His Mission

Anthony Blake & Paul Beekman Taylor - Gurdjieff's Worlds of Words

Robin Bloor - To Fathom the Gist: Volume II the Arch-Absurd

Jerry Brewster & John A. Anderson - Spiritual Physics

Nikolai De Stjernvall - My Dear Father Gurdjieff

Keith Buzzell - The Third Striving

Magisteria - My Enneagramm Notebook
A.R. Orage - The Force of Gurdjieff Vol. 2
Gurdjieff - Exercises. The Force of Gurdjieff Vol. 4
C. Daly King - Oragean Version The Force of Gurdjieff Vol. 3

Johanna Petsche - Gurdjieff and Music: The Gurdjieff/De Hartmann Piano Music and Its Esoteric Significance

Jo Nicholls-Parker - Mind the Gap. Gurdjieffian Institutes with Ouspensky, Roles, Nicoll, Fenwick
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Montag, 17. November 2014

man has come to this world for a particular task

It is just as if a king had sent you to the country to carry out a specified task. You go and perform a hundred other tasks; but if you have not performed that particular task on account of which you had gone to the country, it is as though you have performed nothing at all. 

So man has come in this world for a particular task, and that is his purpose; if he does not perform it, then he will have done nothing.

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Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2014

Zombies actually live among us

Moreover, it happens fairly often that essence dies in a man while his personality and his body are still alive. A considerable percentage of the people we meet in the streets of a great town are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead.

It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror. And indeed people often do go mad because they find out something of this nature without the proper preparation, that is, they see something they are not supposed to see. In order to see without danger one must be on the way. 

If a man who can do nothing sees the truth he will certainly go mad. Only this rarely happens. Usually everything is so arranged that a man can see nothing prematurely. Personality sees only what it likes to see and what does not interfere with its life. It never sees what it does not like. This is both good and bad at the same time. It is good if a man wants to sleep, bad if he wants to awaken.
 In Search Of The Miraculous (Chapter Eight)
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Mittwoch, 16. April 2014

Gurdjieff on Jesus and the Bible

These Old Testament stories can be more important than all the words of Jesus Christ.

Old Jews believe Jesus Christ fed many people with six, seven fishes; you remember how many was, but how was filled, the people that not tell. Another example, they believe He turn water into wine, but who get drunk on such wine, that they not say. And once more, they believe He walk on water, but how deep was water, they not speak about that.

Moreover what could she see, this Muggy Muddalene (Mary Magdalene) you speak about? She see nothing, she only prostitute.

But in many countries, Armenia also, Jesus is not the hero, but John the Baptist. From legomonism I know that he it was who was nurse to Jesus for first 12 years, in Essene Brotherhood; after this first 12 years, then in this company the responsibility to another give.

He said that Jesus knew his own nonentityness and should he return, he would be very angry that people thought he had said he was God.

In this case Moses was such. He was center of gravity of Jewish people and he make them chosen, not God.

What you learn from bible you wish believe, but your bible is one thing and my bible is quite another. Nobody now believe in Christian thing, not with inner world, especially young ones. Nobody but English old maid and your American Lesbians. In General, man over there not believe. Your bible is hodgepodge.

from the book "Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope"
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Dienstag, 15. April 2014

Gurdjieff Work Lineages (Silsila)







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Sonntag, 13. April 2014

a Teacher is to be judged by his Pupils

There is an old saying that a teacher is to be judged by his pupils, and by that test Gurdjieff had knowledge that two of the strongest minds in our period wanted to acquire. These minds belonged to the English editor, A.R. Orage, and the Russian mathematical philosopher, P.D. Ouspensky. Both surrendered to Gurdjieff.
Source: Gorham Munson - Black Sheep Philosophers
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Freitag, 11. April 2014

The Supernatural Mr. Gurdjieff

In our known history we find no other Individual of whom there were reported such diverse paranormal abilities as in the case of Mr. Gurdjieff:

Hypnotic Powers (Hanbledzoin)
Clairvoyance
Thoughtreading
Telepathy
Reading the Past (of the Earth and the Universe)
Fortelling the Future
Healingpower (even over distance)
X-Ray Vision (used for diagnosis)
Perfect Memory
Bilocation
Omnipresence
The Power of Mimicry
Supernatural protection of pupils.
Superhuman Working Power of more than 20 hours a day.
He could elevate pupils to Higher States of Consciousness.
The Influence of matter through Mental Pictures & Magnetism.
He gathered certain information by the help of female Mediums.
About a dozen of his pupils attained occult powers themselves after years of working with his method.

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Radio Broadcasts on Gurdjieff





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Dienstag, 8. April 2014

Gurdjieff Foundation Links



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Samstag, 8. März 2014

drugs and higher levels of consciousness

Many years ago I enquired of Ouspensky whether it would be a good thing for me to follow his example and to experiment with hashish, with a view to observing the alteration it brought about in my consciousness. His reply was brief and to the point:

"Only if you have any doubts about the existence of higher levels of consciousness. A drug permits of our looking, as it were, over the garden wall and discovering what lies out there in the psychological landscape beyond it. If you are already convinced of the existence of higher levels of consciousness then there is no point in making experiments with drugs to prove it."

I was convinced, even then, of their existence and have found it quite unnecessary to take pills for the purpose of proving it. 

Dr. Kenneth Walker - The Mystic Mind p.137
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Sonntag, 1. Dezember 2013

only Bordel for Truth

Henri Tracol asked about Krishnamurti, and Mr. Gurdjieff talked about Mrs. Besant, Mme. Blavatsky, and so on. He said he had met Blavatsky.

He went on to talk about India: how many people go there looking for truth, but India is only "bordel for truth."
September 24, 1949 in Paris
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Donnerstag, 28. November 2013

Fourth Way related literature published 2013

A. R. Orage, Lawrence Morris, Sherman Manchester - Orage's Commentary on Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: New York Talks 1926-1930

B. B. Grant and L. S. Morris - The Force of Gurdjieff. A.R. Orage's group talks Vol.1

John O. Cosgrave - The Academy for Souls

H. K. Grumbein - A New Theory Of Music: An Introduction

Keith Buzzell - A New Conception of God, Further Reflections on Gurdjieff's Whim

Red Hawl - Self Observation: The Awakening of Conscience: An Owner's Manual 

Robin Bloor - To Fathom the Gist: Volume 1 - Approaches to the Writings of G. I. Gurdjieff
Robin Bloor - The Searchable Index to G. I. Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

Mitzi DeWhitt - The Reality of Being decoded "Getting to the Heart of the Matter"

Stephen A. Grant - In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness 

Alan Wrightson - Master Disaster: The Inner Lives Of Gurdjieff, Meher Baba, Idries Shah and Omar Ali-Shah
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