GURDJIEFF, G.I. – Life is real only then, when I am - Integral Book

So, thanks to this, the third reason thus consisted in this, that it wasnecessary for this predetermined aim to write a new book with anentirely new content.Having just written about publishing this book, I must now, willy-nilly,say something concerning one certain measure applied by me for thepossibility of attaining the aims set myself which, to explain clearly,would require my bringing in here and citing all the following:I would have to cite all verbal formulations for the particularities andlaws which recently have become known to contemporary peoplethrough, as they are called, "radiography," "telepathy," "telepesi" and tobring, in its entirety, the whole science of white and black magic.As it is utterly impossible to do this, I shall therefore limit myself tosaying the following:Three years ago, when there had simultaneously arisen three veryserious facts hindering my work and insuperable by usual means, I then,among other measures unusual in the life of people, for the purpose ofconquering these "uninvited guests," also wrote one small booklet underthe title The Herald of Coming Good.This I wrote especially for certain people who had already long beenconsidered followers of my ideas or, during the existence of the Institutefounded by me, had been pupils in one or another of its branches.This booklet was printed in nine languages, a thousand copies in eachlanguage.Although every measure was then taken to prevent its falling into thehands of people who as yet did not know me, this was not entirelyachieved, and now, to the number of several