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

of achievement of the required data for one's own welfare, to undertaketogether the actualization of all this in practice.The second of these points, in my opinion indispensable for you toknow, included the detailed working out and form of actualization ofthat supposition of mine, in order, with the establishment of a more orless balanced "tempo" of life in the main section of the Institute, tosubdivide immediately all the pupils, according to the results obtainedin their subjective inner work upon themselves, into three independentgroups named: the first—exoteric, outer group; the second—mesoteric,middle group; and the third—esoteric, inner group.To the first, exoteric group were to belong all those who had newlyentered, as well as those who had not yet acquired by their subjectivemerits the right to belong to the second, the mesoteric group.The pupils belonging to this second, mesoteric group, according tothe fundamental program, were to be as yet initiated only theoreticallyinto all the questions not accessible to the average man which have beenelucidated by me personally owing to my half a century's specialsearchings both on my own and together with a specially organizedgroup of people of the highest contemporary culture, who devotedthemselves to the search for objective truth.The members of the third group, the esoteric, according to the samedetailed program, were to be initiated not only theoretically into allthese questions, but also practically, and to be introduced to all themeans for a real possibility of self-perfecting, but of course only afterhaving been for a long time experimentally tried and verified in quiteexceptionally planned circumstances.With the members of this third group, it is opportune to say, I justintended to devote myself to the searching for