Gurdjieff Bennett and the Fourth Way (2)

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The ‗Aesthetic Element.‘ ......................................................................................................... 85Psycho-cosmology. .................................................................................................................. 86Content. ............................................................................................................................... 88Context. ............................................................................................................................... 89Conclusions: Was the academy Gurdjieffian? ......................................................................... 92‗Receptive lines of Work‘ ........................................................................................................ 95Summary. ................................................................................................................................. 96The Purpose of Sherborne ............................................................................................................ 98Introduction. ............................................................................................................................. 98A School of the Fourth Way. ................................................................................................... 99Making a New World... .......................................................................................................... 101Training of Fourth Way Candidates. ...................................................................................... 102Ashiata Shiemash. .................................................................................................................. 103The Great Work, the Parousia and the Higher Powers. .......................................................... 104The Relevance of Gurdjieff. ................................................................................................... 107Obligation. ............................................................................................................................. 110―Group Consciousness‖. ........................................................................................................ 112Transformation of Energies. ................................................................................................... 114Summary. ............................................................................................................................... 115Conclusion. ............................................................................................................................ 119J.G.Bennett and the ‗Gurdjieff Tradition‘ ................................................................................... 121Introduction. ........................................................................................................................... 121Deep Continuity Revisited. .................................................................................................... 122Bennett in the light of the orthodoxy‘s critique. .................................................................... 126―Substance of Work‖ ............................................................................................................. 130Conclusion: The Structure of Bennett‘s Position ........................................................................ 138Notes and References to Chapter 2 .............................................................................................. 144PSYCHO-COSMOLOGICAL IDEAS ........................................................... 176Abstract .................................................................................................................................. 176Sources ........................................................................................................................................ 177Part 1: Gurdjieff‟s Doctrine of the Human Condition and Human Possibility. ...................... 181Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 181Psycho-Cosmological ‗fragments‘. ........................................................................................ 184The Psychological Perspectives. ................................................................................................. 186Man is not as he believes himself to be. ................................................................................. 186Centres. .................................................................................................................................. 191Essence development and Higher Bodies. ............................................................................. 194Personality.............................................................................................................................. 196Psychophysiology. ................................................................................................................. 197The ‗paradox‘ of the human situation. ................................................................................... 200Humanity is ‗hypnotized.‘ ...................................................................................................... 202The Cosmological Perspectives. ................................................................................................. 205Cosmological perspectives in Beelzebub‘s Tales to His Grandson. ...................................... 205The cosmological perspective in In Search of the Miraculous. .............................................. 210Beelzebub and ISOM compared. ........................................................................................... 211The allegory of the two rivers. .................................................................................................... 216Conclusions. ................................................................................................................................ 223Part 2: Comparisons ...................................................................................................................... 228The Great Work and Cosmic Evolution ...................................................................................... 229Time: Entropy and Redemption ............................................................................................. 230Planetary Evolution ................................................................................................................ 235The Great Work and Work on Oneself .................................................................................. 235Terrestrial Evolution, Sacred History and the Origin of Sin ....................................................... 237The primaeval hiatus in human development......................................................................... 237Bennett‘s Scenario ............................................................................................................ 239Issues and Comparison ........................................................................................................... 242‗Cosmic hazard‘ versus ‗local hazard‘. ............................................................................. 242iv
Demiurgic sin, or Angelic error? ....................................................................................... 245An hiatus in human development. ..................................................................................... 246The transmission of sinfulness. ......................................................................................... 246Human development versus human decline ........................................................................... 247Christianity ................................................................................................................................. 251Bennett‘s Christology ............................................................................................................ 251Cosmic Energies. ............................................................................................................... 252Sin and the Incarnation. ..................................................................................................... 252Parousia. ............................................................................................................................ 254Esoteric Christianity ............................................................................................................... 254―A virile version of the Gospels‖ ...................................................................................... 256Maurice Nicoll .................................................................................................................. 257Was Gurdjieff a Christian? .................................................................................................... 259Christ and the other Sacred Messengers ................................................................................ 260Parousia .................................................................................................................................. 262Angels, Demiurgic Intelligences and Higher Powers ................................................................. 263Demurgic Intelligences .......................................................................................................... 264Gurdjieff‘s Angelology .......................................................................................................... 267Angels, Archangels and the Great Chain of Being ............................................................ 267Angels are born ‗perfect‘................................................................................................... 267Angels are distinct from higher man ................................................................................. 268The role of angels .............................................................................................................. 268Angelic development ........................................................................................................ 269Comparisons .......................................................................................................................... 270Notes and References to Chapter 3 .............................................................................................. 273GURDJIEFF, TRANSMISSION AND THE ESOTERIC CENTRE ............... 290Abstract .................................................................................................................................. 290The idea of the esoteric centre .................................................................................................... 291Gurdjieff‘s idea of the esoteric centre ......................................................................................... 295The esoteric centre and the inner circles of humanity ............................................................ 295Transmission and Initiation. ................................................................................................... 297The Esoteric Centre in Gurdjieff‘s Writings ............................................................................... 301Indications in the Third Series and Herald of Coming Good. ................................................ 303Meetings With Remarkable Men. .......................................................................................... 305Prince Yuri Lubovedsky, Professor Skridlov and Gurdjieff. ............................................ 306The Sarmoung brotherhood. .............................................................................................. 308The World Brotherhood. ................................................................................................... 311Beelzebub .................................................................................................................................... 314The structure of Beelzebub. ................................................................................................... 315Time line 1. ....................................................................................................................... 315Time Line 2. ...................................................................................................................... 317The ‗crossing of the time lines‘. ........................................................................................ 319Pole Star and Esoteric Centre. ................................................................................................ 321Deskaldino and Central Asia. ................................................................................................. 323Hadji-Asvatz-Troov and the Sarmoung Brotherhood. ...................................................... 329Purgatory, after death experience and reincarnation .............................................................. 331Purgatory and the ―World Brotherhood‖. .......................................................................... 333Three aspects of the esoteric centre........................................................................................ 334Conclusion. ................................................................................................................................. 335Notes and References to Chapter 4 .............................................................................................. 340SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY ....................................................................... 350Abstract .................................................................................................................................. 350Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 351The Fundamental Octave of Creation. ........................................................................................ 354Faculties of Essence. ................................................................................................................... 356v
Page 1 and 2: William James Thompson, BA (hons)J.
Page 3: ContentsAbstract ..................
Page 7 and 8: Return to England .................
Page 9 and 10: IntroductionUnravelling the wool wh
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Page 13 and 14: year of his life. Journeys in Islam
Page 15 and 16: Other Spiritual TeachingsLastly the
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Page 19 and 20: CHAPTER ONEGurdjieff, Bennett and t
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Page 39 and 40: Bennett's own understanding of his
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which it is necessary to question s
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the three year Subud experiment in
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Notes and References to Chapter 11
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8 See Chapter Six where I argue tha
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25 See James Webb, The Harmonious C
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58 I.e., because Ouspensky's own po
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(‗Footnote to the Gurdjieff Liter
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97 Bennett understood Christ as man
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124 Gurdjieff: Making a New World,
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157 The Way to be Free, p.31.158 I
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CHAPTER TWOThe International Academ
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In this chapter I examine the weigh
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idea of founding a school to Gurdji
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‗emergence as a master‘ 30 in t
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The Teaching at SherborneIntroducti
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Bennett‘s detractors might sugges
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Prospectus, p.5) and the evening me
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interpersonal friction‘ to provid
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However, the focus of work with the
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teachings known in the West it is a
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a theoretical course which actually
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in talks to his students at Sherbor
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It can be shown that Bennett made c
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4. With regard to the Academy's emp
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The teaching at these courses was b
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Gurdjieff. 132 There also seems to
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to exemplify ―group consciousness
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Making a New World...What, then, wa
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illusion about the difficulty of br
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In the last volume of The Dramatic
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are trying to answer concerns the r
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(iv) the urgency of the situation.T
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obligolnian-strivings‖ (see note
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the transformative endeavour Bennet
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He indicates the importance of this
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existence is not ‗a free lunch,
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Conclusion.It can be seen that Benn
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J.G.Bennett and the „Gurdjieff Tr
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make sacrifices of our own limited
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method‘, and onto the wider spiri
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In his article ‗Gurdjieffian Grou
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be the case that Bennett's extra-Gu
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them a supply of the ‗substance o
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because it is a common denominator
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general consideration that an hiatu
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concerned the ‗tradition‘ - in
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‗Gurdjieff tradition‘ is part o
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8. Identification of the significan
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our understanding of Gurdjieffian s
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(extracted from — ―Memorandum o
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―...Every effort a man makes incr
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36 Perhaps most notably the evening
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results of external influences, ext
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mechanical existence. Gurdjieff pre
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running of the school. Now, the imm
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teacher-pupil relationship (i.e., G
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above on ―Idiotism‖) and twenty
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Gurdjieff's perspective on the huma
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133 The main sources are Gurdjieff
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intermediate role in the scheme of
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Gurdjieff, in an increase in the bi
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period of accelerated decline of
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225 Following the death of Madame d
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systems. Bennett's books Gurdjieff:
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266 I introduce Gurdjieff's doctrin
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SourcesBefore embarking on the subj
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He had just taken the final decisio
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Part 1: Gurdjieff‟s Doctrine of t
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was later removed. However, humanit
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originating in the ordinary mind of
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Why, then, do people believe that t
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is merely an automatic coordinating
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[Man as he is]Automatonworking byex
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However, from Gurdjieff‘s point o
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especially the mechanism of ―buff
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this wholly negative sense - also k
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octave. This ―shock‖ is of a wh
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stage because the possibility of ge
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of the subject and also threaten to
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mortality of his physical body). Ho
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Providing ‗food for the Moon‘ i
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factors and processes of social inc
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The evolution of a certain small pe
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which rules out ―...the developme
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highly desirable that he should awa
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The book Views From the Real World:
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How, then, does the cosmological sc
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by the concerted agencies of his fa
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do‘...‖ etc. - and to develop a
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impacts on his pupils (in Moscow an
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a factor in determining whether an
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teaching as ―esoteric Christianit
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way that an evolutionary increase o
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Bennett suggests that Gurdjieff‘s
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Planetary EvolutionAs was described
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beings is to blend with and serve t
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Bennett‟s ScenarioBennett describ
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…Creativity had to be imparted to
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occurred in human evolution - the o
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This serves to emphasize the idea t
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their cosmic obligations has been t
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Throughout Beelzebub Gurdjieff prov
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among the sacred individuals to Jes
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and the Cosmic Individuality, enabl
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powerful case for saying that (some
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It will be noticed that much of thi
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This future, which is not in future
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No.8‖ 292 which, by definition, p
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seems virtually identical to Bennet
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the vertical involutionary-evolutio
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Now, in the course of talks with Ha
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Angelic developmentAccording to Gur
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the context of the more general pro
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19 ISOM, p.18.20 Gurdjieff, Views F
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63 ISOM, p.44 and p.94.64 Views Fro
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94 ‗Transmission and Initiation.
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established as a morphological dete
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without reaction, is in it self a m
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223 A fuller account of the differe
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273 Moreover, it should be noted th
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322 Bennett, The Sevenfold Work, p.
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The idea of the esoteric centreThe
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It was argued in Chapter Two that,
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Gurdjieff‟s idea of the esoteric
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Gurdjieff‘s description of the in
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not sure of anything, he may doubt
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The Esoteric Centre in Gurdjieff‟
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with monasteries and esoteric broth
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first contact with the ―World Bro
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Whatever the basis in fact, this is
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It must be emphasized that Prince Y
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takes Beelzebub (see next section).
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Bukhara, the suggested general loca
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Consideration of the Beelzebub evid
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eventually published the chapters h
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thence to France via Turkey, German
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return journey. 113 What is being s
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What is the significance of the cha
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ii. owing to ‗the disruptive effe
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closely together in the text Gurdji
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to another version, he attributed t
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Purgatory, after death experience a
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which Gurdjieff presents of Purgato
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people. However, he is depicted as
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dwelling place of ‗dead saints‘
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Gurdjieff‘s pupils who seems to h
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24 ISOM, p.201.25 ISOM, p.37.26 ISO
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68 Meetings With Remarkable Men, pp
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107 Gurdjieff says that he arrived
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133 Webb, The Harmonious Circle, p.
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IntroductionIn this chapter I addre
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‗standard scale‘ which will ass
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deemed to be subject to 3 laws. In
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has a structural integrity of its o
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A connection between the theme of w
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that there are four main levels of
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begun‖. - ―Real, objective resu
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unpredicability which is ascribed t
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The ―perfecting‖ spoken of here
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Man No.4 is also known as ―transi
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state and the product of the transm
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permanent bridge between the lower
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Man No.6 (like Man No.7) has been d
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to be ―taken onto‖ the Sun Abso
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degree Ischmetch is equivalent to t
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while recognizing the general natur
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realized. Concomitant to this is a
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associated with the HEC. - The last
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The work of Man No.6 is to bring in
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teacher that it is possible to beco
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connection to higher knowledge in t
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Gurdjieff refers to this transferen
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partly in the other‘ - eventually
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evolutionary deaths that can take p
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Concluding Remarks.This chapter has
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of practical work on oneself are ce
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GOALMotivationalINSTRUMENTOperation
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cutting edge, of this latter is ―
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There is a close correspondence bet
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1. Initiation2. Involvement3. Separ
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7. Purity(Grace)6. Submission5. Rec
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[GOAL]7. Purity(Grace)[DIRECTION]Sa
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levels of the path help comes throu
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transformation of order, his triad
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However, it is necessary to ask wha
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39 Moreover, the state called ―ma
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76 See, Beelzebub, II, ‗Religion
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29 The Dramatic Universe, III, p.52
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CHAPTER SIXBennett as Pupil and Tea
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Bennett‘s experience at the Prieu
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fashionable theory of relativity, a
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James Moore, in his Gurdjieff: the
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However, he still felt weak and ill
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its realization and actualization.
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between teacher and pupil (which is
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undoubtedly refers to the ―Great
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inviting him to become a full time
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more in tune with Gurdjieff himself
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hazardous conditions of revolutiona
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Hence, the Gurdjieffian view is tha
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Ouspensky‟s „school‟.Ouspensk
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the rumours, that were current at t
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his efforts could have produced som
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propagate any of the ideas of the S
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a large scale context of Gurdjieff'
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as imminent for Western civilizatio
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solution to all its problems. At th
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―spoiled‖, his own were ―luna
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And he records that:We were learnin
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unmortal. Now you have nothing, but
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Gurdjieff‘s statement that he alr
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Springs. Bennett records that Georg
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Bennett gives one very dramatic exa
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Gurdjieff indicates his intention t
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It was she whom Gurdjieff sent for
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particular reference to the English
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for Madame de Salzmann‘s decision
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2. To help others.3. To serve the p
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chapters, it was Bennett‘s view -
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others.‖ 286 Specifically, he ide
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the Middle East. However, the exten
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Emin Chikhou and Naq‟shbandi Sufi
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More specifically he told Bennett t
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Gurdjieff‘s teaching had not been
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nights previously an angel had reve
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The work at Coombe Springs confirme
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Building on the impasse ideas, I wi
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inner contact through the latihan.
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The second strand is Gurdjieff‘s
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Bennett‘s own perspective only se
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…I entered a state of consciousne
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suggest that - for people with expe
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…all Gurdjieff‘s methods and hi
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Submission and gnosisThis idea of
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perspective and is not intended to
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However, his mature view (probably
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It was impossible to doubt that I h
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His Christian experiences at St.Wan
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the true immortality of the ―Sun
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In Chapter Two I have argued that a
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Conditions now exist in the communi
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Elwell-Sutton‘s reply to his crit
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view, disastrous because it would b
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‗Solo to Mecca‘ which had appea
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several possible explanations for h
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School. In consequence of the lack
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‗second line‘ because it relate
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the intelligence of the HTC. (It wi
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I am the Real Man, the Gurdjieff, t
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these reasons Bennett‘s pupils wo
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time been working in Ouspensky's Lo
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in italics‖. (Interview, June 199
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108 Ouspensky, The Fourth Way, pp.9
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170 Ouspensky, it seems, was denied
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228 Gurdjieff, Herald of Coming Goo
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271 Anthony Bright-Paul, Stairway t
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314 Bennett, Journeys In Islamic Co
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365 See, e.g., Beelzebub, Vol.1, p.
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426 Husein Rofé, The Path of Subud
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international leader of the Work).
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511 The People of the Secret, p.163
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536 It was around this time that Be
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Notes and References to Conclusion5
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The aim of this thesis has been to
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motivated by the (complementary) ne
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with matters of source and higher a
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contention that Bennett achieved co
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12 See de Salzmann ‗Foreword‘ i
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Late 1920/early 1921. Bennett meets
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resolves that, if he cannot work wi
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1943. Bennett begins work on a math
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May 1955. Bennett and Elizabeth How
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Late 1966. Bennett re-establishes w
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1978. Posthumous publication of Ben
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28th February 1981. Blake offers hi
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Appendix 2: Chronology of Beelzebub
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BibliographyAlexandria Foundation.
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——————— Journeys In I
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(Conditions of discipleship. Montan
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——————— Life is real
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Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. The Encounter
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Scott, Ernest. The People of the Se
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J.G.Bennett Lectures on Cassette Ta
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