Issue #46

Subscribe Issue #46 November, 2025 “Patience is the mother of will. If you have no mother, how can you be born.” Gurdjieff Dear ALL It almost feels as though the year is over, although here in America, we have yet to have yet to navigate Thanksgiving and...

The Questions of Zarathustra

The Questions of Zarathrustra   This I ask Thee, tell me truly, O Lord: Who was the father and begetter of Righteousness at the beginning? Who established the course of the sun and stars? Through whom does the moon wax and wane? These things, O Wise One, Ahura...

Prayer, In The Round

The Citadel of Prayer What Is Prayer? The world feels disconnected, chaotic and irrational. Prayer is not going to alter the outer world much, if at all. Nevertheles,  the ancient practice of prayer provides a sanctuary to those seeking solace and spiritual depth. We...

The Many Arcs of The Tales

Interweaving Highways The Tales embodies multiple interweaving themes and arcs. In  factual books there is usually a single linear theme. In fictional work there can be several interweaving themes with a sub-plot here and there, but it is rare to have more than three...

Issue #45

Subscribe Issue #45 September/October, 2025 “The whole Work is really a cosmos – everything in it depends on and explains everything else. It is only when one catches a glimpse of the whole that one feels an enormous wonder at a great purpose.” ~Rodney...

To Awaken The Emotions

The Radiation of Pure Emotion To Awake the Emotional Side While we might “know better otherwise,” we often imagine ourselves as having a single mind or consciousness, neatly tucked away in the brain. Nevertheless, in the Work, we are depicted as complex...

The Tales of Automatic Thought

The Domain of Automatic Thought The Siren Song of Automatized Thought The Tales is not a comforting read. It was written “to-corrode-without-mercy-all-the-rubbish-accumulated-during-the-ages-in-human-mentation”. Among the many observations Gurdjieff...

Is The Word “God” A Noun Or A Verb?

The Struggle of the Verb and the Noun         A Noun or A Verb To name God a noun is to build a cathedral     around a shadow. It is to mistake the vessel for the sea,     to worship the graven image of a force         whose nature is flow. A noun is a tomb, a fixed...