Issue #42
by Robin Bloor | June 3, 2025 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 Comments
Issue #42 May/June 2025 "All excuses are lies." ~Jane HeapDear ALL Among the pages of this newsletter you will find the poem, On Being Woven, by Jalal Uddin Rumi. It is published here in memory of Robert Davis a friend and companion in The Work, who recently died,...
Issue #41
by Robin Bloor | April 28, 2025 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 Comments
Issue #41 Apr 2025 "Man learns in three ways: Competition, Example and Magnetism." ~Jane HeapIn The Tales (on page 919), writing about America, Gurdjieff says: "On the other hand, with the trades and 'professions' indispensable in the process of being-existence,...
Issue #40
by Robin Bloor | March 25, 2025 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 Comments
Issue #40 Mar 2025 "The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them." ~Peter OuspenskyHi Spring officially began a handful of days ago on March 20th. It was a biological dawn, a delicate interplay between dormancy and...
Issue #39
by Robin Bloor | February 28, 2025 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 Comments
Issue #39 Feb 2025 "Roll your triangle." ~Jane HeapHi In Roman times, February was, to some degree, a month of purification. On the 15th February – not the Ides of February, by the way, which was the 13th of February (the Ides meaning "the middle of the month") -...
Issue #38
by Robin Bloor | January 29, 2025 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 Comments
Issue #38 Jan 2025 "It is necessary to have had all illusions and all disillusions."~ GurdjieffHi A long time ago, the year began in March. That was until Roman King Numa Pompilius (713–673 BCE), added January and February to a previously 10-month cycle that began in...
Issue #37
by Robin Bloor | January 1, 2025 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 Comments
Issue #37 Dec/Jan 2024/25 "Time is the unique subjective."~ GurdjieffHi The custom of making New Year's resolutions is old, dating back to the time of the Ancient Babylonians, who began their new year in mid-March at the time of the planting of crops. During their...
Issue #36
by Robin Bloor | November 26, 2024 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 Comments
Issue #36 November 2024 "No elephant and no horse, even the donkey is mighty."~ Saying of Gurdjieff's FatherHi Last month we announced the new book by Stephen Aronson. It has now, today as I write this, become available. You can buy it by clicking this link or...
Issue #35
by Robin Bloor | October 29, 2024 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 Comments
Issue #35 October 2024 "Individuality is the consciousness of Will."~ Alfred OrageHi We have two new books to announce. The first is the second book in the Side-by-side series which compares the published 1950 version of The Tales to The 1931 Manuscript. To buy it or...
Issue #34
by Robin Bloor | October 3, 2024 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 Comments
Issue #34 August 2024 "Love comes in two ways, by remembering ourselves and by forgetting ourselves."~ Rodney CollinHi I have always been mesmerized by Guaguin's painting that bears the title: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (painted in...
Issue #33
by Robin Bloor | August 30, 2024 | Issue, The Lost Herald | 0 Comments
Issue #33 August 2024 "Let your death be your advisor."~ Carlos CastanedaHi I have always been mesmerized by Guaguin's painting that bears the title: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (painted in 1897-1898). In my view, it is a religious painting...