Prayer in the Work

Votive Candles At a Paris meeting in 1938, Gurdjieff was asked the question: “How should one pray?” He replied: In our solar system certain substances emanate from the sun and the planets, in the same way as those emanated by the earth, making contact at...

The Supreme Being’s Banquet

The Banquet One day the Supreme Being took it into his head to give a great banquet in his palace of azure. All the virtues were invited. Only the virtues … men he did not ask … only ladies. There were a great many of them, great and small. The lesser...

The Climax of The Tales

A Stag with a Full Set of Horns – A Pirmaral perhaps Why Do We Ignore The Exercise at the Climax of The Tales? 1 Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson  is Gurdjieff’s towering masterpiece. 2 He spent years writing and refining it as he watched students listen to it...

Issue #32

Subscribe Issue #32 July 2024 “Remorse: sorrow for not having acted according to objective conscience.”~ Orage Hi Because of a recent and interesting visit to a monastery in Germany, I decided to try to learn German. Nowadays there are many effective...

Nothingness and Infinity

Infinity and Nothingness In In Search of the Miraculous by P D Ouspensky, p86, we read: “The next idea which it is necessary to master is the materiality of the universe which is taken in the form of the ray of creation. Everything in this universe can be...

Ahoon: Beelzebub’s Personality

Statue of an old man – By Alfred Molon.  In a study group quite a while ago, one of the groups suggested that Ahoon was actually Beelzebub’s personality. It seemed to be a good suggestion – one which has only seems to get stronger the more you think...