by Robin Bloor | Aug 3, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Simple Life Is Not So Simple We are in debt, every one of us, to the people who brought the Work to us, and to those who brought it to them and to others too, along a line that stretches out into the dusty past. AFTER the captain had gone, Beelzebub glanced at his...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 26, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
An Aging Cossack [The Disease of Tomorrow – The Tales, p362] This is perhaps one of the most poignant parts of the Tales – especially for readers who are no longer young. “Before continuing to tell you more about the activities of the Very Saintly Ashiata...
by Robin Bloor | May 27, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Gates of Hell Consider the prayer: Holy God, Holy Immortal, Holy Firm, Have Mercy on us. (The Tales p752). What does it mean? And in particular what does “Holy Firm” mean? The Holy Firm is the greatest denying force in the universe, the greatest...
by Robin Bloor | Apr 27, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Angel Moroni, in the skies of Salt Lake City Our 2nd-3rd Series study group, has finished its journey through the 2nd and 3rd series and has begun to focus on The Herald of Coming Good. The first clear fact that steps out of the pages of this short paperback, his...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 25, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
G. I. Gurdjieff Life Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’ has a different character to the First Series, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, which has a dense writing style that intentionally employs the grammar of associations in order to pepper the reader...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 27, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Gurdjieff in pensive mood. In his excellent book, Heart Without Measure, Ravi Ravindra writes: “Madame de Salzmann told of an incident, late in Gurdjieff’s life, when she came upon him in a place in Switzerland. He was sitting, looking very sad and discouraged....