by Robin Bloor | Jan 29, 2023 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
A Masquerade of a Kind The book, To Fathom The Gist, Vol 2 – The Arch Absurd devotes about 20 pages to analysis of and discussion of the awful revised version of The Tales, pointing out the many ways in which it damages Gurdjieff’s masterpiece. I was recently...
by Robin Bloor | Dec 28, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Gurdjieff’s International Passport Issued by The German Consulate in New York The passport above gives his Gurdjieff’s birth date as the 28th December 1877 — the year 1877 is one of the three birth years about which Gurdjieff’s biographers debate....
by Robin Bloor | Nov 27, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Self-calmer in Action Beelzebub refers to self-calming as our inner ‘Evil-God.’ As with many things in The Tales self-calming is mentioned several times—being introduced on page 104 in the following way, when Beelzebub is discussing suggestibility. He...
by Robin Bloor | Oct 24, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
Germans, on the March Excerpt from The Tales, Chapter 36. “Now, my boy, wishing to give you a certain understanding of the peculiar psyche of the three-brained beings of this contemporary European grouping also, I will this time change my practice, namely, of...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 28, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
The Man in the Shadows According to Gurdjieff in The Tales, the following seven impulses are the impulses that drive the Hasnamuss: Every kind of depravity, conscious as well as unconscious The feeling of self-satisfaction from leading others astray The irresistible...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 18, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
A Steamship Captain — as Pogossian supposedly became In Meetings With Remarkable Men, the chapter on Pogossian begins with the paragraph: Sarkis Pogossian, or as he is now called, Mr. X, is at the present time the owner of several ocean steamers, one of which,...