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....
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....