Pogossian: The Captain

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,...

The Circles of the Yezidis

Melek Taûs, the Peacock Angel of the Yezidis We are all Yezidis. According to Gurdjieff in Meetings With Remarkable Men, if you draw a circle around us, we cannot escape from it. The world we were born into began to draw such a circle around us from our first moment....

Beyond Good and Evil

The Contest Between Good and Evil In Chapter XLIV of The Tales, which glories in the title In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Man’s Understanding of Justice Is for Him in the Objective Sense an Accursed Mirage, Gurdjieff asserts that Man is hypnotized by an incorrect belief...

The Fate of The Hasnamusses

An Eternal Hasnamuss? Beelzebub explains the different types or gradations of the Hasnamuss with the following words. “In the common presence of every kind of three-brained being, there can arise during the process of his planetary existence, four kinds of...

The Hasnamuss

Holocaust Memorial Beelzebub explains the nature of a Hasnamuss with the following words. “In general, those independent individuals are called and defined by the word Hasnamuss in whom, among what are called ‘Individual-impulses,’ a certain ‘some- thing’ arises,...

Kundalini—Kundabuffer

Ancient Sanskrit Texts In The Tales, Gurdjieff writes about Kundalini as follows: “Saint Buddha among other things explained to the beings of Pearl-land how and to what part of the body of their ancestors the said famous organ Kundabuffer had been attached. “He told...