Self-Calming

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...

Lentrohamsanin

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...

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...