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,...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 26, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
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....
by Robin Bloor | May 22, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
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...
by Robin Bloor | Apr 18, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
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...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 25, 2022 | Tales Study, The Lost Herald
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,...