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,...
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....