Although there are other books by students of Gurdjieff or Ouspensky, most will agree that these two books "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" by G.I. Gurdjieff and "In Search of the Miraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky are the most important in the study of Gurdjieff.

Some might say that the comparision between these two books is a waste of time since "G.'s" lectures in "In Search of the Miraculous" are believed to be the same as Gurdjieff's teachings in "Beelzebub's Tales" and thus can be used inter-changeably. This is a major misunderstanding because "G.'s" lectures are merely preliminary thoughts of Gurdjieff that improved over time and thus "Beelzebub's Tales" must prevail.

Due to the fact tha "G.'s" lectures are easier to understand, many often believe that these lectures are Gurdjieff's teachings when they are not. A good example of this is the "Ray of Creation" in Ouspensky which ends at the Moon whereas Gurjieff's Creation in the BT Chapter "Holy Planet Purgatory" relies on the evolution and involution of Cosmoses. In addition, it is clear that "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" is written from the emotional depth of understanding rather than presenting mere knowledge.

This comparison of these two books not only helps to uncover the mistakes of Ouspensky followers, but also uncovers mistakes and omissions in "Beelzebub's Tales" itself. (Sadly, those in the latter may never be corrected because of the belief in the infalibily of famous people such as Gurdjieff and Jesus. After all, how dare I, a mere human, show there is a missing 'Stopinder' in the Food Octave!).

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Man is a machine. All his deeds are the results of external influences, external impressions. What is being done, and particularly what has already been done in one way, cannot be, and could not have been, done in another way.

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Everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate.

Man is a machine.

All his deeds are the results of external influences, external impressions.

Rather than dwell on the negative of man as a machine, we must look at the design of the Archangel Hariton as an example of our body starship:

BT 5.70 "This new system was unanimously acknowledged to be the best, and very soon it was adopted for general Universal service and thereafter gradually all previous systems were entirely superseded. That system of the Great Angel, now Archangel, Hariton is now in use everywhere at the present day."

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What is war? It is the results of planetary influences. Somewhere up there two or three planets have approached too near to each other; tension results. Everything that happens on a big scale is governed from the outside, and governed either by accidental combinations of influences or by general cosmic laws.

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Organic life on earth is acted upon simultaneously by influences proceeding from various sources and different worlds; influences from the planets, influences from the moon, influences from the sun, influences from the stars. All these influences act simultaneously; one influence predominates at one moment and another influence at another moment.

War is inevitable without being-Partkdolg duty.

BT43.1098-9 "According to the laws of Nature, there must periodically always proceed on the Earth, independently of the will of men, 'wars’ and 'civil wars’; and this is because during certain periods there is required for Nature a greater quantity of deaths.
BT43.1107 "And so, my dear Hassein, when it appeared that the instinctive need for conscious labor and intentional suffering in order to be able to take in and transmute in themselves the sacred substances Abrustdonis (substance of the astral body) and Helkdonis (substance of the Soul) (BT43.1106 just those substances by which the higher being-bodies of three-brained beings, namely, the body Kesdjan and the body of the Soul, are in general formed and perfected by means of conscious labors and intentional sufferings) and thereby to liberate the sacred Askokin for the maintenance of the Moon and Anulios had finally disappeared from the psyche of your favorites, then Great Nature Herself was constrained to adapt Herself to extract this sacred substance by other means, one of which is precisely that periodic terrifying process there of reciprocal destruction.

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In real art there is nothing accidental. It is mathematics. Everything in it can be calculated, everything can be known beforehand. The great Sphinx in Egypt is such a work of art.

Art can reveal "Legominisms" (wisdom past down from the past).

BT30.465 "On Mondays, namely, on the 'day-of-religious-and-civil-ceremonies,’ the learned beings of the first group demonstrated various ceremonies in which the 'fragments-of-knowledge’ that had been previously selected for transmission, were indicated by means of inexactitudes in the Law of Sevenfoldness, chiefly in the inexactitudes of the lawful movements of the participants in the given ceremonies. "For instance, let us suppose that the leader of the given ceremony, the priest, or according to contemporaries, the clergyman, has to raise his arms towards Heaven. "This posture of his infallibly demands, in accordance with the Law of Sevenfoldness, that his feet should normally be placed in a certain position; but these Babylonian learned beings intentionally put the feet of the said leader of the ceremony not as they should be placed in accordance with this Law, but otherwise. "And in general it was just in all these 'otherwises’ that the learned beings of that group indicated in the movements of the participants in the given religious ceremony, by a conventional what is called 'alphabet,’ those ideas which they intended should be transmitted through these ceremonies to the men-beings of their remote descendants.

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And G.'s chief motive became clearer to me. He by no means wanted to make it easy for people to become acquainted with his ideas. On the contrary he considered that only by overcoming difficulties, however irrelevant and accidental, could people value his ideas.

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Knowledge is material. There is a definite quantity of it in a given place at a given time. Taken in a large quantity by one man, it produces very good results; taken in a small quantity by a large number of people, it gives no results at all.

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Knowledge cannot come to people without effort on their own part.

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Knowledge by itself cannot give understanding. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being.

Knowledge versus Understanding

Meetings with Remarkable Men: Chapter X: Professor Skridlov

Professor Skridlov, deeply stirred, could not contain himself and exclaimed in astonishment, 'Father Giovanni! I cannot understand how you can calmly stay here instead of returning to Europe, at least to your own country Italy, to give the people there if only a thousandth part of this all-penetrating faith which you are now inspiring in me.' 'Eh! my dear Professor,' replied Father Giovanni, 'it is evident that you do not understand man's psyche as well as you understand archaeology.

'Faith cannot be given to man. Faith arises in a man and increases in its action in him not as the result of automatic learning, that is, not from any automatic ascertainment of height, breadth, thickness, form and weight, or from the perception of anything by sight, hearing, touch, smell or taste, but from understanding. 'Understanding is the essence obtained from information intentionally learned and from all kinds of experiences personally experienced.

'For example, if my own beloved brother were to come to me here at this moment and urgently entreat me to give him merely a tenth part of my understanding, and if I myself wished with my whole being to do so, yet I could not, in spite of my most ardent desire, give him even the thousandth part of this understanding, as he has neither the knowledge nor the experience which I have quite accidentally acquired and lived through in my life.

'No, Professor, it is a hundred times easier, as it is said in the Gospels, "for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle" than for anyone to give to another the understanding formed in him about anything whatsoever.

'I formerly also thought as you do and even chose the activity of a missionary in order to teach everyone faith in Christ. I wanted to make everyone as happy as I myself felt from faith in the teachings of Jesus Christ. But to wish to do that by, so to say, grafting faith on by words is just like wishing to fill someone with bread merely by looking at him. 'Understanding is acquired, as I have already said, from the totality of information intentionally learned and from personal experiencings; whereas knowledge is only the automatic remembrance of words in a certain sequence.

'Not only is it impossible, even with all one's desire, to give to another one's own inner understanding, formed in the course of life from the said factors, but also, as I recently established with certain other brothers of our monastery, there exists a law that the quality of what is perceived by anyone when another person tells him something, either for his knowledge or his understanding, depends on the quality of the data formed in the person speaking.

'Yes, Professor Skridlov, knowledge and understanding are quite different. Only understanding can lead to being, whereas knowledge is but a passing presence in it. New knowledge displaces the old and the result is, as it were, a pouring from the empty into the void.

'One must strive to understand; this alone can lead to our Lord God. 'And in order to be able to understand the phenomena of nature, according and not according to law, proceeding around us, one must first of all consciously perceive and assimilate a mass of information concerning objective truth and the real events which took place on earth in the past; and secondly, one must bear in oneself all the results of all kinds of voluntary and involuntary experiencings.

"Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson"

BT46.1169-70 'Form and Sequence'
Beelzebub explains the need to acquire the 'Reason-of-understanding' rather than 'Reason-of-knowing' describes his method in His Tales to His Grandson (Hassein) as follows: ''Well then, my boy, in order that the mentioned Zernofookalnian-friction should be obtained in beings, and that at the same time the crystallization of the new perceptions should proceed for the Reason-of-understanding, I—already knowing very well what are called the 'laws-of-the-fixing-and-unfixing-of-ideas-in-localizations,’ the details of which laws, to mention it, by the way, I learned also, thanks to the three-brained beings who have taken your fancy, during my sojourn among them as 'professional hypnotist’—had in view during my tales, among many other necessary principles in respect of the current perception of new information through guidance from without, always to keep also to the same inevitable rule, so that the gradualness of the enlarging of, as is said, the 'quintessence of the information’ should proceed in you with the entire absence of the being-impulses of 'indignation,’ 'offense,’ 'vexation,’ and so forth.

''The conscious Reason-of-understanding, which in general it is proper for three-brained beings to have, is a 'something’ which blends with their common presence, and therefore information of every kind perceived with this Reason becomes forever their inseparable part. The information perceived with this Reason, or results obtained thanks to being-contemplation of the totality of formerly perceived information—however a being himself may change and whatever changes may proceed in the spheres around him—will be forever a part of his essence.

''And as for that Reason which for most of your contemporary favorites has become habitual and which I called the Reason-of-knowing, every kind of new impression perceived through this Reason, and likewise every kind of intentionally or simply automatically obtained result from formerly perceived impressions is only a temporary part of the being, and might result in them exclusively only in certain surrounding circumstances, and on the definite condition that the information which constitutes all his foundation and entirety should without fail be from time to time so to say 'freshened’ or 'repeated’; otherwise these formerly perceived impressions change of themselves, or even entirely, so to say, 'evaporate’ out of the common presence of the three-brained being.

''And new impressions, crystallized in another order, that is, through the Reason-of-knowing, settle in the being-localizations at random, quite without any kind of, so to say, 'classification.’ All these new impressions settle in the series of those former impressions which almost always have nothing in common with them ... and always remains only simply as information without any kind of cognizance by the whole of their Being. As regards this latter fact ensuing from the already degenerated functioning of the Reason proper to the three-brained beings and which most of your contemporary favorites today already have, our respected teacher Mullah Nassr Eddin expresses by the following words: 'As soon as anything is needed, it seems that it is filthy and eaten by mice.’

''Although in respect of the Sacred Triamazikamno the process of the arising of both kinds of being-Reason flows equally, yet the fulfilling factors for the actualization of its three separate holy forces are different. Namely, for the formation of the Reason-of-knowing the formerly perceived contradictory impressions crystallized in any one of the three localizations which three-brained beings have, serve as the affirming and denying factors and the new impressions proceeding from without serve in this case as the third factor.

''And for the Reason-of-understanding these factors are as follows:

1. the first, that is the 'sacred-affirming,’ is the newly perceived impressions of any localization which has at the given moment what is called 'the-center-of-gravity-functioning’;
2. the second or 'sacred-denying’ is the corresponding data present in another of his localizations;
3. and the third factor is ... 'the results of the persevering actualizing of the striving towards the manifestation of
   one’s own individuality ... from the results of the actualization of 'being-Partkdolg-duty.’

''Only thanks to this factor, in the process of the blending of newly perceived impressions of every kind in the presences of three-brained beings, are there crystallized on the basis of the Sacred Triamazikamno data for one’s own cognizance and understanding proper to the being alone; and thus proceeds what is called 'Zernofookalnian-friction’ thanks to which the sacred substances Abrustdonis and Helkdonis are chiefly formed in them for the coating and perfecting of their higher parts with 'Objective Knowledge.’

Skipped - nonspecific

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Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being.

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Seven types of man:

• Man #1 is the man of the physical body.

• Man #2 is the emotional man.

• Man #3 is the man of reason whose knowledge is based on scholastics.

• Man #4 is a man who has ideals.

• Man #5 is a man who has reached unity and has already been crystallized.

• Man #6 is very close to the ideal man, but some of his properties have not yet become permanent.

• Man #7 is the man who had reached the full development possible to man.

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Every man is born number one, number two, or number three. Man number four is always the product of school work.

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The same order of division into seven categories must be applied to everything relating to man -- art, religion, science, philosophy, etc.

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It is impossible to study a system of the universe without studying man. At the same time it is impossible to study man without studying the universe. Man is an image of the world.

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Every phenomenon is the result of the combination of three forces -- positive (active, "1"), negative (passive, "2"), and neutral (neutralizing, "3").

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The Absolute is designated by the number "1" because the three forces are united. Let us image the Absolute as a circle and in it a number of other circles, worlds of the second order. The small circles will be designated by the number "3", because in a world of the second order the three forces are already divided. The three divided forces in the worlds of the second order create new worlds of the third order. Six different forces will be acting upon the worlds of the third order.

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Orders of the "world"

• 1st order world is affected by 1 force -- the single, independent will of the Absolute

• 2nd order world is affected by 3 forces (all the galaxies)

• 3rd order world is affected by 6 forces (Milky Way) - (3 [from 2nd] + 3 new forces)

• 4th order world is affected by 12 forces (our Sun) - (3 [from 2nd] + 6 [from 3rd] + 3 new forces)

• 5th order world is affected by 24 forces (planets in our solar system) - (3 [from 2nd] + 6 [from 3rd] + 12 [from 4th] + 3 new forces)

• 6th order world is affected by 48 forces (Earth) - (3 [from 2nd] + 6 [from 3rd] + 12 [from 4th] + 24 [from 5th] + 3 new forces)

• 7th order world is affect by 96 forces (Moon) - (3 [2nd] + 6 [3rd] + 12 [4th] + 24 [from 5th] + 48 [from 6th] + 3 new forces)

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The chain of worlds which links the Absolute to the Moon forms the "ray of creation" in which we find ourselves.

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The number of forces in each world indicates the number of laws to which the given world is subject. We live in a world subject to 48 orders of laws.

The Gradations of Being

Man 1-7 in Ouspensky was clearly made up to correspond the the 'Ray of Creation' pictured below and in more detail in SM Chapter 10. (This simplistic view was replaced in BT in favor of cosmoses).

BT47.1177 Beelzebub achieves the Reason of the sacred Podkoolad
the last gradation before the Reason of the sacred Anklad.

The remnants of Gurdjieff's 'Ray of Creation' are shown in BT Chapter 9 and BT Chapter 39.
According to Beelzebub in BT9.82 , the creation of the Moon and Anulios happened because of a miscalculation by the archangels that caused a comet named 'Kondoor’ to crash into the Earth

BT Chapter39.770-1 From this disaster Tetartocosmoses are 'Keschapmartnian,’ i.e., nearly half-beings because the Ray of Creation does not end in the center of the planet. This is further explained in BT Thus the first Tetartocosmoses, on Earth and Mars (because of its two minor moons) were no longer 'Polormedekhtic’ beings but 'Keschapmartnian,’ (i.e., nearly half-beings), Thus the completing process of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh does not proceed at the present time through us or through your favorites into the center of each planet as it does in the rest of the universe at the place called the sacred 'Ashagiprotoëhary’. Because of this, the completing process of the Sacred Heptaparaparshinokh for the continuation of the species, for instance, proceeds not through one being, as it proceeded with the Tetartocosmoses, but through two beings of different sexes, called by us 'Actavus’ and 'Passavus,’ thus on the planet Earth, 'man’ and 'woman.’

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According to the "ray of creation", the Moon is still an unborn planet.

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A miracle is the manifestation in this world of the laws of another world.

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The influence of the Moon upon everything living manifests itself in all that happens on Earth. Man can not tear himself free from the Moon. All his movements and consequently all his actions are controlled by the Moon. The mechanical part of our life is subject to the Moon.

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The world consists of matter in a state of vibration. The rate of vibration is in inverse ratio to the density of matter.

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An "atom" of the Absolute is smaller than an "atom" of a 1st-order world. An "atom" of a 1st-order world is smaller than an "atom" of the 2nd-order world, etc.

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Every substance has four aspects or states which correspond to fire, air, water, and earth

• Substance which conducts the active force is called 'carbon' -- "1"

• Substance which conducts the passive force is called 'oxygen' -- "2"

• Substance which conducts the neutralizing force is called 'nitrogen' -- "3"

• Substance without force is called 'hydrogen' -- "6"

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Force is divided into "three" types, and matter is divided into "four" types.

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The laws of a game make the essence of the game. A violation of these laws would destroy the entire game. The Absolute can not interfere in our life and substitute other results in the place of the natural results of causes created by us, or created accidentally.

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The Moon is the weight on a clock. Organic life is the mechanism of the clock brought into motion by the weight. If the weight is removed, all movements in the mechanism of the clock will at once stop.

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All suns of the Milky Way influence our sun. The sun influences the planets. All planets influence our earth, and the earth influences the moon. These influences are transmitted by means of radiations passing through starry and interplanetary space. Let us study these radiations in an abridged form of the "ray of creation" -- Absolute --> Sun --> Earth --> Moon. This forms three octaves of radiation.

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The "shock" in the octave Sun --> Earth is organic life on Earth.

(1) ordinary food we eat

(2) the air we breathe

(3) our impressions

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The process of transforming the substances which enter the organism into finer ones is governed by the law of octaves.

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An old alchemical law states that "in order to make gold, it is first of all necessary to have a certain quantity of real gold".

In Ouspensky the Expansion of the Ray of Creation into Triads labled as Hydrogens assigned a number that provide elements in the Food Octave

SM states that a substance which conducts: active force is called 'carbon' passive force is 'oxygen', neutral force is nitrogen, no force is hydrogen This concept of substances was completely abandoned by Gurdjieff and becomes one of the major differences with the Ouspensky system. IN SM, the Ray of Creation is divided into triads of Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen from higher to lower as follows: These triads are assigned a Hydrogen number that is useful to define substances from food, air, and impressions from lower to higher quality. (No relation to the Periodic Table elements :Hydrogen whose atomic number is 1, or Carbon 6, Oxygen 8, Nitrogen 7) Which can be assigned to the three sections of a human: A more detailed display giving the locations of the elements in the human three-storied factory are in SM Chapter 9: figure 39:

BT finally reveals the organs of the physical body and renames the numbers into "independent arisings".
Most of the second and third set can be extrapolated from the SM numbers and positions:

In BT39.761 "In Tetartocosmoses the following names were given to these independent arisings:

• (1) Protoëhary (do)
• (2) Defteroëhary (re)
• (3) Tritoëhary (mi)
• (4) Tetartoëhary (fa)
• (5) Piandjoëhary (sol)
• (6) missing is Hormoneary (la) (made up my me)
• (7) Exioëhary (ti)
• (8) Resulzarion (do)

The full process is shown at 39.786-793. Harnel-miatznel appears to describe a process similar the SM: Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen reactions. Harnel-miatznel acts at 're', 'mi', 'sol', and 'ti' You will note that some of the processes require a different process where an external force must enter in such as the gap 'mi'-'fa' called the mechano-coinciding-Mdnel-In, 'ti'-'do' called the intentionally-actualizing-Mdnel-In. These are a throw-back from the two discontinuities of increase retarded from SM Chapter 7 & 14. As for 'sol'-'la (the third Stopinder') Gurdjieff introduces a complicated system:

BT39.754"As regards the third Stopinder, then changed in its 'subjective action’ and which is fifth in the general successiveness and is called 'Harnel-Aoot,’ its disharmony flowed by itself from the change of the two aforementioned Stopinders.This disharmony in its subjective functioning, flowing from its asymmetry so to say in relation to the whole entire completing process of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh, consists in the following:

• "If the completing process of this sacred law flows in conditions, where during its process there are many 'extraneously-caused-vibrations,’ then all its functioning gives only external results.
• "But if this same process proceeds in absolute quiet without any external 'extraneously-caused-vibrations’ whatsoever, then all the results of the action of its functioning remain within that concentration in which it completes its process, and for the outside, these results only become evident on direct and immediate contact with it.
• "And if however during its functioning there are neither of these two sharply opposite conditions, then the results of the action of its process usually divide themselves into the external and the internal.

As to this I have conjectured in my lecture: "Deciphering Harnel-Aoot in Gurdjieff's World Creation" that Harnel Aoot is composed as such:

One can visualize that Harnel-miatznel acts locally and Harnel-Aoot globally within the Cosmic Octave as it does in the Food Octave below:

:

Food Octave

Now I must discuss the missing Stopinder at 'la' as Gurdjieff in his beginning list unfortunately left it out, but it is apparent in Ouspensky that it does exist, for instance in SM Chapter 18 pg 378 Ouspensky says, " I felt that there was very much material in the enneagram. Points 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 represented, according to the "food diagram," different "systems" of the organism,

• 1—the digestive system;
• 2—the breathing system;
• 4—the blood stream;
• 5—the brain;
• 7—the spinal cord;
• 8—the sympathetic system and
• the sex organs.

. This item 8 is the missing Stopinder which I named Hormoneary (la).
See essay:The Key to Soul Is Within The Missing Stopinder in the Food Octave BT40.869 Also has an error where it says that 'piandjoëhari' which is already at 'sol' must evolve to the next Stopinder which would be the missing Stopinder 'Homoneary'.

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Last Supper was a magical ceremony equivalent to "blood-brother"

Last Supper

This is covered in BT Chapter 38 Religion and in my essay: The Enneagram of Jesus. The interesting theory of sharing blood does fit the situation, but one might ask why it did not work after Gurdjieff's death. Was no one of the right level for it to work. The truth is that Eastern tradition shows that Jesus survived the cross by tricking Pilate with a poison that simulated death and it was a convenient lie to convince followers.

Tibetan Buddhism is a valid religion and its spiritual head is a Lama who was reincarnated from a previous one. There does not seem to a required blood sharing for this to happen. This tradition is what has caused the belief in the second coming of Christ.

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What happens to us may depend upon three causes:

(1) upon accident

(2) upon fate

(3) upon our own will

Such as we are, we are almost wholly dependent upon accident.

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Wars cannot be stopped. War is due to cosmic forces, to planetary influences.

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Without self-knowledge, man cannot be free. Self-observation is the work or the way which leads to self-knowledge.

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Daydreaming is absolutely the opposite of 'useful' mental activity. Observation of the activity of imagination and daydreaming forms a very important part of self-study. The next object of self-observation must be habits in general.

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Man is a machine controlled by accidental shocks from outside.

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You can only know consciousness in yourself.

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In order to really observe oneself, one must first of all remember oneself. In self-remembering, one's attention is directed toward the object observed and toward oneself.

Questions and Answers are a model for "Ouspensky leaning groups"

When at a Gurdjieff group meeting, it is difficult the ask a question for fear of being laughed at, thus this chapter is collection of possible questions: what is aim? how to obtain 'I am'? "must I help myself before helping others? How to I create more difficulty in order to grow faster? how to I know my "self"? how do I observe myself? How do I distinguish between feelings and thought?, how do change something about myself without disrupting the balance? how do I avoid imagination how do I avoid unpleasant emotions? how do I keep the instinctive center and the moving center and the sex center from gaining control?

Alas, these questions are trivial once one takes note of the last two centers in my Enneagram of the Senses, which includes the sixth and seventh senses from Wikipedia that describes the seven senses that enhance the five senses that we all know. Upon examination, these two senses are remarkably similar to the popular Ouspensky method of "observing oneself" that its responsible for the mass psychosis of so many Ouspensky followers. From these it can be understood that Being-Partkdolg duty has nothing to do with the cultivating these two senses that we already possess!

See my essay Three-Body Gurdjieff Enneagram of the Body, Spirit, and Soul

The Vestibular System adjusts balance and attention. This system accounts for the perception of our body in relation to gravity, movement, and balance. It provides information related to movement and head position. It is important for the development of balance, coordination, eye control, attention, being secure with movement and some aspects of language development. It measures acceleration, g-force, body movements, and head position. (e.g. knowing that you are moving when you are in an elevator, knowing whether you are lying down or sitting up, and being able to walk along a balance beam.) (Interestingly, the corresponding 're' in the initial Ouspensky diagram was located at the chest level which was probably due to the concept that balance is at the center ones being. It supports my choice of separating as an actually Stopinder. Now, it probably would be assigned to the head.)

The Proprioception System manifests the ability of spatial prediction, intuition, and awareness of self. It is the sensing of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement. It was developed by the nervous system as a means to keep track of and control the different parts of the body. (e.g. A normal person can move a finger, knowing where and what the finger is doing. With little effort, the normal person could just put his/her finger to his/her nose easily. Without it, the brain cannot feel what the finger is doing, and the process must be carried out in more conscious and calculated steps, using vision to compensate for the lost feedback on the movement of the finger. Thus, it is used in sobriety tests by the police.) (Interestingly, the corresponding 'mi' in the initial Ouspensky diagram was located at the lower body level which was probably due to the concept that awareness of self comes from the ground up. It supports my choice of separating as an actually Stopinder. Now, it probably would be assigned to the head.)

Instead of trying to use these two senses that we already have, it is far more effective to use Conscience to control the emotions and Consciousness to control the mind. Conscience is to practice 'agape love' as Jesus and Buddha taught. Consciousness involves the study of real facts and not hearsay because it is difficult to think for yourself while parroting all the useless knowledge taught in school that you memorized to get good grades. Clearly, the emptying of the mind that is taught in meditation schools may be calming but is just as useless.

One must learn that awareness of self comes from the Spirit Body and awareness of mind comes from the Soul Body. The true Gurdjieff system involves conscious labor and intentional suffering which is Being-Partkdolg-duty. To be truly aware of God's or his Endlessness's presence that allows one to grow eternally requires that you to possess the seed of a Spirit and a seed of the Soul.

• do: 1

• re: 9/8

• mi: 10/8, or 5/4

• fa: 4/3

• sol: 12/8, or 3/2

• la: 5/3

• si: 15/8

• do: 16/8, or 2

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The difference in acceleration is as follows:

• do -> re: (9/8 : 1) = 9/8

• re -> mi: (10/8 : 9/8) = 10/9

• mi -> fa: (4/3 : 10/8) = 16/15 [increase retarded]

• fa -> so: (3/2 : 4/3) = 9/8

• so -> la: (5/3 : 3/2) = 10/9

• la -> si: (15/8 : 5/3) = 9/8

• si -> do: (16/8 : 15/8) = 16/15 [increase again retarded]

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The differences in the pitch of the notes are called intervals. There are three kinds of intervals in an octave: 9/8, 10/9, and 16/15. The smallest interval 16/15 occurs in the places of retardation in the octave. In music, one semitone is found between the following pairs: do-re, re-mi, fa-sol, sol-la, and la-si. A semitone does not exist in the mi-fa and si-do intervals.

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The law of octaves explains why there are no straight lines in nature. At the moment of the retardation of vibration a deviation from the original direction takes place. Let us assume that a movement begins at "do". It will continue in a straight line through "mi". But a deviation occurs between "mi" and "fa" which causes a change from the original direction. From "fa" through "si", the movement continues in the new direction. Between "si" and "do" the second interval occurs which causes a new change in direction. The next octave gives an even more marked deviation so that the line of octaves may eventually complete a circle.

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The "intervals" cause the line of the development of force to constantly change. Think how many turns the line of development of forces must have taken to come from the Gospel preaching of love to the Inquisition.

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The law of octaves explains many phenomena in our lives:

• The principle of the deviation of forces

• The fact that everything in the world is moving and changing

• In development rises and falls are constantly taking place

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Nothing can develop by staying on one level. Ascent or descent is the inevitable cosmic condition of any action.

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The consistent development of an octave is based on what looks like an accident. If octaves are going parallel to a given octave and intersect its "interval", they can "fill up" the "interval". This "additional shock" must correspond in force and character to the interval it is filling. In the ascending octave, the second interval si-do is much larger than the first interval mi-fa. In the descending octave, the greatest "interval" occurs at the very beginning of the octave. A descending octave develops much more easily than an ascending octave.

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The lines of development of forces which are straightened out by accident give man the illusion of straight lines. If by accident man's activity gives a result, he assumes that he can attain his aim.

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Man can learn to recognize the moments of the "intervals" in all lines of his activity and can learn to create the necessary "additional shocks". Descending cosmic octaves are creative, and ascending cosmic octaves are evolutionary.

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Octaves are divided into fundamental and subordinate. The fundamental octave is like the trunk of a tree. The seven fundamental notes and the two "intervals", the bearers of new directions, give altogether nine links in a chain, three groups of three links each. The human body has nine basic measurements expressed by the numbers of a definite measure.

Analyzing the Frequencies in the Law of Seven that uncovers two discontinuities (increase retarded) which suggest might correspond to the two bottom points of the inner triangle:

Readjusted discontinuities On further analysis using music theory and adding half notes, these discontinuities disappear. See my essay: All & Everything about Gurdjieff Stopinders

Endlessness Autoegocrat

The surprising result in this diagram is that all three vertices of the triangle exactly match three of the most consonant intervals: the Root note of the octave (unison), the Perfect Fourth ('fa'), and the Major Sixth ('la'). The sequence of 'do' (Unison), 'fa' (Perfect Fourth), 'la' (Major Sixth) clearly leads to the next octave 'do' and this follows the inner triangle.The most consonant Perfect Fifth 'sol' is in the bottom center directly opposite the apex of the triangle as if echoing the Unison. The righthand side is very crowded from 'do' to 'mi' as if it needs the uplift of 'fa', the Perfect Fourth. The note 'ti' wants to resolve in 'do'. More important is to observe and hear how the three sets of three within the octave demonstrate how the Law of Three acts within the Seven Notes:

1. (Active) 'mi'-'fa', 'sol'
2. (Neutralizing) 'sol'-'la', 'ti'
3. (Passive) 'ti'-'do', 're'

It turns out this diagram is Autoegocrat that existed before his Endlessness changed Creation by applying the following rules (Holy Planet Purgatory BT Chapter 39 page 753:

What needs to be discovered is that despite the similarly of "Stopinders" to musical notes, they are really physical positions in the Enneagram.

"Our COMMON FATHER OMNI-BEING ENDLESSNESS, having decided to change the principle of the maintenance of the existence of this then still unique cosmic concentration and sole place of HIS most glorious Being, first of all altered the process itself of the functioning of these two primordial fundamental sacred laws, and HE actualized the greater change in the law of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh.

These changes in the functioning of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh consisted in this, that in three of its Stopinders HE altered the what are called 'subjective actions' which had been until then in the Stopinders, in this respect, that in one HE lengthened the Stopinder between its third and fourth deflection ('mi'-'fa') ('mechano-coinciding-Mdnel-In') for the purpose of providing the 'requisite inherency' for receiving, for its functioning, the automatic affluence of all forces which were near shortened the Stopinder between its last deflection and the beginning of a new cycle ('ti'-'do') ('intentionally-actualized-Mdnel-In') to facilitate the commencement of a new cycle of its completing processing a third disharmonized the 'subjective action' of the Stopinder that is fifth in the general successiveness ('sol'-'la'). Its disharmony flowed by itself from the change of the two aforementioned Stopinders. As regards the third Stopinder, then changed in its 'subjective action' and which is fifth in the general successiveness and is called 'Harnel-Aoot,' its disharmony flowed by itself from the change of the two aforementioned Stopinders." (This third Stopinder would determine the outcome of the completed process.)

The explanation for this lengthening and shortening of two Stopinders can be shown by comparing the diagram above titled 'Endlessness Autoegocrat' (which gives no gaps available for forces to enter in) to the second diagram labled 'Endlessness Altered Stopinders' below which is the usual one shown by Gurdjieff to Ouspensky titled "Readjusted discontinuities" that allows for two gaps based on discontinuities.To create this usual diagram below from the diagram of 'Autoegocrat',

Endlessness Altered Stopinders

The right part must to be 'lengthened' as described in #1 so that fa' is now below the triangle opening the at ('mi'-'fa') and the left part of the circle must be 'shortened' as described in #2 to allow position 'la' to be above the inner triangle.this opens a space at 'sol'-'la' as described in #3. These two places are the primary points where forces can be entered into the Enneagram to create the Sprit and Soul.

See my essay: "Gurdjieff's Creation Story Deciphered in Two Enneagrams"

The famous Enneagram formed by using the repeating decimal of seven places around a circle of numbered 1-9 with 1-3-6 forming an inner triangle.

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There are four states of consciousness possible for man:

(1) sleep

(2) clear consciousness

(3) self-remembering

(4) objective state of consciousness (enlightenment)

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Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity for self-change.

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A man identifies with a small problem which confronts him, and he completely forgets the great aims with which he began his work. He fails to see the forest for the trees.

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Identifying is the chief obstacle to self-remembering. On the most prevalent occasions a man is identified with what others think about him, how they treat him, what attitude they show towards him.

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By considering externally a man does that which makes life easy for other people and for himself. Right external considering is very important in the work.

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Buffers are created slowly and gradually so that man will not feel the "shocks". They are created artificially through "education" and through the influence of the surrounding life. "Buffers" make a man's life easier and help him not to feel his conscience. Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once. Conscience is a state in which a man feels all at once.

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Conscience is a general and a permanent phenomenon. It is possible only in the absence of "buffers". Morality consists of buffers. There is no general morality. Morality is merely self-suggestion.

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The consciousness of one's nothingness alone can conquer the fear of subordination to the will of another.

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Fate is the result of planetary influences which correspond to a man's type. Fate only relates to a man's essence. A man consists of two parts: essence and personality. Essence in a man is what is his own. Personality in man is what has come from the outside, what he has learned or reflects. Essence is the truth in man.

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It happens fairly often that essence dies in a man while his personality and his body are still alive.

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Collective accident and collective fate are governed by general laws. General laws are by no means all obligatory for man.

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Nothing shows up people so much as their attitude towards money. They are ready to waste as much as you like on their own personal fantasies but they have no valuation whatever of another person's labor.

Four States of Consciousness

This is one of the favorite teachings of Ouspensky and becomes a means by which followers feel superior because they are awake and others are not. One cannot maintain self remembering by forcing it. Self remembering needs become a natural state which Beelzebub refers to as Being-Partkdolg-duty. (Many joke that it means part dog and part human).

However, Consciousness cannot be permanent until your Spirt body (Kesdjan) is completed.

Rather than relying on self-remembering, Gurdjieff proposed that Conscience is the means to perfection:

The Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash in a Legominism passed to worthy beings deliberated thus:

BT26.359-60 ''During the period of my year of special observations on all of their manifestations and perceptions, I made it categorically clear to myself that although the factors for engendering in their presences the sacred being-impulses of Faith, Hope, and Love are already quite degenerated in the beings of this planet, nevertheless, the factor which ought to engender that being-impulse on which the whole psyche of beings of a three-brained system is in general based, and which impulse exists under the name of Objective-Conscience, is not yet atrophied in them, but remains in their presences almost in its primordial state. "Evaluating Gurdjieff's Aphorism of Faith-Love-Hope" '''Thanks to the abnormally established conditions of external ordinary being-existence existing here, this factor has gradually penetrated and become embedded in that consciousness which is here called ''subconsciousness,” in consequence of which it takes no part whatever in the functioning of their ordinary consciousness.
'''Well, then, it was just then that I indubitably understood with all the separate ruminating parts representing the whole of my ''I,” that if the functioning of that being-factor still surviving in their common presences were to participate in the general functioning of that consciousness of theirs in which they pass their daily, as they here say, ''waking-existence,” only then would it still be possible to save the contemporary three-brained beings here from the consequences of the properties of that organ which was intentionally implanted into their first ancestors.
'''My further meditations then confirmed for me that it would be possible to attain this only if their general being-existence were to flow for a long time under foreseeingly-corresponding conditions.
'''When all the above-mentioned was completely transubstantiated in me, I decided to consecrate the whole of myself from that time on to the creation here of such conditions that the functioning of the ''sacred-conscience” still surviving in their subconsciousness might gradually pass into the functioning of their ordinary consciousness.

The is similar to the teachings of Buddha to "harm no one" and Jesus teaches "agape love" in John 21 giving Peter three times to accept the concept of "agape" love. By the third time he gives up as Peter stubbornly opposes the concept, believing only in ordinary love ("philos").

was included with Chapter 5

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Man lives in life under the law of accident and under two kinds of influences again governed by accident. The first kind are influences created in life itself -- race, nation, climate, family, and so on. The second kind are influences created outside this life -- religious systems, philosophical doctrines, works of art, and so on.

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The moment when the man who is looking for the way meets a man who knows the way is called the first threshold or the first step. From this first threshold the stairway begins. The way begins when the stairway ends.

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The pupil cannot go on without the teacher, and the teacher cannot go on without the pupil or pupils. No one can ascend onto a higher step until he places another man in his own place. What a man has received he must immediately give back; only then can he receive more. Otherwise from him will be taken even what he has already been given.

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Knowledge begins with the teaching of the cosmoses -- "as above, so below". There are actually seven cosmoses.

Cosmoses

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"In so-called 'occult' literature you have probably met with the expression 'Kundalini,' 'the fire of Kundalini,' or the 'serpent of Kundalini.' This expression is often used to designate some kind of strange force which is present in man and which can be awakened. But none of the known theories gives the right explanation of the force of Kundalini. Sometimes it is connected with sex, with sex energy, that is with the idea of the possibility of using sex energy for other purposes. This latter is entirely wrong because Kundalini can be in anything. And above all, Kundalini is not anything desirable or useful for man's development. It is very curious how these occultists have got hold of the word from somewhere but have completely altered its meaning and from a very dangerous and terrible thing have made something to be hoped for and to be awaited as some blessing.

"In reality Kundalini is the power of imagination, the power of fantasy, which takes the place of a real function. When a man dreams instead of acting, when his dreams take the place of reality, when a man imagines himself to be an eagle, a lion, or a magician, it is the force of Kundalini acting in him. Kundalini can act in all centers and with its help all the centers can be satisfied with the imaginary instead of the real. A sheep which considers itself a lion or a magician lives under the power of Kundalini.

"Kundalini is a force put into men in order to keep them in their present state. If men could really see their true position and could understand all the horror of it, they would be unable to remain where they are even for one second. They would begin to seek a way out and they would quickly find it, because there is a way out; but men fail to see it simply because they are hypnotized. Kundalini is the force that keeps them in a hypnotic state. 'To awaken' for man means to be 'dehypnotized.' In this lies the chief difficulty and in this also lies the guarantee of its possibility, for there is no organic reason for sleep and man can awaken.

Kundalini becomes Kundabuffer

Gurdjieff uses the metaphor of Kundalini and calls it Kundabuffer which was placed into humans by the archangels and later removed leaving a predisposition towards its effect.

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All our ordinary knowledge which is based on ordinary observation he called subjective. Knowledge based upon ancient methods -- knowledge of the All, he called objective knowledge. One of the most central ideas of objective knowledge is the idea of the unity of everything, of unity in diversity. With objective consciousness it is possible to see and feel the unity of everything.

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"Myths" were designed to transmit ideas to the higher emotional center; "symbols" were designed for the higher thinking center.

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Symbols were divided into the fundamental and the subordinate; the first included the principles of separate domains of knowledge; the second expressed the essential nature of phenomena in their relation to unity. One formula which had particular significance, "As above, so below", can from the Emerald Tables of Hermes Trimegistus. This formula stated that all the laws of the cosmos could be found in the atom or in any other phenomenon which exists as something completed according to certain laws.

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Man must first see the manifestation of two principles, one opposed to the other, which, in conjunction or in opposition, give one result or another. He will introduce the "line of will" into the circle of time and afterwards into the cycle of eternity. When this is accomplished, it will create in him the great symbol known as the "Seal of Solomon". A symbol becomes a synthesis of a man's knowledge.

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Man, in the normal state natural to him, is taken as a duality. He consists entirely of "pairs of opposites" -- positive and negative, useful and harmful, good and bad, pleasant and unpleasant. Thoughts oppose feelings. Moving impulses oppose instinctive craving for quiet.

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The creation of a permanent third principle is for man the transformation of the duality into the trinity.

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A man has five centers:

Constructing the Gurdjieff Enneagram, using a mathematically elegant process:

• Mark nine points on a circle numbered 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, with 9 at the top
• Divide the numbers 1 through 6 by 7 for the 'Law of Sevenfoldness' yielding
  1/7, 2/7, 3/7, 4/7, 5/7, 6/7 giving: .142857142857142857..., .285714285714..., .428571..., .571428..., .714285..., .857142 ...
• Note that these results contain the same repeating decimal
• Draw a line connecting these numbers on the circle (Note that the repeating decimal numbers when added together equal 9 (1+4+2+8+5+7=27=9)
• The missing numbers 3, 6, and 9 can then be connected to form an inner triangle with it apex at the top. ****Thus the famous symbol appears***
  (We will see that Vortex Math has a similar triangle where 3 and 6 continually swap places.)

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• More importantly, is the assignment of the 7 positions of the octave as follows: 're' to position 1, 'mi' to position 2, 'fa' to position 4, 'sol' to position 5, 'la' to position 7 and 'ti' to position 8. The apex of the triangle at 9 is then 'do' to represent lower 'do' and its completion at the higher 'do'. Thus the Gurdjieff Enneagram incorporates the law of Seven (Heptaparaparshinokh), the law of Three (Triamazikamno), the law of Ninefoldness, the sacred law of Six (the inner lines), and the law of Twelve (the intersection of these lines with the inner triangle).

Here is the Gurdjieff Enneagram with all possible lines shown within it in yellow and green with the notes assigned:

See my essay: The Secret Enneagram of Gurdjieff and its relationship to Universal Vortex Math

Gurdjieff talks of the fact that "Numbers are connected with definite geometrical figures. In the Cabala, a symbology of letters and a symbology of words are used. There also exists a symbology of magic, a symbology of alchemy, and a symbology of astrology.

See my essay Placing the Major Arcana Cards of the Tarot on the Kabbalah" (Correcting the upside-down order and putting the Joker at the bottom; finding the engine of the Sephiroth that bridges the discontinuities of the Gurdjieff Enneagram with the Kabbalah right to left as opposed to the eastern way of left to right)

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Religion is a relative concept; it corresponds to the level of a man's being. Religion is "doing"; a man should "live" his religion. Man should think about what God is and what he is. These thoughts do for him what he asks God to do. The Christian church is a school. Prehistoric Egypt was Christian many thousands of years before the birth of Christ. Schools of repetition were taken as a model for Christian churches.

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Every real religion consists of two parts. One part teaches what is to be done. The other part teaches how to do what the first part teaches. This part is preserved in secret in special schools. This secret part exists in Christianity.

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One must learn to pray, just as one must learn everything else. Whoever knows how to pray and is able to concentrate in the proper way, his prayer can give results.
Organic life transmits planetary influences of various kinds to the earth, and it serves to feed the Moon and to enable it to grow and strengthen. But the Earth is also growing in the sense of greater consciousness, greater receptivity.

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The cessation of evolution may mean the destruction of humanity. Humanity is moving in a circle. In one century it destroys everything it created in another. The growth of knowledge in one domain evokes the growth of ignorance in another.

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The whole of humanity is composed of several concentric circles. The inner circle, the "esoteric", consists of people who have attained the highest development possible for man. The next outer circle, the "mesoteric", is the middle circle. The third circle is called the "exoteric". There also exists an outermost circle.

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There are four ways to enter the innermost circle:

• Way of the fakir -- the physical body

• Way of the monk -- the religious way

• Way of the yogi -- the way of the mind

• Fourth way -- the way of the work

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Transitions from one level of being to another were marked by ceremonies of presentation of a special kind, that is, initiation. But a change of being cannot be brought about by any rites.

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Systems and schools can indicate methods and ways, but no system or school whatever can do for a man the work that he must do himself. Inner growth, a change of being, depends entirely upon the work which a man must do on himself.

Four paths of perfection

Beelzebub's Tales does not mention this, but does meet these teachers in Meetings with Remarkable Men.

Here I have offered a prayer that is in line with the Gurdjieff work:
"Prayer to the Triune God"

• Physical body -- a carriage

• Astral body (the emotions) -- a horse

• Mental body (the mind) -- a driver

• Causal body -- the master

The hackneyed cab illustration is often used to illustrate the four bodies

This figure is deceptive as man can only possess three bodies: physical, astral (Kesdjan), and soul. The so-called "causal body" is that body that is in the title of Gurdjieff's unfinished third book "All and Everything: "Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'". It is not a fourth body. To have a second body (an astral body) is to have conscience and to have third body (a soul) is to have consciousness, but the underlying control of one's being ("I am") is based inner balance that fosters the Emotional Body (Kesdjan) and the Soul.
This balance can be disrupted by the influence of the organ Kundabuffer (that was placed in man and then removed leaving a predisposition to it). Kundabuffer is the limbic system and like the horse needs to be controlled by understanding (gnosis).

BT21.241-2 "One of the best means of rendering ineffective the predisposition present in your nature of the crystallization of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer is 'intentional-suffering'; and the greatest intentional-suffering can be obtained in your presences if you compel yourselves to be able to endure the "displeasing-manifestations-of-others-towards-yourselves."

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Everything happens; no one does anything. The human mind is incapable of even realizing its own helplessness.

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The density of vibrations and the density of matter express many other properties of matter. The speed of vibrations shows the intelligence or the consciousness of matter. There is nothing dead or inanimate in nature.

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In ordinary science, classification is made according to external traits -- bones, teeth, and so on. In exact knowledge, classification is made according to cosmic traits. The cosmic level of being is determined by

(1) what the creature eats

(2) what he breathes

(3) the medium in which he lives

A man can not improve on his food or air, but he can improve on his impressions.

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A breath is 3 seconds. In a normal state, a man takes about twenty full breaths in a minute. The "breath of organic life" is twenty-four hours.

• Breath Day and Night Life

• Small Cells - - 3 seconds

• Large Cells - 3 seconds 24 hours

• Man 3 seconds 24 hours 79 years

• Organic Life 24 hours 79 years 2,500,000 years

• Earth 79 years 2,500,000 years 75,000,000,000 years

There is a major mistake in the SM diagram (fig 58) in "who eats what and what is eaten"

This is the corrected version:

Diagram of Everything Existing is in: Photonic Soul - Beyond Gurdjieff Figure 58 shows a circle to the left which was the average of man, angels, archangels. Then on the top right was a circle that represented what it was food for and the bottom right was what its food was. Clearly, the Ouspensky version is wrong because it says that Angels eat Animals and thus I adjusted it to Angels eat humans given that Angels were symbolic for the Spirit (Kesdjan Body). Thus the 'food for' and 'its food' to be just one away instead of two. Having adjusted this, man's food is animals instead of invertebrates (locusts... (perhaps vegetarians made this change!) I used this diagram to support my addition of the Anklad Body (based on "the Absolute Reason of HIS ENDLESSNESS HIMSELF" (BT: The Inevitable Result of Impartial Mentation, Ch 47, pg 1177).

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