| Gurdjieff died in 1949, about the same year as | | | | Saintly Individuals are always patiently adapting |
| Ramana Maharshi. | | | | themselves to all things In this connection, the following |
| Gurdjieff essentially synthesized ancient esoteric | | | | personal opinion was formed in me. |
| teachings and made them approachable and applicable | | | | "If only these favorites of yours would seriously |
| to the lives of rational Western individuals. His concepts | | | | ponder all this and serve Nature honestly in this |
| and methods are still seminal in the spiritual work of the | | | | respect, their being-self-perfecting might then proceed |
| west. | | | | automatically, even with-out the participation of their |
| A seeker will find in his teachings an immeasurable | | | | consciousness, and in any case, the poor Nature of |
| treasure, the essence of so many other teachings, | | | | this ill-fated planet would not have to strain so hard to |
| both spiritual and psychological, on the inner life. | | | | adapt herself to remain within the common-cosmic |
| This Gurdjieffian extraordinary system of thought, | | | | harmony. |
| which ranges from the most intimate, psychological | | | | "But to the misfortune of everything existing in the |
| insights to a grandiose cosmology linking the individual | | | | Megalocosmos, there is no honesty in your favorites in |
| with the universe, is a synthesis of practices and | | | | fulfilling their duties, not even toward that Nature to |
| teachings known as The Fourth Way. | | | | whom, in truth, they owe their very existence. |
| Then there is the man himself. Gurdjieff was the | | | | "As regards the absence of honesty in your favorites |
| archetypal Master, beaming with extraordinary psychic | | | | in the fulfillment of their duty toward Nature, I have just |
| powers developed in secret schools and monasteries | | | | remembered a very wise saying of our incomparable |
| somewhere between the Caucasus and the | | | | teacher Mullah Nasr Eddin, the hidden meaning of |
| Himalayas; brutal soul-shattering insights; marvelous | | | | which is borne out in the present case. |
| humor which was both ribald in the extreme and | | | | " 'Plague and cholera are in any event nobler than |
| breathtakingly penetrating. | | | | human honesty, for people with a conscience can at |
| Gurdjieff also had a capacity for love that was | | | | least live at peace with them. ' |
| matched only by his ability to express rage. He was a | | | | "And so, my dear Hassein, when it became clear that |
| master hypnotist, a master actor, a master healer. | | | | there had entirely disappeared from the psyche of |
| Those who encountered him often had opposite ideas | | | | your favorites the instinctive need for conscious labor |
| of who he was, usually as a result of his own | | | | and intentional suffering in order to take in and |
| intentional behavior. | | | | transmute in themselves the sacred substances |
| Like many Masters, Gurdjieff sometimes gave the | | | | abrustdonis and helkdonis--thus releasing the sacred |
| impression of being a charlatan or mad to arrogant | | | | askokin for the maintenance of the Universe--Great |
| egotistic individuals, while to others he was the most | | | | Nature was constrained to adapt herself and to |
| enlightened man they would ever encounter. | | | | extract this sacred substance by other means, one of |
| His radiant energy, the Buddhafield of the Master, | | | | them being precisely that periodic terrifying process of |
| always acted on people's negative energies to send | | | | reciprocal destruction. |
| people with a lot of it away, and attracted people with | | | | "Here, for a correct valuation of your contemporary |
| a lot of good, positive Soul energy. | | | | favorites, it will be opportune to remind you that after |
| In such a way, as with all Masters, Gurdjieff | | | | the organ kundabuffer had been removed from the |
| consciously separated the evil weeds from the good | | | | three-brained beings of your planet, the first |
| grain! | | | | generations of their descendants very soon learned |
| This powerful Master Gurdjieff, with eyes that pierced | | | | that a certain substance had to be transformed |
| to the depths of the soul was also an old man whose | | | | through them and that their assistance in this |
| pockets were full of candy for the children. | | | | transformation was one of their chief being-duties. |
| He worked by many methods, to bypass the mind he | | | | "Do you remember, I already told you that the |
| worked with dance, Gurdjieff said, "I am a simple | | | | three-brained beings of the continent of Atlantis even |
| teacher of dance". Devi Dhyani has given | | | | considered this being-duty as sacred and called it |
| performances of "The Sacred Dances of Gurdjieff" in | | | | 'amarloos,' which in their language meant 'help for the |
| order to radiate her Buddhafield more strongly, to | | | | Universe. ' |
| throw out the bad and energise the good. | | | | The Central Spiritual sun sends, shines energy, |
| And when he explained the theory of the evolution of | | | | Affirming Influences, to earth in different quantities at |
| substances like hydrogens, carbons and oxygens in | | | | different times dependent upon astrology. |
| Ouspensky's book, "The Fourth Way", Gurdjieff was | | | | Human beings and all nature have been created to |
| just tricking him, taking a very long winded intellectual | | | | transmute those different quantities of energy through |
| theory to say to intellectual Ouspensky and to anyone | | | | a Reciprocal Maintenance meditation and send back |
| else reading it, to bypass the mind, "You need the | | | | Denying Influences to the central spiritual sun. |
| radiation of a Master to quicken your evolution!" | | | | Reciprocal Maintenance Meditation also evolves |
| His major concepts were Buffers or Energy | | | | humanity, creating the higher being bodies of the soul |
| Blockages, like the organ Kundabuffer, Mechanical | | | | and the body Kesdjan, and allows a greater quantity |
| people, Sub - Personalities and the Soul Personality or | | | | and quality of energy to be transmuted. |
| Essence which I have described in the first article on | | | | If Reciprocal Maintenance does not occur then, |
| Gurdjieff | | | | "It was also fully proved in the theory of Atarnakh that |
| Yet in his third book of the trilogy, Beelebub's Tales to | | | | at certain periods depending on astrology, there must |
| his Grandson, he talked about two more interlinked | | | | infallibly proceed on earth such a definite quantity of |
| concepts.. Reciprocal Maintenance is the Taoist | | | | deaths as in their totality will yield vibrations of a |
| Macrocosmic Orbit Meditation and The Affirming and | | | | definite degree of power." |
| Denying Influences on man. | | | | The energy from these deaths, unless provided by |
| Here is a quote, "the Most High and Most Sacred | | | | meditation, are provided by natural causes like |
| Individuals to take the necessary measures to insure | | | | Tsunamis, the sacrifice of animals, or the killing of |
| the formation on the Earth of what is called the sacred | | | | human beings through war, or as Gurdjieff calls it, |
| 'askokin,' so that this sacred cosmic substance, | | | | periods of Reciprocal Destruction. |
| indispensable for the maintenance of the Universe, | | | | Gurdjieff was saying that the death or sacrifice of |
| might issue continuously from your planet. | | | | animals was unaesthetic. Part of Beelzebubs Tales to |
| "His Conformity also explained that this cosmic | | | | his Grandson was how he came down to the planet |
| substance, the sacred 'askokin,' exists throughout the | | | | several times over thousands of years and in that time |
| Universe, generally blended with the sacred | | | | he prevented the previous practices of animal and |
| substances 'abrustdonis' and 'helkdonis,' and therefore, | | | | human sacrifice, first created in Babylonian times. |
| in order to have the degree of vivifyingness required | | | | Death by war or natural disasters or sacrifice is an |
| for such maintenance, the sacred substance 'askokin' | | | | abomination. |
| must first be freed from the other two substances. | | | | Without the completion of the process of Reciprocal |
| "To tell the truth, my boy, I did not understand at once | | | | Maintenance Meditation, lives would grow shorter and |
| all that he told me, it all became clear to me only later | | | | people would forget their previous lifetimes in their next |
| when, during my studies of the fundamental cosmic | | | | rebirth. In a way, completion of the Reciprocal |
| laws, I learned that these sacred substances | | | | Maintenance Meditation leads to Immortality! |
| 'abrustdonis' and 'helkdonis' are precisely those | | | | Thus the solution to the problem of war and also to |
| substances which enter into the formation and | | | | evolution is the advanced meditation of Reciprocal |
| perfecting of the higher being-bodies of the | | | | Maintenance resulting in a process of being-duty - |
| three-brained beings--that is, the 'kesdjan body' and the | | | | opening the heart, conscious labor and intentional |
| 'body of the soul'--and that the separation of the | | | | suffering for the benefit of others. |
| sacred 'askokin' from the two other substances | | | | Thus we learn and practice the initiations of Energy |
| proceeds when beings, on whatever planet they may | | | | Enhancement - Yoga, Pranayama, Meditation, Samadhi, |
| be, transmute these sacred substances in themselves | | | | Samyama, the Kundalini Kriyas, Chinese Alchemical |
| for the forming and perfecting of their higher bodies, by | | | | Taoism and the Micro and Macrocosmic Orbits, |
| means of conscious labor and intentional suffering. | | | | VITRIOL and The Emerald Tablet of Hermes |
| "And when I became interested in these favorites of | | | | Trismegistus, The Grounding of Negative Energies, |
| yours and began to observe and study their strange | | | | Reciprocal Maintenance, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, |
| psyche, I finally understood why and to what ends | | | | Raja Yoga and the Eighteen Classical Yogas of the |
| Great Nature herself and the Most High and Most | | | | Bhagavad Gita. |