In a recent telephone conversation (22 April 2025), Anthony Blake suggested that Gurdjieff may have intended that his Movements be studied in a particular order. The question should, he said, […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Easter Monday, 21 April 2025
7. Bennett on the Cosmic Changes In the second of this series (Easter Saturday), I set out a quote from volume 4 of The Dramatic Universe: The (Christ) Event was beyond […]
Read moreEaster Sunday, 20 April 2025
5. Beryl Pogson on Death as a Release of Energy On 14 February 1961, Beryl Pogson said: “Have we spoken in this group about creating energy through dying to something in […]
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Easter Saturday, 19 April 2025
3. Judas as “the Scapegoat” The Judaic tradition of the scapegoats, which has analogues to Middle Eastern rites, is intrinsic to the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ. Two goats would […]
Read moreGood Friday, 20 April 2025
This article is the first of a series. 1. Bennett on “The Time of Christ” I have already summarised what Bennett wrote about the mysterious action of Christ, and especially, […]
Read moreJ.H. Reyner “No Easy Immortality”
This is the strangest book. Published by George Allen & Unwin in 1979, it opens with this startling line: “What do you want to ask?” said my Angel one evening.(1) […]
Read moreGurdjieff and Central Asia
There is an interesting story in In Search of the Miraculous. Gurdjieff is speaking about the Stop Exercise. “I will tell you of one case in my own life. It was […]
Read moreAbba Evagrius: Various Sayings
I have mentioned on this site the 1954 volume, Early Fathers from the Philokalia, edited and translated by Evgenia Kadloubovksy andGerald Eustace Howell Palmer. https://www.josephazize.com/2017/08/12/from-ouspensky-to-the-philokalia/ One of the gems unique to this volume is […]
Read moreNelson, Shakespeare and Hermetism
Jane E. Nelson, Shakespeare and Religio Mentis: A Study of Christian Hermetism in Four Plays, Brill, 2022. This book is in seven main chapters with miscellaneous additions. The chapters are “1. […]
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Shakespeare from the Perspective of the Fourth Way
In the East my Pleasure Lies: A Fourth Way Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Plays, Beryl Pogson, Eureka Editions, Utrecht, 1999 Beryl Pogson (1895-1967), a pupil of Maurice Nicoll who, after his […]
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