The roots of the “Jesus Prayer” go right back, of course, to Our Lord Himself. The usual words, “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner,” […]
Read more
Author: Joseph Azize
Churton, Deconstructing Gurdjieff
There is a new book, Tobias Churton’s Deconstructing Gurdjieff. I can’t pretend I think it’s worth reading. I don’t like his writnge: it’s rather a smart-aleck style – “that particular […]
Read moreThe Virgin Mary in Ancient Christian Tradition
An essay of mine, “The Virgin Mary in Ancient Christian Tradition,” has been published in the book Mariology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium. The book, edited by Kevin […]
Read more
An Introduction to the Maronite Faith
Well, my eighth book has now been published, An Introduction to the Maronite Faith. Here is a link: http://www.connorcourt.com/catalog1/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=423#.WU32lIVOLIW It is, as the titles suggests, an introduction. It is not […]
Read more
When God Spoke Greek (Part 1)
What is the history of the Bible, and how did the Church’s view of it, especially its view of the Old Testament change over its first four hundred years? Why […]
Read moreThe Education of Personality (Part 5)
The last of this series on the education of personality will mention, appropriately enough, Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson (although I am more and more warming to the title The […]
Read more
Boris Ferapontoff’s Constantinople Notes
Boris Ferapontoff was one of Gurdjieff’s most important pupils. He is one of the few whom Gurdjieff mentions in any of his books. Gurdjieff terms Ferapontoff his (Gurdjieff’s) “personal translator,” […]
Read more
The Education of Personality (Part 4)
Gurdjieff made some very particular contributions to the pursuit of educating personality, after the period when Ouspensky was his pupil. In this post, I will consider just one. It concerns […]
Read more
Don’t blur your observations
These two short exchanges contain some gems. The first has the extraordinary idea that we can ruin the effectiveness of our observations by reflecting on them at the wrong time […]
Read more
The Education of Personality (Part 3)
In this study of educating personality, we should bear in mind that the work with personality also affects essence, it allows essence freedom to develop and mature. Eventually, the seed […]
Read more