In Life Is Real Only Then, When “I Am,” Gurdjieff presented three exercises, the Soil Preparing and the First and Second Assisting Exercises. I have dealt with these in the book Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Mr Adie on Aim (25 February 1988)
This is from the meeting of Thursday 25 February 1988. It is worth studying not only for what he says about aim, but also for how he leads “Amy” to see […]
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Bennett’s Talk on Christ, and Sacred Architecture
In The Masters of Wisdom, Bennett has a chapter on Christ. At the end of this short note, there is a link to George Bennett, his son, reading it. As you will […]
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Review of “I Teach how to Cook …” (Second and final part)
The most important points I wished to make were in Part 1 of this review, where I considered the first of the two narratives in Ben Bennett’s book. The great […]
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“I Teach how to Cook,” Review Pt I, (Naivety and Clairvoyance)
Ben Bennett, I Teach how to Cook (… but not what to cook): A Story of John Godolphin Bennett, self-published, 2022 (249 pp., neither index nor bibliography). It seems to […]
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We work in order to die as we are, in order to be born as we can be (George Adie, 8 March 1988, Pt III)
Lina: Just recently I’ve found a part of my nature that’s very strongly critical and judgemental on other people. I sensed that it was always in me. It’s a pretty […]
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The Critical Importance of Feeling, (George Adie, 8 March 1988, pt II)
Luke: Last week, several people talked about how they were in a very black state. I felt it was my question was very much as well. What you said […]
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“You are objective to your own body,” George Adie, for the 13th
Saturday 5 September 1987 The Morning Address Mr. Adie: I would like to just ask: who here has had a moment of real separation when they were really outside their […]
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Payment
Principles of Payment in the Spiritual Life There are several aspects to the question of payment in the spiritual life, but I think they can all be reduced to two, […]
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“Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer”
Part One In about 2011, HarperCollins published Norris J. Chumley’s Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer. It is not an uninteresting book, as a travelogue, but its value for me lies […]
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