Errors There are some spelling errors, chiefly in names, e.g. “Rena Hands” should be “Rina Hands,” “Guénon” is the proper spelling of the Traditionalist’s surname, not the different variuations in […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Tilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 2)
Chronology from 1974 In Part II, Ulbricht asks what it means to be responsible in a Gurdjieff group, especially using his experience inaugurating and running new groups, with the practical […]
Read moreTilo Ulbricht, “Recollections” (Pt 1)
Review, Tilo Ulbricht, Recollections: Trying to Follow a Way, SomaHolis Publications; Calne, Wiltshire, 2022 (365 pp., no index) This is an intriguing book. From the front and back covers, you […]
Read moreFirst Reflection on Self-Love
It seems to me, now, that when one comes to the question of self-love, one has come to a fundamental matter in the spiritual life. Of course, one can come […]
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George Adie: Third Edition
The third edition of Mr Adie’s book is now available through Amazon. This volume has all the textual material from the first two editions (there was considerable overlap, but each […]
Read moreWhat Would Bennett Say to His Endlessness?
You know the scene from the end of the Beelzebub narrative, that is, the end of chapter 47, the final mention of Beelzebub and his grandson. Hassein asks his grandfather how […]
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In Practical Terms, What Is Self-Remembering?
At the end of a lecture delivered on 14 February 1974 lecture, Bennett was asked whether he could speak of self-remembering in relation to the theory he had unfolded of […]
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Jean Toomer, “The Experience,” Ninth and Final Part
Toomer closes chapter 11 (12) with these stirring words: People, you can awake and be. You can outgrow the condition you are now in, and what you think to be […]
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Jean Toomer, “The Experience,” Part VIII
Twice in a row, now, Toomer experiences one truth and then, immediately afterwards, its apparent opposite: rather, I think, he sees one pole of a matter, then the other pole, […]
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Jean Toomer, “The Experience,” Part VII
Toomer develops his insight that the health of psyche and body are interrelated in a manner stimulated by his direct insight that “the entire ordinary self oppresses and deranges the […]
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