To Be or Not to Be. There is a formula: Understanding = Knowledge + Being. (P.D. Ouspensky). Unfortunately, in the West, the concept of ‘being’ is at best misunderstood, or more usually simply unknown. A machine may have vast knowledge (AI for example), but cannot have ‘being’. ‘Being’ is uniquely Read more
Thomas Alexandrovitch de Hartmann received his musical education in the Russian school. At the age of nine he was enrolled in the academic military school of St. Petersburg. By the age of 11 his talent had been recognized and he was accepted by Arensky as a pupil in harmony and Read more
This biographical drama is based on the book of the same name by G. I. Gurdjieff, first published in English in 1963. Although largely shot on location in Afghanistan there are a handful of English scenes one of which, most unusually, is set in a railway works. This was filmed Read more
The more you know yourself, the more you know your being. If you do not know yourself, you do not know your being. And if you remain on the same level of being you cannot get more knowledge. Begin with the possible; begin with one step. Try to do a Read more
What is meant by ‘identifying’ in The Fourth Way? The terms ‘identifying’ and ‘identification’ are commonly used in conversation, and have the following meanings according to the Oxford English Dictionary: a). identification – the action of identifying, or the fact of being identified. b). identify prove or recognize as being Read more
Mineral nutrients are essential to human life. Herbal medicine is used to assist the body in its own instinctive attempts at self-healing. Non-suppressive medicines strengthen immune reserves and help overcome disease. Chromium Trace element. Essential to human life. RDA 0.05 to 0.2mg. Key element in the glucose tolerance factor. Required Read more
Appendix 1 Leeds University Brotherton Special Collections Library A.R. Orage Archive A4.1 1 to 60 of 268 records Archive File: BC MS 20c Orage/3/13 Letters to Jessie Orage about A. R. Orage’s publications 1936-1937 Correspondence between Jessie Orage and the two companies Stanley Nott Ltd. and Fairbairn, Wingfield and Read more
Peter Demianovich Ouspensky was born in Moscow in 1878. At the University of Moscow he studied natural science and psychology, and his first book, ‘The Fourth Dimension’, earned him immediate respect as a mathematical theorist. Ouspensky decided, however, to become a journalist and writer, contributing to the principal Russian newspapers, Read more
The Gnostic Schools If we look back to the first two centuries of our era, for an understanding of the state of affairs regarding the innumerable communities and innumerable modes of expression – communities united for the living of a life and systems striving to express the radiance of a Read more
The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece. This book was originally published in 1908 by “Three Initiates” (often identified as the New Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson, 1862–1932) that purports to convey the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. The Kybalion shares with ancient and medieval Hermetic texts a number of traits Read more