Gurdjieff

Categoria: BTG XLI

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    B905 B907 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 906] “’And with this peculiar tent I am now carrying out my experiments, namely, those experiments which I call “architectural.” And these architectural experiments are now making clear to me just which interiors – and to what extent – act harmfully upon people and upon animals. “’These…

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    B894 B896 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 895] “When Hadji-Asvatz-Troov ascertained this, he immediately leaped from his place like a young man and cried out very excitedly, ‘It cannot be!’ and began to stare fixedly at my left leg with the eyes of a madman. “Almost five minutes passed in this manner. I confess…

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    B895 B897 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 896] “’For several days, I thought quite cold-bloodedly and as a result categorically decided to do this. “’On the last evening as I entered the room where I intended to actualize this decision of mine, I suddenly remembered that I had not taken a last look at…

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    B896 B898 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 897] “’My dear friend! In the name of our friendship pardon me, an old man, that I have forgotten to put an end to the pain caused you from the evil-carrying vibrations of the grand piano.’ “Having said this, he sat down at the grand piano and…

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    B897 B899 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 898] “’When I finished, the wandering dervish became intensely thoughtful and only after some time, looking at me steadily, he said as he rose from his place: “’”There is only one way out for you – devote yourself to religion.” “’Having said this, he walked away uttering…

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    B898 B900 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 899] “’To this day I cannot recall without a shudder that moment when our physicians told me that my mother could not live more than one day. “’Then in that terrible state of mind, the first question that arose in me was: How shall I go on…

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    B899 B901 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 900] “’And if I can still somehow reconcile myself today, it is only because I very well remember the words of our ancient great prophet “Issi-Noora” who said that “an individual is not responsible for his manifestations only when in death agony.” “’Evidently my science, my divinity,…

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    B900 B902 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 901] “Having said these last words, this perhaps last great sage of the Earth looked into my eyes with an expression full of anticipation. “Can you picture to yourself, my dear boy, my situation then? What could I reply to him? “For the second time that day,…

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    B901 B903 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 902] “And any information, even if true, gives to beings in general only ‘mental knowledge,’ and this mental knowledge, as I have already once told you, always serves beings only as a means to diminish their possibilities of acquiring this knowledge-of-being. “And since the sole means left…

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    B902 B904 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 903] “In order completely to smooth over the previous embarrassment, I spoke to him again, and pointing to a niche in the cave where many colored silk materials were hanging in strips, I asked him: “’Most estimable Hadji! What is all that material over there in that…

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    B903 B905 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 904] “After this, the dervish Asvatz-Troov again sat down on the felt, and told us as follows: “’Every form of “life” has its own “total” of vibrations proper to it, which represents the totality of all the vibrations engendered from the various definite organs of the given…

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    B904 B906 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 905] “Having said this, the venerable Hadji-Asvatz-Troov again stood up and went to the place where the materials of different colors lay. “Then he began to unroll these colored materials consisting of what is called ‘Bokharan-silk,’ color by color; and with each piece of material, all of…

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    B893 B895 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 894] “This time he brought from another section of the cave an envelope, paper, and a pencil. “On the paper he brought he wrote something, placed what he had written in the envelope, attached the envelope to a hook that hung from the ceiling in the center…

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    B906 B908 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 907] “He demonstrated and explained, among other things, also several experiments proving the harmful action on terrestrial contemporary being of those causes which they themselves, as if intentionally, produce, especially in recent times, in great quantity – namely, what they call ‘works of art.’ “Among these latter…

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    B907 B909 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 908] “It often happens that while existing together, destiny, for any separate individual in the process of his personal existence, turns out for him personally to be absolutely unjust, but for all the others existing together with him, there are obtained from this in the objective sense,…

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    B908 B910 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 909] “’Gas lighting existed here from the very beginning, and was arranged here on the initiative of myself and my old friend the dervish Kerbalai-Azis-Nuaran. “’As for the electric lighting, it came here only quite recently, and the initiator of its origin was also one of my…

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    B909 B911 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 910] “’And the chance inflammation somehow of this gas must obviously have been the cause of the display there of that undying fire. “’When my friend and I had made this cause definitely clear to ourselves and had at the same time discovered that the said spring…

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    B910 B912 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 911] “’Although afterwards, when we parted, we did not meet again for a long time, we always had news of one another. “’I knew that this young friend of mine, soon after we parted, married in his native country and lived with his wife during the following…

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    B911 B913 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 912] “’Needless to say, we were both glad to meet again and once more to exchange views on our beloved science of the “laws of vibrations.” “’When the excitement aroused by our new meeting had abated, and when we had unpacked all the things my young friend…

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    B912 B914 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 913] “’And when he had begun to prepare himself to employ that cure, then on one sorrowful day for him, in one of the large European cities, in the jostling caused by some demonstration, he fell under an “automobile,” and although not quite killed, he received very…