Gurdjieff

Categoria: BTG XLVIII

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    B1211 B1213 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1212] And it played a part because, based, as we have already said, chiefly on compelling the young to “learn by rote” as many words as possible differentiated one from the other only by the impression received from their consonance and not by the real pith of…

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    B1183 <=> B1185 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1184] Chapter XLVIII From the Author DEPOIS de seis anos de trabalho, impiedoso comigo mesmo e com uma mentalidade quase continuamente tensa, ontem finalmente terminei de colocar no papel, de uma forma, creio eu, acessível a todos, a primeira das três séries de livros que havia…

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    B1184 B1186 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1185] While I was reading that first chapter, which I wrote only six years ago, but which seems to me by my present sensing to have been written long long ago, a sensing which is now in my common presence obviously because during that time I had…

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    B1185 B1187 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1186] And so, after I had very attentively read over that opening chapter of the first series, which I had written in the said conditions, and when in my memory by association there had been recalled the texts of those many succeeding chapters, which, according to my…

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    B1186 B1188 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1187] That institution by the way no longer exists, and I find it both necessary and opportune, chiefly for the purpose of pacifying certain types from various countries, to make the categorical declaration here and now that I have liquidated it completely and forever. I was constrained…

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    B1187 B1189 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1188] I append just this particular lecture, in the first place, because, at the very beginning of the dissemination of the ideas I imported into life, it was specially prepared here on the continent of Europe to serve as the introduction or, as it were, threshold for…

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    B1188 B1190 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1189] LECTURE NUMBER ONE THE VARIETY, ACCORDING TO LAW, OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF HUMAN INDIVIDUALITY (Last read in New York in the Neighborhood Playhouse, January, 1924) According to the investigations of many scientists of past ages and according to the data obtained at the present time by…

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    B1189 B1191 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1190] The second of the four personalities, functioning in most cases independently of the first, consists of the sum of the results of the data deposited and fixed, which have been perceived by the common presence of every animal through its six organs called “receivers-of-the-varied-qualitied-vibrations,” which organs…

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    B1226 B1228 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1227] All people without exception are slaves of this “Greatness,” and all are compelled willy-nilly to submit, and to fulfill without condition or compromise, what has been predestined for each of us by his transmitted heredity and his acquired Being. Now, after all that I have said,…

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    B1213 B1215 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1214] Thanks to this, even the isolation of the inner life of each individual man is increased, and as a consequence what is called the “mutual instruction” so necessary to people’s collective existence is always more and more destroyed. Owing to the loss of the capacity to…

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    B1214 B1216 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1215] If one has the requisite power and could compel a group of contemporary people, even from among these who have received so to say “a good education,” to state exactly how they each understand the word “world,” they would all so “beat about the bush” that…

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    B1215 B1217 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1216] A man whose world view is founded on the dogmas of religion would say that the world is everything existing, visible and invisible, created by God and depending on His Will. Our life in the visible world is brief, but in the invisible world, where a…

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    B1216 B1218 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1217] And it is this that explains the incongruity, always observed even by the average man during his passive state, in the several associations having nothing in common, which simultaneously flow within him. The said impressions in the common presence of a man are perceived owing to…

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    B1217 B1219 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1218] And it is this repetition of previously perceived impressions engendering what is called association, and the parts of this repetition which enter the field of a man’s attention, that together condition what is termed “memory.” The memory of the average man, in comparison with the memory…

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    B1218 B1220 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1219] At this point, I interrupted the lecturer and considered it opportune to make the following addition: THE ADDITION Such is the ordinary average man – an unconscious slave of the whole entire service to all-universal purposes, which are alien to his own personal individuality. He may…

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    B1219 B1221 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1220] In order that you should have at least an approximate understanding of this strange organ with its properties, and also of the manifestations in ourselves of the consequences of these properties, we must dwell a little longer upon this question and speak about it in somewhat…

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    B1220 B1222 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1221] An approximate understanding of the manifestations in ourselves of these consequences may be derived from a further fact, perfectly intelligible to our Reason and beyond any doubt whatever. All of us, people, are mortal and every man may die at any moment. Now the question arises,…

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    B1221 B1223 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1222] If he seriously ponders and is really able to enter deeply into this and to cognize his own death, what could be more terrifying? In ordinary life, particularly in recent times, over and above the depressing fact of the inevitability of death which must infallibly occur…

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    B1222 B1224 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1223] As, for instance, suppose that the solution of the question of our inability really to sense various possible genuine terrors, in particular the terror of one’s own death, should become, so to say, a “burning question of the day” – which occurs with certain questions in…

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    B1223 B1225 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1224] What is so terrifying in this? It is only an ordinary house mouse, the most harmless and inoffensive of beasts. Now I ask you, how can all that has been said be explained by that will, which is presumed to be in every man? How is…