Gurdjieff

Categoria: BTG XLVIII

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    B1224 B1226 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1225] It is just this totality of all these automatic, as they might be called, “childish experiencings” arising and flowing in the average man which on the one hand make up and sustain his life, and on the other hand give him neither the possibility nor the…

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    B1225 B1227 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1226] And Great Nature was constrained to adapt Herself to such an, in the objective sense, abnormality, in consequence of the fact that thanks to the conditions of their ordinary life established by people themselves in the deteriorating quality of their radiations required for Higher Common Cosmic…

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    B1212 B1214 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1213] For any man who has become aware of this to some degree, and has learned more or less how to observe, this “tragicomic feast of sound” is particularly sharply constated and made evident when others join the conversation of two contemporary people. Each of them puts…

  • B1228

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    B1227 B1229 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1228] All the water of one stream, soon after passing this place, flows into a still more level valley, and with no surrounding what is called “majestic and picturesque” scenery to hinder it, ultimately flows into the vast ocean. The second stream, continuing its flow over places…

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    B1228 B1230 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1229] For the drops, there is not a separate predetermination of their personal fate – a predetermined fate is for the whole river only. At the beginning of the flow of the river, the lives of drops are here one moment, there the next moment, and a…

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    B1229 B1231 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1230] And it is determined, as has already been said, by the fact that one of these two streams ultimately empties itself into the ocean, that is, into that sphere of general Nature which often has what is called repeated “reciprocal exchange of substances between various great…

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    B1230 B1232 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1231] As long as we remain passive, not only shall we have inevitably to serve solely as a means for Nature’s “involutionary and evolutionary construction,” but also for the rest of our lives we shall have to submit slavishly to every caprice of all sorts of blind…

  • B1232

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    B1231 B1233 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1232] The expression which has reached us from ancient times, “the first liberation of man,” refers to just this possibility of crossing from the stream which is predestined to disappear into the nether regions into the stream which empties itself into the vast spaces of the boundless…

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    B1232 B1234 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1233] Summing up all that has been said, the thoughts set out in the lecture you have heard read, as well as what I have added today, that is about the two categories of contemporary people who in respect of inner content have nothing in common, and…

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    B1233 B1235 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1234] In the average man the results of his mentation and feelings often lead to this, that, as it might be expressed, “a fly becomes an elephant and an elephant a fly.” The manifestations in the common presences of the said people of this maleficent property is…

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    B1234 B1236 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1235] After all I have said I consider it necessary to say and even to emphasize further that all the historical data which have reached contemporary people and which have chanced to become known also to me, namely, the historical data concerning what really did occur in…

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    B1235 B1237 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1236] Such a compromise, I think, is possible if certain people consciously set themselves, as the chief aim of their existence, to acquire in their presences all the corresponding data to become masters among those around them similar to themselves. Proceeding from this and acting in accordance…

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    B1236 B1238 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1237] This old Calvados, by the way, twenty-seven bottles of it, I was thought worthy to find, accidentally covered over with a mixture of lime, sand, and finely chopped straw, several years ago when I was digging a pit for preserving carrots for the winter in one…

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    B1237 B1239 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1238] After the books of the first series have all been published, I intend for the spreading of the contents of the second series, to organize in various large centers simultaneous public readings accessible to all. And as regards the real, indubitably comprehensible, genuine objective truths which…

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    B1190 B1192 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1191] Only then can the “I” which should be in a man, be his own “I.” According to the already indicated seriously instituted experimental investigations carried on over many years, or even according merely to the sane and impartial reflection of even every contemporary man, the common…