ABSTRACT
This unique book offers clear definitions of Gurdjieff's teaching terms, placing him within the political, geographic and cultural context of his time. Entries look at diverse aspects of his Work, including:
* possible sources in religious, Theosophical, occult, esoteric and literary traditions
* the integral relationships between different aspects of the teaching
* its internal contradictions and subversive aspects
* the derivation of Gurdjieff's cosmological laws and Ennegram
* the passive form of "New Work" teaching introduced by Jeanne de Salzmann.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
entry |1 pages
‘A' Influence
entry |1 pages
Absolute, the
entry |1 pages
Accident
entry |1 pages
Accumulator
entry |1 pages
Act/actor
entry |1 pages
Active force
entry |2 pages
Aim
entry |1 pages
Air
entry |1 pages
Alarm clocks
entry |1 pages
Alchemy
entry |1 pages
All and everything
entry |1 pages
Allegory/analogy
entry |1 pages
Angel/archangel
entry |1 pages
Aphorisms/sayings
entry |1 pages
Art
entry |1 pages
Ascending octave
entry |1 pages
Ashok
entry |1 pages
Associations
entry |1 pages
Astral body
entry |5 pages
Astrology
entry |1 pages
Atmosphere
entry |1 pages
Atom
entry |1 pages
Attachment
entry |1 pages
Attention
entry |1 pages
Autobiographical writings
entry |1 pages
‘B' Influences
entry |1 pages
Barriers
entry |3 pages
Beelzebub's tales to his grandson
entry |1 pages
Being
entry |1 pages
Beings
entry |1 pages
Belief
entry |1 pages
Blood/blood relations
entry |3 pages
Bodies
entry |1 pages
Brains
entry |1 pages
Breath/breathing
entry |1 pages
Buffers
entry |1 pages
‘C' Influences
entry |1 pages
‘Carbon'
entry |2 pages
Carriage, horse, driver and master
entry |2 pages
Centres
entry |1 pages
Centre of gravity
entry |1 pages
Chief feature
entry |1 pages
Circles of humanity
entry |1 pages
Civilisation
entry |1 pages
Conscience
entry |1 pages
Conscious circle of humanity
entry |1 pages
Conscious labour and intentional/voluntary suffering
entry |1 pages
Conscious shock
entry |1 pages
Consciousness
entry |1 pages
Considering
entry |1 pages
Corns
entry |1 pages
Cosmology
entry |2 pages
Cosmoses
entry |1 pages
Crystallisation
entry |1 pages
Dances/dancing
entry |1 pages
Daydreaming
entry |1 pages
Death/rebirth
entry |1 pages
Denying force
entry |1 pages
Deputy steward
entry |1 pages
Destruction
entry |1 pages
Dervishes
entry |1 pages
Descending octave
entry |1 pages
Diagram of everything living
entry |2 pages
Difficulties
entry |1 pages
Dimensions
entry |1 pages
Disappointment
entry |1 pages
Dog
entry |1 pages
Doing
entry |1 pages
Dreams
entry |1 pages
Drugs
entry |2 pages
Duty/ striving
entry |1 pages
Education
entry |1 pages
Egoism/egoist
entry |1 pages
Elements
entry |1 pages
Emanations
entry |2 pages
Emotional centre/emotions; feelings
entry |1 pages
Energy
entry |10 pages
Enneagram
entry |1 pages
Entity
entry |1 pages
Escape
entry |1 pages
Esoteric/esotericism
entry |2 pages
Essence
entry |1 pages
Eternal, the
entry |1 pages
Evil
entry |2 pages
Evolution/involution
entry |1 pages
Exercises
entry |1 pages
Experiments
entry |1 pages
Factory
entry |1 pages
Faith
entry |1 pages
Fall
entry |1 pages
False personality
entry |1 pages
Fasts/fasting
entry |1 pages
Fate
entry |1 pages
Fear
entry |1 pages
Food/eating
entry |1 pages
Food diagram
entry |1 pages
Forces
entry |1 pages
Formatory apparatus
entry |1 pages
Foundations
entry |1 pages
Fourth way
entry |1 pages
Friction
entry |1 pages
Gender
entry |1 pages
Gnosticism
entry |1 pages
Good and evil
entry |1 pages
Good householder
entry |1 pages
Grace
entry |1 pages
Groups
entry |2 pages
Group meetings during world war II (1940–4)
entry |1 pages
Gurdjieff society, the
entry |1 pages
Habit
entry |1 pages
Hanbledzoin; sacred-hanbledzoin
entry |1 pages
Hasnamuss
entry |1 pages
Harmony/harmonious/harmonic
entry |1 pages
Head
entry |2 pages
Herald of coming good
entry |1 pages
Hermeticism
entry |1 pages
Horse, carriage and driver
entry |1 pages
Hope
entry |1 pages
Humanity
entry |1 pages
Humour
entry |1 pages
‘Hydrogen'
entry |3 pages
Hydrogens, table of
entry |2 pages
Hypnosis/hypnotism
entry |1 pages
‘I Am'
entry |1 pages
Ideal
entry |1 pages
‘I'/Identity
entry |1 pages
Identification
entry |1 pages
Idiotism, toasts of the idiots
entry |1 pages
Imagination
entry |1 pages
Immortality
entry |1 pages
Impressions
entry |2 pages
Influences
entry |1 pages
Initiates/initiation
entry |1 pages
Inner animal
entry |1 pages
Inner/internal considering
entry |1 pages
Instinctive centre
entry |2 pages
Institutes
entry |1 pages
Intellectual/thinking centre; intelligence
entry |1 pages
Intentional suffering
entry |1 pages
Intervals
entry |1 pages
Involution
entry |1 pages
Justice
entry |1 pages
Knowledge
entry |1 pages
Kundabuffer
entry |1 pages
Kundalini
entry |1 pages
Language
entry |1 pages
Law of accident
entry |1 pages
Law of duality/two
entry |2 pages
Law of octaves
entry |1 pages
Law of reciprocal maintenance/reciprocal feeding
entry |1 pages
Law of seven
entry |1 pages
Law of solioonensius
entry |3 pages
Law of three
entry |1 pages
Laws: an overview
entry |1 pages
Legominism
entry |1 pages
Levels of being
entry |1 pages
Levers/postures
entry |1 pages
Liberation
entry |1 pages
Lies/lying
entry |3 pages
Life is real only then, when ‘i am'
entry |1 pages
Lines of work
entry |1 pages
Literal understanding
entry |2 pages
Love
entry |1 pages
Lunatic/tramp
entry |1 pages
Machine/mechanicality
entry |2 pages
Magic/magician
entry |1 pages
Magnetic centre
entry |1 pages
Magnetism/animal magnetism
entry |1 pages
Man
entry |2 pages
Matter
entry |4 pages
Meetings with remarkable men
entry |1 pages
Mind
entry |1 pages
Miracle/miraculous
entry |1 pages
Money
entry |1 pages
Moon
entry |1 pages
Morality
entry |1 pages
Mortality
entry |1 pages
Movements
entry |1 pages
Moving/instinctive centre
entry |1 pages
Music
entry |2 pages
Myth
entry |1 pages
Narcotics
entry |1 pages
Nature/great nature/the common mother
entry |1 pages
Negative emotions
entry |1 pages
Neutralising force
entry |2 pages
New work
entry |1 pages
New work terminology
entry |1 pages
‘Nitrogen'
entry |1 pages
Nonentity/nothingness/nullity
entry |2 pages
Number/numerology
entry |1 pages
Obedience
entry |1 pages
Observation
entry |1 pages
Obyvatel
entry |1 pages
Occult/occult revival
entry |1 pages
Octaves, law of
entry |1 pages
Oral tradition/oral transmission
entry |1 pages
Oral tradition, turkic
entry |1 pages
Organic life
entry |1 pages
Outings
entry |1 pages
'Oxygen'
entry |1 pages
Passive force
entry |1 pages
Payment
entry |1 pages
Personality
entry |1 pages
Philosophy
entry |1 pages
Photographs
entry |1 pages
Planetary influence
entry |1 pages
Point
entry |1 pages
Politics; political ideology
entry |1 pages
Posture
entry |1 pages
Power
entry |1 pages
Prayer/praying
entry |1 pages
Prejudices
entry |1 pages
Presence
entry |1 pages
Psyche/psychic/psychology
entry |1 pages
Purgatory
entry |1 pages
Questions/questioning
entry |1 pages
Quotation marks
entry |2 pages
Ray of creation
entry |1 pages
Reason
entry |1 pages
Rebirth
entry |1 pages
Reciprocal maintenance/reciprocal feeding, law of
entry |1 pages
Reconciling force
entry |1 pages
Recurrence/reincarnation
entry |1 pages
Relativity
entry |2 pages
Religion/s; new religions
entry |1 pages
Reminding factor
entry |1 pages
Remorse
entry |1 pages
Repetition
entry |1 pages
Responsibility
entry |1 pages
River of life
entry |1 pages
Roles
entry |1 pages
Rolls
entry |1 pages
Rope, the
entry |1 pages
Rules
entry |1 pages
Sacrifice
entry |1 pages
Sayings
entry |1 pages
Schools
entry |1 pages
Secrecy/silence
entry |1 pages
Seekers of/after truth
entry |1 pages
Self-observation
entry |2 pages
Self-remembering
entry |1 pages
Sensation/sensing
entry |1 pages
Seven, law of
entry |2 pages
Sex
entry |1 pages
Sex centre
entry |1 pages
Shocks
entry |1 pages
Sin
entry |1 pages
Sincerity
entry |1 pages
Sitting
entry |1 pages
Slavery/slaves
entry |1 pages
Sleep
entry |1 pages
‘Sly' man
entry |1 pages
Solioonensius, law of
entry |1 pages
Soul
entry |1 pages
Stairway
entry |1 pages
State
entry |1 pages
Step diagram
entry |1 pages
Steward/deputy steward
entry |1 pages
Stop exercise
entry |1 pages
Strivings
entry |1 pages
Struggle of the magicians
entry |1 pages
Subconscious
entry |1 pages
Suffering/pleasure
entry |1 pages
Sufi/sufism
entry |1 pages
Sun absolute, the
entry |1 pages
Suns, all
entry |1 pages
Super-effort
entry |1 pages
Symbols/symbolism
entry |1 pages
System/the system
entry |1 pages
Table of hydrogens
entry |1 pages
Talking
entry |1 pages
Teacher
entry |1 pages
Telepathy
entry |1 pages
Terror of the situation, the
entry |1 pages
Theory/practice
entry |1 pages
Theosophical addition
entry |2 pages
Theosophy
entry |1 pages
Thinking/thoughts
entry |4 pages
Three-storey factory/digestion of three foods
entry |2 pages
Time/the eternal
entry |1 pages
Toast of/to the idiots; the science of idiotism
entry |1 pages
Type
entry |1 pages
Unconscious/unconsciousness
entry |1 pages
Understanding
entry |1 pages
Understanding, literal
entry |1 pages
Unity
entry |1 pages
Vampirism
entry |1 pages
Vibrations
entry |1 pages
Views from the real world: early talks of gurdjieff
entry |1 pages
Voluntary suffering
entry |1 pages
Waking up/awakening
entry |2 pages
War
entry |1 pages
Ways/fourth way
entry |1 pages
Will/free will
entry |1 pages
Women
entry |1 pages
Work, lines of
entry |1 pages
Work, the
entry |1 pages
Work, to
entry |1 pages
World/s; all worlds
entry |2 pages
Writings
entry |4 pages
Zodiac
