He went on to talk about India: how many people go there looking for truth, but India is only "bordel for truth."
September 24, 1949 in Paris
September 24, 1949 in Paris
A.R. Orage
In Search Of The Miraculous (Chapter Eight)
J.G. Bennett - Witness p.247
Frank Lloyd Wright
http://www.lawsofwisdom.com/chapter5.html
Gurdjieff and the Women of the Rope p.22
Fritz Peters - My Journey with a Mystic p.237
Nott - Teachings of Gurdjieff p.30
Philip Mairet on Gurdjieffs Ideas
John Carswell - Lives and Letters p.185
He was scornful of wordy analysis of philosophical ideas, and his own ideas were always expressed clearly, even crudely, with the earthiness of his peasant stoc ,and seemed to come out of his personal experience and contemplation. Verbosity he always condemned, and in the early days particularly that of Ouspensky, who was an effortless, brilliant but wordy talker.
Anna Butkowsky Hewitt - With Gurdjieff in St.Petersburg and Paris p.142
from a introduction to the Gurdjieff Movements in 1923
C.S. Nott - Teachings of Gurdjieff p.107
Dr. Kenneth Walker - Venture with Ideas
Fritz Peters - Gurdjieff Remembered (Chapter X)
Views from the Real World p.55
Gurdjieff - Ecstacy of Revelation
Views from the Real World p.57
Orage´s gravestone |
J.G. Bennett - Witness p.246
J.G. Bennett - Witness p.246
Edwin Wolfe - Episodes with Gurdjieff p.12
Fritz Peters - Gurdjieff Remembered (Chapter 18)
Elizabeth Constant Gordon |
C.S. Nott - Further Teachings of Gurdjieff p.229(Miss Gordon was a close Gurdjieff pupil from 1922 until her death in Paris 1945)
Alexander de Salzmann |
Paris Meeting, 28 October 1943
Life is real only then, when "I AM"(Prologue)
Robert de Ropp - Warrior´s Way p.102
source: http://www.gurdjieff.org/rope.htmAnother account of this meeting can be found in C.S. Notts "Further Teachings of Gurdjieff". Lloyd Wright referring to Gurdjieff as "the old man", was born in 1867, Gurdjieff was born 1866. This was the first time Gurdjieff und Lloyd Wright met.
Paul B. Taylor - G.I.Gurdjieff. A New Life p. 35(Beelzebubs Tales to his Grandson - Beelzebub in Russia,Chapter 34)
Paul B. Taylor - Gurdjieff. A New Life p.218
D.I. Bebutov |
Our Life with Mr.Gurdjieff p.182
Robert de Ropp - Warrior´s Way
Fritz Peters - Boyhood with Gurdjieff Chapter 9