George Gurdjieff

Daly King

Alfred Orage

"In the year 1924, M. Georges Gurdjieff came to New York City. He was then the founder and head of The Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, at Fontainebleau, France and he brought with him a considerable number of his instructors and pupils. M. A.R. Orage had remained in New York City as the representative of M. Gurdjieff to hold a series of informal groups for those interested, in order to explain the nature of the Institute and its work. I was then twenty-nine years of age.The field of these formulations is that of objective truth, both personal and non-personal.And so, I wish you good hunting."C. Daly King

Oragean Version

The Hidden Learning

C. Daly King

A magnum opus somehow similar with Ouspensky's Fragments, this version of the Gurdjieffian teaching contains all the theoretical and practical aspects along with never before published diagrams and a coherent presentation of Gurdjieff exercises, transmitted only orally until now. Written by C. Daly King - who received first hand information from Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Orage - is now available for the first time to the general public. The only version with corrected text and remastered diagrams.Contents:Foreword - 9 -Premises - 15 -The Subject and the Attitude - 55 -Part 1. The body of knowledge. A scientific method. Impartiality. The fundamental questions. - 56 -Part 2. Levels of knowledge. The course of exposition. Language and terms. Reality and Unreality. - 62 -Part 3. What is the attitude? The map and the continents. Accuracy. The disease of suggestibility. - 76 -Part 4. Personal verification. The localities and the boat. - 80 -Part 5. Mankind in the Universe. The Law of the Octave. Examples of octavic relationships. The Law of the Three. Examples. - 82 -Part 6. The origin of the information. The Esoteric schools. Why the secrecy? - 96 -The Local Map - 101 -Part 1. Neurological structures. Normal vs. Abnormal. The point of departure. - 102 -Part 2. The functions of man. The centers. Heredity and environment. The Magnetic Centre. - 113 -Part 3. Functional Types. The “I”. Identification. Automatic roles. Consciousness. Free Will. The fallacy of reform. The Equipage. The Prince. - 129 -Part 4. Levels of consciousness. Man's natural function in the Universe. The Myth of the Black Sheep. The Cosmic Ray. The Organic Kingdom. - 150 -Part 5. Mechanisms of bondage. Kundalini and Kundabuffer. Imagination. Self-Calming. The human potential. - 171 -Part 6. The potential centers. The universal octave. Centers and functions. The three foods. Digestion stages. - 181 -The Boat - 204 -Part 1. The Open Secret and the Hidden Secret. Warnings. The actual postulant. Between two chairs. - 205 -Part 2. The threefold image of oneself. Sincerity and humor. Sane objectivity. Organizing your work. The Portrait. Positive and negative human types. The life review. The nightly review. Personality and essence. Chief Feature. Animal Types. Dangers of self-knowledge. Impartiality towards oneself. - 209 -Part 3. The four states of consciousness. Self-Observation and Self-Consciousness. - 239 -Part 4. The four ways. The technique of Self-Observation. “I” and “it”. Dangers of breathing exercises. The second step: Participation. Common Sense. The third step: Experiment. Changing habits. The balanced day. The weather. The vow. Artificial reminders. Self-Remembering. - 254 -Part 5. The effects of Self-Observation on the organism. The organic location of digestion stages. Activation of centers. Subcentres. The three organic bodies. The second conscious shock. - 338 -Part 6. The first stage of the Method. The scientific procedure. Verification of conclusions. - 371 -Part 7. Voluntary Suffering and Conscious Labor. Negative emotions. Pondering. Sin-eating. The complete outline of the Method. - 378 -The Greater Map - 390 -Part 1. The outline of the universe. The hidden knowledge of genuine schools. - 391 -Part 2. The “I”. A normal human action. Sympathy and compassion. Conscience. Morality. The Comfort Bed. Useless worries. Faith, Hope and Love. Art. Symbols. The Enneagram. Man in the Universe. Information sources. - 395 -Part 3. The cosmoses. Atom. Hydrogen. Table of hydrogens. Universal relationships. Man's energy sources. Types of reason. Prospects. - 447 -Part 4. Time dimensionality. The time-organ. The first dimension of time. Simultaneity. Memory. Three-dimensional time. Relative time. Incarnation and Reincarnation. Physical time. Recurrence. The life path. - 493 -Destination - 537 -Oragean Aphorisms - 538 -Summation - 563 -The Destiny of Man. - 569 -Reckoning - 571 -Appendix - 576 -The Ouspenskian Version - 577 -

Oragean Version by C. Daly King

The Force of Gurdjieff, Vol. 3

This is an alternate version of The 1931 Manuscript to Beelzebub's Tales by G Gurdjieff, which preserves Gurdjieff's original neologisms rather than replacing them with words taken from the 1950 publication. Aside from that it is identical to the other version published by Karnal Press. Readers who enjoyed reading the 1950 publication of Beelzebub's Tales will most likely enjoy The 1931 Manuscript. Despite of the differences between the books, the text of The 1931 Manuscript bears the mark of Gurdjieff. It is permeated with his rhythm and style. While in some chapters the text of the manuscript is quite similar to the 1950 publication, it is distinctly and surprisingly different in many others.?When reading those other chapters, one gets the impression of a Gurdjieff book one has never previously encountered. The subject matter may be familiar-in most cases it will be-but the text is not. This may prove to be the main attraction of The 1931 Manuscript. Nevertheless, there is another reason why some readers will be attracted to this book.?The 1931 Manuscript is a version of Beelzebub's Tales that Gurdjieff created and approved word by word. As such it stands as an early but nevertheless authentic text of Gurdjieff's work of objective literature. Those who have picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Gurdjieff, who are determined to "try and fathom the gist" of his writings, will discover The 1931 Manuscript to be of particular interest. For them it may prove to be a complementary text rather than an alternative one.

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