Talks on Beelzebub's Tales by John Godolphin Bennett

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By John Godolphin Bennett

Bennett first learn Beelzebub's Tales in 1948. He looked it as a piece of superhuman genius, containing expressions of truth, which, via their very nature, have been sure to make critical calls for on any reader. With Gurdjieff's approval, he undertook a sequence of lectures in London concentrating on the basic which means of Beelzebub's Tales. greater than commentaries, those "talks" are a call for participation into the deeper meanings of Gurdjieff's enigmatic "tales.” This e-book was once compiled and organized quickly after the final years of Bennett's lifestyles by way of Anthony Blake. Now, thirty-years after that preliminary compilation, Blake provides us a brand new foreword with modern insights into the visionary message of Gurdjieff's “tales to his grandson.” even though Bennett's talks have been meant to be a better half to studying and knowing Gurdjieff's masterwork, Anthony Blake's foreword permits even these surprising with Gurdjieff's stories to start a trip into the intensity of its that means.

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The 23 TALKS ON BEELZEBUB’S TALES fact of successive actualization in Time imposes on every process the price of incompleteness and imperfection. ”13 In Gurdjieff’s myth the Heropass is vanquished by the infinite wisdom of the Creator, not as an enemy or opposing principle but rather as an ineluctable fact, the very condition of the possibility of existence. From this follows the Trogoautoegocratic principle, according to which the permanent harmony of the Universe is assured by the reciprocal feeding of everything that exists.

Stated in the abstract, I suppose that no one will challenge the assertion that everything really worth having must be paid for or deny that if I really want something I must be prepared to go the whole hog in order to get it. The trouble is that we do not really know what we want and have even less confidence in the possibility of getting it. We do not really believe that it is possible to go the whole hog. This can be seen very simply in the attitude of the Christian world to the Sermon on the Mount.

In another room, twenty-five or thirty members of his French group have been hearing the same chapter in French. Now we are seated round the table, as many as can crowd into the little dining room while the remaining are eating their dinner seated on the floor of the next room where the French reading was held. Most faces are familiar, but there are two visitors from Greece whom we have not seen before occupying places of honor on his right, and two newcomers from America who are old friends of most of those in the room.

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