The table of contents and index for this volume are so large, now that I am over one third of the way through, that I shall publish them in this separate post, which I shall outdate from time to time.
Table of Contents
Untitled Introduction 9
A Caution from one who Participated in
these Groups, Henri Tracol 13
Remarks from the Editing Team 15
Thursday 6 January 17
Tuesday 11 January 23
Thursday 13 January 25
Friday 14 January 33
Sunday 16 January 36
Tuesday 18 January 40
Thursday 20 January 46
Sunday 23 January 55
Friday 28 January 70
Tuesday 1 February 73
Friday 4 February 78
Tuesday 8 February 85
Friday 11 February 92
Sunday 13 February 96
Tuesday 15 February 105
Tuesday 22 February 112
Index
age of preparation 24-25
aim 35, 52, 81-82, 84, distinguished from a means 43
air (see also “breathing”) 61, 92, 102
All and Everything 10
atmosphere 42
baths (hammam) 103
Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson 10, 13, 20
blood 107
breathing 57, 59, 101, 102
career 72
centres 53-54
children 51-52, 68-69
contemplation (recueillement) 74
crow and stork (story) 49
de Hartmann, Thomas 9
de Salzmann, Jeanne 9, 13, 15, 42, 51, 52, 56, 57, 66, 67, 69, 80, 90, 96, 102, 104
de Salzmann, Michel 15
desalting 33, 42, 49
diaphragm 102
director 23-24
disharmony, 52
doing 117
education 68-69
egoist 37
exercises 40, 43, 44, 89
against internal weakness 90
antipathy 100
breathing 58-59, 100-101
counting 31-32
filling 98-99
“I Am” 53-54, 102
need for the exercises 101
prayer with three centres 42
receiving three impressions 106-107
substances for one’s face 36
sucking 89, 96, 115
true “I” 92
faith 79-80
father 85-87, 91
feeling 31
Flammarion 78
God 51
grandmother (Gurdjieff’s) 103, 114
groups 33
gluttony 65-66
Gurdjieff, G.I. 9-10, 13, 15
his groups 19-21
his writing 20
his languages 50-51
Gurdjieff Institute of Paris 15
head 107
honesty 37
hypnotism 80
hysteria 115
“I Am” 29, 53-54, 83, 95, 112,
sense I AM during exercises 115
Idiots 17
keeping one’s word 37-39
laziness 60-61, 65-66
leading 115
Maupassant 78
“ME” 58, 65, 84, 98
Meetings with Remarkable Men 9, 20, 78
monasteries 80
mother 51-52
movements 10
nature 24, 45
parents 70
philosophising 30, 43, 85, 86, 90
prayer 42
preparing the future 24-25
programme 116-117
Purgatory 77
recueillement (collecting, contemplation) 74
relations with others 26-28
relaxation 32, 55, 60-61, 75, 98, 107
remorse of conscience 28-30, 47-48, 71-72
repairing the past 24-25
result 109, 112
role 37, 41, 85-88, 91, 104, 111
sacrifice 37, 54, 88
satisfaction 25, 67-68
self-remembering 74, 75
sensing 32, 42, 53, 58-59, 63-65, 108
sincerity 45
small things 39
space (making space) 70
spinal column 98
spoiled 114
spontaneity 45
spirits 38
struggle 73-74
sucking 89, 96, 115
sympathies 27-28
tempo 97
tension 108
thinking 26
Tibet 92
time 34-35
tiredness 65
Tracol, Henri 13
