As we continue this work with chief feature, some things become clearer. First, to struggle with chief feature seems to always involve losing belief in a story. That story is […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Chief Feature and Essence
Two of the more overlooked books in the Gurdjieff literature are the posthumously edited Notes Taken at Meetings January 18, 1934 to April 28, 1934 and Selections from Meetings in […]
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Chief Feature
I have recently returned to the study of chief feature, spurred in part by both the power of Orage’s analysis in Gurdjieff’s Emissary in New York, and the frequency with […]
Read more“One Holy Father”, Alternative Music
Here is some alternative music I wrote for the prayer “One Holy Father”, in the Maronite Divine Sacrifice of the Mass.
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Anne of Geierstein or The Daughter of the Mist
Many readers do not like Anne of Geierstein (1829). Schoolchildren who were obliged to read it are said to have been turned many readers off Walter Scott’s novels altogether. I […]
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Every approach you make to him …
This is from a group meeting of Thursday 19 March 1986 at Newport, with Mr Adie. I had not intended to publish any more transcripts this month, but when I […]
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Jacob of Sarug and the Work
When Orage said that “Jesus Christ” used this method (Gurdjieff’s Emissary in New York, 13), he was not defining or limiting Jesus: rather, he was drawing a connection between Gurdjieff’s […]
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The Mystery about a Wish
This is the transcript of two questions and answers from the evening of Saturday 5 April 1986. I found that day’s material rather extraordinary. There were so many points at […]
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Prejudices (St Ephrem)
I have spent some time enjoying the great stock of new volumes on the shelves of the much beloved Fisher Library: it is one of the great innocent delights of […]
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Jasper Dryfesdale (“The Abbot”)
Walter Scott’s 1820 novel, The Abbot, has fared rather better with critics than with the reading public. I am one amateur critic who also likes it, although I would not […]
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