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• eddessaknight

  

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  The Fourth Way

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Apractical and sacred teaching of great scale, The Fourth Way shows how to use one's ordinary life—with all its uncertainty, negativity, suffering and pleasures—to come to real life. Rather than avoiding life or being magnetized or entrapped in it, one learns to consciously live one's life fearlessly, without imagination or regret. Actualizing the practices and principles of the teaching develops self-knowledge and being, which lead to real understanding and objective conscience.

  Unlike the three classic ways of self-transformation—work with the body (hatha yoga), work with the emotions (monasticism), work with the mind (raja yoga)—in The Fourth Way one stays in the midst of life working on all three centers—body, emotions, mind. The aim is to develop a harmonious individual capable of intelligent and creative response to life's opportunities and challenges—a New Type of Man. [The word Man, here as elsewhere, is used in its active sense, not as gender.]

  Fundamental to the teaching, yet often overlooked, is its focus on the sacred. While eschewing contemporary notions of love and the self-calming manufactured meanings of ordinary life, the teaching is grounded in Man as being the image of God, and whose actualization of that image will lessen the sorrow of our Common Father Creator. The teaching offers a unique means and perspective by which that image can be realized. Prayer is a definite part of the teaching. See the Gurdjieff Prayer Book.

   "One must learn to pray, just as one must learn everything else. Whoever knows how to pray and is able to concentrate in the proper way, his or her prayer can give results." Gurdjieff begins All and Everything with a prayer. Many prayers and hymns are given in the pages that follow. 

  ~I.G.  Gurdjieff

   

  NOTE BENE:

  THERE DO EXIST ENQUIRING MINDS, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him. For without this knowledge, he will have no focal point in his search. Socrates’ words, “Know thyself” (Oracle) remain for all those who seek true knowledge and being.
• eddessaknight

  

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  ~ With Compliments

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  The Fourth Way

  

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Apractical and sacred teaching of great scale, The Fourth Way shows how to use one's ordinary life—with all its uncertainty, negativity, suffering and pleasures—to come to real life. Rather than avoiding life or being magnetized or entrapped in it, one learns to consciously live one's life fearlessly, without imagination or regret. Actualizing the practices and principles of the teaching develops self-knowledge and being, which lead to real understanding and objective conscience.

  Unlike the three classic ways of self-transformation—work with the body (hatha yoga), work with the emotions (monasticism), work with the mind (raja yoga)—in The Fourth Way one stays in the midst of life working on all three centers—body, emotions, mind. The aim is to develop a harmonious individual capable of intelligent and creative response to life's opportunities and challenges—a New Type of Man. [The word Man, here as elsewhere, is used in its active sense, not as gender.]

  Fundamental to the teaching, yet often overlooked, is its focus on the sacred. While eschewing contemporary notions of love and the self-calming manufactured meanings of ordinary life, the teaching is grounded in Man as being the image of God, and whose actualization of that image will lessen the sorrow of our Common Father Creator. The teaching offers a unique means and perspective by which that image can be realized. Prayer is a definite part of the teaching. See the Gurdjieff Prayer Book.

   "One must learn to pray, just as one must learn everything else. Whoever knows how to pray and is able to concentrate in the proper way, his or her prayer can give results." Gurdjieff begins All and Everything with a prayer. Many prayers and hymns are given in the pages that follow. 

  ~I.G.  Gurdjieff

   

  NOTE BENE:

  THERE DO EXIST ENQUIRING MINDS, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him. For without this knowledge, he will have no focal point in his search. Socrates’ words, “Know thyself” (Oracle) remain for all those who seek true knowledge and being.

  PS-

  "...what is today magic it is future science....".

  That means that what we merely intuitively discover today by means of our inner perception enhanced by the magical methods or rituals will be the subject of scientific research in the future, or even well known techniques to enhance our lives expanding our consciousness.