ACT VIII, SCENE II: Adepti seated at table in library. Solator: Brother N. N., I feel that it is an excellent time to review with our younger members the goal of our Fraternity. If we have your permission, Cognitor and I will proceed. Brother N. … Continue reading Creation and It’s Energies (39)

Ten States of Consciousness Within Man Gurdjieff stated in his teachings that four levels of consciousness are available to a man: ordinary sleep, the ordinary waking state, self-consciousness and objective consciousness. Although potentially all levels are available for contact for each man and woman, time … Continue reading Creation and It’s Energies (38)

A. Major: Advocatus, you mentioned the God Self when you began. What exactly do you mean? Advocatus: The God Self is the highest manifestation of man's consciousness and represents the Soul Personality, the Divine Spiritual Self, or in the language of the Egyptian mystery schools, … Continue reading Creation and It’s Energies (37)

Psychopathology and Psychomechanical Tune-Ups Assuming you have been reading this treatise in the manner suggested by Gurdjieff in Friendly Advice to BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON, ie: "first, read as least as well, as you read a contemporary book or newspaper; second, as if you … Continue reading Creation and It’s Energies (36)

The Higher Emotional and Intellectual Centers In addition to the lower centers, Gurdjieff taught that two higher centers existed within man, the higher emotional and the higher intellectual. The first center we shall discuss is the higher emotional center. The higher emotional center is concerned … Continue reading Creation and Its’s Energies (35)

The final center of mechanical evolutionary development, reaching its peak in mankind, is the intellectual center. This center functions through thought. All normal mental processes are contained within this center: observation, analysis, synthesis, contrasting, comparison, formation of ideas, deductive and inductive reasoning and imagining. The … Continue reading Creation and It’s Energies (34)

In order to accomplish its actions, the moving center is endowed with a wonderful memory, much of it stored within the cerebellum. Our ability to form smooth, purposeful motions requires cooperation of the sensory-motor portions of the cerebral cortex, the thalamus, the basal ganglia and … Continue reading Creation and It’s Energies (33)

CHAPTER 7: PSYCHOMECHANICS  AND TRANSFORMATION The Seven Centers of Man Although many different models have been touted over the centuries, explaining how mind functions, perhaps the clearest is that introduced to the West by Gurdjieff in the early 20th century. Gurdjieff taught that all the … Continue reading Creation and It’s Energies (32)

A second example considers the transformation of the sensitive energy E5 into conscious energy E4 by the entrance of the creative energy E3 into man as shown in figure 28. The transformation of sensitive energy into conscious energy requires the direct action of the creative … Continue reading Creation and It’s Energies (31)

Realize that modern man, like his ancestors from the many ancient great civilizations, remains at a critical point as far as the local future of the universe is concerned. Mankind's place within the evolutionary scheme is such that the group and individual actions of its … Continue reading Creation and It’s Energies (30)