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Esotericism

Esotericism (LXVII): Gratitude

By Νικόδημος

4 July 2018

1. After this survey of the character, life and teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, I must express my deep sense of gratitude for their teaching and the lines ...

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Esotericism (LXVI) More on Gurdjieff

By Νικόδημος

27 June 2018

1. Some time ago an old acquaintance informed me that he had joined a Gurdjieff group in London and was doing movements, exercises and had been given specific ...

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Esotericism (LXV): Ouspensky’s last days (10): Drama

By Νικόδημος

20 June 2018

1. Rodney Collin Smith, claims in his The Theory of Eternal Life that Ouspensky’s last weeks were a play, modeled on the drama of Christ’s death. “Of my ...

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Esotericism (LXIV): Ouspensky’s last days (9): Rodney Collin (Smith) B’

By Νικόδημος

13 June 2018

1. Born in 1909 in England, Rodney Collin Smith was with Ouspensky almost constantly from 1940 until Ouspensky’s death, Oct 1947. I remember him with much gratitude for ...

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Esotericism (LXIII): Ouspensky’s last days (8): System, again

By Νικόδημος

6 June 2018

1. It is said that Ouspensky abandoned the System. In the Last Remembrances of a Magician, chapter 2 (p 17), as I remarked previously, Rodney Collin Smith thought ...

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Esotericism (LXII): Ouspensky’s last days (7): Recurrence

By Νικόδημος

1 June 2018

1. After his own self-importance the most intense obsession Ouspensky had was the notion of recurrence, “eternal recurrence” as he termed the repetition of life in the selfsame ...

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Esotericism (LXI): Ouspensky’s last days (6): the Fantastic!

By Νικόδημος

30 May 2018

1. As September moved to its end the atmosphere became more intense and “strange things began to happen, miracles became as much a part of the day as ...

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Ouspensky’s last days (5): the illness

By Νικόδημος

25 May 2018

1. We learn that Ouspensky underwent a change between 1942-3, Esotericism (LVI): Ouspensky’s last days, §3, and had deterioration with nose bleeds in 1946, Esotericism (LVII): Ouspensky’s last ...

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Esotericism (LIX): Ouspensky’s last days (4)

By Νικόδημος

23 May 2018

1. By this time, summer 1947, Ouspensky was physically a frail old man who, in addition, had acquired new unhealthy habits. His walking had become very difficult, he ...

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Esotericism (LVIII): Ouspensky’s last days (3)

By Νικόδημος

18 May 2018

1. Rodney Collin Smith is designated in the Last Remembrances of a Magician, appears to be the most important character in the story of Ouspensky’s final years, not ...

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Esotericism

Esotericism (LXVII): Gratitude

Esotericism (LXVI) More on Gurdjieff

Esotericism (LXV): Ouspensky’s last days (10): Drama

Esotericism (LXIV): Ouspensky’s last days (9): Rodney Collin (Smith) B’

Esotericism (LXIII): Ouspensky’s last days (8): System, again

Esotericism (LXII): Ouspensky’s last days (7): Recurrence

Esotericism (LXI): Ouspensky’s last days (6): the Fantastic!

Ouspensky’s last days (5): the illness

Esotericism (LIX): Ouspensky’s last days (4)

Esotericism (LVIII): Ouspensky’s last days (3)

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