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Esotericism

Esotericism (LXVII): Gratitude

By Νικόδημος

in Esotericism

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 ...

Esotericism (LXVI) More on Gurdjieff

By Νικόδημος

in Esotericism

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 ...

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

By Νικόδημος

in Esotericism

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 ...

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

By Νικόδημος

in Esotericism

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 ...

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

By Νικόδημος

in Esotericism

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 ...

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

By Νικόδημος

in Esotericism

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 ...

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

By Νικόδημος

in Esotericism

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 ...

Ouspensky’s last days (5): the illness

By Νικόδημος

in Esotericism

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 ...

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

By Νικόδημος

in Esotericism

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 ...

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

By Νικόδημος

in Esotericism

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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