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A Sense of Wonder When I Do not Know by Nathalie de Salzmann de Etievan
£40.00
Second Hand / Antiquarian
A Sense of Wonder When I Do Not Know by Nathalie de Salzmann de Etievan (originally No Saber es Formidable!) is a Gurdjieff teaching book offering guidance for educators and individuals seeking conscious development, focusing on moving beyond the ego to experience a richer reality, using practical methods like self-observation, attention training, and understanding the centers of being (physical, emotional, intellectual) to awaken conscience and develop a true sense of self, rooted in her experience with Gurdjieff's Fourth Way. It's a personal testament to developing a "knowledge of being" (gnosis) through structured, sometimes challenging, inner work and collective practice, aiming for a conscious connection to life's deeper presence.
Published: A.C. Editorial Ganesha, Carrizal, Venezuela 2008
Condition: A paperback in good condition. Pages clean and unmarked, spine uncreased, binding firm.
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Maurice Nicoll : Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way by Gary Lachman
£25.00
A biography of the influential teacher of the Fourth Way In 1922, Maurice Nicoll (1884-1953) abandoned his successful London psychiatry practice and his direct studies with Carl Jung to move his family just outside of Paris to the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, a center recently opened by philosopher, mystic, and spiritual guru G.I. Gurdjieff, the founder of the esoteric system that became known as the “Fourth Way.” Nicoll went on to become one of the most passionate teachers of the Fourth Way, committing the final three decades of his life to teaching “The Work” in his own unorthodox style. In this revealing biography, Gary Lachman draws on recently uncovered diaries to explore the unusual, syncretic approach Nicoll brought to his teaching of the Fourth Way.
He shows how Nicoll is unique in having Jung, Gurdjieff, and Ouspensky as teachers and to have known each of these important figures in esoteric history personally, yet—as Lachman reveals—Nicoll was not a blind devotee by any stretch. The author shows how he incorporated elements of Jungian psychology and Emanuel Swedenborg-inspired mysticism into his exploration and teaching of both Gurdjieff’s and Ouspensky’s ideas, as well as into his best-known work, Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. Lachman reveals the unorthodox side of Nicoll in fuller detail than ever before through excerpts from recently shared diaries, in which Nicoll included detailed accounts of his own solitary “self-sex” erotic experimentations to reach visionary states, along with recordings of his dreams and other personal and mystical reflections.
The social details of Nicoll’s life are also examined, including vivid portraits of the occult scene in the early-to-mid-20th century and the communal living situations in which Nicoll sometimes resided. Drawing on his familiarity with hermetic practices and his own experiences with “The Work,” Lachman comprehensively explores the significance of Nicoll and the novelty of his thought, offering a profound, needed, and sympathetic but critical study of this man so instrumental to the development and legacy of the Fourth Way.
Beelzebub and the Beast (Deluxe edition) by David Hall
£375.00
Deluxe Edition limited to 75 hand-numbered copies. Published by Starfire Publishing, 2012. Black leather gilt lettered spine, with hand-made paper covered boards. Color frontispiece. Index & bibliography. Colour & b/w plates. Endpapers illustrated in b&w with photo of Crowley and Gurdjieff. Cloth bound slip-case, with full-colour dust-jacket. Each copy signed by the publisher, Michael Staley.
Condition: Near fine, unmarked copy.
David Hall, who died in 2007, will be a familiar name to many as one of the founders and editors of SOTHiS, the substantial and diverse Thelemic magazine which was published from the United Kingdom in the 1970s. David was passionately interested in the work of Gurdjieff as well as that of Crowley, and in the early to mid 1970s he wrote this penetrating study comparing the work of both men. Unfortunately it failed to find a publisher at the time, although publication was referenced as forthcoming in Kenneth Grant’s Nightside of Eden. (Muller, 1977)
Crowley took an interest in the work of the Greek-Armenian occultist G. I. Gurdjieff, and visited Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau in 1924 and 1926. There have been other comparative studies of the work of the two men, the most recent being The Three Dangerous Magi by P. T. Mistlberger (O Books, 2010).
Examining in turn the life and work of the two men at various levels, the author discerns a common source. Commenting circa 1919 on the first chapter of The Book of the Law, Crowley wrote “Aiwaz is not as I had supposed a mere formula, like many angelic names, but is the true most ancient name of the God of the Yezidis, and thus returns to the highest Antiquity. Our work is therefore historically authentic, the rediscovery of the Sumerian Tradition”. Similarly, the author here shows that the roots of Gurdjieff's work can be traced to the same source.
With a full-colour wrap-around dustjacket, a substantial Foreword by Alistair Coombs, plates, tables and line-drawings throughout the text, a Bibliography, a comprehensive Index, and an Afterword about the author, this book will be of considerable interest to many.
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