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Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man (1950)

by G. I. Gurdjieff

Series: All and Everything (First Series)

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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is the first volume of the All and Everything trilogy written by the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff. The All and Everything trilogy also includes Meetings with Remarkable Men and Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'. This book was intended to be the main study tool for Gurdjieff's Fourth Way teachings. As Gurdjieff's idea of "work" is central to those teachings, Gurdjieff went to great lengths in order to increase the effort needed to read and understand it.… (more)
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Incomprehensible. This is what would happen if you threw Sufism, Gnosticism and Scientology into a blender. The author recommends reading this through three times to understand it. I made it a little over halfway before my eyeballs were twitchin' and my brain was itchin'. Smoke this book, it'll really get you out there! ( )
  dhaxton | Mar 19, 2023 |
This book confused the heck out of me! ( )
  RajivC | Jul 29, 2013 |
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Among other convictions formed in my common presence during my responsible, peculiarly composed life, there is one such also—an indubitable conviction—that always and everywhere on the earth, among people of every degree of development and understanding and of every form of manifestation of the factors which engender in their individuality, all kinds of ideals, there is acquired the tendency, when beginning anything new, unfailingly to pronounce aloud or, if not aloud, at least mentally, that definite utterance understandable to every even quite illiterate person, which in different epochs have been formulated variously and in our day is formulated in the following words: "In the name of the Father and of the Son and in the name of the Holy Ghost, Amen."
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This is the work for Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man, the First Book/First Series of the All and Everything series. Please do not combine with the Second and/or Third Book/Series, being respectively Meetings with Remarkable Men and Life is Real Only Then, When "I Am".
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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is the first volume of the All and Everything trilogy written by the mystic G. I. Gurdjieff. The All and Everything trilogy also includes Meetings with Remarkable Men and Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'. This book was intended to be the main study tool for Gurdjieff's Fourth Way teachings. As Gurdjieff's idea of "work" is central to those teachings, Gurdjieff went to great lengths in order to increase the effort needed to read and understand it.

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Dit boek is voor hen, die innerlijk weten of vermoeden dat het leven, dat ons is toevertrouwd naast het getrouw vervullen van onze uiterlijke verplichtingen en het nastreven van uiterlijke doeleinden - hoe nodig en zinvol dit ook als zodanig is - een veel en veel dieper zin moet hebben en die intens verlangen die zin te doorgronden en bereid zijn zich daarvoor in te zetten.
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