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Indifferent to conventional religious faiths, she was seeking consolation and cure in the occult doctrines of a magnetic Georgian mystic named George Ivanovich Gurdjieff,-when death cut all her questions short on Jan. 9, 1923. Bogey had Tig's tombstone inscribed with a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV. It was a line which she had always loved and sometimes lived by: "But I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...
...years in the '20s, Ouspensky held hushed little meetings in London and vied with the more dazzling George Ivanovich Gurdjieff as a spellbinder to wandering intelligentsia. He had himself been a Gurdjieffean for a time, but the two mystics parted when Ouspensky began to think he should be more than just a disciple. Not as hypnotic personally as Gurdjieff, Ouspensky never made as great a splash in the U.S., which he visited as a lecturer in 1942. But his first and last novel will remain readable longer than Gurdjieff's extant pronouncements, for Ouspensky knew how to write...
...this point Murry stops his Autobiography. He does not tell of Katherine's last days, her death at the Gurdjieff Institute at Fontainebleau, his remarriage and subsequent vicissitudes. Two names that loomed large in Katherine Mansfield's life -the late Alfred Richard Orage and George Gurdjieff-he never mentions. Though he keeps picking away at the puzzle of his own personality through 496 pages, he never solves it. He admits his unpopularity: "There is more than one portrait of myself lurking in the pages of contemporary literature. . . . All alike are hostile: which is significant. . . . The main question among...
After interviews in which he asked Gurdjieff searching questions. Rom Landau was told by a Gurd jieffite: ''You almost force him to answer yes or no. He is not used to that, and he does not care for such a form of conversation...
Author Landau believes Gurdjieff was once a Russian agent in Tibet, that there he learned ancient esoteric lore, that he must now be over 70 although he looks no more than...