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Harmonious Developer. One of the most unaccountable, unpredictable of modern mystics is George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, a Levantine with a huge, shaved head, piercing eyes, walrus mustache and bull-muscled frame. He is the strange head of an odd cult which such people as the late Novelist Katharine Mansfield, the late Editor Alfred Richard Orage of the New English Weekly have at one time or another espoused. At Fontainebleau, where Miss Mansfield died in 1924, Gurdjieff ran the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. He taught his followers intricate dances for which he composed 5,000 pieces of music...
...formulated Guild Socialism in 1912. After the WaR he campaigned, in his magazine and in the flesh, for the Social Credit system of Major C. H. Douglas. Meanwhile he was attending the lectures of Russian Philosopher Peter D. Ouspensky, who bated his breath about a Wise Man, Georges Gurdjieff, who made learned philosophers look like chicken-soup. In the midst of his activities Editor Orage dropped everything, betook himself to the Wise Man's ''Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" at Fontainebleau...
Here England's prize editor was allotted the task of serving, unassisted, as kitchen-boy in a kitchen feeding 50 or 60 people. In 1923 he accompanied Gurdjieff, with some 40 other pupils, on a tour of the U. S. In 1924 he was assigned the task of spreading the Gurdjieff ideas in America. Known by his editorial reputation to a few people in New York, Gurdjieffite Orage soon proselytized scores of the intelligentsia. Americans began to flock to Fontainebleau. But in 1924 an automobile accident almost killed Gurdjieff; he was forced to discontinue the activities of his Institute...
...Jean Toomer's grandfathers was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, a mulatto carpet-bagger who became Acting Governor of Louisiana but was refused a U. S. Senate seat in 1876. After attending the University of Wisconsin. Jean Toomer became an exponent of Georges Gurdjieff, the Armenian-Greek cultist who founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France, and whose most famed disciple was the late Katherine Mansfield (TIME, March 24, 1930). Last autumn Disciple Toomer took a mixed party of eight, all white except himself, to a farmhouse outside Portage, birthplace of Novelist Latimer...
...print her stories. Other contributors to the New Age: Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), Jack Collings Squire, W. L. George, Llewelyn Powys. During his editorship, 54 books were dedicated to him. Orage now lives in Manhattan, lectures on the art of writing, on the psychological methods of Religionist Georges Gurdjieff (TIME, March 24). Other books by him: An Alphabet of Economics; Nietzsche in Outline and Aphorism; Friedrich Nietzsche; The Dionysian Spirit of the Age; Consciousness: Animal, Human and Superhuman; Readers and Writers...