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"The present period of culture is, in the whole process
of perfecting humanity, an empty and abortive interval."
— G.I. Gurdjieff, Meetings with Remarkable Men
GEORGE IVANOVITCH GURDJIEFF
(1872–1949) a seminal spiritual figure,
introduced to the West an ancient yet unknown esoteric teaching of development and awakening, one that teaches how to creatively use
the diverse impressions of ordinary life to come to real life.
Humanity, Gurdjieff realized, had entered a precarious new period in its evolution.
The world would be destroyed, Gurdjieff warned, unless the 'wisdom' of the East and the 'energy' of the
West were harnessed and used harmoniously. To effect this
Harnelmiatznel, Gurdjieff gave the
necessary shock—he introduced to the West a unique and powerful esoteric teaching of self-transformation.
Gurdjieff called it The Fourth Way.
An original teaching, The Fourth
Way is neither a mixture of spiritual lines nor a modern eclectic concoction. It is, as Gurdjieff declared,
"completely self-supporting and independent of other
lines and it has been completely unknown up to the present time."
The teaching of The Fourth Way is
the last esoteric message of the present cycle.
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