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George Gurdjieff or in search of esoteric knowledge. War by the hands of three magicians: Gurdjieff, Stalin, Hitler

The trajectories of Stalin and Gurdjieff have three points of intersection. It is impossible to answer the question whether these points are real or not. If the existing biographies of Stalin can be safely called PR products, then the biographies of Gurdjieff fall under the definition folk tales. Point one. Stalin was born in 1887 in the city of Gori. Gurdjieff was born in 1885 in the village of Gurdzhani. Thus, initially they were separated by 2 years and one hundred and twenty kilometers. It is known that in the period from 1899 to 1901 they studied at the theological seminary of Tiflis. Were they familiar? Unknown. I can only quote from Trotsky's book "Stalin": "At that time he (Stalin) was interested in questions of socialism and cosmogony." After that, Stalin leaves for the revolutionary struggle, and Gurdjieff leaves for Tibet. Point two. During the period 1912-1913. both Stalin and Gurdjieff are active in Petersburg. Stalin oversees the editorial office of the Pravda newspaper, and Gurdjieff teaches and organizes the first production of his play The Struggle of the Magicians. There is no evidence of their intersection. However, the possibility of their meeting, in my opinion, is likely. The third point is even less real. It is similar to the story about the secret visit of the Beatles to Moscow. There is no information about Stalin's attitude to esotericism. But there is a legend about how at the end of the 30s a certain person came to Russia, to Stalin, who went unnoticed to the Kremlin, to Stalin's office. According to one version, it was Gurdjieff. A literary presentation of this story can be found in Viktor Suvorov's book Control.

Gurdjieff believed that a person is a “mechanical doll” devoid of a soul: “An ordinary person does not have a soul ... A child is never born with a soul. A soul can be acquired during life: but even then it is a luxury available only to a few. Most people they live all their lives without a soul, without a master; for everyday life, the soul is completely unnecessary. Similar ideas can be found in Buddhism, but not in Christianity. Holy Scripture speaks of God's gift of a soul to man: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul" (Gen. 2:7). About the tripartiteness of a person who has a spirit, soul and body, writes ap. Paul: "And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you in all its fullness, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved in its entirety without blemish at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:23). The following words of Christ also testify to the existence of the human soul: "... what is the use of a man if he gains the whole world, and damages his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matthew 16:26), and these words refer to all people, and not to the privileged group of "chosen occultists": "... I spoke openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where the Jews always converge, and secretly do not said nothing" (John 18:20). As you can see, the Christian doctrine of the soul has nothing to do with Gurdjieff's teaching, but, as we have already noted, it has much in common with Buddhism, but, as you know, it fundamentally denies the existence of God, which also does not agree with Christianity.

Like all occultists, Gurdjieff praises magic: "Since ancient times, people have known how to use ... the laws of nature. This use of mechanical laws, carried out by man, is called magic; it includes not only the transformation of substances in the desired direction, but also the opposition or resistance to certain mechanical influences.

People who know these universal laws and know how to use them are called magicians. There is white magic and black magic. White magic uses its knowledge for good, black - for evil, for its own egoistic purposes. "Gurdjieff in his attitude to magic echoes HP Blavatsky:" white magic. The so-called "Beneficial Magic" is divine magic, free from selfishness, lust for power, ambition or self-interest, and directed entirely towards doing good to the world in general and to one's neighbor in particular. The slightest attempt to use one's paranormal powers to satisfy one's ego turns these abilities into sorcery and black magic. "So, the true occultist, according to Blavatsky, is a white magician, but further Blavatsky adds:" But for the true student of the Occult Teaching, White or Divine Magic can to exist in Nature without its opposition to Black Magic is no more than a day without night ... ". By the way, the warlock Papus worked closely with theosophists, and they, apparently, were not at all embarrassed by the fact that he was engaged in black magic: "Gerard Encausse / Papus / ... In 1887, in contact with French theosophists - adherents of the teachings of H. P. Blavatsky, ... prepared and published a treatise "Modern Occultism" - a kind of manifesto for a new generation of mystics late XIX As we can see, the Theosophists' and Gurdjieff's opinions about magic actually coincide, but completely contradict the Christian attitude towards magic. According to the Holy Scriptures, magic is an abomination before God (Deut. cannot help the magician (Is. 47:9).

Gurdjieff's teaching about Christ also has nothing to do with Christianity: "Christ was a magician, a man of Knowledge, He was not God, or rather, He was God, but on a certain level." It is superfluous to comment here, for the denial of Christ's divinity is shared by all occultists.

The occult source of Gurgiism is also clearly visible from his attitude to astrology: "All beings born on Earth are colored by the light that prevailed on Earth at the time of their birth; and they retain this color throughout their lives. Just as no effect can exist without a cause , and not a single reason can remain without consequences.Indeed, the planets have a huge impact both on the life of mankind in general, and on the life of an individual. Big mistake modern science lies in the fact that she does not recognize this influence: on the other hand, the influence of the planets is not as great as modern "astrologers" want to assure us of this. As you can understand, Gurdjieff did not consider himself an "astrologer", which is quite understandable: there are "initiates", but there are "especially dedicated", to which Georgy Ivanovich, first of all, attributed himself, however, about the megalomania he suffered, below we will say a few more words. The depth of Gurdjieff's knowledge of astrology allowed him to endow humanity with such revelations as: "The moon feeds on organic life, feeds on humanity. Humanity is a part of organic life; therefore, humanity is food for the Moon. If all people became too intelligent, they would not want to to be eaten by the moon." The revelation is undoubtedly profound and worthy of such a great occult teacher as Gurdjieff was. Thanks to the astrological research of this author, we now know that war is a consequence of the influence of the planets, that people are just pawns subject to their influence.

Gurdjieff believed in the existence of so-called subtle bodies, which, however, all occultists believe: "Man has two substances: the substance of the active elements of the physical body and the substance of the active elements of the astral body."

Let us now analyze in more detail Gurdjieff's attitude to the occult. Studying his books, you can find out that in occult circles he was recognized as his own: "... I had, in accordance with special conditions my life, the possibility of access to the so-called "holy of holies" of almost all hermetic organizations, such as religious, philosophical, occult, political and mystical societies, congregations, parties, associations, etc., which are inaccessible ordinary person, and discussing and exchanging views with numerous people who, in comparison with others, are true authorities. " Among the "true authorities" Gurdjieff also gained a certain authority due to the fact that he once made "... the decision to apply my exclusive for modern man knowledge of the so-called "supernatural sciences", as well as the art of performing various "tricks" in these pseudoscientific areas, and to declare oneself a "professor instructor" ... . main reason This decision was an understanding of the fact that at that time a specific psychosis was widespread among people, which, as it was long ago established, periodically reaches high degree and manifests itself in surrendering to all kinds of "damned" ideas in the field of false-human knowledge, which in different eras had different names, and today it is called, etc. … I have earned among the members of the aforementioned "circles" and their families a reputation as a great "maestro" in all things related to supernatural knowledge.

The secrets of Joseph Stalin begin with the birthday. The official date of birth of Stalin is the ninth of December 1879 according to the Julian calendar. In fact, the date of birth of Joseph Stalin is the sixth of December 1878 according to the Julian calendar. Stalin, having changed his date of birth, wanted to hide his real father. The real father of Joseph Dzhugashvili was Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky, a famous Russian traveler. In the winter of early 1878, Przhevalsky was treated in Gori and met with Stalin's mother, Ekaterina Georgievna Dzhugashvili. The result of their meetings was the child Joseph. Stalin is Georgian on his mother's side and has Polish and Russian ancestors on his father's side.
Stalin, while studying at the seminary, along with Marxist literature, became acquainted with the literature of mystical and occult subjects. Outwardly showing himself a materialist, in the future he was always interested in mysticism. Stalin studied mystical practices under the guidance of Buddhist mystics during his exile in the Turukhansk region in 1913-1916. It was then that he acquired the ability to hypnotic suggestion and a special technique of looking. Many of Stalin's contemporaries, including Marshal Zhukov, noted that they could not stand Stalin's gaze. They felt uncomfortable, and wanted to tell all the secrets.
Stalin always wrote his speeches and articles himself. In his speeches, Stalin used special techniques for mass hypnosis of the audience. Stalin successfully used the methods of suggestion in the inner-party struggle.

Presumably, Gurdjieff met the future "father of nations" immediately upon returning home from his first wandering. Then, while studying at the Tiflis Theological Seminary, Iosif Dzhugashvili wrote romantic poems, and Gurdjieff formed a circle of harmonious development, in which the seminarian Dzhugashvili became a regular. Having brilliantly finished his studies, he abandoned poetry and unexpectedly became passionately interested in politics. Gurdjieff, fascinated Joseph with his independence and ideas about the development of a new person, however, believed that Dzhugashvili would never reach heights in the political field.

Whether old friends communicated after the revolution remains a secret, kept to this day in the archives of the Lubyanka under the stamp of top secret.

Another of his methods was that he forced his wards to work to the point of exhaustion at rough, primitive work, so that those, like marathon runners, would open a “second wind”. According to Gurdjieff, when the machine is broken, a certain center takes over control, about which normal life we don't suspect.

Gurdjieff is one of the leading mystics of the 20th century who created the doctrine of the fourth way of life. He raised no less serious mystics, such as Aleister Crowley (he was called the "beast of the apocalypse"), who created the Oriental Templar Society.

It is interesting that the topic of the relationship between Gurdjieff and Stalin is hidden by a veil of riddles and fiction. Obviously they knew about each other. If there were few meetings in the real world, then in mystical sense they could have a constant dialogue. We must also take into account the fact that Stalin paid attention to the occult aspects of reality.
In Gurdjieff's book "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" there is a story about Lentrohamsanin, the great ruler, whom higher powers sent forever to a desert planet, because he selfishly used secret knowledge to the detriment of his people.
Gurdjieff made his name from the first 3 letters of the names of Lenin, Trotsky and Hammer.

A pseudonym is a false name, but a name, and this name has an impact on a person, sometimes for the rest of his life. Or vice versa, a pseudonym, by virtue of its choice by a person, must carry a hidden characteristic of the owner.

Stalin had about thirty pseudonyms. Including Saline or Solin. Very similar to Sanya.

Bibliography

1. Gurdjieff G. View from real world// Herald of future goodness. SPb., Ed. Chernyshev. 1993. P.64.

2. Gurdjieff G. Herald of future good. SPb., Ed. Chernyshev. 1993. S.92-93.

3. short biography cited from the book: Vanderheel E. Mystics of the XX century. Encyclopedia. M., ed. Astrel; Ed. MYTH. 2001, pp. 164-180.

4. Uspensky P.D. In search of the miraculous // Gurdjieff G. Herald of future goodness. SPb., Ed. Chernyshev. 1993. P.142.

5. Vanderhil E. Mystics of the XX century. Encyclopedia. M., ed. Astrel; Ed. MYTH. 2001. P.175.

He believed that our whole life is under the influence of certain cosmic laws.

Enneagram Gurdjieff

To make these laws more understandable to people, the researcher showed them by example ancient symbol: Enneagrams. This symbol existed in the Middle East almost two and a half millennia ago. It is found in the most different types doctrines and religions, starting with philosophers and mathematicians Ancient Greece, Sufis and ending with Judaism, Kabbalah and Christianity.

Among literary works that the researcher left behind, it is important to mention his most famous ones, such as “Beelzebub’s stories to his grandson”, “Meetings with wonderful people” and his unfinished work “Life is real when I am”. All this, one might say, is his programmatic works, in which his views and ideas are concentrated. All these works make up the "Everything and Everything" cycle.

Thus, it can be argued that, on the whole, Gurdjieff created a most valuable and at the same time quite simple system to study and apply, which can really help humanity rise to a new stage of its development. And this system works, one might say, outside of time and space: it was relevant a century ago, just as it is relevant now.

For example, here are some of the Master's beliefs that would be useful to us today:

About money or paying for awareness

Nothing shows a person as well as his attitude towards money. People are ready to spend as much as they want on their personal fantasies, but they do not appreciate the work of others at all, Gurdjieff once remarked.

While payment according to Gurdjieff is a principle. It is necessary even not so much for those who accept it from you. Most of all, you need it yourself. Moreover: you absolutely need it.

The method of payment in principle can be different. But no one can or should get something they haven't paid for. Things cannot be given: they can only be bought. And this condition is one of the magical laws. This applies not only to material things, but also to knowledge. And this is the cosmic law.

Do you want to know why many of the people have almost nothing or little? .. Very simply: they want to get something for nothing.

These sixty-three short advice-indications helped darling Howard, as those around her called Gurdjieff's daughter, throughout her long life. And if they are correctly understood and applied, they can also help any other person who is able to listen to the most valuable and unique experience of their predecessors and Teachers.

We will give here all 63 lines of these most valuable life recommendations, because, in our opinion, there is a need for them even today:

Concentrate your attention on yourself.
Be aware at any moment of what you think, feel, desire or do.
Always finish what you started.
Do what you do as well as possible.
Don't get attached to things that can later destroy you.
Show your generosity without witnesses.

Don't take up too much space.
Don't make noise or make unnecessary gestures. If you don't have faith yet, imitate it.
Don't be easily impressed by exposure strong personalities. Don't grab anything or anyone.
Distribute fairly. Don't tempt. Eat and sleep exactly as much as necessary.
Don't talk about your personal problems. Don't judge or discriminate until you know all the basic facts.
Don't make useless friendships. Don't follow general trends. Don't sell yourself.

Change your pride into self-esteem. Change your anger into creativity and creation.
Change your greed into a reverence for beauty. Change your envy into admiration for the virtues of others.
Change your hatred into mercy. Do not praise, but do not insult yourself.
Take care of what is not yours as you would your own. Don't complain, don't complain to yourself.
Develop your imagination. Do not give orders to others just for the pleasure of submission.
Pay for the work and services you get. Do not promote your work and ideas.

Do not try to awaken in others in relation to yourself such feelings as: pity, sympathy, admiration, complicity.

Don't try to stand out appearance. Never contradict, just remain silent.

Do not get into debt, buy and pay immediately. If you offended in public, apologize publicly.

When you notice your mistake in a conversation, do not insist on being right out of a sense of pride and immediately abandon your previous intentions.

Do not defend your old ideas just because you have already proclaimed them.

Don't keep useless things. Don't decorate yourself with other people's ideas.

Don't take pictures with celebrities.

Be your own judge. Don't characterize yourself by what you have.

Realize that everything belongs to you.

If you are meditating and the Devil has come to you, make the Devil meditate too.

Views from the real world

IN last years and Gurdjieff's books finally began to appear in our country. So, among his other works, on the real and virtual shelves of bookstores, you can already find the collection “Views from the Real World”. It includes several works, such as the only work published during the author’s lifetime in 1933, his work “Herald of the Coming Good” and “Conversations with Disciples”: in fact, this is a transcript of the Teacher’s meetings with his followers from the times of 1941-1946 of the last century, during during World War II, German-occupied Paris. This book has been published quite recently and first appeared in Russian.

Gurdjieff and Stalin

They knew each other . Moreover: both were once seminarians of the theological seminary in Tbilisi, there is evidence that they even lived in the same room. Stalin also visited his cousin Gurdjieff in Moscow, famous sculptor Merkurov, who made death masks from party leaders and rulers of that time.

It is even known that, under the influence of Gurdjieff, Stalin changed the date of his birthday. That allowed him to further gain power.

Gurdjieff and Hitler

This topic is also quite odious and disturbing the minds of the townsfolk so far. some special influence on the Nazis and their idol is attributed. This is due, perhaps, to the fact that all of them - each in his own way - were interested in questions of the unknown. The only question is what each of them had true goals and motivations for this.

There is even a story that Gurdjieff taught hypnosis to Adolf Schicklgruber, the future "Fuhrer of the Third Reich", but these facts cannot be considered authentic.

But in his works, the Master treated politicians who were overwhelmed by a thirst for power in a very specific way. He called this kind of people the word "hasnamus", people without conscience, and considered them a dead end branch of civilization, while teaching others how to use the "hasnamus" for their own purposes.

The Last Hour of Gurdjieff's Life

The great magician died in 1949, on October 29, near Paris, in an American hospital. Everyone present, including doctors, was shocked by what they saw. At his last moment, Gurdjieff sat up in bed, opened his eyes, asked to be given his red hat, took different hands cigarette and a cup of coffee, lit a cigarette, took a sip ... It was clear that life was leaving him. But the face radiated light and the eyes shone. Finally, in his last moment, Gurdjieff said, addressing the audience: “Does anyone have any questions? And then I'm leaving."

No one will be able to escape from prison without the help of those who escaped before: only they can tell how it is possible to arrange an escape, - said Gurdjieff.

It is up to you to determine how to recycle my ideas to make them your own, yours alone. Your car cannot run on the special fuel that my car runs on. I offer you only raw materials. You must extract from this raw material what you can use.

Stalin and Hitler were interested in his teachings. He was called a magician and a prophet. George Ivanovich Gurdjieff himself modestly called himself a teacher oriental dances. Well, who was he really?

George Gurdjieff

... In the summer of 1948, an accident occurred in Fontainebleau, near Paris. The driver on a sharp turn lost control and crashed into a tree from all over. The mystic dance teacher - namely, he was driving - was found unconscious.

What caused the disaster? The recent rain, the confusion of the driver, and a specially rigged accident?.. Many were inclined to the latest version - George Gurdjieff had enough enemies who wanted to settle scores with him.

Gurdjieff has been compared to Blavatsky and the Tibetan sages. It was said that it was he who helped Hitler choose the swastika as the party emblem of the National Socialists. It was believed that Stalin borrowed from him the method of remaking a person.

And Gurdjieff was distinguished by a rare "omnivorousness." They looked for (and found) like-minded people in all walks of life. Poor or rich, Jew or anti-Semite, communist or Nazi - he didn't care.

In general, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was an extraordinary personality. He told about himself that he was born in 1872 in Karst on the border with Turkey. His father was from a Greek family and fled there from the Turks. Then the family moved to Alexandropol; Here the boy spent his childhood and adolescence.

Gurdjieff told one of his followers, Peter Ouspensky, that once he happened to observe a group of Satanists and fire worshipers. And he saw with his own eyes how the fire-worshipping boy could not get out of the circle outlined around him on earth by another boy, the Satanist.

Another time he heard someone sound the alarm, shouting that a certain spirit had come out of the grave. And people needed considerable efforts to curb the revived dead man and bury him in the ground again.

In his book In Search of the Supernatural, Ouspensky states that, observing such manifestations of the supernatural around him, Gurdjieff gradually came to full confidence in “the existence of special knowledge, special powers and abilities that are beyond human capabilities, as well as the existence of people who have the gift clairvoyance and other supernatural powers. And he himself wanted to have such knowledge.

While still a teenager, he began to travel with the firm intention of finding teachers who could teach him such superpowers. Ouspensky and other students of Gurdjieff were sure that Georgy Ivanovich finally achieved his goal, but how and where remained a mystery to everyone.

Even in a conversation with Ouspensky, he spoke in riddles, mentioning in his stories “Tibetan monasteries, Chitral, Mont Athos - sacred mountain Athos, Sufi schools in Persia, Bukhara and East Turkestan; he also mentioned dervishes of various orders, but about all this he spoke very vaguely.

John Bennet in his book Gurdjieff: Great Mystery” mentions that Gurdjieff, being a native of the Caucasus, was confident that this place is still a repository of ancient hidden wisdom, dating back 4000 years ago.

Anyway, he went looking for esoteric knowledge, lasting more than 20 years, as a result of which he allegedly discovered "practical, effective methods, with the help of which a person could control high matter, "which is necessary for his spiritual and physical changes.

In 1912 Gurdjieff returned to Russia and settled in Moscow. He decided to organize a school of oriental dances, hinting that he had learned this art from the dervishes.

He also took something from Buddhism and Christianity as the basis of his teaching. But 90 percent of his teaching was based on his personal philosophy. “The impression of communication with Gurzhiev was very strong,” eyewitnesses recalled. - It was hypnosis incredible strength and power…”

The dances that he performed with his students were also strange. He dressed them in white suits, forced them to make movements with gestures vaguely reminiscent of Indian dances.

Despite his acquaintance with Prince Bebutov and the support of his cousin, Gurdjieff's affairs in Moscow and St. Petersburg did not go smoothly. And when the revolutionary unrest began, the students generally began to scatter.

Then Gurdjieff decided to go to the Transcaucasus.

In the 1920s, Gurdjieff, together with some of his students, moved to Constantinople, and then to France, where he organized the Institute for Harmonious Development near Paris. They say that a wealthy Englishman gave him money for this. Among his pupils, indeed, there were Englishmen, as well as representatives of many other nationalities. And he looked at everyone as his slaves, to say the least.

In any case, K.S. Nott, in his book Further Teachings of Gurdjieff, describes how he met Gurdjieff in a Parisian cafe and began to complain to him about why he had taken him and his other student, Orage, so far away from their native places, and now left them, never having given the highest knowledge... Gurdjieff at first listened quietly, and then, grinning sarcastically, said bluntly: "I need rats for experiments."

What kind of experiments did he do?

A significant part of the Gurdjieff system was occupied by training sacred dances and their execution. He himself trained inexperienced students in dancing, and then demonstration concerts were given in Paris, London, New York. In addition, he diligently suppressed the will of his followers, mercilessly expelled dissidents.

The Nazi invasion caught G.I. Gurdjieff in France. And then it turned out that some moments in the teachings of Gurdjieff were very suitable for Hitler and his associates. For example, Herbiger, Hitler's teacher, believed that the moon could be the cause of the apocalypse. “This is already the fourth satellite of the Earth,” he considered. “The old three fell to the ground and exploded. Each cataclysm destroyed the previous civilization. Only the most deserving can survive...

And Gurdjieff found that man is entirely under the control of the moon. She controls not only sleepwalkers, but also has a huge influence on everyone else. Hitler was familiar with this doctrine and saw nothing harmful in it.

Moreover, it is known that Karl Haushofer, one of the ideologists of the Third Reich, was at one time with Gurdjieff in Tibet, looking for the roots of the Aryan race there. It is also known that some of the Nazis were students of Gurdjieff.

In any case, such an episode is known. Gurdjieff somehow approached one of the leaders of the occupying regime in France and slapped him on the back in a friendly way. The guard immediately twisted Gurzhiev, and the Nazi himself only burst out laughing: “Teacher! How glad I am to meet you! .. ”- and began to hug him.

In general, Gurdjieff survived the occupation of France more than tolerably.

However, after the collapse of the Third Reich, he began to have complications. Many began to laugh at Gurdjieff, calling him a "Greek charlatan", an "American master of magic" and a "miracle worker from the Caucasus." The number of his students decreased, although those who remained had no doubt that he was a true magician, possessing occult knowledge and special powers.

It was also said that Gurdjieff could predict the future. True, he did this not often and at the special request of his students. But some of the predictions, through the disciples, became the property of the press. And then it turned out that Gurdjieff had predicted in advance the death of Lenin, the death of Trotsky. The latter, apparently, worried I.V. Stalin, who was the main organizer of the assassination attempt on Lev Davidovich. He ordered Beria to deal with the guru.

Perhaps after this, the accident occurred, with which our story begins. Gurdjieff's car suddenly lost control at high speed and crashed into a tree. However, the accident could have had quite ordinary reasons: everyone knew that Gurdjieff was a terrible driver, just a crazy driver.

One way or another, but after the accident, Georgy Ivanovich was in bed in the hospital and again began to teach dancing. But after a while, he suddenly fell right in the classroom. And on October 29, 1949, he died in an American hospital near Paris.

Beria reported to Stalin that before his death, the guru said: "I leave you in a predicament."

His devoted disciples kept watch over his body for several days, and K.S. Nott noted in his memoirs that "strong vibrations were felt in the room" and it seemed that "radiation came from the body itself."

And John Benet, who led one of the groups after Gurdjieff's death, claimed that in recent months In the life of a teacher, he said that “he will inevitably leave this world, but another will come who will complete the work he has begun,” from somewhere in the Far East.

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The obvious is always forgotten, and you are the most obvious thing to yourself.

You know what you are.

You can remember a thousand other things, but you don't have to remember yourself. Life goes on beautifully without self-remembering. It is not necessary. It's completely useless. As far as daily work is concerned, you do not need to know the absolute, the infinite. Naturally, you start taking yourself for granted, as if you know, as if you remember.

Only very rarely... when you meet someone who helps you realize that you don't remember yourself, you fall asleep. Until someone provokes you, creates a question in you, the obvious will remain forgotten. To be with a master is simply to learn – not an answer, but a question. The answer is in yourself. You just forgot the question.

Osho, The Sword and the Lotus, p. 184

George Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian descent, philosopher, mystic, writer, and teacher, full name- George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, was born in Alexandropol, on the border of Russia and Turkey, around 1870 (the exact date, like many other details of his life, is unknown).

Gurdjieff himself took pains, among his many secrets, to keep especially carefully the secret of the time and place of his birth. There is no single TRUE source! There are only versions.

The Wikipedia articles on Gurdjieff give different dates. George Gurdjieff, even during his life, deliberately (just like Stalin) concealed the date of his birth, deliberately naming different people different dates. This was done for a reason that is known to every competent mystic: by date, with the help of astrology, you can find out a lot of things that a person would like to hide about himself. As a result, this led to the fact that these people are still legendary. And the more you take "sources", the more chaos will be. For example, Rovner A.B., the most competent in this matter, the author of the book "Gurdjieff and Uspensky", names 3 dates of the alleged birth of Gurdjieff: 1872-1874-1877. This is the "optimal truth".
George Gurdjieff is compared either with Count Cagliostro, or with Grigory Rasputin, or with the prophetess of Theosophy, Helena Blavatsky. He is credited with secret power over the leaders of political dictatorships. Behind him stretches a trail of the most unexpected legends, where Hitler, Stalin and Beria appear ...

This man was and remains one of the most mysterious figures of the twentieth century.

He left behind the books “Everything and everything, or Beelzebub’s stories to his grandson”, “Meetings with wonderful people”, “Life is real only when “I am””,
many techniques for working on awareness, including the dances and movements of Gurdjieff.

The dances and movements of Gurdjieff are a wonderful gift for anyone who wants to become more conscious and is ready to take concrete actions for this.

Part of the dances Gurdjieff brought from the regions North Africa, Central Asia, Tibet, most of it - developed independently.

With the right approach, they harmonize various energies within the body, help to enter the state of PRESENCE, which is not easy in everyday life.

Contribute to the creation of harmony between the body mind and feelings.

Maintain a state of relaxation and alertness at the same time.

For meditators, this is “vipassana with open eyes».

The process of learning Gurdjieff dances is a journey to the center of your being, finding inner silence, beauty, bliss.

He traveled a lot in the countries of the East (India, Afghanistan, Persia, Turkestan, Egypt, Tibet ...), in search of "secret knowledge".

Since 1912, he began to create groups of people interested in working on themselves.

According to Gurdjieff, man lives in a very insignificant place in the universe. The planet is governed by many mechanical laws that impede the self-realization of man. Inner growth is not easy to achieve; great attention and great efforts are required from a person. And although a person has the opportunity to increase the level of his consciousness and, consequently, being, it is incredibly difficult for him to realize this alone. Work on oneself, according to the teachings of Gurdjieff, is individual and experimental. Nothing should be taken for granted unless it is proven. personal experience.

On the "Fourth Way" - this is how Gurdjieff called his teaching - a person must assert himself. The method of self-development that he taught is an attempt to free a person from the burden of laws that affect his development.

He argued: one of the important laws of development is related to the spiritual impulse, i.e. For spiritual development personality needs additional influence from the Teacher or the group.

He spoke of the law of three, which he called the basic law concerning all events - always and everywhere. This law says that every manifestation is the result of three forces: active, passive and neutral. This law - the basis of any creativity - is reflected in many world religions. As a result of this law, working on oneself is not reading books. Threefold effort is needed: active - the Teacher, passive - the student, neutral - the group. But he who craves knowledge must himself make the first effort to find true knowledge and approach it. Knowledge cannot come to people without their own efforts, he said. "It is necessary to organize, it is necessary to work in a group and with the help of someone who has already been liberated before. Only such a person can tell what the path of liberation is. Accurate knowledge is needed, instructions from those who have already passed the path, and it is necessary to use them together."

significant place in the views of G.I. Gurdjieff is occupied with ideas about the "student", "teacher" and their relationship. A disciple is a person who, due to the circumstances of his life, has experienced an awakening experience and thus left the "outer circle" of humanity, but is not in himself capable of further progress along the path of inner realization. The teacher is the one who has already done the necessary work on the integration of many of his "I" and on the subordination of the personality to the essence, i.e. having a true Self, his own will and ability to act. The teacher thus acts as a necessary condition for the confrontation of the student with himself for the purpose of internal development.

The esoteric truth of Gurdjieff's teaching is addressed primarily to man himself and only through him - outside world. This teaching allows you to take a critical look at yourself and the world, to try to understand the worldview of another person, to think seriously about the fundamental issues of being.

Gurdjieff techniques of self-awareness

Feel the taste of the food you eat with all your attention.

Stop unnecessary conversations.

If you notice that the other is not listening, stop immediately.

If you catch yourself singing your usual song, stop immediately.

Really close actions by releasing them / coming back completely to yourself.

Practice on phone calls.

Begin the next action with a completely clear mind.

Listen to music and notice where in the body the music is heard. Notice the difference between the physical perceptions of rhythm, melody and harmony.

Listen for silence, intervals between words or musical notes.

Notice when you lose your focus and fall asleep.

See life as a game in which all roles are equal.

Observe one of your roles and try to expose the identity.

Don't waste your energy on excessive effort: screwing the top of your toothpaste too tight, the same with a peanut butter jar, slamming the door, pressing your keyboard too hard, etc., etc.

In short, have a sense of proportion!

Gurdjieff and Stalin

Stalin and Gurdjieff knew each other well. According to some reports, they studied at the same time at the Tiflis Orthodox Seminary. Although this is very doubtful: by that time Gurdjieff had already received such colossal spiritual knowledge that the seminary would not have given him anything ... But it is absolutely certain that they lived in the same apartment in Tiflis. And since both were exceptional personalities, they had a noticeable influence on each other. Subsequently, while in exile, Gurdjieff repeatedly mentioned the wound he received in his youth in Transcaucasia. Just during the famous "exes" of young revolutionaries, whose organization is attributed to Stalin. Much speaks for the fact that he was wounded by a bullet at the end of 1904 in the area of the Chiatura Gorge, when a post stagecoach was robbed. And yet, it is not worth exaggerating the influence of Gurdjieff on the future leader, as many are doing now.

The existence at the same time of two powerful conceptual systems - National Socialism and Communism - is certainly interesting fact. There is a feeling that behind any scientific explanations there must be something else, less real, but closer to the truth. This feeling justifies the attempt to place between Stalin and Hitler George Gurdjieff, the greatest philosopher and, if you like, esotericist of the 20th century, the Russian Don Juan of the 1920s.

Stalin and Gurdjieff

Point one.

Stalin was born in 1887 in the city of Gori. Gurdjieff was born in 1885 in the village of Gurdzhani. Thus, initially they were separated by 2 years and one hundred and twenty kilometers. It is known that in the period from 1899 to 1901 they studied at the theological seminary of Tiflis. Were they familiar? Unknown. One can only quote from Trotsky's book "Stalin": "At that time he (Stalin) was interested in questions of socialism and cosmogony." After that, Stalin leaves for the revolutionary struggle, and Gurdjieff leaves for Tibet.

Point two.

During the period 1912-1913. both Stalin and Gurdjieff are active in Petersburg. Stalin oversees the editorial office of the Pravda newspaper, and Gurdjieff teaches and organizes the first production of his play The Struggle of the Magicians. There is no evidence of their intersection. However, the possibility of their meeting is likely.

Third point

Even less real. There is no information about Stalin's attitude to esotericism. But there is a legend about how at the end of the 30s a certain person came to Russia, to Stalin, who went unnoticed to the Kremlin, to Stalin's office. According to one version, it was Gurdjieff. A literary presentation of this story can be found in Viktor Suvorov's book Control.

Gurdjieff and Hitler

The intersection of Gurdjieff and Hitler has one well-known point, quite clearly fixed. It is known that Gurdjieff was close to Karl Haushofer (apparently, they were members of a group engaged in the search for ... what they were looking for) and, accordingly, with Hitler and other founders of National Socialism. In fact, Gurdjieff worked with them for some time. Photographs from the early 30s have been preserved, confirming this circumstance.
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Stalin and Hitler were interested in his teachings. He was called a magician and a prophet. George Ivanovich Gurdjieff himself modestly called himself a teacher of oriental dances. Well, who was he really?

George Gurdjieff

And Gurdjieff was distinguished by a rare "omnivorousness." They looked for (and found) like-minded people in all walks of life. Poor or rich, Jew or anti-Semite, communist or Nazi - he didn't care.

Even in a conversation with Uspensky, he spoke in riddles, mentioning in his stories “Tibetan monasteries, Chitral, Mont-Athos - the sacred Mount Athos, Sufi schools in Persia, Bukhara and East Turkestan; he also mentioned dervishes of various orders, but about all this he spoke very vaguely.

John Benne in his book "Gurdjieff: The Great Enigma" mentions that Gurdjieff, being a native of the Caucasus, was convinced that this place is still a repository of ancient hidden wisdom, dating back 4000 years ago.

One way or another, he embarked on a quest for esoteric knowledge that lasted more than 20 years, as a result of which he allegedly discovered "practical, effective methods by which a person could control high matter", which is necessary for his spiritual and physical changes.

In 1912 Gurdjieff returned to Russia and settled in Moscow. He decided to organize a school of oriental dances, hinting that he had learned this art from the dervishes.

He also took something from Buddhism and Christianity as the basis of his teaching. But 90 percent of his teaching was based on his personal philosophy. “The impression of communication with Gurzhiev was very strong,” eyewitnesses recalled. “It was a hypnosis of incredible strength and power…”

The dances that he performed with his students were also strange. He dressed them in white suits, forced them to make movements with gestures vaguely reminiscent of Indian dances.

Then Gurdjieff decided to go to the Transcaucasus.

What kind of experiments did he do?

A significant part of the Gurdjieff system was occupied by the teaching of sacred dances and their performance. He himself trained inexperienced students in dancing, and then demonstration concerts were given in Paris, London, New York. In addition, he diligently suppressed the will of his followers, mercilessly expelled dissidents.

In general, Gurdjieff survived the occupation of France more than tolerably.

Beria reported to Stalin that before his death, the guru said: "I leave you in a predicament."

And John Benet, who led one of the groups after Gurdjieff's death, claimed that in the last months of the teacher's life, he said that "he will inevitably leave this world, but another will come who will complete the work he has begun," from somewhere in the Far East.

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