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  • G.I. Gurdjieff on Esoteric Christianity and the Slavery of the Masses

    G.I. Gurdjieff on Esoteric Christianity and the Slavery of the Masses

    Peter D. Ouspensky, a Russian philosopher and student of Armenian mystic, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff around 1870 recounts a conversation he had with him in his book, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (1949). In one account, Peter D. Ouspensky asks Gurdjieff: “Why if ancient knowledge is preserved, why aren’t such men…