Digging Up The Dog: The Greek Roots Of Gurdjieff's Esoteric Ideas
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0963910035 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 92 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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A very handsome amplified paper. MICHAEL J RYAN This book, while relatively short, is well written, well designed, and nicely illustrated. As the title suggests, it traces the roots of Gurdjieff's system to the writings of the great Pythagorean, Platonic, Neo-Pythagorean and Neo-Platonic (chronologically) writers, with generous quotations from both the ancient writers and Gurdjieff and his expositors. A good read in its own righ. "Short Book Yet Informative" according to Zach. I have read all three of Gurdjieff's books and often wondered about where his ideas came from. Beke's little book, which seems to be based on a lecture, is very informative and interesting. It was certainly amazing to see how Gurdjieff's ideas were traced to the Greek writers and seeing the comparative between the two areas. I found this little book to be quite enjoyable and I'd re. George Smith said No Dog, No Meaning, and Clear as Mud. This is an oversized pamphlet for its 71 pages of broad generalities. The text is largely on the right side of the page, while illustrations and quotations appear on the left side of the page. The leading between the lines of text and the expansive white space around the text makes for a very lean, very thin reading experience.The Law of Seven (Gurdjieff) parallels the Pythagorean
When asked to define his teaching, the world-traveler and mystic seeker George Ivanovich Gurdjieff characterized it as "esoteric Christianity." Where did this esoteric Christianity come from? According to Gurdjieff, "Everything Christian came from old Greek, then they spoil. All, all comes from Greek" Although Gurdjieff spent time in Tibet, and has often been linked to the Sufis he encountered on his travels, his esoteric ideas had their roots in his own backyard, where his Greek father, a bard steeped in the ancient oral tradition, recited thousands of lines of ancient sagas from memory. Reading Gurdjieff's magnum opus, "All and Everything," the informed reader cannot fail to notice the many correspondences between ancient Greek texts and Gurdjieff's ideas. The ancient Greeks carried the torch of esoteric knowledge for well over a thousand years, and Gurdjieff lays out many of their teachings, encrypted in the Pythagorean method he liked to refer to as "burying the dog."