![]() ![]() ![]() The journal is not an exposition of the theory of the Gurdjieff system it is rather an account of the cumulative effect on one person of practical work in an authentic esoteric school. It has also a description of life at the Château de Prieuré as experienced by the pupil. The book, compiled from hundreds of pages of notes and diaries, is a record of sayings and doings of Gurdjieff and their impact on the young pupil at that time. Stanley Notts touching account of his finding the Gurdjieff teaching at an important moment in his life and of the years spent working with Gurdjieff and all his key pupils from the period, is fairly unique in that it is first hand account from someone who was there in the early American and Paris period, and who was very close particularly to A.R. This is a first hand account of a disillusioned young man who, having travelled round the world studying various ways and religions, finally meets Gurdjieff in New York, and is convinced by seeing the demonstrations of sacred dances that at last he has found the Way he is looking for. Title: Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal. ![]() He was one of the founders of the All and Everything Conference, which has taken place annually in various countries since 1996. The last of the aforementioned books was translated into English and published as Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way by Kesjan Publishing in Austin in 2003. They include Au-dela de la Quatrieme voie (The Other World of the Fourth Way), Les Tresors de Tarot (Treasures of the Tarot), Le Message de Gurdjieff (The Message of Gurdjieff), Bases de l’ésotérisme: fragments de gnose (Foundations of esotericism: Fragments of Gnostic Teaching) and Gurdjieff et la quatrieme voie (Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way), published by Prismes Hebdo Edition inFrance. Tereschenko studied with Gurdjieff and wrote a number of books in French about him as well as about the other spiritual traditions he was close to, all of which were published in France. He was a High Grade Freemason, an Adeptus Maximus of Madeline Montalban’s Order of the Morning Star, and an Arch Druid of the United Ancient Order of Druids. The Gospels frequently refer to the idea of sleep and the necessity for watchfulness. Tereschenko was affiliated with a large number of mystical groups, in which he held important ranks and rites. Gurdjieff’s students recognized many similarities between Gurdjieff’s teachings and Christian doctrine. He grew up and lived almost all of his life in France. Marquis Nicholas (Nicolai) Tereschenko (1920-2001) was born to a family in the Ukraine raised to nobility by the Russian Tsar. ![]()
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