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What isn’t commonly understood, though the clues are there in Search, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson and Meetings with Remarkable Men, is that Gurdjieff discovered the teaching of the Fourth Way in Egypt and Ethiopia (Abyssinia).

Later he will refer to it as a “certain Dervish monastery” where he spent two years studying oriental hypnotism. Because, he says, “I foresaw certain possible changes in the conditions of ordinary life [there would be a world disaster, if the ‘wisdom’ of the East and the ‘energy’ of the West were not integrated and made harmonious—see Fritz Peters’ Boyhood with Gurdjieff and Gurdjieff Remembered]

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Gurdjieff, Sufism & Mohammed by William Patrick Patterson presents key insights from the Sufism tradition. The 2 passages above capture the essential teachings.

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