Constantinople Notes on the Transition to Man 4

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Constantinople Notes on the Transition to Man 4 is written by Boris Ferapontoff and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0997693754 (ISBN 10) and 9780997693751 (ISBN 13).

Boris Ferapontoff was a pupil of Gurdjieff in Russia, in Constantinople, and was with him at the Prieuré. At the Prierué, he was a Movements demonstrator, and apparently correctly predicted that he would die young.What is the material? I think that much of it may be based on lectures Ouspensky gave in Turkey. Some of it seems to me to be pure Gurdjieff, although Ouspensky could quote Gurdjieff directly, so one cannot be dogmatic. Various ideas in these notes, e.g., those concerning karma, were never referred to by Ouspensky in "Miraculous," "Psychology," "New Model," or in any of his reported questions and answers. That makes me think that these notes are unlikely to be Ouspensky's words alone, because had Ouspensky ever expressed these powerful ideas, why would he apparently discard them, especially as he stated that he aimed to pass on the system as he had received it and as a whole? Also, one of the comments about the Absolute (not in this selection) makes the Absolute sound like God, and Ouspensky repudiated that suggestion. If the sound of Gurdjieff comes through loud and clear in this extract, it's in the pithy comment about "perspicacity." -From the Introduction by Joseph Azize