Gurdjieff Legacy-Baltimore

[Speaking of cosmoses] The way up is at the same time the way down.

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The broadening of consciousness does not proceed in one direction only, that is, in the direction of the higher cosmoses; in going above, at the same time it goes below.

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In his ordinary state a man is conscious of himself in one cosmos, and all the other cosmoses he looks at from the point of view of one cosmos. The broadening of his consciousness and the intensity of his psychic functions lead him into the sphere of activity and life of two other cosmoses simultaneously, the one above and the one below, that is, one larger and one smaller.

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The conditions of the action of laws on each plane, that is, in each cosmos, are determined by the two adjoining cosmoses, the one above and the one below.

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Who loves his parents, loves God. If people love their parents all the time that their parents are alive, then, when their parents die, there is a space left in them for Him to fill.

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It is essential to know that the full teaching on cosmoses speaks not of two, but of seven cosmoses, included one within another.

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World deeds are like honey-cakes, from which the eater must grow an ass’s tooth.

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These terrifying processes proceeded on this same Egypt so often, in consequence of the fact that this part of the surface of your planet [Egypt], during the course of long periods of time, found itself in relation to the common-cosmic Harmonious-Movement in the position of what is called the ‘center-of-gravity-radiations,’ and that is why the influence of the cosmic law Solioonensius often acted on the presence of the three-brained beings breeding there, and often brought forth in them such an abnormality.… under the influence of the action of Solioonensius, instead of the desire and striving for a speedier self-perfection a something began to arise such as they themselves characterize by the words ‘need for freedom,’ which chiefly serves the cause of the arising there of these same grievous processes of theirs similar to this last ‘Bolshevism.’… that feeling which arises from the action of Solioonensius strengthens in them the need for some or other general change in the conditions of their ordinary external being-existence.

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The broadening of consciousness and the intensifying of psychic functions lead into the sphere of activity and life of two other cosmoses simultaneously, the one above and the one below, that is, one larger and one smaller.

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Knowledge begins with the teaching of the cosmoses.

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