By Bennett, John G.; Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch; Blake, A. G. E
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The very idea that it is not possible to understand without the “participation” of feeling is only now just beginning to be entertained and remains largely ignored and rejected in practice. Once one begins to allow feeling to play an equal part with thought, one begins to see that the text is generating an actual experience in reading it: it is not simply “about” something but is working in oneself. In the first part of this book, Bennett draws attention also to the essential role of sensation.
There have been various books published on Beelzebub’s Tales since this book first came out in 1977, including Sophia Wellbeloved’s Gurdjieff, Astrology and Beelzebub’s Tales and Keith Buzzell’s Perspectives on Beelzebub’s Tales. They have some merits, but both suffer from attempting to make sense of the book according to preconceived ideas; in the case of the first, based on astrology and in the case of the second, partly on Buzzell’s understanding of the enneagram. Any effort is to be welcomed, but these remain so to say “outside” the book and do not have the passionate depth of Saurat’s appreciation and insight.
Eventually, Bennett appears to have recognized that Gurdjieff had gone far beyond any “system” of teaching, as he himself developed his own independent understanding. It may be useful to quote from his preface to the fourth volume of The Dramatic Universe: “All experience is contained within the Present, so each separate will determines a Present Moment that is unique. It follows that there must be as many “Systems of the World” as there are Individual Wills. By the principle that wills coalesce to form Greater Present Moments, systems of explanation can also coalesce; but they cannot be simplified, in the way that has been so often attempted, by reducing them all to a common denominator.