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Four Creating 'Man Num ber FourтАЩ
Five Success
Six 'There is no SystemтАЩ
Seven W hat Went W rong?

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 G.I. Gurdjieff:

The War Against Sleep
For Cyril Tilburn, whose help was invaluable.
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Acknowledgements
Introductory Note

One The Magician
Two The Early Years
Three Moscow and St Petersburg
Four Ouspensky in Search of Miracles
Five The Deluge and After
Six The Awakening of Courage
Seven New Directions
Eight Gurdjieff versus Ouspensky?

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 Acknowledgements


I wish to acknowledge the kindness of Messrs Routledge and
Kegan Paul for permission to quote from the works of Gurdjieff
and Ouspensky. I also wish to thank Turnstone Press Ltd. for
allowing me to quote from John Bennett's Witness and Gurdjieff:
Making a New World. I also wish to thank Victor Gollancz Ltd. for
permission to quote from Fritz Peters's Boyhood with Gurdjieff.
 Introductory Note


IT W AS in 1951, a year after the publication of In Search of the
Miraculous and Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, that I first
came across the ideas of Gurdjieff. I was instantly aware of being
in touch with one of the great minds of this century. I wrote about
him for the first time in 1955, in the concluding chapter of The
Outsider, where he figures (with Ramakrishna and T. E. Hulme)
as one of the few men who have glimpsed a solution to the
'sickness of man in the twentieth century'. Since then I have