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When J. G. Bennett first read All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson in 1948 he was convinced that it would have a powerful impact on all who came across it. With Gurdjieff's approval he undertook a series of lectures in London preparing people to grasp the book's message.
Never claiming to be a true initiate capable of unravelling and transmitting the essential meaning of Beelzebub's Tales, Bennett nevertheless did all that he could to give people access to the book and its significance. Bennett regarded it as a work of superhuman genius and containing expressions of reality which by their very nature were bound to make severe demands on any reader.
The talks collected in this monograph are representative of Bennett's expositions from 1949 to 1974. There is no attempt to explain away and give easy definitions of the complex and sometimes wonderfully barbarous expressions which Gurdjieff used. Bennett gave people a spade to do their own digging with.
For those who have felt attraction to Beelzebub's Tales these talks will be invaluable. They are at present the only generally available commentaries which attempt to understand the book in more than a psychological way. They are truly unique and go much further than anything Mr. Bennett had published in his lifetime.
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When J. G. Bennett first read All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson in 1948 he was convinced that it would have a powerful impact on all who came across it. With Gurdjieff's approval he undertook a series of lectures in London preparing people to grasp the book's message.
Never claiming to be a true initiate capable of unravelling and transmitting the essential meaning of Beelzebub's Tales, Bennett nevertheless did all that he could to give people access to the book and its significance. Bennett regarded it as a work of superhuman genius and containing expressions of reality which by their very nature were bound to make severe demands on any reader.
The talks collected in this monograph are representative of Bennett's expositions from 1949 to 1974. There is no attempt to explain away and give easy definitions of the complex and sometimes wonderfully barbarous expressions which Gurdjieff used. Bennett gave people a spade to do their own digging with.
For those who have felt attraction to Beelzebub's Tales these talks will be invaluable. They are at present the only generally available commentaries which attempt to understand the book in more than a psychological way. They are truly unique and go much further than anything Mr. Bennett had published in his lifetime.
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