Second Body Obstetrics - Sven Louland
The Awakening of Objective Conscience and the Attainment
of Objective Reason - Will Mesa
The Manifestations, Requirements and Potentials in
Today’s World Through the Work of Gurdjieff - Bonnie Phillips
Immaturity - Bill Murphey
An Analysis of the Parallel Systems of Neologisms in
Beelzebub's Tales - by Ian MacFarlane
Beelzebub's Tales, The Enneagram and the Mathnawai:
Understanding the Structure of Ancient Texts - Anthony Blake
ABSTRACT 1
Second Body Obstetrics
by Sven Louland
The second body has many names: it is the “Higher emotional body”, “Astral
body”, “second-being-body Kesdjan”, “Body of Being”, “Kether body”, “body of
man’s Spirit”, and others. The “esoteric womb” is a descriptive and more exact
expression for an “esoteric school”, within which the embryonic second body
undergoes progressive transformations along the ascending octave from the DO of
“hydrogen 48” till maturity and birth into the higher cosmos of the “Astral
world” (or Mesocosmos). The “esoteric womb” and its functions are analogous to
the physical womb and its significant functions that we know so well from our
conventional subhuman and animal existence in the lower 3-dimensional material
cosmos. But, whereas man’s physical animal body develops from conception till
maturity along descending octaves, i.e. automatically, as determined by Nature,
man¹s spiritual body, or second body, is evolved consciously only along
ascending octaves, and it is “partk-dolg-duty” and effort all the way during the
ascent of “the stairway”, from conception till maturity and birth into the
higher level and state of consciousness (self-remembering) where “the Way”
begins. Gurdjieff promised in the chapter on Professor Skridlov in Meetings with
Remarkable Men (page 243, English edition) to tell us in detail in his Third
Series of writings (Life is real only then, when “I am) about the second body,
or body of man’s “spirit”, and also about the third body, or body of man’s
“soul”. However, the Third Series is incomplete, and Gurdjieff’s promise was not
actualized. My Paper relates only to the second body that I am familiar with
from self-experience.
Biographical Resume
Sven was born in Denmark in 1919. He studied forestry at the Royal Veterinary
and Agricultural College at Copenhagen University. In London in 1948 he
encountered people who were engaged in the same psychological studies and
benefited from close contact with a number of Gurdjieff’s 1st generation pupils.
In London he was employed for about 20 years in Teaching Hospitals and their
subsidaries in the capacity as a Pathology Technician, participating in
research, and also as a Medical Artist. Crewed for well over three years on an
ocean going yacht with a skipper and owner who was a remarkable man who had
studied Gurdjieff’s work extensively.
ABSTRACT 2
The Awakening of Objective Conscience and the Attainment of
Objective Reason
By Will Mesa
Objective Conscience and Objective Reason are the contents of the two great
Teachings in Beelzebub ‘s Tales to His Grandson, namely, the Teaching the Very
Saintly Ashiata Shiemash on Objective Conscience and the Teaching of. Saint
Buddha on Objective Reason.
In this paper I first discuss how these two teachings are lawfully placed in the
Law of Seven of Beelzebub's Tales, in accordance with the wise provisions of the
Adherent of Legominism. This very same fact, by itself, shows the great
importance of the teachings on Objective Conscience and Objective Reason. I then
discuss, in details, the essence of both teachings by reviewing the Teaching of
Ashiata Shiemash and the Teaching of Saint Buddha. I show that these two
teachings constitute the heart of Beelzebub ‘s Tales to His Grandson.
Towards the end of the paper, I discuss what the awakening of Objective
Conscience and the attainment of Objective Reason, in that ptecisc order, really
entail. I do this from a practical and not theoreticai point of view.
I conclude the paper showing how the teachings on Objective Conscience and
Objective Reason have been distorted, throughout the history of humanity, by the
Lentroliamsanins and Hasnamuss of this world. I show how former and contemporary
civilizations have followed the way of Lentrohamsanin.
Biographical Resume
Will Mesa received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University
of Florida. He spent three years with a group led by Heniy Tracol in Paris, and
six years with the groups of Nathalie Etievan in Venezuela, followed by four
years with the New York Chan Meditation Center. He pursues a lifelong interest
in the investigation of certain aspects of the Omnipresent-Okidanokh and the
practical application of the Teaching of Ashiata Shiemash. He has published
thirteen papers on Beelzebub ‘s Tales to His Grandson. He is the author of A
Treatise on Cosmic Engineering: A Book on Initiation and Transmutation Written
According to the Law, a yet unpublished book.
ABSTRACT 4
The Manifestations, Requirements and Potentials in Today’s
World Through the Work of Gurdjieff
By Bonnie Phillips
Within each of us exists a ‘something’ that Gurdjieff refers to, through the
story of Ashiata, as conscience, the lack of which, through the story of
Belcultassi, we experience every day, through self-observation. I wish to
address conscience in myself and test the ideas that have arisen from some
degree of being-Partkdolg-duty and learn from your responses, with the greater
aim of acquiring more and more knowledge toward understanding objective
conscience. It is in the spirit of an awakening conscience, consideration of
others and of our environment that I present this paper for your consideration.
The ideas which will be discussed come from my own struggle with this question
of our buried conscience and, when it does arise, how then to respond to it. How
to verify that which is seen?
There is a greater and greater awakening to the catastrophic, environmental
crisis on our planet today. We are creating and facing such sorrows: diseases on
an unprecedented scale, hunger, poverty, lack of healthcare and the killing of
so many innocent people for so called ‘justified’ wars.
Our planet is impoverished and we are impoverished. The lack of a holistic or
balanced approach to our selves and our world is evidenced on a daily basis.
Egoistic interests abound. So, with a just a bit of limited reason and some
common sense, I wish to support the kind of change we all wish to see and, all
wish to be. How then am I going to make a relationship with all this in life? If
there is really any hope to address the catastrophic global circumstances, and
our own inner catastrophic circumstances, then what, in particular, is that
responsibility for me – as a particle of humanity, as a part of the whole and
very importantly as a part of the work as put forth by Gurdjieff?
What is possible to understand through the basic Principles or Laws of the
Universe as put forth by Gurdjieff? and How can that understanding benefit all?
Can we discuss what we understand of our aim, our biology, sociology and purpose
as three-brained beings on this planet?
How to understand and implement what is possible to do at any given time? or,
What does it take for more of us to begin to waken to reality and that which is
required of us today?
Do we in our own ‘Work in life’, with our friends and communities, also have a
collective responsibility to one another on this planet through understanding
the Work? What would it be to understand how to take that responsibility?
What do we need to know in order to address the varied catastrophic
circumstances which exist both internally and externally? What is it that is not
being seen today which needs to be seen? How can we create the conditions for
dialogue with other groups who are essentially on a similar path?
Do we think that our knowledge of the Work has any real relationship to all
this? If so, how is it related? If not, why?
What can we do beyond our own personal work? Besides an individual
responsibility is there a collective responsibility from those of us in this
work?
Akhaldan sovors: making a relationship with other, sharing that which we
understand to be true and therefore useful to all.
How to come to something higher through our dialogue, which for me, is in direct
correspondence with our work with each other and for the work?
Biographical Resume
After my initial wanderings through classes in some of the great traditions
of this world I was introduced to the Gurdjieff teaching (1985) and for me this
became the center of my work in life. It provided me real hope through the
admonition of Gurdjieff to not believe just anything but to verify for myself
everything. Although it has been quite a struggle and continues to be, to do
such a thing, I have been determined to accomplish this task day by day.
Self-observation and work with others has given me the means to endeavor to
carry through with this to the present. I met Michael and Toddy Smyth in 1990
and then Annie Lou Staveley the following year. Then through the All and
Everything Humanities Conference and Two Rivers Farm gathering I met Keith and
Marlena Buzzell. These meetings have provided me with material for continued
effort toward all that this work of Gurdjieff contains. I am eternally grateful
toward all the other contacts that this teaching has provided me and continues
to provide.
Born – 1942
Artist/art dealer – Phillips Gallery, established 1965 – present (phillips-gallery.com)
Golden Rule Project – 2001 – present (goldenruleproject.org)
Fifth Press – 2003- present (fifthpress.com)
ABSTRACT 5
Immaturity
By Bill Murphey
Aspects of immaturity have been exposed in the science of idiotism as well as in
the enneagram of personalities. Neither explains very accurately the real causes
of the problem or the possibility of amelioration or a cure. Our intention in
this presentation on immaturity is to reveal the true cause of the problem, its
consequences and the possible means of amelioration.
The life of a human is an ascending octave. The Do is sounded by the parents at
the conception. The Re is the 9 months of gestation and the Mi note starts at
the instant of birth. The Mi note being a half tone has to be filled from
outside. More properly described as the proper affluence of nearby forces. Mr G
reveals his great ability to desbribe an all powerful force in a single sentence
when he states there must be the "proper affuence of nearby forces". Improper
affluences are ineffective. And these affluences take place over a number of
years in the formative growrh of an individual. The proper affluences must come
from parents, grandparents, friends, teachers,etc. Teachers can be even more
influential than the parents. In practice if the child does not receve the
proper affluences he cannot get them for himself and he never becomes a proper
adult. The degree of his immaturity as an adult depends on the extent to which
he failed to receive the required affluence.
We have attempted to rate this immaturity by numbers related to the age of the
person when he failed to receive the required affluence. For example, if a
person lost a parent or experienced a very disturbing event i.e. the beginning
of a war, a depression, or a disturbing political upheavel his maturity could
have been arrested at that age. Our experience in specific cases reveals very
crippling effects upon unwanted children, the death of either parent at a very
early age, say 6 or 8, divorces, mother in laws, etc., result in the person,
although grown and highly intelligent to be trapped in a psychic age of 5, 6, 8,
or 10 depending on the time of occurrence of the failure to receive the proper
force.
The creators law cannot be avoided, it must be carried out as ordained. So what
can be done by the individual in his adult years e.g. 30, 40, 50, or 60 years
old? Our experience that is he cannot change himself but can ameliorate the
situation by self observation. A real change can come only by a thoroughly
applied act of conscious love by another person. The most likely candidate being
that of a husband or wife.
We will also discuss the general absence of this knowledge, the severe
consequences of it and how to recognize it in others to avoid the unpleasant
results when associating with others.
Biographical Resume
I first became interested in the Gurdjieff work when I accidentally picked
up a copy of "In Search of the Miraculous" in the early 1970's. I then
discovered Gurdjieff's books and visited many groups around the country. I
located a study group in Phoenix, AZ in 1992 which I attended for 10 years. My
business life has been principally in agribusiness and agriculture. Having
discovered Gurdjieff's statement that the evolution of man is the evolution of
his ability to Do, I am presently engaged in starting a practical school in
which each student will learn by doing 15 separate things to earn a living in
agriculture, small building trades and services. Along the way he would study
All & Everything.
ABSTRACT 6
An Analysis of the Parallel Systems of Neologisms in
Beelzebub's Tales
by Ian MacFarlane
Gurdjieff's use of neologisms in Beelzebub's Tales is well recognized. One
aspect of this literary device that has not been discussed in any extant
literature (that I am aware of)is that there are two parallel streams of
neologisms in Beelzebub's Tales. There are the Objective Science terms used by
Beelzebub throughout the Tales, and in parallel there are also the so called
Atlantean terms used in various places throughout the Tales. For one example,
the two being foods, air and impressions, are named by Objective Science as
Abrustonis and Helkdonis. In the Atlantean language they are called Amarloos and
Amarhoodan. This paper will attempt to identify and delineate the usage of these
two parallel streams of Neologisms and examine them for any insights that they
may shed on Gurdjieff's stated aim of "Burying the Dog Deeper".
Biographical Resume
Ian was born in Niagara Falls, Canada, in 1949 and in 2001 moved to England
where he lives with his wife near London. He first became acquainted with the
Gurdjieff Work in 1973 and joined his first group in Toronto in 1977. In 1979 he
studied Movements at Daglingworth in England. In 1980 he became a member of a
group called The Search at Northeon Forest in Pennsylvania, USA, that was lead
by Paul Beidler, a former student of Gurdjieff. After two years residential
training, he returned to Toronto to assist and eventually lead the satellite
Toronto Northeon Group. Since Mr. Beidler's death in 1998, he has been working
to bring the practical side of the Work to a wider audience through the medium
of an internet website and an online Work group.
ABSTRACT 7
Beelzebub's Tales, The Enneagram and the Mathnawai:
Understanding the Structure of Ancient Texts
by Anthony Blake
There have been various hypotheses on the structure of Beelzebub’s Tales, some
based on astrology and some on the enneagram. Recent research in the study of
ancient texts suggests there was a widespread use of a form called ‘ring
composition’ from the early Hebrews and Greeks to more recent Sufism. Recently,
the classical text of the Mathnawi has been so analysed, a book that may have
greatly influenced Gurdjieff.
The talk will review some of the basic elements of ring composition and allied
techniques, suggesting analogues with the enneagram and a way of reading
Beelzebub. It will present examples from Simon Weightman’s studies of the
Mathnawi and the Madhumalati and make use of Joseph Campbell’s concept of the
Monomyth. It will look at the structure of specific passages from Beelzebub as
well as the whole work. It will offer an interpretation of Gurdjieff’s idea of
legomonism. It will also discuss the relation between mentation by form and
mentation by word, the significance of the chapter ‘Form and Sequence’ and the
two forms of the law of seven.
If time is available, there will be practical exercises on the ‘synoptic
reading’ of texts.
Biographical Resume
Anthony Blake has a background in physics and philosophy. He studied with
the systems thinker and mystic John Bennett as well as with the physicist David
Bohm and other innovators and pioneers. He has followed the principle of
integration without rejection, proposed by Bennett, and focuses on how to make
this possible in real life. He is the author of several books - on the Enneagram
symbol of Gurdjieff, the meaning of time, intelligence, dialogue, globalization,
systematics, etc. Co-founder of the DuVersity, of which he is Director of
Studies, Anthony facilitates seminars and lectures on new methods.