Provocative Quotations -

"It is not in knowing truth that the purpose of life is accomplished; the purpose of life is accomplished in being truth." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry." - Umberto Eco

"To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock." - C.G. Jung

"Omnis Festinatio Ex Parte Diaboli Est." - C.G. Jung

One extreme is the idea of an objective world, pursuing its regular course in space and time, independently of any kind of observing subject; this has been the guiding image from modern science. At the other extreme is the idea of a subject, mystically experiencing the unity of the world and no longer confronted by an object or by an objective world; this has been the guiding image of Asian mysticism. Our thinking moves somewhere in the middle, between these two limiting conceptions; we should maintain the tension resulting from these opposites." - Werner Heisenberg

"Knowing that I was at the Prieuré he [Crowley] asked me if I would get him an invitation there. But I did not wish to be responsible for introducing such a man. However, to my surprise, he appeared there a few days later and was given tea in the salon. The children were there and he said to one of the boys something about his son whom he was teaching to be a devil. Gurdjieff got up and spoke to the boy, who thereupon took no further notice of Crowley. There was some talk between Crowley and Gurdjieff, who kept a sharp watch on him all the time. I got a strong impression of two magicians, the white and the black - the one strong, powerful, full of light; the other also powerful but heavy, dull, and ignorant. Though 'black' is too strong a word for Crowley; he never understood the meaning of real black magic, yet hundreds of people came under his 'spell.' He was clever. But, as Gurdjieff says: He is stupid who is clever.'" - C.S. Nott, Teachings of Gurdjieff

neutralrobotboy wrote:Did Crowley and/or Gurdjieff give an account of this encounter anywhere that you know of?

"Mister, you go?" Gurdjieff inquired. Crowley assented. "You have been guest?" - a fact which the visitor could hardly deny. "Now you go, you are no longer guest?" Crowley - no doubt wondering whether his host had lost his grip on reality and was wandering in a semantic wilderness - humored his mood by indicating that he was on his way back to Paris. But Gurdjieff, having made the point that he was not violating the canons of hospitality, changed on the instant into the embodiment of righteous anger. "You filthy," he stormed, "you dirty inside! Never again you set foot in my house!" ... Whitefaced and shaking, the Great Beast crept back to Paris with his tail between his legs." - James Webb, The Harmonious Circle: The Lives and Work of G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky, and Their Followers, p. 315.

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