This Dutton Paperback edition first published in 1975 byE. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.Copyright © 1973 by Triangle Editions, Inc.All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.First Edition10 9 8 75 4No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted inany form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, includingphotocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrievalsystem now known or to be invented, without permission in writingfrom the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in amagazine, newspaper or broadcast.Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin & CompanyLimited, Toronto and VancouverISBN: 0-525-47408-0Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-10482Gurdjieff is becoming well known as a pioneer of the new currentof thought about man's situation, such as has been provided through-out the ages at times of transition in human history.A quarter century after his death, his name has emerged from abackground of rumor and he is recognized today as a great spiritualforce, who saw clearly the direction modern civilization is taking andwho set to work behind the scenes to prepare people in the West todiscover for themselves and eventually to diffuse among mankind thecertainty that Being is the only indestructible reality.The outline of his life is familiar to readers of his Second and ThirdSeries, Meetings with Remarkable Men (published in 1963) and LifeIs Real Only Then, When "I Am" (privately printed in 1975).Born on the frontier of Russia and Turkey in 1877 "in strange,almost biblical circumstances," his education as a boy left him withmany unanswered questions and he set out when quite young insearch of men who had achieved a complete knowledge of human life.3
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