"What is the sense and significance of life on Earth and human life in particular?" This question arose in George Ivanovich Gurdjieff after coming "to a whole sensation" of himself at an early age. The answers of religion and science of his time did not satisfy, and intuiting that the wisdom societies of ancient civilizations held the answer to his question, he and a group of friends, traveled to remote areas in search of this esoteric knowledge. He discovered the "true principles and ideas" of the ancient teaching in pre-historic Egypt and Ethiopia. The teaching could show Man his place on Earth and the meaning of his existence, as Gurdjieff said, "It will seem strange to many people when I say that this prehistoric Egypt was Christian many thousands of years before the birth of Christ, that is to say, that its religion was composed of the same principles and ideas that constitute true Christianity." Gurdjieff then traveled to Babylon, the Hindu Kush, Tibet, Siberia and the Gobi desert to gather elements of the teaching that had migrated northward over time. He then reformulated the teaching and introduced it to the West. Gurdjieff called it The Fourth Way.