Contents of Past Issues

Vol. I No. 1, Fall 1997 Issue

• Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, Excerpts from Prospectus (G. Gurdjieff)
• Sayings of Gurdjieff (Kenneth Walker)
• Gurdjieff: The Unknown Teacher (J. G. Bennett)
• Gurdjieff Chronology (James Moore)
• Gurdjieff: An Original Teacher (Driscoll & Baker)
• Lord Pentland (Walter Driscoll)

Vol. I No. 2, Winter 1997/1998 Issue

• Commentary on Beelzebub’s Tales (Terry Winter Owens)
• Commentary on Meetings with Remarkable Men (Terry Winter Owens)
• The Struggle to “Fathom the Gist” of Beelzebub’s Tales (Terry Winter Owens)
• Gurdjieff’s Philosophy of Nature (Basarab Nicolescu)
• No Harem: Gurdjieff and the Women of The Rope (Rob Baker)
• Jane Heap (Rob Baker)
• Great Harmonizer Tuning Up
• G. Gurdjieff Explains (G. Gurdjieff)
• Gurdjieff and the Armenian Boy Sarkis

Vol. I No. 3, Spring 1998 Issue — Special Issue on A. R. Orage

• A. R. Orage: Introduction & Bibliography (Walter Driscoll)
• Black Sheep Philosophers: Gurdjieff—Ouspensky—Orage (Gorham Munson)
• The Essence of Orage: Some Aphorisms & Observations (A. R. Orage)
• Readers and Writers: Reprints from the New Age, 1918–1921 (A. R. Orage)
• Good and Evil: Nov 5 (Part 1 of 3) (A. R. Orage)
• New Democracy Vol. III, No. 8 (New York) December 15, 1934
• New English Weekly Vol. VI, No. 5 (London) November 15, 1934
• Subscriptions and Reprints

Vol. I No. 4, Summer 1998 Issue — Special Issue on Le Prieuré

• The Forest Philosophers (C. E. Bechhofer Roberts)
• New Cult (a series of 4 articles) (E. C. Bowyer)
• A VISIT to Gourdyev (Denis Saurat)
• An Experiment at Fontainebleau: A Personal Reminiscence (James C. Young)
• Taking the Life Cure in Gurdjieff’s School (Maud Hoffman)
• Some Memories of the Prieuré (Mary C. Bell)
• The “Forest Philosophers” (Clifford Sharpe)
• Gurdjieff Heads the Newest Cult, Which Harks Back to Ancient Days (Raymond G. Carroll)
• On Man’s Place in the Scheme of Things (Bernard Metz)
• Commentary on Exchanges Within (Dennis Lewis)
• Good and Evil: Nov 12 (Part 2 of 3) (A. R. Orage)

Vol. II No. 1, Fall 1998 Issue — Special Issue on the Gurdjieff Literature

• Gurdjieff: The Man and the Literature (James Moore)
• GURDJIEFF: An Annotated Bibliography — a review (Andrew Rawlinson)
• The Tales Themselves: An Overview (Anna Challenger)
• The Disenchantment of the Dragon (Martha Heyneman)
• On Attention and Understanding of Beelzebub’s Tales (G. Gurdjieff)
• Beelzebub’s Tales: Fifty Years Later (Denis Saurat)
• Facts, Fictions & Speculations (Walter Driscoll)
• Henriette H. Lannes (James Moore)
• Good and Evil: Nov 19 (Part 3 of 3) (A. R. Orage)
• Are We Awake? (A. R. Orage)

Vol. II No. 2, Winter 1998/1999 Issue — Special Issue on P. D. Ouspensky

• P. D. Ouspensky (John Pentland)
• P. D. Ouspensky: a Biographical Outline (Merrily E. Taylor)
• A Brief Overview of Certain Aspects of the Thought of Petyr Demianovich Ouspensky (Michael Presley)
• In Anti-Bolshevist Russia (C. E. Bechhofer Roberts)
• The Romance and Mystery of Tertium Organum (Claude Bragdon)
• Not a Cult: Dancing to Develop the Mind (E. C. Bowyer)
• Strange Life of Ivan Osokin (John Pentland)
• The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution
• In Search of the Miraculous (Jacob Needleman)
• P. D. Ouspensky: a Brief Bibliography (Walter Driscoll)
• Gurdjieff’s Theory of Art (Anna Challenger)

Vol. II No. 3, Spring 1999 Issue — A Focus on Historical Essays

• Gurdjieff’s All and Everything — A Study (J. G. Bennett)
• John G. Bennett: The Struggle to “Make Something” for Oneself (George Bennett)
• The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written — A Review (Walter Driscoll)
• The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written — Chapter 94: Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson (Martin Seymour-Smith)
• Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson — Commentary (A. L. Staveley)
• Superforce and Beelzebub (Jyri Paloheimo)
• A. R. Orage: An Introduction (Louise Welch)
• A. R. Orage’s My Note Book (October 1933)
• A. R. Orage’s My Note Book (January 1934)
• A. R. Orage’s My Note Book (April 1934)
• A. R. Orage’s My Note Book (October 1934)
• Ouspensky on Love (Claude Bragdon)
• The Case of P. D. Ouspensky (Marie Seton)
• The Theory of Celestial Influence
• Gurdjieff Obituary — The Times

Vol. II No. 4, Summer 1999 Issue — The Gurdjieff / de Hartmann Music

• On Listening to the Gurdjieff / de Hartmann Music
• Music: Our Life with Mr Gurdjieff (Thomas de Hartmann)
• The Music of Gurdjieff / de Hartmann — Triangle Editions Recordings (Thomas C. Daly)
• Music Manuscript Sample Page (Thomas de Hartmann)
• The Sound of Gurdjieff (Laurence Rosenthal)
• Gurdjieff / de Hartmann Music for the Piano — Wergo / Schott Recordings (Eugene E. Foster)
• Gurdjieff and Music (Laurence Rosenthal)
• Music for the Film Meetings with Remarkable Men (Laurence Rosenthal)
• On Thomas de Hartmann (Thomas C. Daly and Thomas A. G. Daly)
• On Olga de Hartmann (Thomas C. Daly and Thomas A. G. Daly)
• Attention—Wish—Will—Free Will (Thomas de Hartmann)
• A Special Evening at the Essentuki Social Club (Thomas de Hartmann)
• The Strait Gate (Basarab Nicolescu)
• Daumal with Gurdjieff and the de Salzmanns (Kathleen F. Rosenblatt)

Vol. III No. 1, Fall 1999 Issue — In Memoriam: An Introduction to Gurdjieff

• Excerpts from the Talks and Writings of G. I. Gurdjieff
• Gurdjieff, G. I. (Michel de Salzmann)
• George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, 1877–1949 (P. L. Travers)
• Gurdjieff: The Unknown Man (Kenneth Walker)
• The Patriarch Goes West (William Segal)
• To Recognize a Master (Henriette Lannes)
• All and Everything (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• An Introduction to the Writings of G. I. Gurdjieff (J. Walter Driscoll)
• Gurdjieff Observed (Roger Lipsey)
• G. I. Gurdjieff and His School (Jacob Needleman)
• Gurdjieff as Survivalist (James Moore)
• Let Us Not Conclude (Henri Tracol)

Vol. III No. 2, Spring 2000 Issue — Pupils of Gurdjieff

• Jane Heap: As Remembered by Some of Those She Taught (A. L. Staveley)
• Threads of Time: Recollections of Jeanne de Salzmann (Peter Brook)
• William & Louise Welch (Patty Welch Llosa)
• For Dr. William J. Welch (Roger Lipsey)
• A Remembrance of W. A. Nyland: In the Ear and Eye of the Beholder (Terry Winter Owens)
• Louise March
• Pamela Travers
• George Mountford Adie (Joseph Azize)
• Dr. John Lester (David Kangas)
• Combining Good and Truth, Now: An Homage to Maurice Nicoll (Bob Hunter)
• Gurdjieff Heralds the Awakening of Consciousness Now (James George)
• Beelzebub, a Master Stroke: Belzébuth, un coup de maître (Manuel Rainoird)
• Copyright Conventions in an Unconventional World: A Note about the Writings of Gurdjieff and his Circle (Roger Lipsey)
• Brother in Elysium: Orage in Gurdjieff’s Service (Michael Benham)
• The Strange Cult of Gurdjieff: an Insider’s Story of the Most Mysterious Religious Movement in the World (Gorham Munson)
• Around the Theatre: The Voice of Moscow

Vol. IV No. 1, Fall 2000 Issue

• People Who Hunger and Thirst for Truth
• Excerpts from the Talks and Writings of G. I. Gurdjieff
• The Old Man and the Children of the Age
• Getting in Touch with Gurdjieff
• A Conversation on Meetings with Remarkable Men
• The Holy War
• Commentary on “The Holy War”
• For William Segal (1904–2000)
• Wm. Segal
• In Light of Meaning: An Interview with William Segal
• Christopher Fremantle (1906–1978)
• Ouspensky
• A Theatre for Us
• Mr. Nyland and the Piano

Vol. IV No. 2, Spring 2001 Issue

• Georges Gurdjieff: A French Documentary Film
• Gurdjieff’s Self-Revelation: A review of Meetings with Remarkable Men
• Louise Welch — Essence Friend
• Louise Welch: A Poem by Martha Heyneman
• The Essence of the Work: An Interview with Jacob Needleman
• A Passion for Understanding: Notes from an Orage Group, New York, 1927
• In Denikin’s Russia: A Journey Through Georgia
• Two Accounts of an Evening with Gurdjieff
• ME — I AM
• Peter Brook and Traditional Thought

Vol. V No. 1, Spring 2002 Issue — A “Teacher of Dancing”

• Gurdjieff on Movements (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• Gurdjieff’s Temple Dances (John G. Bennett)
• Dancing (Anna Butkovsky-Hewitt)
• Gurdjieff Movements Demonstration (Louise Welch)
• The Role of Movement in the Complete Education of Man (René Daumal)
• A Talk on the Dances (C. S. Nott)
• A Session of “Movements” (Pierre Schaeffer)
• Remember Inner Work (Jessmin Howarth)
• Sacred Dance (Pauline de Dampierre)
• Working with the Movements (Henri Thomasson)
• Dances are for the Mind (Paul Reynard)
• The Teacher of Dancing (Josée de Salzmann)
• This Entity We Call the Body (Don Hoyt)
• The Music Has To Like You… (Mitchell Rudzinski)
• On Giving up the Luxury of Knowing (Stafford Ordahl)
• Behind the Visible Movement (Jeanne de Salzmann)

Vol. VI No. 1, Spring 2003 Issue — “A Well-Prepared Tradition”

• Hugh Brockwill Ripman (1909–1980)
• Public Lecture at Grace Church
• To Give Is to Receive
• Helen Adie: an Appreciative Essay
• Paul E. Anderson (1897–1983)
• Four Talks on “Time”
• G. Gurdjieff: A Call for Attention to his Life and Work
• Further Episodes with Gurdjieff
• Dr. Welch Reads Beelzebub
• The Stranger
• A Big Tzimus (Tsimmes)

Vol. VII No. 1, Fall 2003 Issue — “The Movement of Transmission”

• The Look From Above (Jeanne de Salzmann)
• Exchanges Within (John Pentland)
• An Inner-World Journey (Kathryn Hulme)
• Facing Mr. Gurdjieff (Michel Conge)
• As Above, So Below (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
• A Voice at the Borders of Silence (William Segal)
• It’s Up to Ourselves (Jessmin & Dushka Howarth)
• Some Aspects of the Movements (Joanna Haggarty)
• First Initiation (Jeanne de Salzmann)

Vol. VIII No. 1, Fall 2004 Issue — “Pupil & Teacher”

• The Key to a Teaching (D. M. Dooling)
• Guidance Under Lord Pentland’s Direction (by Don Hoyt)
• Record of a Search: Working with Michel Conge in France (by Ricardo Guillon)
• Inner Octaves and Eastern Music (by Jeffrey Werbock)
• The Death of Gurdjieff (by William Welch)
• What Did Gurdjieff Give to Me? (By Paul Beekman Taylor)
• Inventors of Gurdjieff (by Paul Beekman Taylor)
• Gurdjieff (by Carl Zigrosser)
• Gurdjieff—Salzmann—Orage (by Carl Zigrosser)
• Thomas de Hartmann: A Composer’s Life (by John Mangan)
• Gurdjeef at Taliesin (By Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Monsieur X: The Fortune-Teller (By Richard Heron Ward)

Vol. IX No. 1, Fall 2005 Issue — “The Material Question”

• Gurdjieff and Money: Part I (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• Gurdjieff and Money: Part II (Gurdjieff’s Pupils)
• Our Money Has No Value (René Daumal)
• The Same Old Trick (Jean Toomer)
• Religion and Money (John Pentland)
• Money and the Meaning of Life (Jacob Needleman)
• Children and Money (Lillian Firestone)
• Eight Silver Dollars (Patty de Llosa)
• “The Material Question” in Afghanistan, 1977 (James Opie)
• Twelve Dollars (James Opie)

Vol. X No. 1, Spring 2007 Issue — “The Work in Life”

• Excerpts from Talks and Writings (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• Excerpts from Talks and Writings (Gurdjieff’s Pupils)
• The Work in Life (Maurice Desselle / Henri Tracol)
• The Art of Living with Oneself (Pauline de Dampierre)
• Coming Up Against Life (Hugh Ripman)
• A Friend In Myself (John Pentland)
• The Museum of Work (Maurice Nicoll)
• Again—The Work in Life (A. L. Staveley)
• Economizing Our Energy (A. R. Orage)
• Staying with Emptiness (William Welch)
• The Art of Climbing Mountains (René Daumal)
• A Never-To-Be-Forgotten Lesson (Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch)
• How To Live Simply? (Michel de Salzmann)
• Playing a Role in Life (Peter Brook)
• Westering (James Moore)
• The True Hermit Lives in the City (Jack Cain)
• A Fable for the Seeker Whose Search Is Not Going Well (Roger Lipsey)
• In Search of Peradams (Various Authors)
• Working for a Living (Jean Martine)
• Another Kind of Thinking (Scott Williams)
• A Sense of Myself (Betty Brown)
• Simple Moments (David Young)

Vol. XI No. 1, Spring 2012 Issue — “The Oral Tradition”

• Introduction: A Leaping Flame (Mary Stein)
• Excerpts from Writings (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• Excerpts from a Meeting in 1943 (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• Excerpts from Writings (Pupils)
• Spiritual Masters (William Segal)
• He Was a Real Threat (Michel de Salzmann)
• Gurdjieff and the Children (Paul Beekman Taylor)
• A Letter to Jeanne de Salzmann (René Daumal)
• Attention (Jacob Needleman)
• Excerpts from Writings (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• “And So, My Boy ...” (Paul Jordan-Smith)
• Passing on Oral Teachings (James Opie)
• Excerpts from Writings (Pupils)
• Notes on the Gurdjieff Music (Gail Needleman)
• Tradition and Transmission in the Music of Gurdjieff (Laurence Rosenthal)
• “He Was a Root Man” (Willem Nyland)
• Living the Oral Tradition in Movements (Diana Rosenthal)
• Excerpts from Writings (Pupils)
• Real Exchange in a Group (Jeanne de Salzmann)
• There’s a Definite Sound (Carl Lehmann-Haupt)
• A Difficulty, Together ... (Bill Dudley)
• You Do My Way, I Do Your Way? (Fredrica Parlett)
• Studying an Ancient Tradition (Mary Stein)
• Lunches at St. Elmo (Richard Whittaker)
• Excerpts from Writings (Pupils and Others)

Vol. XI No. 2, Summer 2012 Issue — “Beelzebub’s Tales”

• On Attention and Understanding of Beelzebub’s Tales (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• Beelzebub’s Tales: Fifty Years Later (Denis Saurat)
• Gurdjieff’s All and Everything (John G. Bennett)
• Beelzebub, a Master Stroke (Manuel Rainoird)
• Commentary on Beelzebub’s Tales (Owens / Smith)
• Superforce and Beelzebub (Jyri Paloheimo)
• The Tales Themselves: An Overview (Anna Challenger)
• Gurdjieff’s Theory of Art (Anna Challenger)
• Commentary on Beelzebub’s Tales (A. L. Staveley)
• The Struggle to “Fathom the Gist” of Beelzebub’s Tales (Terry Winter Owens)
• The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written Chapter 94: Beelzebub’s Tales (Martin Seymour-Smith)
• “And So, My Boy ...” (Paul Jordan-Smith)

Vol. XII No. 1, Fall 2013 Issue — “Attention”

• Introduction (Jenny Koralek)
• Excerpts from Talks and Writings (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• Attention—Wish—Will—Free Will (Thomas de Hartmann)
• Attention Is Absolutely Indispensable (Olga de Hartmann)
• Going Toward Consciousness (Jeanne de Salzmann)
• Attempts to Divide Attention (Ouspensky & Collin)
• The Study of Attention and the Centres (Ouspensky & Nicoll)
• Attention Is Our Only Weapon (Jane Heap)
• The Struggle To Gather Attention (Louise Welch)
• “Must Have Attention” (Hulme & Solano)
• The Power of Attention (Henri Tracol)
• Attention Is the Fire of Our Being (Henriette Lannes)
• The Role of Attention in Self-Liberation (Michel Conge)
• Until My Attention Is Divided, There Is No Work (John Pentland)
• The Force of Attention (William Segal)
• On Attention (Christopher Fremantle)
• A Two-Way Attention (Jean Vaysse)
• Collection of Attention Is Necessary (Sophia Ouspensky)
• An Effort Must Be Made With All Centres (A. R. Orage)
• “Begin With Small Things” (C. S. Nott)
• Attention’s Closest Kin (P. L. Travers)
• The Best Thing We Can Give Children (Nathalie de Salzmann)
• Internal Attention (Maurice Nicoll)
• Dimensions of Attention (Paul Reynard)
• An Act of Questioning (Michel de Salzmann)
• Developing Attention in Movements
• In Search of Peradams
• Other Spiritual Traditions (Jenny Koralek)
• Religious Traditions
• Other Masters, Other Seekers
• Silence of the Heart (Richard Temple)
• The Way of Tea (Nobuko Somers)
• The Symbolic Mountain (Hugh Ripman)
• A Sacred Energy Coming Into Me (Michel de Salzmann)

Vol. XIII No. 1, Winter 2018/2019 Issue — “Pupils of Gurdjieff II”

• Introduction (Ellen Reynard)
• Jeanne de Salzmann (Pamela Travers)
• Alexandre de Salzmann (Basarab Nicolescu)
• Light, Lighting and Illumination (Alexandre de Salzmann)
• Sophie Ouspensky (Irmis Popoff)
• Jessmin Howarth (Sally Ravindra)
• Olgivanna Wright (Maxine Fawcett-Yeske & Bruce B. Pfeiffer)
• A Specially Prepared Feast (Diana Faidy)
• Nathalie de Salzmann de Etievan (Isabel Portas)
• Jacques Etievan (Anne-Marie Grant)
• Annette Herter (Larry Rosenthal)
• Alfred Etievant (Ellen Reynard, Fredrica Parlett, Patty de Llosa)
• Ilonka Karasz Nyland (Paul Kane)
• Irmis Popoff (Juanita Ratner)
• Margaret Flinsch (Caty Laignel)
• Cynthia Pearce (James Ehlers)
• Tom Forman (Mary Rothschild)
• Paul Reynard (Bill Jordan)

Vol. XIII No. 2, Spring 2019 Issue — “Pupils of Gurdjieff III”

• Introduction (Ellen Reynard)
• Martin Benson (Carl Lehmann-Haupt)
• Martin Benson at Armonk (Roger Lipsey)
• Rita Romilly Benson (Marshall May)
• Solange Claustres (Laszlo Hollan & Christian Chanel)
• Bernard Courtenay Mayers (Gurdjieff Society of London)
• Dorothea Dooling (David Ulrich)
• Lise Etievan (Didier Mouturat & Ellen Reynard)
• Marthe de Gaigneron (Laurie Morrocco)
• Kathryn Hulme (Ellen Reynard)
• John Pentland (Jacob Needleman)
• Lucy Pentland (Barbara Ryan and Others)
• Josée de Salzmann (Marie-Christine Marville)
• Cora Segal (Hy Varon)
• Beatrice Sinclair (Mary Arendt)
• Annie Lou Staveley (Toddy Smyth)
• Evelyn Sutta (Barbara Reser)
• Henri Thomasson (Philip Heinegg)
• Jean Toomer (Ellen Reynard)
• Henri Tracol (Demade, Bonacina, Mouturat, Vaigot)
• Henri Tracol: The Study of Other Traditions (Gurdjieff Society of London)
• René Zuber (Roger Lipsey)
• Renewal: Rediscovering the Truth at Each Moment (Alexandre de Salzmann)

Vol. XIV No. 1, Winter 2019/2020 Issue — “Nature”

• Introduction (Mary Stein)
• Gurdjieff on Nature (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• Organic Life on Earth (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• Gurdjieff’s Relationship with Animals (Various Authors)
• “You Know This Word, ‘Kindness’?” (Fritz Peters)
• “All of Us Are Parasites” (A. R. Orage)
• “I Was Responsible for the Disaster” (René Daumal)
• Repairing the Past (G. I. Gurdjieff)
• Man’s Situation on the Earth (Maurice Nicoll)
• Man, Mother Nature, and the Earth (Willem Nyland)
• The Plight of the Soil (John G. Bennett)
• Nature Is Our Mother (John G. Bennett)
• Look a Lion in the Eye (Kathryn Hulme)
• The Needs of the Earth (Jeanne de Salzmann)
• Waste (A. L. Staveley)
• The Deepening Call (Other Pupils of Gurdjieff)
• This “Paltry Earth” of Ours (Carl Sagan & Jacob Needleman)
• Gurdjieff’s Philosophy of Nature (Basarab Nicolescu)
• Gurdjieff and Ecology (James George)
• What Does Great Nature Require of Us? (James George)
• An Invisible Quality (Jacob Needleman)
• A Stark Reality (Keith Buzzell)
• True Ecology (Ravi Ravindra)
• The Look of Nature, from Beelzebub’s View (David Appelbaum)
• The Voice of the Earth (Jack Cain)
• A Field Report on Life on the Edge of the Swamp (James Elder)
• The New Abnormal (Paul Kane)
• A Normal Man (Bill Dudley)
• Woodswork (Kathleen Cramer)
• The Mystery of Trees (Richard Whittaker)
• The Weather Was So Warm (Doug Spitz)
• A Nature Study Team (Mary Stein)
• Native Americans Speak (Various Authors)

Vol. XIV No. 2, Fall 2020 Issue — “Pupils of Gurdjieff IV”

• Introduction (Ellen Reynard)
• Gurdjieff and the Prieuré (Ethel Merston)
• Michel Conge (Senior Pupils)
• Pauline de Dampierre (Catherine Childe)
• Michel de Salzmann (The Gurdjieff Institute of Geneva)
• English Pupils (Gurdjieff Society of London)
• Dorothy and George Phillpotts (Gurdjieff Society of London)
• Michael Currer-Briggs (James Opie)
• Elizabeth Bennett (George Bennett)
• Dorothy Darlington (Clinton Smith)
• Personal Memories of Gurdjieff (Gurdjieff Society of London)
• American Pupils (Margaret Flinsch and William Segal)
• George and Mary Cornelius (Jan Jarvis)
• Lawrence Morris (Charlotte Wheeler)
• Bill Segal (Andrei Serban)
• The Japanese Stone Lantern (Martha Heyneman)
• Seeing Gurdjieff Off at the Station (Ouspensky, Claustres, Conge)
• Index of Pupils (Editors)