And why not eh. In the moment of America today and in the spirit of ‘70 mayhap only the machine gun saves. “The purpose of the Gurdjieff method is to produce men - not 'men' in quotation marks. Monstrous genius is ruled out. Beelzebub: the actualized, ideal objective man. His function has ceased. He has a critique. He has put down his conclusions impartially, without prejudice, constructively, and hands them on to Hassein.
Sons of God: they who understand and consciously co-operate.
A normal man is one who has not only actualized his potentialities but has freed himself from his subjectivity.
A real man is one who understands why he is alive, what his body is for and what he must do.
The real man is he who can, at will, in any circumstances play the reasonable part.
Consider the 'sly' man; he tries to be aware always.
Ordinary (You’re rapping about ME mister) is at the mercy of his organism: of the instinctive center - impressions received by the senses, of appetites, inertia, disease; …
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