There is an anecdote regarding Mr. Gurdjieff, that once while working on his monumental legominism, All and Everything, he remarked that he would have to “bury the dog deeper”—not, in this case, the dog’s bone, but the dog itself. With this he conveyed that the ideas he was concerned with were living entities with their own vitality and instinctive potency, and they were not meant to come into our possession without exceptional efforts, sustained efforts of the sort that only those who valued them most would ever put forth.
On his last visit to America, Mr. Gurdjieff chose Paul Anderson as his last American Secretary, stating “He not only has eaten one dog, but swallowed whole packs of dogs … and I rest very contented when I leave because you are my special American Secretary.”1
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