Mister Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nicolas TERESHCHENKO was born in Odessa (then in Russia,
now in Ukraine), which his parents left in 1920 to go to Serbia,
where he had his primary schooling. In 1926 the family
moved to Paris, France, where he completed his secondary education,
and in 1935 went to live in England, his father having
become a lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. Nick completed
his university studies in London in 1941, volunteered for a war
commission in the Indian Medical Service, served in India and
Assam, and was demobilized in 1946. Married in 1942, divorced
by mutual consent in 1963, he had four children, five
grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren as of 2002.
He was interested in all the branches of “occultism” (in the
widest sense of this word) from a very early age and, since
1952, was admitted as an initiated member into several fraternal
organizations. He began to study the Tarot in 1956 and to
write about it, and other subjects, in 1973. In 1958 he met
George Ivanovich GURDJIEFF’s Teaching and from then on
studied the Fourth Way and followed the Work assiduously. At
the time of his death in 2002, he was living in South Australia,
where he was continuing his studies and research on several
Esoteric subjects, including Freemasonry, the Golden Dawn,
and the Rosicrucians. But mostly he was studying Mister
GURDJIEFF’s Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, now published
in the original Russian, and was working with Mister Gurdjieff’s
practical Work techniques.

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