Towards the end of his life, Mr. Gurdjieff held meals at his apartment in Paris,
during which he ritually toasted the "Idiots".
He was referring to psychological stages that an evolving person passes through on their way to achieving consciousness.
At the completion of a stage, one is "melted" down, and then begins again at a new level,
as a new "idiot".
He said that there are 21 idiots; the Absolute is number 21, and that in reference to himself,
he said he was number 18.
The teaching of the science of idiotism, that he most likely learned from the Sufis,
ended when he completed his life.
It would be difficult for it to continue, because for proper transmission without deterioration,
it needed someone who had suffered through all the stages, and knew them backwards and forwards.
Mr. Gurdjieff looked at a young lady once at dinner and said: "I could write her diary".
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