"It is a long time now since I have been Mr. Gurdjieff".

Mr. Gurdjieff's chief feature was what is called "Power".

This is what the work describes as chief weakness.

He was described as having a natural energy of a king, one who has

influence and authority over others.

 

Power people are able to get things, influence outcomes.

Many people in Washington, and the other political centers of the world have power features.

But, of course, may not have the tools to work on them.

 

When Mr. Gurdjieff experienced his first major car accident, this was something created

by the higher powers that help those in the work, by creating the circumstances to evolve.

 

A dog he said, jumped out of a vehicle coming in the opposite direction, Mr. Gurdjieff swerved

to avoid the animal, and crashed into a tree.

 

He foresaw this happening, because he made Mme de Salzmann his passenger, return to the Prieure

by train that day, and had his mechanic thoroughly check the vehicle for anything that might be in

need of repair.

 

The severe accident served to reduce his power feature, leaving him more humble,

Don't get too hung up on the numbers, we have a tendency to do this.

But what actually happened, is that by reducing the feature, his higher emotional center was given a

severe and cathartic shock, and began to function. Before this he was a high man number five.

 

The accident and it's aftermath, helped him to move to the next level of man number six.

(Again, these are technical descriptions we use in the work, this just describes the change he went through)

Few are able to really grasp this. The movement from man number four to man number five, is gradual.

Man number five to man number six, is a complete change forever.

Something he did not tell his students, or could not, is that at some point after the accident,

he had a permanent astral body that started functioning.

This also changed the course of his work, as now he had a greater sense of his own mortality, and realized that

he would have to change the manner of transmission, and so he began to write his book, Beelzebub.

 

Later in his life, in the last year or so he was hit by a drunk driver in Paris, this caused him enormous pain.

 

His gave a lunch soon after, and a spasm of pain went through his body, and blood trickled out of his ear.

 

His students were shocked to see him in such pain, but for his work, he was mastering his body,

the way of the Fakir. A few days later, he was observed to be walking around with a spring in his step,

looking "lighter" and younger. Very likely this accident was again arranged to force him to the next level

so that his higher intellectual center could start to function, and he transitioned to the level of man number seven.

 

In the meeting notes from the years in Paris, a student begins to ask a question: "Mr. Gurdjieff......"

 

He is interrupted, "It is a long time now since I have been Mr. Gurdjieff".