The German invasion of France.

When the Germans were on the outskirts of Paris during the second world war.

Mr. Gurdjieff was persuaded briefly to head away from the city in his car, but within

24 hours, his better judgement ruled, he understood that he was meant to stay.

He spent the war years in his apartment, suffering the privations of everybody else.

 

He fed his followers and neighbours, he survived, he grew.

The bigger the being the greater the test.