A master script writer

By the time Gurdjieff appeared in the west,
educated and wealthy Europeans were starting
to travel and explore, impressionism was a mature
art movement, Picasso and Braque had developed
cubism. (Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
was begun in 1907). Howard Carter had not yet
found the tomb of Tutankhamen, and WWI had
not begun yet. It was a masterstroke of design
that he appeared when he did.