The occupation of Paris...

As the Germans invaded France

and  approached Paris,

one writer said that Mr.Gurdjieff's pupils

persuaded him to leave the city in the 

opposite direction.

Within 24 hours, he realized perhaps that

he was leaving an enormous opportunity 

to grow, he turned around and returned to 

live out the war-time occupation in his

apartment. 

Trading with the German soldiers

for food and supplies, holding meetings,

and connecting with his French pupils in a way

that had perhaps been overshadowed for most

of the preiod he had been teaching, by his

Russian, American and English students.