Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man, First Book
by G. I. Gurdjieff
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Tight, square spine has some creasing. Clean, unmarked interior. A small hole is punched in the back cover. Some very subtle foxing to the edges. Gurdjieff once said, 'I bury the bone so deep that the dogs have to scratch for it,' and here we find a classic example of this allegorical density: the mystic's philosophy is concealed in the stories told by Beelzebub, an extraterrestrial piloting the spaceship, Karnak, alongside his grandson, Hassein. It has been said that this grandfather-grandson relationship, spurred by Freud's theory that Judaism and Christianity suggest a relationship between father (Judaism) and son (Christianity), reflects a worldview that is both pre-Judaic and post-Christian. 410 pp. Western Esotericism.
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G. I. Gurdjieff was born in 1887 in Alexandropol. After studying with spiritual masters in the Near East and Asia, he founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France.
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- Goodbar Books (US)
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- 931762
- Title
- Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man, First Book
- Author
- G. I. Gurdjieff
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0525473483
- ISBN 13
- 9780525473480
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
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