George Gurdjieff - magician, prophet or …
Stalin and Hitler were interested in the teachings of Georgy Ivanovich Gurdjieff. He was considered a magician and a prophet. He himself modestly called himself a teacher of oriental dances. But who was he really?
… 1948, summer - an accident occurred in Fonteblo, near Paris. The driver lost control at a sharp turn and crashed into a tree at speed. The mystic dance teacher - namely, he was the driver - was found unconscious.
What was the cause of the disaster? Not so long ago, the rain that passed, the driver's mistake and a specially adjusted accident?.. Many were inclined to the latest version - George Gurdjieff had enough enemies who would like to settle scores with him.
Gurdjieff has been compared to Helena Blavatsky and the Tibetan sages. It is said that he helped Hitler to choose the swastika as the party emblem of the National Socialists. It was believed that Stalin borrowed from him the method of remaking a person.
And also Gurdjieff was distinguished by a rare "omnivorous". They looked for (and found) like-minded people in all walks of life. Poor or rich, Jew or anti-Semite, communist or Nazi - he didn't care.
In general, George Gurdjieff was an extraordinary personality. He said about himself that he was born in 1872 in the town of Karst on the border with Turkey. His father came from a Greek family and fled there from the Turks. Then the family moved to Alexandropol; here he spent his childhood and adolescence.
Gurdjieff told one of his followers, Peter Ouspensky, that he once happened to observe a group of Satanists and fire-worshipers. And he saw with his own eyes how the fire-worshiper boy could not get out of the circle outlined around him on earth by another boy - a Satanist. Another time he heard someone beating the alarm, shouting that a spirit had come out of the grave. And it took people a lot of effort to curb the revived deceased and bury him in the ground again.
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In his book "In Search of the Supernatural," Ouspensky argued that, observing such manifestations of the supernatural around him, Gurdjieff eventually came to full confidence in the "existence of special knowledge, special powers and capabilities that are beyond the capabilities of man, as well as the existence of people possessing the gift of clairvoyance and other supernatural abilities. " And he himself wanted to have such knowledge.
As a teenager, he began to travel with the determination to find teachers who could teach him such superpowers. Ouspensky and other students of Gurdjieff were convinced that in the end he achieved his goal, but how and where remained a mystery to everyone.
Even when talking with Uspensky, he spoke in riddles, mentioning in his stories “Tibetan monasteries, Chitral, Mont-Athos - the sacred Mount Athos, Sufi schools in Persia, Bukhara and East Turkestan; he also mentioned the dervishes of various orders, but he spoke about all this very vaguely."
John Benne, in his book Gurdjieff: The Great Mystery, mentioned that Gurdjieff, being a native of the Caucasus, was sure that this place is still a repository of ancient hidden wisdom, rooted in 4000 years ago.
One way or another, he embarked on a search for esoteric knowledge, which lasted more than 20 years, as a result of which he allegedly discovered "practical, effective methods by which a person could control high matter", which is necessary for his spiritual and physical changes.
1912 Gurdjieff returned to Russia and settled in Moscow. He organized a school of oriental dance, hinting that he learned this art from the dervishes.
He also took some of Buddhism and Christianity as the basis of his teaching. But 90% of his teaching was based on his personal philosophy. “The impression from communication with Gurzhiev was very strong,” eyewitnesses said. “It was hypnosis of incredible strength and power …”.
The dances that he staged with his students were also strange. He dressed them up in white suits, forcing them to make movements with gestures vaguely reminiscent of Indian dances.
Despite his acquaintance with Prince Bebutov and the support of his cousin, Gurdjieff’s affairs in Moscow and St. Petersburg were progressing neither shaky nor shaky. And when the revolutionary riots began, the students began to scatter altogether. Then Gurdjieff decided to go to the Transcaucasus.
In the 1920s, Gurdjieff, along with some of his students, moved to Constantinople, and then to France, where he organized the Institute for Harmonious Development near Paris. They say that a rich Englishman gave him the money for this. Among his students there were indeed Englishmen, as well as representatives of many other nationalities. And he looked at everyone as his slaves, if not worse.
At least K. S. Nott, in his book "The Further Teachings of Gurdjieff," describes how he met Gurdjieff in a cafe in Paris and began to complain to him about why he carried him and his other disciple, Orange, so far from their homes, and now left them, and so without giving higher knowledge … Gurdjieff at first listened quietly, and then, grinning sarcastically, said directly: "I need rats for experiments."
What kind of experiments did he conduct?
A significant part of Gurdjieff's system was the teaching of sacred dances and their performance. He himself was engaged in teaching inexperienced students in dancing, and after that demonstration concerts were given in Paris, London, New York. Gurdjieff diligently suppressed the will of his followers, ruthlessly expelled dissidents.
The Nazi invasion found Gurzhdiev in France. And then it became clear that some points in the teachings of Gurdjieff are very suitable for Adolf Hitler and his associates. For example, Gerbiger - Hitler's teacher - believed that the moon could be the cause of the apocalypse. “This is the fourth satellite of the Earth,” he believed. - The previous three fell to Earth and exploded. Each cataclysm destroyed the previous civilization. Only the most worthy can survive …”.
And Gurdjieff found that man is completely under the control of the moon. She controls not only sleepwalkers, but also has a huge impact on everyone else. Hitler was familiar with this doctrine and saw nothing harmful in it.
Moreover, it is known that Karl Haushofer - one of the ideologists of the Third Reich - was in his time with Gurdjieff in Tibet, looking for the roots of the Aryan race there. It is also known that some of the Nazis were students of Gurdjieff.
In any case, such a case is known. Once Gurdjieff approached one of the leaders of the occupying regime in France and gave him a friendly slap on the back. The guards immediately twisted Gurzhiev, and the Nazi himself only laughed: “Teacher! How glad I am to meet you!..”- and began to hug him.
In general, Gurdjieff survived the occupation of France more than tolerably.
But after the collapse of the Third Reich, he faced difficulties. Many began to laugh at Gurdjieff, calling him "a Greek charlatan", "an American magician" and "a miracle worker from the Caucasus." The number of his disciples decreased, although those who remained did not doubt that he was a true magician, possessing occult knowledge and special powers.
It was also said that Gurdjieff predicted the future. True, he did it not often and at the special request of his students. But some predictions, through the disciples, became the property of the press. And then it turned out that Gurdjieff had predicted in advance the death of Lenin, the death of Leon Trotsky. The latter probably worried Stalin, who was the main organizer of the assassination attempt on Trotsky. He ordered Beria to deal with the guru.
Perhaps after that the accident occurred, with which our story began. Gurdjieff's car suddenly lost control at high speed and crashed into a tree. Although, the accident could have very ordinary reasons: everyone knew that Georgy Ivanovich was a terrible reckless driver, just a crazy driver.
One way or another, but after the accident, Gurdjieff lay down in the hospital and again began to teach dancing. But after a while, he suddenly fell right in class. 1949, October 29 - He died in an American hospital near Paris.
Beria reported to Stalin that before his death the guru said: "I am leaving you in a difficult situation."
His devoted disciples were on duty at his body for several days, and K. S. Nott noted in his memoirs that "strong vibrations were felt in the room" and, it seemed, "the radiation came from the body itself."
And John Bene, who headed one of the groups after the death of Gurdjieff, argued that in the last months of the teacher's life he said that “he will inevitably leave this world, but another will come who will complete the work he has begun,” from somewhere in the Far East.
Stanislav Slavin