Good book, how did you find it?
One of the first 4th way books that I read after ISOTM. His second book is very good too.
Curiously one of the things I got from both books is that you really have to be careful what conclusions you make when reading book on the 4th way.
Just a couple of examples:
It has been reported in some books that Orage said he found Beelzebubs tales unintelligible. No date is given to this statement.
In Notts book there is an entire section or Orage's talks on Beelzebubs Tales, there is also a fascimile of 160 pages of Orage meeting notes on BT's. So at some point for Orage Beelzebubs Tales became intelligible. But if we don't read Notts book we don't find this out and therefore are lelt with the idea Orage could not understand the Book.
Notts Second Book.
a)
Fritz Peters appointed G's successor. Nott describes how this is done in a room full of senior pupils to shock them.
b)
Gurdjieff tells Orage's group they are 'Candidates for madhouse and must stop seeing Orage'. Nott is with Orage in NY at this time and tells how this is a 'shock' given to Orage's group. Those who were disturbed stay in beginners group, others are organised into Mesoteric group.
So, it takes a lot of reading around to make sense of the singular jigsaw pieces that we find reported.
Some interesting potraits of Ouspensky painted in 2nd book. Warm individual, but very cold and serious in group work. Couldn't understand G's method of shocks and why the concentration on the 'movements' and concludes that G has gone mad as a hatter. Nott says that no-one intellectually understands the system better than Ouspensky, but in terms of being that some of Orages group had progressed further!
