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If you read the Amazon reviews on The People of the Secret, you will see it consistently referred to as an "...odd little book..." and having just finished it, I would concur with assessment.
In its favour, it is not often that you run across a book which respectively considers the viewpoints of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, the Sufis and Fulcanelli all at the same time. There are also references to Arthur Koestler (The Sleepwalkers), The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and numerous other topics touched upon by the C's, casschat or the forum over the years.
The basic premise is that there are groups of people 'engineering' the major events of history, towards a definite end. The downside to Mr. Scott's approach to this premise is that he ascribes the full engineering responsibility to the Sufis, and to support this assertion draws very heavily from Idries Shah's The Sufis. He also relies upon Pauwel's & Bergier's The Dawn of Magic (a/k/a Morning of the Magicians) which is at best a tainted source. Finally, he relies upon and includes E.J. Gold's hoax, Secret Talks with Mr. G, which I am somewhat embarrassed to say I was taken in by for a while.
The 4D aspect is missing entirely, but references are made to the 'types' of humanity, and that not all types are candidates for enlightenment (as he defines it).
Having hopefully provided due warning, there are still interesting aspects to this book. I am unsure as to the author's identity as well: I would not at all be surprised to find that Ernest Scott is rather an "Earnest Scot(sman)".
Has anyone else read this, to comment or counterpoint?
In its favour, it is not often that you run across a book which respectively considers the viewpoints of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, the Sufis and Fulcanelli all at the same time. There are also references to Arthur Koestler (The Sleepwalkers), The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and numerous other topics touched upon by the C's, casschat or the forum over the years.
The basic premise is that there are groups of people 'engineering' the major events of history, towards a definite end. The downside to Mr. Scott's approach to this premise is that he ascribes the full engineering responsibility to the Sufis, and to support this assertion draws very heavily from Idries Shah's The Sufis. He also relies upon Pauwel's & Bergier's The Dawn of Magic (a/k/a Morning of the Magicians) which is at best a tainted source. Finally, he relies upon and includes E.J. Gold's hoax, Secret Talks with Mr. G, which I am somewhat embarrassed to say I was taken in by for a while.
The 4D aspect is missing entirely, but references are made to the 'types' of humanity, and that not all types are candidates for enlightenment (as he defines it).
Having hopefully provided due warning, there are still interesting aspects to this book. I am unsure as to the author's identity as well: I would not at all be surprised to find that Ernest Scott is rather an "Earnest Scot(sman)".
Has anyone else read this, to comment or counterpoint?
