I do not know myself

[Approaching Infinity]

Do you know who Jeanne de Salzmann is?

Yep :), I was just wondering about this excerpt, since I thought the First Initiation was quite complete in that regard. I've read about her but nothing else that she wrote, fwiw.

Just a note that the first initiation is actually a transcription of a talk given by Gurdjieff in Paris. Needleman incorrectly attributed it to Salzmann in a previous book but corrected it in his most recent (The Inner Journey).

Just fyi - the Gurdjieff organization still attributes it to Mme de Salzmann.

That was put online in 2003, and takes the essay from Needleman's 1996 compilation (along with the note that editions earlier to that "incorrectly attributed" it to Gurdjieff. In 2008 Needleman put out a new compilation of essays and made the correction, giving a note with the date of the talk. I emailed the GIR people asking for clarification, but received no reply.