There is something to 1= 3 = 1, but I think it's symbolic rather than mathematical because looked at from a purely mathematical stand point, it doesn't add up.
There is Gurdjieffs three centres - Instinctive/moving, heart, and intellectual that make up one man but he also tells us that these centres are not working in the way that they were designed to.
Also his idea that there are 3 forces at play in any one phenomenon - active, passive and neutral or affirming, denying, reconciling, or creative, destructive and reconciling. Here we work with the good, the bad and the context that determines which is which. Gurdjieff also says that man is third force blind.
There's an interesting line from the movie Dark Crystal that is given as a prophecy.
"When single shines the triple sun,
What was sundered and undone,
Shall be whole, the two made one,
By Gelfling hand or else by none."
I find that loaded with meaning:
"When single shines the triple sun,..."
The sun is a source of light - or knowledge and the C's tell us 'knowledge is light is love'. So knowledge of the the three forces is the single shining of the triple sun.
"What was sundered and undone,..."
Sunder means 'split apart' or divided, and undone could refer to Gurdjieff's 'man can do nothing' - which I take to mean that action is either fruitless or doesn't achieve what was originally aimed for.
"Shall be whole, the two made one...."
When two people understand and know things in the same way, they don't need to communicate or discuss anything - they just act from knowledge in collinearity with each other. It works the same in groups or where an individual joins a group.
"By Gelfling hand or else by none..."
The Gelfling are mechanically naive, ignorant and idealistic - like all of us to one degree or another, but they must apply themselves to learn and experience. They can be guided (as they were by Auhgra), but the ultimate boon cannot be given to them without their own effort and exertion.
There is Gurdjieffs three centres - Instinctive/moving, heart, and intellectual that make up one man but he also tells us that these centres are not working in the way that they were designed to.
Also his idea that there are 3 forces at play in any one phenomenon - active, passive and neutral or affirming, denying, reconciling, or creative, destructive and reconciling. Here we work with the good, the bad and the context that determines which is which. Gurdjieff also says that man is third force blind.
There's an interesting line from the movie Dark Crystal that is given as a prophecy.
"When single shines the triple sun,
What was sundered and undone,
Shall be whole, the two made one,
By Gelfling hand or else by none."
I find that loaded with meaning:
"When single shines the triple sun,..."
The sun is a source of light - or knowledge and the C's tell us 'knowledge is light is love'. So knowledge of the the three forces is the single shining of the triple sun.
"What was sundered and undone,..."
Sunder means 'split apart' or divided, and undone could refer to Gurdjieff's 'man can do nothing' - which I take to mean that action is either fruitless or doesn't achieve what was originally aimed for.
"Shall be whole, the two made one...."
When two people understand and know things in the same way, they don't need to communicate or discuss anything - they just act from knowledge in collinearity with each other. It works the same in groups or where an individual joins a group.
"By Gelfling hand or else by none..."
The Gelfling are mechanically naive, ignorant and idealistic - like all of us to one degree or another, but they must apply themselves to learn and experience. They can be guided (as they were by Auhgra), but the ultimate boon cannot be given to them without their own effort and exertion.
