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The Cosmic Force
Re: New book by Madame de Salzmann
My copy arrived today, with a bookmark from the seller at page 31, where Madame de Salzmann says:
Added: from the jacket blurb –
My copy arrived today, with a bookmark from the seller at page 31, where Madame de Salzmann says:
Madame de Salzmann said:13. My functions are passive
Whatever the state in which I find myself at this moment, whatever the sense of the force I manifest, the highest possibilities are here, hidden by the thick screen of my passivity in believing in my self-sufficiency. My destiny begins when I feel the call of another force in me and respond to it voluntarily. This is my first voluntary act, becoming available to a reality that changes my purpose for living. I am here in order to hear this force, not to expect something from it or to appropriate it. I am here to understand the action that will create the possibility of a responsible life.
Added: from the jacket blurb –
Before he died Gurdjieff charged Mme. De Salzmann to live to be 'over 100' in order to establish his teaching. [She was born in 1889.] He left her all his rights with respect to his writings and dance exercises called the 'Movements'. During the next ofrty years she arranged for publication of his books and preservation of the movements, and established Gurdjieff centres to practice the teaching in PAris, New York and London, as well as Caracas, Venezuala.
Mme. De Salzmann died at the age of 101 in Paris in 1990.