Examples of Adulteration to Mr. Gurdjieff’s Original ALL and Everything
The examples below illustrate the kinds of adulterations made through 1) strikeouts of original 1950 text shown in black, and 2) insertions of new text shown in red. Page numbers refer to the original 1950 printing.
Page 100
“And from “From that very day forth he ‘wiseacred’ away at his new ‘Gospel.’ But gospel. And from the moment it was only when he had finished it, however, and had given it to the printers, that all the further events connected with this new ‘Gospel’ printer, there began a whole series of his began. unexpected events.
Page 132
“Owing to these conditions, the duration of their existence has, down to the present time, continued to has become shorter and shorter, and now is already diminished to such a degree that, at the present time, the difference between the duration of the process of the existence shorter so that now, if one compares it with that of the three-brained beings of other planets in the whole of the Universe and the duration of the process of the existence of the three-brained beings of the planet Earth has become the same as Universe, the difference is as great as between the real duration of their existence and the own duration of the existence and that of the infinitesimal beings in that the drop of water we took as an example.
Pages 137–38“Etherokrilno “‘Ethernokrilno’ is that prime-source the primordial substance with which the whole Universe is filled, and which is the basis for the arising and maintenance of everything existing that exists.“Not only is this Etherokrilno the basis for the arising of all cosmic concentrations without exception, both large and small, but also all cosmic phenomena in general proceed during some transformation in this same fundamental cosmic substance as well as during the processes of the involution and evolution of various crystallizations—or, as your favorites say, of those active elements—which have obtained and still continue to obtain their prime arising from this same fundamental prime-source cosmic substance.“Bear in mind, here, that it is just because of this that the mentioned “In regard to this, Objective Science says declares that ‘everything without exception in the Universe without exception is material.’
Page 240
“Little by little they so completely changed these indications and counsels of His his that if should their Saintly Author saintly author Himself should chance to appear reappear there and for some reason or other should wish to make Himself acquainted with learn about them, He he would not be able never even to suspect that he himself had given these indications and counsels were made by Him Himself.
Page 242“So, my boy, when, as “As I have already told you, those three-centered beings there among the second and third generation of the contemporaries of Saint Buddha in whose psyche, already my boy, from the time of the loss of Atlantis that peculiarity had been fixed, the property called the ‘organic-psychic‘ ‘psycho-organic need to wiseacre,’ began—unfortunately for the ordinary… [sentence continues at length in original text] had become fixed in the psyche of your favorites.
Page 465
“And in general it was just in all these ‘otherwises’ that the learned beings of that group this group, by means of a conventional what is called ‘alphabet,’ indicated in the movements postures of the participants in the given religious ceremony, by a conventional what is called ‘alphabet,’ those the ideas which they intended should be transmitted through these ceremonies to the men-beings of to transmit to their remote descendants.
Page 511“But And if various women noticed that she had begun to manifest toward her children with a weakening of her maternal impulses instinct toward her children, then under the same conditions those around her she was condemned her according to this law to go about everywhere, also for a definite term, with the left half of her face made up and painted white and red.
“And if, following the same procedure, it was established that a woman manifested an inclination to avert the possibility of conceiving a new being for the prolongation of her species, she was condemned to appear before others with her face made up and also painted white and red, but this time only on the right half.
“And as for a woman who attempted to violate her chief what is called “ ‘chief wifely duty,’ that is, who deceived or who only tried to deceive even had the intention of deceiving her legal husband or who attempted to destroy a new being conceived in her, she was obliged by the same procedure to be always and everywhere, and also for a definite term, to go about everywhere made up and painted white and red, this time over the whole of her face.”
Page 555that hotel in which we were just staying. staying in the same hotel that we were.
“His profession, by the way, was highly original, even according to the notions of the beings of this incomparable planet. He was famous in his own country as one of the best specialists in the art of adorning the faces of his clients with the ‘scars’ so dear to the students of German universities.
Page 750“‘The-line-of-the-flow-of-forces-constantly-deflecting-according-to-law-and-uniting-again-at-its-ends.’“‘The flow of forces follows a line that constantly deflects at specific intervals and unites again at its ends.’
Page 753–54“And, namely, with the purpose of providing the ‘requisite inherency’ for receiving, To provide the stopinder between the third and fourth ‘points of deflection’ with the required property of absorbing for its functioning the automatic affluence inflow of all surrounding forces, which were near, he lengthened the Stopinder between its third and fourth deflections He prolonged its duration.“This same And this is the Stopinder of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh is just that one, which is still called the ‘mechano-coinciding-Mdnel-In mdnel-in.’
“And the Stopinder which he that He shortened is between its last the last ‘point of deflection’ and the beginning of a new cycle of its the completing process; of this sacred law. by By this same shortening, for the purpose of facilitating the commencement in order to facilitate the beginning of a new cycle, of its completing process, he He predetermined that the functioning of the given this Stopinder stopinder to be dependent only upon the affluence of forces, obtained from outside would depend solely upon the influx through that Stopinder from the results of external forces resulting from the action of that cosmic concentration itself in which the completing process of this primordial fundamental sacred law flows is flowing.
Page 917[Note: If anyone is very interested in the ideas presented in this chapter, I advise him to read, without fail, my proposed book entitled The Opiumists, if, of course, for the writing of this book there will be sufficient French armagnac and Khaizarian bastourma.
the author]
NOTE: If anyone is, by chance, interested in the ideas presented in this chapter—seriously interested, not taking them “lightly” as contemporary people usually do—and if he is endowed with physical, moral, psychic, and material data whose quality is satisfactory according to my understanding, I earnestly advise him to mobilize his forces and, above all, bring together in himself the requisite conditions for becoming worthy to be an “all-rights-possessing pupil” of my “universal laboratory”—the laboratory I intend to open after completing my writings, and the creation of which will be connected with the last phase of my intense activity for the good of all mankind.
THE AUTHOR
Page 931
… resumed the interrupted reading of his newspaper.
“This bull-necked cook carried out the whole procedure with the most complete indifference, like a real automaton; it was visible from his movements that his thoughts were far away, doubtless where the events described by that American newspaper were taking place.
Page 1062“As a rule, in consequence of the fact “It very often happens that these power-possessing or important beings, there do not use the time foreseen by Great Nature for preparing themselves to become worthy responsible beings—owing chiefly to which during their responsible existence, even in their waking state, all kinds of associations in their common presences almost always flow automatically—therefore they themselves without any individual intentions and at times unintentionally or even half-intentionally half-intentionally, try to do everything in such a way that to hasten the outbreak of the next process of reciprocal destruction, should occur sooner, and they even hope that this next process should proceed dream of it taking place on as large a scale as possible.
The garden side of the Prieuré des Basses Loges in Avon near Fontainebleau, France—Mr. Gurdjieff’s Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man—where he first began dictating Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson. An aphorism made his purpose clear to all: “Here there are neither Russians nor English, Jews nor Christians, but only those who pursue one aim – to be able to be.”