Russian Revolution
It also speaks of his incessant search real and universal knowledge although it never reveals the secret of the truths bare. His parents were Greeks of Asia minor, and everything seems to indicate, father seemed possessor of a very ancient culture. It is plausible that Gurdjieff has bathed in the atmosphere of divination rites of the ancient Russia since his childhood. His early, advises Ouspensky, took place in an atmosphere of tales of fairy legends and traditions. To her around, the miraculous had been a real event.
Heard by the predictions and to which their relatives according full faith, were carried out and opened his eyes to many things. He reappeared in Russia in 1913 and devoted himself to teaching his theories to various groups of disciples in Moscow, Petersburgo and Tbilisi. From this time dates his encounter with the Russian mathematician P.D. Ouspensky, who became his main disciple and the more lucid exponent of its doctrines. Later, fleeing the Russian Revolution, he took refuge in Constantinople, and in 1922, after visiting England, founded in Avon (Fontainebleau), about Paris, the Institute for the harmonious development of man, which was visited by many celebrities desiring to know the strange philosopher. Importantly, who in his constant search on the actual truth, knowledge, discovered many things that once he experienced them, assimilated, has bequeathed her us for those who still are on this planet. And if we pay attention to its content, especially which involves his fourth way, we can obtain valuable information for our spiritual growth. Not surprisingly we will opine about it, that it was too human to be the devil, too inhumane to be a Saint, Gurdjieff took with him the secret of his nature to die in November, 1949, at the age of eighty-three, because he was no longer determined to live, leaving a dark and voluminous work entitled All and Everything (everything and everything).