The Fourth Way — G I Gurdjieff

The study of man is closely connected with the idea of the evolution of man but the evolution of man must be understood in a slightly different way from the ordinary Ordinarily the word evolution applied either to man or to anything else presupposes a kind of mechanical evolution I mean that certain things by certain known or unknown laws transform into other things and these other things transform into still others and so on But from the point of view of this system there is no such evolution at all I do not speak in general but specifically of man The evolution of man if it occurs can only be the result of knowledge and effort as long as man knows only what he can know in the ordinary way there is no evolution for him and there never was any evolution for him

The study of man is closely connected with the idea of the evolution of man but the evolution of man must be understood in a slightly different way from the ordinary Ordinarily the word evolution applied either to man or to anything else presupposes a kind of mechanical evolution I mean that certain things by certain known or unknown laws transform into other things and these other things transform into still others and so on But from the point of view of this system there is no such evolution at all I do not speak in general but specifically of man The evolution of man if it occurs can only be the result of knowledge and effort as long as man knows only what he can know in the ordinary way there is no evolution for him and there never was any evolution for him

The study of man is closely connected with the idea of the evolution of man but the evolution of man must be understood in a slightly different way from the ordinary Ordinarily the word evolution applied either to man or to anything else presupposes a kind of mechanical evolution I mean that certain things by certain known or unknown laws transform into other things and these other things transform into still others and so on But from the point of view of this system there is no such evolution at all I do not speak in general but specifically of man The evolution of man if it occurs can only be the result of knowledge and effort as long as man knows only what he can know in the ordinary way there is no evolution for him and there never was any evolution for him

The study of man is closely connected with the idea of the evolution of man but the evolution of man must be understood in a slightly different way from the ordinary Ordinarily the word evolution applied either to man or to anything else presupposes a kind of mechanical evolution I mean that certain things by certain known or unknown laws transform into other things and these other things transform into still others and so on But from the point of view of this system there is no such evolution at all I do not speak in general but specifically of man The evolution of man if it occurs can only be the result of knowledge and effort as long as man knows only what he can know in the ordinary way there is no evolution for him and there never was any evolution for him img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img

The study of man is closely connected with the idea of the evolution of man but the evolution of man must be understood in a slightly different way from the ordinary Ordinarily the word evolution applied either to man or to anything else presupposes a kind of mechanical evolution I mean that certain things by certain known or unknown laws transform into other things and these other things transform into still others and so on But from the point of view of this system there is no such evolution at all I do not speak in general but specifically of man The evolution of man if it occurs can only be the result of knowledge and effort as long as man knows only what he can know in the ordinary way there is no evolution for him and there never was any evolution for him