Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
Author(s): G.I. Gurdjieff
"Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" is Gurdjieff's world-famous cosmological epic. It examines human life on Earth from the viewpoint of beings belonging to a distant world, led by the 'all-wise Beelzebub'. Through this cosmological allegory - rich in humour, anecdote and linguistic elaboration - Gurdjieff demonstrates a methodology for the spiritual growth of all mankind.
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Gurdjieff was born in Alexanderpol in 1877 and trained both as a priest and physician. For some twenty years he travelled in the remotest regions of Central Asia and the Middle East, moulding his thought. On his return he began to gather pupils in Moscow, and from this base his ideas began to spread worldwide.
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Arkana
- : 0.804
- : 01 October 1999
- : 196mm X 128mm X 53mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : G.I. Gurdjieff
- : BC
- : 1
- : English
- : 197
- : 1248