Gurdjieff's doctrine of the reciprocal maintenance of everything that exists, which he calls the Trogoautoegocrat, is, if not the master-idea, at any rate one of the most significant conceptions that have been formulated since the new epoch began.
Preface: "The Crisis in Human Affairs" (third edition), 1954
April 18th, 2010
The special lecture "The Last Supper" (1949), "The Crisis in Human Affairs" (1954) and "Energies: Material, Vital, Cosmic" are now available on Level 2 of the Downloads pages.