“Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson” or “An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man” by Gurdjieff is the first series of works in the larger trilogy. “All and Everything”. Now we got them all here at Holybooks.com which is good since Gurdjieff underlined the importance of reading the books in the correct order.
- FIRST SERIES: Three books under the title of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson. An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man. (Download it below)
- SECOND SERIES Two books under the common title of Meetings with Remarkable Men.
- THIRD SERIES Five books under the title of Life Is Real Only Then, When I Am. ” (Download it here: Link)
From the foreword of G. I. Gurdjieff’s “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson”:
“All written according to entirely new principles of logical reasoning and directed toward the accomplishment of the following three fundamental tasks: FIRST SERIES To destroy, mercilessly and without any compromise whatever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world. SECOND SERIES To acquaint the reader with the material required for a new creation and to prove the soundness and good quality of it. THIRD SERIES To assist the arising, in the mentation and in the feelings of the reader, of a veritable, nonfantastic representation not of that illusory world which he now perceives, but of the world existing in reality.”
Beelzebub’s Tales is included in Martin Seymour-Smith‘s 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written, with the comment that it is “…the most convincing fusion of Eastern and Western thought has yet been seen.
Download “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson” here (1.134 pages) :
Beelzebubs Tales to His Grandson by G I Gurdjieff
Meetings with Remarkable Men
where’s the pdf file? i cant find it anywhere. please
Rewired my brain. Myself and friends thought we could begin a forth way house about 1967, and had so many insights. Been my main preoccupation ever since. I favor John G Bennett’s work to go onward and develop the ‘work’ in ever more intimate and able-to-be-familiarized ways.
Ideally many different forms of the work would be part of the journey – you could start with Ouspensky but eventually for the heart to open its work with Mme De Salzman’s work that assists. Ideally gather a couple of friends and start a group – without Group, Ideas and Physical work – the work could get intellectually lopsided.
All and Everything is the single most influential book in my life. I followed the author’s suggestion and read it three times. The last reading was aloud to a recorder…30 minutes of reading everyday for exactly 100 days. What a trip! Reading this book so completely has changed my world view, softened my outlook on the antics of humankind and helped my be more equanimous. It’s all just impersonal phenomena rolling on…far beyond the scope of our normal understanding.
I encounter Gurdjieff frequently in books, libraries, and literature. I have read and read and read All and Everything and found it defective. I am quite sure that the edition I got on inter-library loan of Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson was abridged.
The “Foundation” in New York, totally bowdlerize his book and abbreviated it by 100 page…changed and left out key word…for example in the AUTHENTIC book copyright 1950…chapter seven. pages 77, 76 and 78 he tells “it is indispensably necessary” for you to contemplate the morning rising sun as you remember your self…as you TELL YOUR UNCONSCIUS TO ASSITS YOU. IN YOUR WORK EFFORTS…SO I STRTED DOIN
G THAT IN 1962. IT WORKS!!!! THE FOUNDATIO BOOK LEFT KEY WORDS OUT…IT IS A TRAVESTY, AND THERE WILL BE KARMIC KONSEQUENCES…
I know about the forthway
Thank you very much Daniel for link:
Hello Goran,
I am not aware of a pdf file, but you can copy and paste the entire 1950 version into Microsoft Word, available for free from the Gurdjieff Heritage Society:
http://gurdjieff-heritage-society.org/BeelzebubsTales/Beelzebub.htm
So i`ve been reading the revised version
Can u help me where i can find the 1950 version in pdf please