Tobias ChurtonDeconstructing Gurdjieff
Biography of a Spiritual Magician
Britain’s leading scholar of Western Esotericism, Tobias Churton is a world authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Rosicrucianism. An Honorary Fellow of Exeter University, where he is a faculty lecturer, he holds a master’s degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and is the author of many books, including Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin and Occult Paris. He lives in the heart of England.
Acknowledgments
Preface: Caveat Lector
ONE The Enigma Arrives
Meeting the Press
TWO Reviewing the Situation: A Birth
Archival Records
Cattle Plague
THREE War Baby: An Education in Kars
FOUR Dean Borshch and Other Enthusiasms
The Circle of the Yezidi
Bogachevsky and the Flying Chairs
FIVE The Spiritual Question
Miracles
Spiritualism and Hypnosis
SIX Mad about the Girl: Or How to Get to Tiflis in a Hurry
Fedeev and Blavatsky
Tiflis
SEVEN Books: Furniture of the Mind
The Tradition
The Brotherhood of the Rose-Cross
EIGHT In Search of Brotherhood
The Armenian Question Ani
NINE The Yezidis
The God of the Yezidis
Melek
Tawus
Yezidi Beliefs
Origins
TEN Do-It-Yourself Gurdjieff and Unaccountable Journeys Miscellaneous
Adventures
The Sufis
Back to Work with Gurdjieff
ELEVEN Traveling Tales and Bullets in the Leg
Soloviev and the Kushka Line
Toward the Sarmoung Monastery
TWELVE Two More Bullets
Trouble in Tibet
The Chiatura Tunnel
THIRTEEN Holy Mother Russia!
Papus in Russia
The Unique Work Brotherhood
FOURTEEN The Struggle of the Magicians
FIFTEEN Octave and Enneagram
From Seven to Eight
Nine in the Circle
SIXTEEN The International Alliance of Ideological Workers
Tbilisi
SEVENTEEN Stateless Person
Constantinople
John Godolphin Bennett, Prince Sabahaddin, and Gurdjieff
EIGHTEEN Doctrine: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man
NINETEEN The Beast 666 and the Black Devil
TWENTY The Long Ascent
Breaking with Old Friends
The War
TWENTY-ONE The Grave with No Name
Notes
Bibliography
Index
