Letters from Russia by Ouspensky

From 1907 until 1913 Ouspensky wrote  for a Russian newspaper, mostly on foreign affairs. At the same time he was working on various books based on the idea that our consciousness is an incomplete state not far removed from sleep, and also that our three-dimensional view of the universe is inadequate and incomplete. Hoping that [...]

Mysteries of the Seed by Rodney Collin

In 1931 Rodney Collin read a New Model of the Universe by P.D. Ouspensky, and in 1935 he and his wife attended some talks given by Maurice Nicoll, who had been a pupil of both Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, but he did not continue with Nicoll’s meetings. Through one of the members of the Peace Pledge Union, [...]

Lessons in Religion for a Skeptical World by Rodney Collin

Lessons in Religion for a Skeptical World by Rodney Collin. Rodney Collin is one of the most well known of Ouspenky’s students, and a prolific writer. He met Ouspensky in the autumn of 1936. Rodney Collin immediately recognised that he had found what he had been searching for in his reading and travels. Here is Rodney’s [...]

The Theory of Conscious Harmony – From the letters of Rodney Collin

Rodney Collin was closely associated with P.D. Ouspensky. In 1948 he moved to Mexico to carry on the study and practice of the ideas received from Ouspensky and Ouspensky’s teacher, Gurdjieff. During the next few years he corresponded with a large number of people, from many walks of life, all over the world, who sought [...]

Talks With a Devil by P. D. Ouspensky

Talks With a Devil by P. D. Ouspensky: “I will tell you a fairy tale,” said the Devil, “on one condition: you must not ask me the moral. You may draw any conclusion you like, but please do not question me. As it is, far too many follies are laid at our door, yet we, [...]

A Record of Meetings & A Further Record by Ouspensky

A Record of Meetings & A Further Record are detailed and impressive collections of transcriptions from meetings Ouspensky held with various groups between 1928 and 1947. The talks, often formed as question and answer sessions or discussions, centers about the teachings Ouspensky recieved earlier by Gurdjieff. The texts give us a deeper understanding of concepts [...]

A New Model of the Universe by P. D. Ouspensky

A New Model of the Universe is one of P. D. Ouspensky’s main works. From the intro: “Books, books, books. I read, I find, I lose, I find again, again I lose. At last a certain whole becomes formed in my mind. I see the unbroken line of thought and knowledge which passes from century [...]

The Herald of Coming Good by G. I. Gurdjieff

The Herald of Coming Good was G. I. Gurdjieffs first book. He published it himself in Paris, 1933. From the intro: “I counsel all readers who have at any time met me upon the ground of my ideas to postpone reading this first appeal until they have, concentrating in their nature as well as in [...]

Tertium Organum by P. D. Ouspensky

Tertium Organum, the first of Ouspensky’s major works, was originally published in 1912 in St. Petersburg, and a second revised edition appeared four years later in Petrograd. Nicholas Bessaraboff brought a copy of the second edition with him when he emigrated to the United States before the Russian Revolution of March 1917. The book was [...]

Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson or An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man by Gurdjieff

“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 [...]

The Enneagram A Lecture by G.I.Gurdjieff

The Enneagram A Lecture by G.I.Gurdjieff is a transcription of the talk wherein Gurdjieff reintroduced the Enneagram to the public. Please note that a similar version of this talk was presented in Chapter 14 of In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky. The Enneagram A Lecture by G.I.Gurdjieff, download the entire book here: The [...]

Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

Strange Life of Ivan Osokin by P. D. Ouspensky follows the unsuccessful struggle of Ivan Osokin to correct his mistakes when given a chance to relive his past. The conclusion fully anticipates the Fourth Way Philosophy which typified Ouspensky’s later works. The Magician, a minor but important character who makes appearances at the beginning and [...]

In Search of the Miraculous – P. D. Ouspensky

Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky has the subtitle: ‘Fragments of an Unknown Teaching’. In this 396 page work P. D. Ouspensky for the first time introduces the Enneagram to the western world which he learned about from the teachings of the Greek-Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff. Download the book here: THIS WORK HAS [...]

The Fourth Way by P. D. Ouspensky

When P. D. Ouspensky was asked if he intended to publish his lectures, he answered: ‘What is the use? The most important is not the lectures but the questions and answers.’ This book consists of verbatim extracts from talks and answers to questions given by Ouspensky between 1921 and 1946. Chapter I is a general [...]

The Symbolism of the Tarot by Ouspensky

The Symbolism of the Tarot by P.D. Ouspensky. From the foreword: “No study of occult philosophy is possible without an acquaintance with symbolism, for if the words occultism and symbolism are correctly used, they mean almost one and the same thing. Symbolism cannot be learned as one learns to build bridges or speak a foreign [...]