Gurdjieff, Enneagram and the Fourth Way. This short essay will survey the Armenian mystic Gurdjieff’s central ideas, locate his sources and delineate the main reasons for his “Work”; explain chief methods and evaluate his place in the history of ideas and in the contemporary visions of human condition.
From the book:
What the Theosophical movement had been teaching in last two decades of the 19th century,
Gurdjieff, armed with his vitalist temper and adventurous spirit tried to achieve in practice. For
all the nice talk about India and “Masters”, Theosophists remained an influential, but rather
impotent debate club. Our hero, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, yearned for “the right stuff” of
superhuman mastery and actualization of the “miraculous”, a pervasive theme during the fin de
siecle.
31 pages, download here:
Gurdjieff Enneagram and the Fourth Way
You might also be interested in Ouspenskys ‘In Search of the Miraculous’ where Gurdjieffs Enneagram teachings for the first are introduced in the western world.
Apparently this is by Arvan Harvat. It matches the tone and attitude of his other works.