Abstract
In a passage from P. D. Ouspensky’s In Search of the Miraculous, Gurdjieff reportedly distinguishes “black magic” from “white magic” by one prominent feature, that the black magic (which he regards as possibly being altruistic, like white magic) has a tendency to “use people for some, even best of aims, without their knowledge and understanding” (1949:227).
“And in doing this, they criticize exactly that humble and honest learned being of their planet [Mesmer], who, if he had not been pecked to death would have revived that science, which alone is absolutely necessary to them and by means of which alone, perhaps, they might be saved from the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer.”
—B:562
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Tamdgidi, M.H. (2009). Conclusion Gurdjieff’s Roundabout Yezidi Circle. In: Gurdjieff and Hypnosis. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230102026_10
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