John G. Bennett's talks on Beelzebub's tales by Bennett, John G.; Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch; Blake, A.
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1 In All and Everything Gurdjieff makes extensive use of these three forms, that is, symbol, myth, and verbal formula. There is no need in these mathematical days to defend the use of symbolism. It is regarded by many schools of modern thought as the only safe form of language. Wittgenstein2 treats symbols as something more than conventional signs, and regards them as corresponding in some way to the reality to which they refer. ”3 Even though other thinkers deny any objective reference to symbols, no one questions that symbolism has a power beyond that of ordinary language.
Later, I embarked on making a series of recordings from the book (still to be completed). Gurdjieff’s own advice to the reader was first, to read it like anything else, then to read it (as if) aloud and only then, finally, to grapple with its meaning. Reading aloud does something to the reader. In many ways, it is almost impossible to do correctly, as sentences elaborate into complex clauses, interweaving, replete with neologisms, and barely an allowance to take breath. Reading aloud is important because the reader has to use his body and breath and attention, giving them wholly over to the text.
I told him that many had asked me to help them to understand the difficult words and even more difficult ideas in the book. ” In June and July of 1949, Bennett gave six lectures just before he went to Paris for a prolonged stay, three months before Gurdjieff’s death. Bennett began preparing these lectures for publication as late as 1973: “… in spite of the development of my own understanding since they were given. ” Bennett’s project was abandoned; and this compilation represents what might have been.