Aleister Crowley visiting Gurdjieff in 1926

[@MastersofWisdom]

Aleister Crowley visited Gurdjieffs Institute for the first time in 1924, when Gurdjieff was in America. source: ia801807.us.archive.org/17/items/aleister-crowley-and-the-temptation-of-p/Aleister_Crowley_and_the_Temptation_of_P.pdf

[@williamjoyner3759]

Gurdjieff used to give people himself for the sake of healing. I’ve always been impressed by that.

[@PhysGraffiti]

Didn’t Crowley come to Gurdjieff for help with his heroin addiction only to be kicked out after a few days for trying to sleep with some of Gurdjieff’s students ?

[@alexdumitrescu6776]

Until you and I spend time around said individual, we should not come to any conclusions about anything. Leave some mystery, let the unknown unfold through experience.

[@peterknyk1942]

We were warned about him….

[@asteroxfoundation]

I never knew that Crowley and Gurdjieff met. Charlatans or not, both of them are still discussed among the pursuers of occult knowledge. Still not sure if any of their works or practices can be properly applied to improve the human condition. I just hope Gurdjieff didn't give Crowley any driving lessons. ;)

[@Hastenforthedawm]

They never met, it's an urban legend

[@asteroxfoundation]

@@Hastenforthedawm Why do you think so? Do you happen to have a source or reference regarding this?

[@warriorpoet9629]

Comparing Gurdjieff to Crowley is ridiculous.

[@warriorpoet9629]

@@HastenforthedawmI think Fritz Peters as a boy was there. Mentioned in his book Boyhood with G

[@barneyrubble8255]

no such thing as black and white, they both sought gullible people to form a circle around them, they both wrote books, if anything they were mystic entertainers and writers

[@eunoiaeudaimonia6829]

Stop being stupid, just look at the fruit of either and the difference is made clear, Gurdjieff clearly pushes the students to develop higher qualities or The Logistikon as in ancient Greek philosophy, Crowley clearly pushed towards the Epithymetikon , the third part of Plato's soul was called epithymetikon, and this is thought of as the appetitive part, where the higher qualities are to be hollowed out, The man made empy. "no such thing as black and white" your deception is meant to ensnare the ignorant and gullible. Gurdjieff never said to do whatever thou wilt and be happy with that.

[@astralpilled1380]

C.S. Nott is talking rubbish here, how can he judge about Crowley´s Black Magic abilities, did he study and use it for years? His two books are mostly valuable, but sometimes his ignorance shows. He also belittles J.G. Bennett, who was maybe the greatest English philosopher of the 20th century.