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permanent way. It has no definite forms and there are no institutions connected with it." Ouspensky quotes
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When this work is finished, that is to say, when the aim set before it has been accomplished, the fourth way disappears, that is, it disappears from the given place, disappears in its given form, continuing perhaps in another place in another form. Schools of the fourth way exist for the needs of the
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with dozens of followers and family members, Gurdjieff settled in France and established his
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