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Psychological
Commentaries
on the Teaching of
Gurdjieff and Ouspensky
Maurice Nicoll
Volume 2
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CONTENTS
Birdlip, 1944
PAGE
8. 1.44 Note on the Study of Loss of Force ............... 373
15. 1.44 Further Note on the Study of Loss of Force ... 376
22. 1.44 The Enneagram (I) ... ... ... ... ... 379
29. 1.44 The Enneagram (II) ................................... 383
5.2.44 The Enneagram (III) .................................. 386
12. 2.44 The Intelligence of Centres................................... 392
19. 2.44 What this Work is about .................................. 398
27. 2.44 The Enneagram (IV) ................................... 402
4. 3.44 The Enneagram (V) ................................... 408
11. 3.44 The Enneagram (VI) ................................... 411
18. 3.44 The Enneagram (VII) ................................... 415
25. 3.44 The Enneagram (VIII) ................................. 418
I. 4.44 The Enneagram (IX) .................................. 420
9. 4.44 The Enneagram (X) ... ......................... 422
15. 4.44 The Enneagram (XI) ................................. 425
24. 4.44 The Enneagram (XII) .................................. 428
30. 4.44 The Enneagram (XIII) ................................... 431
6. 5.44 The Enneagram (XIV) .................................. 435
13. 5.44 Self-Observation................................................... 439
20. 5.44 The Meaning of Evolution in the Work ............... 444
27. 5.44 Deeper Self-Observation ...................... .. .,. 448
3. 6.44 Non-Identifying ............................................. 451
10. 6.44 Stages of Awakening in the Work............. ... 454
24. 6.44 Pictures and Imagination .................................... 458
1. 7.44 Parable of the Horse, Carriage and Driver ... 464
11. 7.44 Further Notes on Meaning ......................... 469
15. 7.44 Commentaries on Self-Love (I) ......................... 471
Commentaries on Self-Love (II) ........................ 474
23. 7.44 Introductory Note to Paper on Will ............... 479
Commentary on Will (I) ....................... 480
29. 7.44 Commentary on Will (II) ... ....................... 485
5. 8.44 Introductory Note to Commentary on Will (HI)... 492
Commentary on Will (III).................................... 493
12. 8.44 Levels of Consciousness ................................... 496
20. 8.44 Vanity ........................................................ 500
2. 9.44 Commentary on Chief Feature ........................ 507
16. 9.44 Note on Personal Work .................................. 511
23. 9.44 Further Note on Personal Work........................... 515
30. 9.44 What the Work teaches about War ............. 519
7.10.44 Valuation of the Work .................................... 524
14.10.44 Self-Observation and Self-Remembering (I) ... 527
21.10.44 Self-Observation and Self-Remembering (II) ... 534
28.10.44 Man as an Experiment ...................................
538
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4.11.44 Commentary on Second Force in Oneself ...............
540
18.11.44 Introductory Note to Commentary on the Mind
544
Commentary on the Mind ............................
545
25.11.44 On Seeing Life in a New Way—as a Means, not an End
552
2.12.44 Further Notes on Deeper Self-Observation ...
556
Introductory Note on Esotericism ............................
561
Law of Fate and Law of Accident ... ................
563
12.12.44 Law of Fate and Law of Accident ...........................
564
16.12.44 Commentary on Internal Considering ...............
570
23.12.44 On Taking in Impressions in a New Way ...............
573
30.12.44 The Cognitive Power of Emotions ...............
575
Birdlip, 1945
7. 1.45 Commentary on Memory .........................................
581
13. 1.45 The Doctrine of 'I's (I) .......................................
594
21. 1.45 Further Notes on 'I's .......................................
596
27. 1.45 Self-Remembering.....................................................
601
3. 2.45 The Doctrine of 'I's (II) .......................................
606
8. 2.45 Commentary on Conscious Love ... ... ...
611
10. 2.45 The Doctrine of 'I's (III) ... ... ... ...
614
17. 2.45 Commentary on Acquired Conscience ... ...
618
24. 2.45 Commentary on the Meaning of Aim in the Work
626
3. 3.45 Commentary on Inner Freedom ... ... ...
635
10. 3.45 Commentary on the Difference between the Object
and the Thought of the Object. ................
642
17. 3.45 Commentary on Negative Emotions ... ...
646
23. 3.45 Commentary on the Food of Impressions
...
652
31. 3.45 The Reason why We have to Observe Ourselves ...
658
31. 3.45 An Easter Message ... ... ... ... ...
663
7. 4.45 The Conception of Entropy in Science and the
Conception of Effort in the Work ... ...
665
14. 4.45 The Work-Idea of Yes and No ... ... ...
671
Quaremead, Ugley, 1945
21. 4.45 A Reminder of what the Work is about
...
680
Further Note on the Work-Idea of Yes and No ...
682
28.4.45 On Bringing the Opposites together ...............
685
5. 5.45 The Situation To-day ........................................
690
13. 545 Commentary on Emotional Centre ...........................
693
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19. 5.45
On Taking in Impressions ...................................
698
20. 5.45
A Note on the Pendulum and Third Force ...
699
2. 6.45
Work on Being .......................................................
702
9. 6.45
Work on Negative Emotions ..................................
708
16. 6.45
The Meaning of Force in the Work ........................
712
23. 6.45
Commentary on Observing 'I' ...............................
721
30. 6.45
On Changing our Level of Being..................................
726
7. 7.45
On Beginning to Live more Consciously........................
731
14. 7.45
On Self-Remembering ............................................
737
21. 7.45
Further Note on Changing our Level of Being ........... 741
28. 7.45
A Note on Internal Considering ................................
747
A Note on Recurrence ............................................
752
4. 8.45
A Note on Buffers ......................................................
755
11. 8.45
Man's Situation on the Earth .................................
761
25. 8.45
Knowledge and Acknowledgement of the Work ...
765
1. 9.45
Further Commentary on making Work-Effort ...
766
8. 9.45
Commentary on Inner Freedom .................................
770
15. 9.45
Commentary on Inner Talking .................................
772
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Birdlip, January 8, 1944
NOTE ON THE STUDY OF LOSS OF FORCE
The conception of force is an essential idea in the Work. In order
to awaken a man must have force: without force he cannot awaken.
The conception of force can be best understood if it is studied from two
angles. The Work says that a man loses force in a great many specific
ways which it mentions, that he gains force by work on them, and that
he creates force by the act of Self-Remembering.
Let us study loss of force. We are told that we can only begin to
awaken after much effort and long struggle, and that this is due to the
fact that life wants us to stay asleep for its own reasons. This means
that life prevents us from conserving force, or, put the other way, life
takes our force. Since we are nothing but a mass of habits, life forms
very early in us various habits of losing force, sometimes very complex
ones. So we lose force mechanically, just as we do everything else
mechanically. It is very difficult to see how we lose force. We have to
view ourselves in the light of new knowledge—to exchange our old
ideas for new—in order to realize what is continually happening. A
person may lose force in a flash, just because of touching a negative
emotion. In the Work, which is long, we begin to realize that we are
faced by this mass of habits, that is not us. This is a painful experience
and it is unnecessary to enter into it unless one is convinced that there
is something to reach.
Now, to awaken, anything anti-mechanical may help. Self-observation
is anti-mechanical and must come before everything else. But it is in
non-identifying that the main key lies to preventing loss of force. Every- -
act of non-identifying saves force. We are speaking of force necessary
for awakening. If we identify with everything, inner and outer, we
cannot have force for doing or understanding the Work. The Work will
remain far away as a vague cloud. After a time one begins to notice
that one is asleep. That is, one begins to notice that one has lost force.
At the same time one notices that the Work and its ideas seem very far
away. When one begins to have a barometer of this kind, it is possible
to study in more detail what it is that causes loss of force. Although the
causes of loss of force can be arranged in general categories, that apply
to everyone, such as negative states, each person has particular causes
that must be observed personally in the greatest detail and reflected
upon with the greatest care in the light of the new understanding that
the Work gives. Otherwise there is no sincerity with oneself, upon which
alone can anything be built within oneself. Nor can there be any centre
of gravity established by the influence of the Work, and so nothing will
reach us that belongs to Real 'I'.
All this belongs to the necessity of valuation that is frequently spoken
of. Without valuation of the Work there can be no sincerity with it,
nor can there be a definite inner perception of loss of force. That is,
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