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Tertium Organum - The Third Canon of Thought (Paperback)
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Tertium Organum - The Third Canon of Thought (Paperback)
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When Tertium Organum burst onto the New York literary scene its
author, P. D. Ouspensky, was unaware of it. Piotr Demianovich
Ouspensky, the most famous pupil of Greco-Armenian spiritual
teacher George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, had written Kluck Kzaradkam
(the original title) in his native Russian and it had been
published in St. Petersburg in 1912. At the time of its New York
debut his whereabouts were unknown. A Russian by the name of
Nicholas Bessarabof had emigrated to America before the 1917
Russian Revolution and had taken the book with him. He gave a copy
to architect Claude Bragdon who could read Russian and was
interested in forth-dimensional consciousness. After reading the
book a friend echoed Bragdons' sentiments saying; He has recently
discovered a young Russian who "seems to us remarkable in many
ways." The man has introduced him to Ouspensky and his book on the
fourth dimension called Tertium Organum. Bragdon believes this book
to be the "long sought New Testament of the Sixth Race which will
justify the meekness of the saint, the vision of the mystic, and
create a new heaven and a new earth." He is currently collaborating
with Bessarabof on an English translation.A " In 1920 without
Ouspensky's knowledge, Bragdon and Bessarabof published the book in
English through Manas Press in New York. Meanwhile Ouspensky, a
journalist and destitute author, had arrived in Constantinople with
hardly a penny to his name. Later that year he was gratified to
receive a substantial royalty check, and the news that Tertium
Organum was a publishing success in English, and that his fame in
literary circles was assured. In 1921 he wrote, "This translation,
made without my knowledge and participation, at a time when I was
cut off by war and revolution from the civilized world, transmits
my thought so exactly that after a very attentive review of the
book I could find only one word to correct. Such a result could be
achieved only because Mr. Bessarabof and Mr. Bragdon were not
translating words merely, but were grasping directly my thoughts at
the back of them." In May 1921 Ouspensky received the sum of GBP100
from Lady Rothermere who was in Rochester, New York; it was wired
with the message: 'Deeply impressed by your book Tertium Organum -
wish to meet you in New York or London - will pay all expenses.'
This invitation gave Ouspensky the opportunity to move to England
where he secured Gurdjieff's permission to write a book on his
philosophy. Ouspensky spent the next twenty years in England
lecturing and teaching Gurdjieff's ideas and developing his own
philosophy. His lectures in London were attended by such literary
figures as Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot, and other writers,
journalists and doctors. His influence on the literary scene of the
1920's and 1930's as well as on the Russian avant-garde was huge
but today he is not widely known.
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