“The Readiness is All”

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" “The Readiness is All” "
Joseph Azize

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081851
Doc. No	:	LA125480
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02101002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Joseph Azize
Title & Author	:	“The Readiness is All” [Article]\ Joseph Azize
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	21/1-2
Page No	:	40–69
Abstract	:	The most important of Gurdjieff’s still little-known contemplative techniques was the daily exercise his pupils called the “Preparation.” No notes or recordings of a Preparation given by Gurdjieff himself are known to exist. The chief aim of this article is to publish a transcript of the Preparation as given by George M. Adie (1901–1989), according to indications he had received from Gurdjieff. Other personal pupils of Gurdjieff have attested to the accuracy with which Adie passed on the tradition of the Preparation. Further references to the Preparation are examined, clarifying its various aspects. The study closes by tracing the roots of the Preparation in Gurdjieff’s thought, and its almost complete disappearance from the Gurdjieff tradition; a victim, as it were, of close secrecy and a shift in practices in many Gurdjieff groups. The most important of Gurdjieff’s still little-known contemplative techniques was the daily exercise his pupils called the “Preparation.” No notes or recordings of a Preparation given by Gurdjieff himself are known to exist. The chief aim of this article is to publish a transcript of the Preparation as given by George M. Adie (1901–1989), according to indications he had received from Gurdjieff. Other personal pupils of Gurdjieff have attested to the accuracy with which Adie passed on the tradition of the Preparation. Further references to the Preparation are examined, clarifying its various aspects. The study closes by tracing the roots of the Preparation in Gurdjieff’s thought, and its almost complete disappearance from the Gurdjieff tradition; a victim, as it were, of close secrecy and a shift in practices in many Gurdjieff groups.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	contemplation
Descriptor	:	G.I. Gurdjieff
Descriptor	:	G.M. Adie
Descriptor	:	H.B. Ripman
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Jean de Salzmann
Descriptor	:	Jean Vaysse
Descriptor	:	meditation
Descriptor	:	P.D. Ouspensky
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	the Preparation
Descriptor	:	Western esoteric practice
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02101002‬