Gurdjieff Legacy-Baltimore

Gurdjieff Legacy-Baltimore Offering group work in the practice and principles of G.I. Gurdjieff's teaching of The Fourth Way Patterson is of the direct lineage of the Teaching.

The Gurdjieff Legacy Foundation is directed by William Patrick Patterson, a spiritual teacher of The Fourth Way for many years. A long-time student of Lord John Pentland, whom Gurdjieff chose to lead the Work in America, Mr.

‘Vainly-To-Grow-Sincerely-Indignant’The being-experiencing of theirs which is excellently characterized by the words ‘va...
08/31/2026

‘Vainly-To-Grow-Sincerely-Indignant’
The being-experiencing of theirs which is excellently characterized by the words ‘vainly-to-grow-sincerely-indignant,’ also appears to be one of the unfortunate particularities of the psyche of these ill-fated three-brained beings…an abnormality [which they speak of as ‘vainly-to-grow-agitated’] which also flows from the disappearance from their common presences of the ‘being-horizon’ proper to be present in the three-brained beings, as well as the ‘instinctive-sensing-of-reality-in-its-real-light.’

Sayings of Substance from G.I. Gurdjieff on his teaching of self-transformation, The Fourth Way

Only he is not a nothing who has understood his nothingness and has worked on himself to change it. That man is another ...
08/24/2026

Only he is not a nothing who has understood his nothingness and has worked on himself to change it. That man is another quality of m***e with roses. It is still m***e but it has not the same odor.

Sayings of Substance from G.I. Gurdjieff on his teaching of self-transformation, The Fourth Way

Inner Swagger[Speaking of the ‘hereditary offspring’ of beings belonging to the ‘ruling caste.’] There is at present so ...
08/17/2026

Inner Swagger
[Speaking of the ‘hereditary offspring’ of beings belonging to the ‘ruling caste.’] There is at present so much of what is called ‘inner swagger’ that it would never permit them to blend with the general mass in order to strive together with common efforts to become such three-brained beings as they should be.

Sayings of Substance from G.I. Gurdjieff on his teaching of self-transformation, The Fourth Way

Any Prayer may be heard by the Higher Powers and a corresponding answer obtained only if uttered thrice:Firstly—for the ...
08/10/2026

Any Prayer may be heard by the Higher Powers and a corresponding answer obtained only if uttered thrice:
Firstly—for the welfare or the peace of the souls of one’s parents.
Secondly—for the welfare of one’s neighbor.
And only thirdly—for oneself personally.

Sayings of Substance from G.I. Gurdjieff on his teaching of self-transformation, The Fourth Way

…having become persuaded by their own eyes that the possibility of losing their own existence depends, at the given mome...
08/03/2026

…having become persuaded by their own eyes that the possibility of losing their own existence depends, at the given moment, absolutely only on the number of beings of the enemy side not destroyed, then in consequence of the strengthened functioning in their imagination of the presence of the impulse called ‘cowardice,’ and on account of the impossibility of each moment of reasonable deliberation by their being-mentation, weakened already without this, they begin from a natural feeling of self-preservation to strive with all their Being to destroy as many as possible of the existences of the beings of the enemy side in order to have the greater chance of saving their own existence. And gradually progressing in this feeling of self-preservation of theirs, they then reach the state as they themselves say, of ‘bestiality.’

Sayings of Substance from G.I. Gurdjieff on his teaching of self-transformation, The Fourth Way

The idea of cosmoses alone can provide a firm basis for the establishment of the laws of relativity. Real science and re...
07/27/2026

The idea of cosmoses alone can provide a firm basis for the establishment of the laws of relativity. Real science and real philosophy ought to be founded on the understanding of the laws of relativity.

Sayings of Substance from G.I. Gurdjieff on his teaching of self-transformation, The Fourth Way

The fourth dimension lies for it [for a given three-dimensional cosmos] in the cosmos above and the cosmos below. The fo...
07/20/2026

The fourth dimension lies for it [for a given three-dimensional cosmos] in the cosmos above and the cosmos below. The fourth dimension lies as much in the realm of very large magnitudes as in the realm of very small magnitudes; as much in the realm of what is actually infinity as in the realm of what is actually zero.

Sayings of Substance from G.I. Gurdjieff on his teaching of self-transformation, The Fourth Way

Only understanding can lead to Being, whereas knowledge is but a passing presence in it. New knowledge displaces the old...
07/13/2026

Only understanding can lead to Being, whereas knowledge is but a passing presence in it. New knowledge displaces the old and the result is, as it were, a pouring from the empty into the void. One must strive to understand; this alone can lead to our Lord God.

Sayings of Substance from G.I. Gurdjieff on his teaching of self-transformation, The Fourth Way

As every cosmos has a real physical existence, every cosmos therefore is three-dimensional for itself or in itself. In r...
07/06/2026

As every cosmos has a real physical existence, every cosmos therefore is three-dimensional for itself or in itself. In relation to a lower cosmos it is four-dimensional, in relation to a higher cosmos it is a point.

Sayings of Substance from G.I. Gurdjieff on his teaching of self-transformation, The Fourth Way

The broadening of consciousness proceeds simultaneously in two directions, toward the greater and towards the lesser.
06/29/2026

The broadening of consciousness proceeds simultaneously in two directions, toward the greater and towards the lesser.

Sayings of Substance from G.I. Gurdjieff on his teaching of self-transformation, The Fourth Way

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