Cosmic Secrets: Structure and Belief: do not believe…verify

Prolegomenon – Cosmic Secrets Page iv (continued)

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Question: “How can music and light be in the same structure?” Answer: “They can be in the same structure if they are both obeying the same axiomatic truth.”

Man has searched for this axiomatic truth in philosophy, in Zen, in religion, in mysticism, etc., and if one of those ways was fortunate enough to find a hint of it, unfortunately, they attached so many other things to it that, after a while, it became unrecognizable… to where, even their followers had to be bullied into believing it. Believe! You must believe!

Contrarily, Gurdjieff’s model does not start with belief. In fact, it starts with “Do not believe.” Gurdjieff said we should verify everything… rather than just blindly believe it.

Which is probably why Gurdjieff was tenaciously pursuing the following question: “What is the sense and significance of life on earth, and in particular the aim and purpose of the life of man?”