Gurdjieff Tibet And The Kali Yuga
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GURDJIEFF, TIBET, AND THE KALI YUGA.
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff was perhaps the most mysterious, haunting magus figure of the twentieth century. Like Crowley, he has been reviled as a charlatan. Others have seen him as a superhuman ambassador of Central Asian esoteric schools. Born some time in the eighteen-seventies in the multicultural melting pot of Armenia, he claimed to have spent decades on a quest for living sources of ancient wisdom. His overwhelming charisma and unusual knowledge and abilities convinced many he had succeeded. He came to prominence as a teacher of esoteric knowledge in Tsarist Russia. The revolution forced a departure to Europe. In the early twenties he established a base in France in a large house with extensive grounds. Many people of a high level of culture and breeding joined him there.
Gurdjieff wrote a gigantic and difficult to read work entitled "Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson" which included much material that seemed to be autobiographical, including a strange account of events in Tibet at the time of the dawning of Crowley's Aeon of Horus.
During the late nineteenth century Britain and Russia engaged in what's been called the "Great Game" in Asia. India was the jewel in the imperial crown. Russia had expanded across the continent. Spheres of influence were contended. Afghanistan and Tibet became places where political intrigues were played out as the two super-powers vied for position. One result of this involved a British expedition entering Tibet in 1903 led by a man named Francis Younghusband. It was not a full-blown invasion but the group was primarily military and its intention was to force Tibet into opening up more fully to British influence.
"Francis Younghusband"
Gurdjieff was supposedly in Tibet during this period. "Beelzebub's Tales "gives an account of the history of a particular esoteric group, always numbering seven people, which had been founded by a divine messenger named by Gurdjieff in his typically idiosyncratic style as Saint Krishnatkharna. This is generally taken to refer to Krishna. This group endured and adapted through the time of Buddha and the arrival of his teaching in Tibet with its adoption by Saint Lama who can be thought of as Padmasambhava, founder of Tibetan Buddhism. The group were extremely powerful and played a mysterious role in the balance of global forces.
They were still active when the Younghusband expedition entered Tibet. Their leader was present when a kind of national assembly discussed how best to meet the challenge. He advocated a pacifist approach which was subsequently adopted with him accompanying a group sent out to meet the British. This went horribly wrong when the great adept was shot dead.
The dynamic of the group of seven which had lasted for millennia was fatally compromised. There were detailed instructions handed down from Saint Lama concerning the transmission of the teachings by the leader which were determined by the spiritual preparedness of the other six. The leader was on the verge of becoming the divine messenger of the age. At the vital point the survivors were on the threshold but the process was incomplete. They took a hardcore esoteric option, attempting to communicate through the corpse of their leader with what might be termed his spiritual energies. Gurdjieff used a variety of complex terminology to describe the process. For such an undertaking to be successful it should have been started whilst the leader was still alive.
Sufficient to say the gamble catastrophically failed. Some kind of negative alchemy occurred resulting in a huge explosion referred to by Gurdjieff as the "Sobrionolian contact." The remaining group were killed and all of the texts and relics of their tradition were destroyed. This disaster meant that planetary conditions as a whole immediately deteriorated. To what extent the story is meant to be taken literally is difficult to assess. Nonetheless Gurdjieff is clearly pointing to a time and place where he believed that a crucial shift had occurred.
