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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.

"This devoted and favorite Apostle initiated by Jesus Christ Himself was called ‘Judas.’...Judas was not only the most f...
10/05/2026

"This devoted and favorite Apostle initiated by Jesus Christ Himself was called ‘Judas.’...Judas was not only the most faithful and devoted of all the near followers of Jesus Christ, but also, only thanks to his Reason and presence of mind all the acts of this Sacred Individual could form that result [of Being]—the source of nourishment and inspiration for the majority of them in their desolate existence and made it at least a little endurable.
[When at the Last Supper it was realized that more time was required to fulfill the sacred sacrament Almznoshinoo] “Judas, now a Saint, leaped from his place and hurriedly said:
“‘I shall go and do everything in such a way that you should have the possibility of fulfilling this sacred preparation without hindrance, and meanwhile set to work at once.’
“Having said this, he approached Jesus Christ and having confidently spoken with Him a little and received His blessing, hurriedly left.”
Said Mr. Gurdjieff: “I do not often pray to God. I do not wish to disturb His Endlessness. But when I am drunk I pray to Judas. And I am almost always drunk.”

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

Those beings who in the given period of the ‘flow-of-time’ belong to the ruling class, immediately hook on to these reli...
09/28/2026

Those beings who in the given period of the ‘flow-of-time’ belong to the ruling class, immediately hook on to these religious teachings just that, for them, most maleficent ‘question’ which exists on this ill-starred planet under the name of ‘Religion-for-the-State-or-the-State-for-Religion‘ they gradually begin with every kind of artfulness to juggle with the previously fixed facts for the justification of their own egoistic aims.

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

The fourth great religion was founded on the teaching of the full-of-hope Saint Mohammed [which] might perhaps have beco...
09/21/2026

The fourth great religion was founded on the teaching of the full-of-hope Saint Mohammed [which] might perhaps have become eventually a ‘hearth of hope and reconciliation’ for them all if these strange beings had not stirred this also into a hotchpotch…mixed into something from the fantastic theory of the Babylonian dualists [while] the ‘Sheiks-Islamists’ themselves invented and added to it many things about the blessings of the notorious ‘paradise,’ which as it were, existed ‘in the other world.’

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

The psychic hatred of each other formed in the psyche of the beings who belong to these two independent schools [Sunnite...
09/14/2026

The psychic hatred of each other formed in the psyche of the beings who belong to these two independent schools [Sunnite and Shiite] of one and the same religion has, on account of their frequent clashes, now been transformed completely into an organic hate. Beings of certain European communities have during recent centuries greatly contributed by their incitement to the rise of this peculiar transformation of that strange being-function. And they have employed and continue to employ this incitement in order that the animosity between them should increase and that they should never unite, since if this were to happen, there might soon be an end there for those European communities. The point is that nearly half of the ordinary three-brained beings there are followers of this Mohammedan teaching, and only as long as this mutual hatred exists among them will they mean nothing terrifying in the sense of ‘reciprocal destruction’ to European communities.

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

To outrage anybody’s religious feeling is contrary to all morality.
09/07/2026

To outrage anybody’s religious feeling is contrary to all morality.

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

‘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

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