List of posts for Ouspensky - "Fragments of an Unknown Teaching"
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Chapter 1 - pp.3-9 - Reading Club posting 1
I RETURNED to Russia in November, 1914,
Chapter 1, pp.9-15 - Reading Club posting 2
He invited me to go with him to a house where some of his pupils were to forgather.
Chapter 1, pp.15-22 - Reading Club posting 3
I remember that in one of my talks with G., during this first week
Chapter 1, pp.22-28 - Reading Club posting 4
Talks with G., and the unexpected turn he gave to every idea,
Chapter 2, pp.29-35 - Reading Club posting 5
IN PETERSBURG the summer passed with the usual literary work.
Chapter 2, pp.35-40 - Reading Club posting 6
From a few incidental talks with G. I obtained some idea of his previous life.
Chapter 2, pp.40-44 - Reading Club posting 7
At one of the following meetings of the group
Chapter 2, pp.44-7 - Reading Club posting 8
At the next meeting G. began where he had left off the time before.
Chapter 2, pp.47-52 - Reading Club posting 9
“In order to grasp the essence of this teaching
Chapter 3, pp.53-9 - Reading Club posting 10
BY THE beginning of November, 1915, I already had a grasp of some of the fundamental points of G.’s system in relation to man.
Chapter 3, pp.59-63 - Reading Club posting 11
Very often, almost at every talk, G. returned to the absence of unity in man.
Chapter 4, pp.64-68 - Reading Club posting 12
G’S LECTURES led to many talks in our groups.
Chapter 4, pp.68-72 - Reading Club posting 13
“One of the reasons for the divergence between the line of knowledge and the line of being
Chapter 4, pp.72-7 - Reading Club posting 14
“The division of man into seven categories,
Chapter 4, pp.77-81 - Reading Club posting 15
On the next occasion we had very many questions
Chapter 5, pp.82-7 - Reading Club posting 16
“WE TAKE the three-dimensional universe
Chapter 5, pp.87-93 - Reading Club posting 17
“In the Absolute vibrations are the most rapid and matter is the least dense.
Chapter 5, pp.93-98 - Reading Club posting 18
He again drew the diagram of the ray of creation
Chapter 6, pp.99-104 - Reading Club posting 19
ONE of the next lectures began with a question
Chapter 6, pp. 104-11 - Reading Club posting 20
The next lecture began precisely with the words: “Know thyself.”
Chapter 6, pp.111-15 - Reading Club posting 21
“The next object of self-observation must be habits in general.
Chapter 7, pp.116-20 - Reading Club posting 22
ON ONE occasion while talking with G.
Chapter 7, pp.120-124 - Reading Club posting 23
Sometimes self-remembering was not successful
Chapter 7, pp.124-30 - Reading Club posting 24
“The seven-tone scale is the formula of a cosmic law
Chapter 7, pp.130-5 - Reading Club posting 25
“We have spoken so far chiefly about the discontinuity of vibrations and about the deviation of forces.
Chapter 7, pp.135-40 - Reading Club posting 26
The law of octaves naturally gave rise to a great many talks in our group
Chapter 8, pp.141-5 - Reading Club posting 27
AT ONE of the following lectures G. returned to the question of consciousness.
Chapter 8, pp.145-53 - Reading Club posting 28
G. began the next talk as follows:
Chapter 8, pp.153-9 - Reading Club posting 29
“So far I have spoken of internal considering.
Chapter 8, pp.159-66 - Reading Club posting 30
“As has been explained before, there are many qualities which men attribute to themselves
Chapter 9, pp.167-74 - Reading Club posting 31
AT ONE lecture G. began to draw the diagram of the universe in an entirely new way.
Chapter 9, pp.174-180 - Reading Club posting 32
“All matters from 'hydrogen' 6 to 'hydrogen' 3072 are to be found and play a part in the human organism.
Chapter 9, pp.180-188 - Reading Club posting 33
“ ‘Learn to separate the fine from the coarse’
Chapter 9, pp.188-193 - Reading Club posting 34
"It has been explained before that in ordinary conditions of life we do not remember ourselves
Chapter 9, pp.193-198 - Reading Club posting 35
"When the 'table of hydrogens' has been sufficiently understood,
Chapter 10, pp.199-204 - Reading Club posting 36
ONCE there was a meeting with a large number of people who had not been at our meetings before.
Chapter 10, pp.204-211 - Reading Club posting 37
At one of the following meetings, in the presence of G.,
Chapter 10, pp.211-216 - Reading Club posting 38
"As I have already said, the system of cosmoses…
Chapter 11, pp.217-222 - Reading Club posting 39
"I AM often asked questions in connection with various texts, parables, and so on, from the Gospels
Chapter 11, pp.222-228 - Reading Club posting 40
"The next important feature of group work
Chapter 11, pp.228-232 - Reading Club posting 41
The struggle against the 'false I,' against one's chief feature or chief fault,
Chapter 11, pp.232-237 - Reading Club posting 42
I return to St. Petersburg, in the summer of 1916.
Chapter 12, pp.238-243 - Reading Club posting 43
BY THAT time, midsummer 1916,
Chapter 12, pp.243-249 - Reading Club posting 44
"There is only one thing incompatible with work
Chapter 12, pp.249-254 - Reading Club posting 45
One very interesting conversation took place at this time.
Chapter 12, pp.254-259 - Reading Club posting 46
When speaking of "types" G. once said:
Chapter 13, pp.260-266 - Reading Club posting 47
THIS period, the middle of the summer of 1916,
Chapter 13, pp.266-271 - Reading Club posting 48
The next time G. came to St. Petersburg
Chapter 13, pp.271-277 - Reading Club posting 49
In October I was with G. in Moscow.
Chapter 14, pp.278-282 - Reading Club posting 50
THERE were certain points to which G. invariably used to return
Chapter 14, pp.282-288 - Reading Club posting 51
"This same process of the harmonious development of man
Chapter 14, pp.288-293 - Reading Club posting 52
"The isolated existence of a thing or phenomenon under examination
Chapter 14, pp.293-298 - Reading Club posting 53
G. returned to the enneagram many times and in various connections.
Chapter 15, pp.299-304 - Reading Club posting 54
AMONG the talks of the period I am describing, that is, the end of 1916
Chapter 15, pp.304-310 - Reading Club posting 55
I must quote here still one more talk with G., once again in connection with cosmoses.
Chapter 15, pp.310-315 - Reading Club posting 56
"We have approached the problems of esotericism.
Chapter 16, pp.316-322 - Reading Club posting 57
BY THIS time, that is, by November, 1916,
Chapter 16, pp.322-328 - Reading Club posting 58
In one of the following conversations G. again returned to the subject of classification according to cosmic traits.
Chapter 16, pp.328-333 - Reading Club posting 59
I think it was about a week after the revolution
Chapter 16, pp.333-340 - Reading Club posting 60
I tried to remember everything that G. had said about cosmoses.
Chapter 16, pp.340-345 - Reading Club posting 61
I spoke a great deal with Z. about the "table of time"
Chapter 17, pp.346-351 - Reading Club posting 62
I ALWAYS have a very strange feeling when I remember this period.
Chapter 17, pp.351-358 - Reading Club posting 63
Exercises in relaxing the muscles which we began to perform
Chapter 17, pp.358-363 - Reading Club posting 64
But I will return to the physical exercises we carried out at that time.
Chapter 17, pp.363-368 - Reading Club posting 65
On another occasion in connection with the same question G. said:
Chapter 18, pp.369-375 - Reading Club posting 66
I WAS kept in St. Petersburg longer than I had thought to be
Chapter 18, pp.375-382 - Reading Club posting 67
In the beginning of August G. left Essentuki.
Chapter 18, pp.382-389 - Reading Club posting 68
Soon afterwards I managed to leave for Constantinople.