Gurdjieff and the Esoteric Doctrine of Karma - Couverture souple

Presta, Egidio M. B.

9798173202482: Gurdjieff and the Esoteric Doctrine of Karma

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ISBN 13 : 9798173202482

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

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This work stems from the need to mend one of the greatest rifts in humanity's spiritual and intellectual history: the loss of an objective understanding of the law of karma. While today this word evokes almost exclusively an impersonal law of cause and effect or an ethical doctrine made of punishments, rewards, and individual fates, the analysis of the most ancient sources reveals a radically different and dramatic reality. In the earliest texts of the Indian tradition, the term karman originally indicated the action par excellence: the operational precision of the sacrificial rite. However, even in that archaic context, the deep understanding of the true doctrine had already been lost: once the knowledge of how to consciously produce and transform vibrations within man was gone, external practice inevitably degenerated into a blind and mechanical fanaticism. The bloody immolation of animals and, in even more remote contexts, human sacrifices thus became the desperate and unconscious attempt to replicate externally an energetic dynamic whose inner key had been lost. By integrating archaic philology with the cosmological insights of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way, this text offers a completely unprecedented perspective on the true meaning of karma and the profound function of Organic Life. But what happens when even this understanding fades and karman is reduced to a banal code of moral conduct or a blind impersonal law? What are the energetic and historical consequences of accumulating a debt that man no longer knows how to settle consciously? This work lays bare the mechanisms through which human culture has continuously built new theoretical and interpretative errors upon the ruins of previous ones, losing sight of the operational nature of universal laws. Avoiding both the traps of sentimentalism and the abstractions of disembodied speculation, the essay guides the reader along a path of decoding that challenges our most deeply rooted certainty about willpower, guilt, and the profound sense of action. Intended for discerning seekers and anyone wishing to push beyond the surface of dogmas and conventional views, this volume offers the tools to reread the history of humanity and its deviations in a completely unexpected light. The message that emerges is not a reassuring doctrine to adhere to, but a fascinating and urgent enigma that directly calls into question our presence, our attention, and our real place in the secret architecture of the All.

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