The Magic Language of the Fourth Way: Awakening the Power of the Word

by Bonnasse, Pierre

• ISBN13: 9781594772320
• ISBN10: 1594772320
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-21
• Publisher: Inner Traditions

Summary

In The Magic Language of the Fourth Way, Pierre Bonnasse applies the esoteric teachings of Fourth Way mystic G. I. Gurdjieff and the insights of initiate Rene Daumal to show how to fully and properly activate the power of language. Bonnasse shows how words can regain the strange magical powers they possessed in the first days of humanity, when words created the realities of what they described. This is a far cry from today's world in which even writers lament the impotent nature of language.

Author Biography

Pierre Bonnasse is a poet, student of Fourth Way esoteric traditions, and researcher of religious sciences, hermetic philosophies, and “sciences of consciousness.” He is the author of several collections of poems, numerous articles and chronicles, and the anthology Les Voix de l’Extase [The Voices of Ecstasy]. He lives in France.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. x
Preface to the American Edition: Who Is Speaking?	p. xi
Preface to the First Edition	p. xxxi
Introduction: The Enneagram, Master Symbol of the Fourth Way	p. 1
The Terror of the Situation: Devastation and Oblivion
The Man-Machine and the Circle of the Confusion of Tongues	p. 6
Necessary Digressions on Art	p. 10
The Propagation of "Word Prostitution"	p. 23
The Awakening of Hope: Rediscovery and Application
Evolution and the Principle of Relativity: The Seven Types of Speakers	p. 32
Reflections in Light of the Law of Triamazikamno: The Powers of Speech according to the Law of Three	p. 59
Reflections in Light of the Law of Heptaparaparshinokh, or How to Reach Your Target (Goal)	p. 83
Techniques of Speech and Powers of the Logos	p. 104
Writing: Spiritual Asceticism and the Technique of the Work	p. 153
The Esoteric Work: Transmission and Magic
The Way of Blame: The Poetics of Power and Passing on the Lamp	p. 190
Hermetic Tradition and Legominisms: Myths, Symbols, and Truth	p. 208
The Psychedelic Powers of the Word: Language and Modified States of Consciousness	p. 231
Movement in the Creative Process: From the Dance to the Word	p. 260
Conclusion: Word Lost, Word Regained, Word Present	p. 274
Afterword: Sufficient Unto the Level Is the Evil Thereof	p. 282
Appendices
Diagrams of Jakobson's Schematic: The Proper Use of the Magic Word Relative to the Enneagram, the Target, and the Seven Centers of the Three-Level Human Factory	p. 285
The Centers of the Human Being	p. 289
Gurdjieff, Pupils, and Colleagues	p. 295
Notes	p. 300
Bibliography	p. 332
Index	p. 338
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