Fourth Way esotericism, Gurdjieffian mysticism
Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought; a Key to the Enigmas of the World
P. D. Ouspensky1912
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A profound philosophical work that explores the existence of higher dimensions and the nature of consciousness. Ouspensky challenges the foundations of Bacon's 'Novum Organum' and Aristotle's logic, proposing a third 'organum' of thought based on mystical intuition and the experience of the fourth dimension. He explores the relationship between time and space, the evolution of consciousness, and the possibility of a higher 'cosmic' awareness.
Also known asThe Third Canon of Thought · Ouspensky's Organum
This edition1920
EditionManas Press, Rochester, NY (First English Translation)
Fourth WayEsoteric PhilosophymeditationFourth Way (early phase)philosophical contemplationmeditation and contemplationMysticismPhilosophyMoral philosophy and ethicsOccult PhilosophyMystical philosophy
Contents32 chapters
- 01CHAPTER I What do we know and what do we not know?
- 02CHAPTER V 45 Four-dimensional space.
- 03CHAPTER X The spatial understanding of time.
- 04CHAPTER XV Occultism and love.
- 05CHAPTER XIX The intellectual method , objective knowledge.
- 06chapter VIII onward, he undertakes the study of the world-order from the standpoint of subjectivity ■— of consciousness. By a method both ingenious and new...
- 07CHAPTER I What do we know and what do ive not know? Our data, and the things for which we seek. The unknown mistaken for the known. Matter and motion. What...
- 08book is a full recognition of the fact that it is by means of space that we apprehend what is. 18
- 09CHAPTER III What may we learn about the fourth dimension by a study of the geometrical relations within our space 7 What should be the relation between a...
- 10CHAPTER IV In what direction may the fourth dimension lie? What is motion? Two kinds of motion — motion in space and motion in time — which are contained in...
- 11CHAPTER V Four-dimensional space. “Temporal body” — Linga Sharira. The form of a human body from birth to death. Incommensurability of three-dimensional and...
- 12CHAPTER VI Methods of investigation of the problem of higher dimensions . The analogy between imaginary worlds of different dimensions . The one-dimensional...
- 13CHAPTER VII The impossibility of the mathematical definition of dimensions. Why does not mathematics sense dimensions ? The entire conditionality of the...
- 14CHAPTER VIII Our receptive apparatus. Sensation . Perception. Conception. Intuition. Art as the language of the future. To what extent does the...
- 15CHAPTER IX The receptivity of the world by a man and by an animal . Illusions of the animal and its lack of control of the receptive faculties . The world of...
- 16CHAPTER X The spatial understanding of time . The angles and curves of the fourth dimension in our life . Does motion exist in the world or not ? Mechanical...
- 17CHAPTER XI Science and the problem of the fourth dimension. The address of Prof . N. A. Oumoff before the Mendeleevskian Convention in 1 91 1 — “The...
- 18CHAPTER XII Analysis of phenomena. What defines different orders of phenomena for us? Methods and forms of the transition of one order of phenomena into...
- 19CHAPTER XIII The apparent and the hidden side of life . Positivism as the study of the phenomenal side of life. Of what does the “two-dimensionality” of...
- 20CHAPTER XIV The voices of stones. The wall of a church and the wall of a prison. The mast of a ship and a gallows. The shadow of a hangman and of an ascetic....
- 21CHAPTER XV Occultism and love . Love and death . Our different relations to the problems of death and to the problems of love . What is lacking in our...
- 22CHAPTER XVI The phenomenal and the noumenal side of man. “Man-in-himself.” How do we know the inner side of man ? Can we know of the existence of...
- 23CHAPTER XVII A living and rational universe . Different forms and lines of rationality. Animated nature . The souls of stones and the souls of trees . The...
- 24Chapter II) who is thus made in the divine image, but the Divine Androgyne (of Chapter I), or Adam Kadmon.” Adam Kadmon is humanity, or humankind — Homo...
- 25CHAPTER XVIII Rationality and life . Life as knowledge. Intellect and emotions. Emotion as an organ of knowledge. The evolution of emotion from the...
- 26Chapter X an attempt was made — a very artificial one, founded upon the analogy with a world of two-dimensional beings — to define life as motion in a sphere...
- 27CHAPTER XIX The intellectual method , objective knowledge. The limits of objective knowledge. The possibility of the expansion of the application of the...
- 28CHAPTER XX The sense of infinity . The Neophyte's first ordeal . An intolerable sadness. The loss of everything real. What would an animal feel on becoming a...
- 29CHAPTER XXI Man's transition to a higher logic . The necessity for rejecting everything “real.” “Poverty of the spirit ” The recognition of the infinite...
- 30CHAPTER XXII Theosophy of Max Muller. Ancient India . Philosophy of the Veddnta . Tat twam asi. Knowledge by means of the expansion of consciousness as a...
- 31CHAPTER XXIII Cosmic Consciousness of Dr. Bucke . The three forms of consciousness according to Dr. Bucke. Simple consciousness , or the consciousness of...
- 32Chapter XIII of the First Epistle to the Corinthians ) is the highest of all emotions, the, synthesis, the blending of all highest emotions. Incontestably,...
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