Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way: An Esoteric Legacy by Stephen A. Grant

Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way: An Esoteric Legacy is Stephen A. Grant’s reassessment of Gurdjieff as a spiritual teacher. It follows his life and the development of his teaching from Russia to Paris, placing the Fourth Way within an esoteric context.

Grant examines the roles of P. D. Ouspensky, Gurdjieff’s own writings and Jeanne de Salzmann in carrying the teaching forward. His interpretation of the Fourth Way as esoteric Buddhism is presented as the author’s argument, alongside discussion of practice, ideas and Gurdjieff’s relationships with his pupils.