Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

How this book fits

Traditions: The Fourth Way
Role in the tradition: Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
Public attention: Notable Wikipedia has an article about it in 6 languages.

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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson or An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man is the first volume of the All and Everything trilogy written by the Greek-Armenian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff. The All and Everything trilogy also includes Meetings with Remarkable Men and Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'.

From the Wikipedia article Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, revision 1363237954, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q4879862: “book by George Gurdjieff”.

In this study

In the chronology, in G. I. Gurdjieff's account.

A vast and deliberately difficult allegorical cosmology meant to interrupt habitual thought.