THE HERO.

Cory, Hugo.

Price: $18.00

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Place Published: New York
Date Published: 2002
Condition: Paperback in new condition
Book Id: 7092

Description

172 pages

Comments

This second volume of Hugo Cory's planned trilogy may take a few readings to ponder rightly, but The Hero is Mr. Gurdjieff. As in his first volume, The Actor, this is full of succinct restatements, in part drawn from the 'Holy Planet Purgatory' chapter of Beelzebub's Tales, which offers understanding of why man appears to be separated from God or the Higher.

Cory continues to stress that "The belief that man as he is, undeveloped, is a spiritual being is The Work of the adversary." Like this, many of his aphorisms present a difficult to swallow but poignant assessment of man.

He calls man a willing slave, wasting his life, unaware of Eternity, sowing, in time, the seeds of his own destruction. The Hero appears on the earth, to teach man that life is about relieving the burden of the Higher, and evolution is about fulfilling one's own unique role. He calls the destruction of the environment a sin against the Creator, and a product of man's unconscious degeneration. It is conscience, once recovered, which should be one's compass in life. Heaven, he says is Order, and to unite with Order one must avoid temptation that appears as reward.

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