Grace is not a Work Term: Defining Grace
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Introducing: Central Notion of the Work is Effort, Effort, Effort
Warning: Inhabit Your Body, Heart and Mind
Preliminary Defining:
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Important Note: Enclosed is only a preliminary definition which is necessary to begin to the research. As the title suggests it is not final but preliminary, and will take its final shape at the end of the fieldwork with contribution of the Gurdjieffians. It is enclosed herewith just to show although Grace is not a Work term -it has a place in the Work.
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Within the enclosed short note, with Grace, I am referring to four types of Divine intervention that can be ascertained from the Work literature that organize and/or influence (inner and outer) human life in particular.
These four categories are not distinct from each other. A quality that is perceived in one can be perceived in other(s). As an example; other than organizing grace, the rest of all the three categories can said to be 'illuminating' and 'vacuum filling.' Also similar physical sensations can be experienced in all these three categories, e.g. an amplified sensation throughout one’s body, as if tiny particles of light are received via ‘pores’ in one’s skin; a higher energy flooding in from top of one's head.
However categories take their names from the most evident characteristics. For the related excepts from Gurdjieff or from his first/second-generation pupils please click on respective names.
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1. Organizing Grace
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I call this kind of grace organizing because as it is evident from enclosed three accounts, its most obvious characteristic is its organizing quality of one’s life circumstances in time, in order to support one’s work -even throughout one’s life.
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2. Momentary Grace
I call this help momentary because of the fleeting nature of the experience. It has a spontaneous quality too. It can come anytime, and it can come frequently.
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3. Illuminating Grace
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I call this help illuminating due to the parallels drawn between Jeanne de Salzmann’s emphasis of reception of a descending energy with Bennett’s theory concerning the cosmology of illumination, by Moore and Wellbeloved.
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4. Vacuum Filling Grace
This type of grace comes in the moments of utter despair. Bennett reports that he had experienced it, and also has knowledge that many others received this kind of help, in moments of despair.
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