It is clearly connected with a visible and tangible situation. Gurdjieff explained it by saying “Nature hates vacuum. When you make empty, help will enter.” There is however, a strangely purposive quality about this kind of help. Nearly everyone I have asked -and there have been hundreds- confirms that they have unmistakably received help of this kind.

 

It is referred to in innumerable proverbs and fables of all peoples and all times, so it must be a general heritage of mankind.

 

It is as if there were a great universal reservoir of help-substances which ordinarily we cannot tap, but to which we have a secret channel. In moments of despair the channel opens and help substance flows in.[1]

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[1] J.G. Bennet, Transformation (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bennett Books, 2003 [1978]) pp. 39.

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