Review of George Mountford Adie and Joseph Azize, George Adie: A Gurdjieff Pupil in Australia, Third Edition By Carole Cusack

https://www.academia.edu/146211953/Review_of_George_Mountford_Adie_and_Joseph_Azize_George_Adie_A_Gurdjieff_Pupil_in_Australia_Third_Edition?email_work_card=title I reviewed the first edition (2007) of this important book and am impressed to revisit it after two revisions which expanded it significantly and situated it more clearly in an emergent and growing area of scholarship. The academic study of G. I. Gurdjieff (1877-1949) and his pupils was embryonic in 2007; in 2025 major monographs by Michael Pittman, Johanna Petsche, and two by Joseph Azize himself have transformed the field, with important books by Work members memorializing their teachers, memoirs of experience within the Fourth way, and digital archives of teaching sessions greatly increasing the materials available to researchers. The front matter sites George Adie in good company; there are epigraphs from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ecclesiastes, William Shakespeare and Gurdjieff; Azize honours his teacher’s “spiritual ideas” as “fruit of the tree” of Gurdjieff (p. 3). ...