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Because the book was intended to be the main study tool for his teachings, and because the idea of work is central to those teachings, Gurdjieff went to great lengths in order to increase the effort needed to read and understand it.

Gurdjieff himself once said, “ I bury the bone so deep that the dogs have to scratch for it.

" The book treats of an enormous number of subjects and questions.

It is a vast allegorical myth structure in a literary form all its own.