A weekly journal of Christian liberalism and socialism titled The New Age was published as early as 1894 ; it was sold to a group of socialist writers headed by Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson in 1907.

In 1924, Alfred Richard Orage, a British intellectual, the editor of the magazine, The New Age, was appointed by Gurdjieff as the assistant of another old follower of Gurdjieff to lead study groups in America, but due to Gurdjieff ’ s nearly fatal automobile accident, the one who was supposed to lead the groups never went to US and Orage decided to lead the groups on his own initiation.

Orage in New York and at Fontainbleau-Avon by C. S. Nott, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1961

Orage in the offices of The New Age.

He first mentions A. R. Orage by name in this talk-Gurdjieff explains Orage's selection for an administrative position in the New York group solely because of his background as a journalist, as the group needed someone proficient in English.

Orage, according to Gurdjieff, capitalized on Gurdjieff's post-accident convalescence by taking on a greater role in the New York group than originally intended.

Gurdjieff also accuses Orage of being motivated to join the New York group — moving from England — to gain closer proximity to a saleswoman.

At the close of this talk, Gurdjieff has his secretary orate a contract which will have to be signed by anyone interested in continuing involvement with Gurdjieff's official New York group, or Orage.

Orage and his former followers are admitted as candidates to Gurdjieff's New York group for after paying a fine ( from them Gurdjieff collects $ 113, 000 ).

His association with Alfred Orage and his work for the New Age and other guild socialists greatly influenced his political outlook.

Alfred Richard Orage ( born 22 January 1873, Dacre, Yorkshire, England-died 6 November 1934, London ) was a British intellectual, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age.

In 1924 Orage sold The New Age and went to France to work with George Gurdjieff, the spiritual teacher P. D. Ouspensky had recommended to him.

While in New York, Orage and Jessie often catered to celebrities such as Paul Robeson fresh from his London Tour.

In 1930, Orage returned to England and in 1931 he published the New English Weekly, remaining in London until his death on 6 November 1934.

In 1906, Beatrice Hastings whose real name was Emily Alice Haigh hailing from Port Elizabeth, a green-eyed beauty of twenty six with literary ambitions, could be seen with Orage and would eventually become a regular contributor to the New Age.

In the early issues of The New Age, Orage supported the women's suffrage movement, but became increasingly hostile as the Women's Social and Political Union became more prominent and more militant.

On 6 August 1914, Orage wrote in Notes of the Week of The New Age: "... We believe that England is necessary to Socialism, as Socialism is necessary to the world.

On 2 January 1919, Orage published the first article by C. H. Douglas to appear in The New Age: A Mechanical View of Economics.

Gurdjieff arrived in New York from France on 13 November 1930, and after a few years of teaching in New York, Orage was deposed by Gurdjieff and his groups were formally disbanded because Gurdjieff believed that they had been incorrectly taught and they were working under the misconception that self-observation could be practiced in the absence of self-remembering or in the presence of negative emotions.

Back in England, Orage founded a new journal, The New English Weekly, in April 1932.

On 6 November 1934, Gurdjieff was in New York City where he received the telegram "... from London saying that Mr. Orage had died the same morning.

* Orage and the history of the New Age periodical, Brown University, Modernist Journals Project

Orage met P. D. Ouspensky, a follower of Gurdjieff, in 1914 and began correspondence with Harry Houdini ; he became less interested in literature and art with an increased focus on mysticism and other spiritual topics ; the magazine was sold in 1921.

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Published accounts of time spent with Gurdjieff have appeared written by A. R. Orage, Charles Stanley Nott, Thomas and Olga de Hartmann, Fritz Peters, René Daumal, John G. Bennett, Maurice Nicoll, Margaret Anderson and Louis Pauwels, among others.

She became a friend and lover of Beatrice Hastings, who lived with Orage.

Here Gurdjieff explains that the meetings led by Orage for the past year have served only for " collective titillation " and that participants need to acquaint themselves with his written material, specifically An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man, in order to grasp the fundamentals of the material for discussion.

Orage also worked with Gurdjieff in translating the first version of Gurdjieff's All and Everything as well as Meetings With Remarkable Men from Russian to English ; however, neither book was ever published in their lifetime.

By the late 1890s, Orage was disillusioned with conventional socialism and turned for a while to theosophy.

In 1903, Orage, Jackson and the architect Arthur J. Penty helped to found the lively and successful Leeds Arts Club, with the intention of promoting the work of radical thinkers including G. B. Shaw whom Orage had met in 1898, Henrik Ibsen, and Nietzsche.

In 1914 Orage met with P. D. Ouspensky, whose ideas left a lasting impression.

Members were allowed to continue study with Gurdjieff after taking an oath not to communicate with Orage ( ironically Orage himself also signed the oath ).

After the separation with Gurdjieff, Orage returned to England with Jessie.

In the early 1930s Gurdjieff publicly ridiculed one of his pupils, Alfred Richard Orage.

A book of autobiography, Gurdjieff started working on the Russian manuscript in 1927 and revised it for several times over the coming years, eventually an English translation by A. R. Orage was first published in 1963.

Gurdjieff explains that members of the group fell into three camps: those who signed, those who refused to sign, and those who delayed signing until consulting Orage.

The fourth talk represents an incomplete text of the lecture Gurdjieff gave to Orage, his former followers, and the seeds of the new group.

After spending some time of preliminary training in the Gurdjieff System, Orage was sent to America by Gurdjieff himself to raise funds and lecture on the new system of self-development which emphasized the harmonious work of intellectual, emotional and moving functions.

In 1927 his first wife, Jean, granted him a divorce and in September he married Jessie Richards Dwight ( 1901 – 1985 ), the co-owner of the ' Sunwise Turn ' bookshop where Orage first lectured on the Gurdjieff System.

In February 1922, Ouspensky introduced Orage to G. I. Gurdjieff.

In 1924 Orage was appointed by Gurdjieff to lead study groups in America.