...him: What is inner work? What form should it take in the ever- changing circumstances of their lives? Some of these letters are included here.

In the 1970's, when Madame de Salzmann asked some of the older people who had worked with Gurdjieff to write about the work, Fremantle began to dictate noes on the aspects he had explored. Read aloud at meetings of his groups, these notes are reproduced in this volume.

He never gave advice on personal matters. "One can do so only if one knows all the circumstances," he said, "and of course that is impossible." He had another reason as well: his wish that his pupils deepen their own understanding without becoming dependent on him as a "guru." He had a great distaste for people's tendency to use others, to enslave them, and to take the role of "master" when life offers so many willing slaves. "We were not given this teaching to feather our nest," he said. He refused anything that might favor him personally, even a small thing like a ride home on a winter night---particularly if he felt that he one who offered was identified with the outcome of the offer.

His special study was painting. We were encouraged to work with him once a week in a study called "form and color." Professional artists and amateurs alike, we worked for six or seven hours at a time, usually in complete silence, under his tutelage. like the Zen painters he often spoke of, we tried to practice our art by feeling the life in the subjects we gazed upon, then putting it on paper as simply and directly as possible. More than a study of painting, this was a study of seeing. We had many exercises of looking at objects, then turning away from them to record only...