Jeanne de Salzmann, on Forces

 

"Ideas have been brought by Gurdjieff as part of a science that we need to know well. But the idea alone is not enough. If it is not lived by all the parts of myself, I will remain as I am—passive and wholly at the disposition of surrounding forces. On a cosmic scale, man plays an important role on the earth. Without him certain forces cannot act and cannot maintain an equilibrium. But we do not see this, we do not know it and consequently we do not produce the force that could create a relation with other cosmic energies in ourselves."

 

From The Reality of Being, Introduction

 

"Everything that exists is constituted of three forces. They can be represented as the Father, the active force; the Son, the passive force; and the Holy Spirit, the neutralizing force. The Father creates the Son. The Son returns to the Father. The force that descends is the one that wishes to return, to go back up."

 

Ibid., p. 27

 

"When I have to manifest, to express myself, I simply react to the impression received according to the way my centers have been educated. I only see forms—things and persons—never forces. I never respond from vision, from an understanding of reality."

Ibid., p. 31

I need to learn first to render each part passive so as to receive a more active force. Everything is a question of forces. Our existence, our Presence here below, is also a question of forces. Nothing belongs to us, nothing is ours. We are here either to transmit forces or to transform them if we understand how. It is necessary first to feel these forces in a distinct way, to feel each in itself, and then to feel them together in order to create a new force able to confront the others, able to last, able to be.