Masters of Wisdom

John G Bennett, a student and proponent of G I Gurdjieff, was working on this book when he died. The heart of the book is found in the remarkable chapter, “The Time of Christ,” which exposes publicly Bennett’s own deepest convictions and insights into the real truth of the events of Christ’s life. By doing so he fulfills Gurdjieff’s own prophecy that Bennett would one day draw back the veil from the Christian mysteries even further than he himself had done. Bennett endeavors to show how the secret of love passed historically from those associated with Christ into what is known as Sufism. It is here that he takes up the story of the Khwajagan, the “Masters of Wisdom” of Central Asia, of whom he first learned from an advance Turkish Sufi, Hasan Susud. Bennett’s own love for and sympathy with these masters was such that he asserted one of them, Ubaidallah Ahrar of Tashkent, who died in 1490, to be one of his own teachers. Bennett’s own degree of attainment at the end of his life was such that he achieved a contact with this sage outside of space and time.