This is a confession- not a report. We acknowledge -- all four of us -- that we don't know enough to read this book with any degree of intellectual appreciation or to report it with any conviction that what we had to say would help you. So this is simply a statement -- that the famous Russian philosopher, author of Tertium Organum, here tells the story of his quest for a teaching which would solve for him the problems of Man and the Universe. It contains a scientific exposition of the system taught by the mystic Gurdjieff.