Good and Evil in Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, Part V: The Hasnamuss

 Part V of a seven-part series

In examining the question of evil in Gurdjieff’s writings, one inevitably comes up against the question of whether it exists at all as an “objective” force. 

In his chapter on justice, Gurdjieff seems to conclusively dismiss the idea that evil can exist objectively from outside a person and “flow into them;” and in this — un…