Lyric to Karapet Of Tiflis, fourth movement

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Readers and listeners may not think often about Gurdjieff’s position about animal rights—after all, we are accustomed to think of Gurdjieff mostly in "esoteric" terms, as though his work did not demand of us that we live and act in the real world.

Yet the passages on the priest Abdil and the deplorable practice of animal sacrifice layout what …