To ignore the above advice could greatly reduce the impact and benefit which can be accrued by reading these books in the recommended order and manner. I cannot stress enough that this should be done before reading Orage's commentaries. It is very important that Gurdjieff's "Friendly Advice", which can be found at the beginning of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, is read and acted on, namely to read Beelzebub's Tales three times in the manner prescribed by the author. Orage was instrumental in editing Gurdjieff's book into English and these talks clearly demonstrate his deep grasp of the scope of Gurdjieff's allegory, in a way I have found nowhere else, in such detail. Gurdjieff's magnum opus and are replete with hints as to the layers of meanings therein. I would say that these commentaries are essential reading for the serious student of G.I. Orage in New York and at Fontainebleau-Avon.)
(A small part of the notes were edited by and included in C.S Nott's Teachings of Gurdjieff, The Journal of a Pupil: An Account of Some Years With G.
This book of over 360 pages comprises apparently complete and unabridged notes of Orages talks in New York, though edited for readability. Available to the reader for the first time in its entirety, this present volume promises a multifaceted illumination of Beezlebub. Orage's commentaries help to clarify and simplify the important lessons in the book by serving as keys to understanding Beelzebub which, as Gurdjieff once said, are all in the book, but not near their locks. As the figures in Beelzebub are mythological and their language, parabolical, the book may not be easily comprehensible by the average reader or Fourth Way beginner. They demonstrate a way of approaching and understanding a work that Orage considered to be literature of the highest kind. Orage's commentaries on Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson are an essential part of the Fourth Way literature. Remember how you listened to stories you heard when you were a child, so that you participated, your hair stood on end and your eyes shone or you wept? That is reading with all three centers, and Gurdjieff would hope the book reading could be of that order. Orage: It isn't a matter of how it can be done, but of understanding what it means and then wishing to hear the book that way. A student asked: I have heard the phrase "listening to the book in all three centers" and I am not clear on how it can be done.
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