VARIOUS CODES & DEFINITIONS OF CODE AND RELATED WORDS,TERMS, CONCEPTS, ETC

It is instructive and useful to consult various dictionaries and encyclopedia  about 'CODES' and to use
those that are old as well as new in this quest as the more ancient definitions may apply rather  than the newer, modern ones as we shall see perhaps in some instances. I shall not list the words and their meanings right now but do so when I place comments in this section.

Here are some examples of codes: THE CODE OF SILENCE
                                                        THE CODE OF THE SAMURAI
                                                        THE CODE OF CHIVALRY
                                                         THE CODE OF CONDUCT

 Many, if not most of these codes, have a military connection or basis as well as cultural and religious significance(s). Codes based on 'symbolism' are also interesting to study. Most ancient writing and scripts are in languages, often assumed to be dead or extinct, and that means no longer spoken in the ancient ways. We do not know exactly what early primitive men, our  ancestors actually spoke or how such sounded and the search for the 'original' language of man, that is, a group of basic sounds is still being conducted along with studies of 'soon-to-be-extinct' languages in the world.

Consequently, many things will remain unknown, hidden, 'secret', and continue to mystify everyone and provide 'fodder' for imaginative fiction writers and also scholars of some sort.


That the book, ALL AND EVERYTHING, FIRST SERIES, BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON by G. I. GURDJIEFF is a CODE may not be apparent on the very first reading or attempts to read what seems rather complex and wordy and unlike most tales and folklore and 'revelations' and the like. Nor will several readings clear up the matter for most would-be readers, even when others attempt to explain or expound on the book, as I am somewhat doing here.

In the English edition of the book I am using as I go along with this blog, there  is a final chapter, entitled, 'From the Author' and numbered CHAPTER XLVIII which one might think would explain some of the problems and give a better idea as to the intent of the author and so on. But it seems to me that this addition detracts from the total impressions and influences one might receive if one avoids or avoided this last chapter entirely and perhaps read it years and years later in another context and situation. It will always be  an 'attraction' to those who seek to 'jump ahead' and try to find 'the villain's identity' as if reading a mystery novel and, indeed, this work is 'A COSMIC MYSTERY' that will end up with what has been also used as title of a book, WHO ARE YOU, MR. GURDJIEFF?

The Second Series of  ALL AND EVERYTHING, 'MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN' is  intended to answer this possible question that arises from those who attempt to read this first work but many, like myself, actually went to the second series,'jumping the gun' ahead of time, but finding that even this work, highly interesting and exciting and chock full of things to be studied and discerned, to mull over and the like, does not fully satisfy everyone nor could it, as it raises another series of questions that no biographer of MR. GURDJIEFF can answer with any assurance or certainty.

The Third Series, which I have and have read and still read, is also no answer to anything most will want to actually know and tends to leave a different taste from the  other two books in the series than the ones already 'digested' which none of them actually ever are as the 'foods' they were intended to be by the' Master Chef' MR. GURDJIEFF.

Later,  I shall give indication, based on my own readings, of another book, overlooked and ignored and dismissed that would, if read carefully, give more clues to all of these enigmatic considerations, depending on how one has actually worked and looked at these things, particularly on a BASIC, PRACTICAL LEVEL & SCALE AND NOT ON A THEORETICAL, ABSTRACT,INTELLECTUAL ATTEMPT.