Gurdjieff's Hierocracy: Ontology of Power and Limits Mechanical Politics

This book analyzes and dissects mechanical power, highlighting its differences from the true natural and cosmic hierarchy founded on being. The author emphasizes how ordinary politics, with its institutions and ideologies, does not represent a pinnacle of civilization, but rather the direct consequence of man's chronic inner fragmentation. Ordinary humanity lives in a deep hypnotic sleep, devoid of a permanent "I" and objective consciousness. In this scenario, coercive laws and state apparatuses emerge as "external prostheses of the soul" essential mechanical braces to prevent a multitude of automatons, driven by the consequences of the kundabuffer organ, from self-destructing in chaos. The text delves into the paradox of politics by analyzing key narratives from Gurdjieff, such as the episode of Atlantis and the city of Samlios in Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. Through the story of the young idealist alien and Emperor Apollis, the essay demonstrates the fatal illusion of any reformism or permissive utopias: removing external coercion without first elevating individual consciousness does not unleash virtue, but instead unlocks predatory animal egoism and anarchy. Similarly, revolutions are unmasked as collective psychoses that reproduce the very same structures of oppression under new symbols. The work clarifies the concept of hierocracy ("government of the sacred"), sharply distinguishing it from both theocracy and historical clerical regimes. True hierocracy is defined as the authority exercised by the "Esoteric Circle of Humanity." It is the archetype embodied by the Very Saint Ashyata Sheyimash-an objective cosmic government founded not on fear and dogma, but on the development of Objective Moral Consciousness and the guidance of beings endowed with Objective Reason. Furthermore, it addresses the cosmic law according to which the Moon feeds on organic life on Earth, illustrating how this process can take place through two opposing modalities.