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    Fourth Way (Gurdjieff)

    Five Being-Obligolnian Strivings

    Ashiata Shiemash's five rules of objective morality leading to genuine conscience: (1) have everything satisfying and necessary for the body; (2) constant striving for self-perfection of being; (3) conscious striving to know the laws of World-creation and World-maintenance; (4) strive to pay for one's arising to lighten the Sorrow of Our Common Father; (5) always assist the perfecting of other beings to the degree of self-individuality.

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