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We’re nearly 100 years on in time from those dates in the early 1920s. To put that in perspective, when I was young, that was about the distance in time between my own life and the Civil War. 

In other words, the archival materials in question date from what now amounts to a distant past. The very flavor of the materials is different than the flavor of life today. Although, taken as a whole, human behavior and spiritual psychology—the distinctive products of our inner lives— have remained strikingly consistent, the external arrangements of human affairs have accelerated so drastically over the last hundred years that societal conventions, accepted moralities, modes of communication and discourse, and even the way people dress and what they do for work has completely changed. Given the scale of that change, we might as well compare today's society to ancient Babylon as compare it to the society that Gurdjieff was living and teaching in. 

Now, this isn't to say that human beings don't face the same exact inward questions they did back then; questions of the soul are durable. They emerge from, and center around, processes that are organic; independent, in many ways, of external surroundings, which are forever superficial relative to the natural depth in man (cf. Wilson van Dusen’s book of the same title.) That is to say, a person’s inner psychology proceeds in more or less the same way whether we’re in the desert or on a boat in the water. The two different environments certainly provide a different set of impressions, but the equipment that processes them doesn't change; nor do the tensions that arise within from the need to respond to them.