The Struggle of the Magicians: Scenario of the Ballet
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"My ballet is not a mystery," replied Mr. G.
"The purpose of it is to present an interesting and beautiful spectacle. Of course, under the visible forms a certain sense is hidden, but I did not aim at demonstrating or emphasizing it. The chief position in this ballet is occupied by certain dances. I will explain this to you sho
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The Struggle of the Magicians - G. Gurdjieff
Contents
Act One
Act Two
Act Three
Act Four
Act Five
Illustrations
The Tea Shop on the Roof
Zeinab Binds the Boy’s Arm
Musicians and Dancers Entertain Gafar
The Dancers of the Harem
Act One
THE ACTION takes place in a large commercial town of the East.
The market square where various streets and alleys meet; around it, shops and stalls with every variety of merchandise—silks, earthenware, spices; open-fronted workshops of tailors and shoemakers.
To the right, a row of fruit stalls; flat-roofed houses of two and three stories with many balconies, some hung with carpets and others strewn with washing.
To the left, on a roof, a tea shop; further on, children are playing; two monkeys are climbing on the cornices.
Behind the houses are seen winding streets leading to the mountain; houses, mosques, minarets, gardens, palaces, Christian churches, Hindu temples and pagodas.
In the distance, on the mountain is seen the tower of an old fortress.
Amongst the crowd moving about the alleys and the market square, types of almost every Asiatic people are to be met with, clad in their national costumes: a Persian with dyed beard; an Afghan all in white, with proud and bold expression; a Baluchistani in a white turban with a sharp peak to it and short white sleeveless coat with a broad belt, out of which stick several knives; a half-naked Hindu Tamil, the front of his head shaved and a white and red fork, the sign of Vishnu, painted on his forehead; a native of Khiva wearing a huge black fur cap and a thickly wadded coat; a yellow-robed Buddhist monk, his head shaved and a prayer-wheel in his hand; an Armenian in a black ‘chooka’ with a silver belt and a black Russian forage cap; a Tibetan in a costume resembling the Chinese, bordered with valuable furs; also Bokharis, Arabs, Caucasians and Turkomans.
The merchants cry their wares, inviting customers; beggars with whining voices beg for alms; a sherbet vendor amuses the crowd with a witty song.
A street barber, shaving the head of a venerable old ‘hadji,’ recounts the news and the gossip of the town to a tailor who dines in the adjoining eating house. A funeral procession passes through one of the alleys; in front is a ‘mullah’ and behind him the corpse is borne on a bier covered with a pall, followed by the women mourners. In another alley a fight is in progress and all the boys run there to watch. On the right a fakir with outstretched arms, his eyes fixed on one point sits on an antelope skin. A rich and important merchant passes along