Very few have, or could have, the temerity to attempt making a commentary on ALL AND EVERYTHING: Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.  Of the handful who have done so or might do so in the future, Orage was surely the best qualified. This commentary was first printed in  C.S. Knott’s Teachings of Gurdjieff, published in 1961 by Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Orage had a wide reputation in his day as an exceptionally fine editor and was appointed by Gurdjieff to work over the first rough drafts of his Book.  There are early typescripts of ALL AND EVERYTHING with many deletions and inserts in Orage’s tiny and beautiful writing, and there is no doubt that his devoted work contributed a great deal to the final version which we can hold in our hands today.  There is no doubt, however, that was not only Orage’s skill as an editor but also his deep respect for and intuition regarding the content of Gurdjieff’s writings that helped to bring out its unique quality as a scripture.

From the introduction by A.L. Staveley  

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