Work Talks in Brighton, Beryl Pogson

Work Talks in Brighton, 1963 to 1966, Beryl Pogson

Beryl Pogson (1895-1967) was a pupil of Dr Maurice Nicoll for nineteen years and his secretary for fourteen years and was one of the small group who lived with him and Mrs Nicoll at the houses where The Work was carried on: Tyeponds, Birdlip, Quaremead and Great Amwell House.

Many of her writings have been published only privately for the benefit of her students and groups. Now for the first time much of her Teaching has been republished and is now more widely known.

Beryl Pogson taught that the aim of all religion is to change man's level of Being and to teach him to live according to his own divinely ordained nature. Every religion has an inner teaching which is basically the same, through which humans can seek to reach their highest destiny.

This teaching is periodically renewed throughout the ages. Efforts are made to awaken humans through the coming of great teachers, by the lives of holy women and men and the work of artists, writers, and musicians - many of whom have come under the influence of esoteric schools in all lands and at all periods up to the present day. Practical Work Teaching was always given.

Beryl Pogson had a sense of urgency about The Work and an inner certainty of what she should do. We saw our task, firstly in the continuing need to work on ourselves individually, secondly through sharing with the group at meetings and in our gatherings and activities - to make life our teacher - and thirdly to relate our efforts to the work of Conscious Humanity.

During the last ten years of her life she was taking as many as six Group meetings a week, and daily meetings during sessions at The Dicker, Sussex. These were quite informal lectures followed by questions, but quite often she would ask for a question at the beginning and a discussion would take its course from the question asked. She often made connections between The Work and sacred books, literature, plays and poetry as will be seen in these books. At the meeting there were members of her group who were from different backgrounds and different stages of The Work yet with a unity of purpose. Her Work teaching was based on The Psychological Commentaries on the Teachings of G.l. Gurdjief and P.D. Ouspensky by Maurice Nicoll, and of course, from Gurdjieff's and Ouspensky's own writings.

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