Perhaps

 

More moon shots from yesterday 

     Perhaps the moon was a portent, but my prayer had not the result I sought, since death of a person I knew, though not well, occurred last night.  Death feeds the moon, say Gurdjieff followers, and my astrology friend says many people choose the time of the full moon to leave life.  Coincidences like this can surely prompt pondering the nature of death.  And it is no inconsequential exercise to look with compassion at each one we encounter, remembering that we each shall die.

     God, grant each of us peace when we die, and accompany your believers.  IJN

Gurdjieff says in the final two paragraphs of the chapter, “The Result of Impartial Mentation,” in his master work, “All and Everything…” (aka “Beelzebub’s Tales”): 

    The sole means now for the saving of the beings of the planet Earth would

be to implant again into their presences a new organ like kundabuffer, but

this time of such properties that every one of these unfortunates during the

process of existence should constantly sense and be cognizant of the

inevitability of his own death as well as of the death of everyone upon

whom his eyes or attention rests. 

    Only such a sensation and such cognizance can now destroy the

egoism completely crystallized in them that has swallowed up the whole of

their Essence and also that tendency to hate others which flows from it—

the tendency, namely, which engenders all those mutual relationships

existing there, which serve as the chief cause of all their abnormalities

unbecoming to three-brained beings and maleficent for them themselves

and for the whole of the Universe