Table of Correspondences

The table below may be useful as a touchstone in terms of understanding the relative relationships of the different topics we are studying. However, don't be fooled by the nice neat little boxes in tidy little rows and columns. Reality is not like that and the terminology used by Gurdjieff and Bennett often changed over the course of time.

In general any item in a box can be taken to spread out into the box below and the box above. Also care must be taken in trying to equate the relative levels of different systems, traditions or ways of looking at the world. Sometimes they match up very well, sometimes the indicated correspondences are only loosely accurate.

Suggestions, comments, corrections, extensions, or authoritative citations to the table are most welcome.

Bodies
Worlds
Selfhood &
Beyond
Energies
Three Lines
of Work
Man
# 1 to 7

Sufi
Worlds

Sources
of Essence
 
World 1
Unfathomable
Absolute
Do-Dominus
 
Transcendent
       
 
World 3
Divine Will
Universe
Si-Sidera
Cosmic Will
Unitive
Man #7
Lahut
Causal
Body
World 6
Compassion
Galaxy
La-via Lactea
Universal Will
Creative
 
Man #6
 
Free Will
3-1-2
Mental
Body
World 12
Individuality-Will
Sun
Sol
Individuality
Conscious
Work for
the Work
Man #5
alam-i-
imkan
Destiny
3-1-2*
Kesdjan
(Astral) Body
World 24
Essence-Being
Planets
Fa-Fata
True Self
Divided Self
Sensitive
Work for others
Man #4
alam-i-
ervah
Fate
3-1*-2
Physical
Body
World 48
Personality-Function
Earth
Mi-Microcosmos
Reactional Self
Material Self
Automatic
Work for oneself
Man #1-3
alam-i-
edjsam
Heredity
3-1*-2*
 
World 96
Delusion
Moon
Re-Regina Caelum
Vital