This voluminous book was undertaken after Gurdjieff disbanded his institute, when he realized he had to reconsider his expectations of how to bring his teaching to the West. Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson was to be the first of a threefold series, each aimed at generating a specific effect on its readers. The effect of Beelzebub’s was to “destroy, mercilessly and without any compromise whatever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world.” Accordingly, it was written in an obscure and lengthy style, deliberately difficult to read. Gurdjieff’s ideas, profound and radical as they were, naturally seeded many books and influenced many writers. Several were researched to compile the documentary Seeker of Truth. Among these, quoted in the documentary, are Anna Butkovsky-Hewitt’s With Gurdjieff in St. Petersburg and Paris; René Zuber’s Who are you Monseieur Gurdjieff?; and Elizabeth Bennett’s My Life: J.G. Bennett and G.I. Gurdjieff: A Memoir. James Moore’s Gurdjieff: A Biography was consulted for dates and chronology of events.