4.04 avg rating — 30,516 ratings

"Rawlings was a follower of Orage. Her books are heavily coded with the teachings."

4.26 avg rating — 389 ratings

"Rawlings was a follower of Orage.Her books are heavily coded with the teachings. "

4.17 avg rating — 57,519 ratings

"Nabokov shows a heavy influence from Gurdjieff."

4.29 avg rating — 1,624,638 ratings

"Herbert was not a follower but incorporates many of Gurdjieff's ideas."

4.12 avg rating — 5,006 ratings

"dos Passos was a follower of Orage and his books are heavily coded with the teachings."

3.99 avg rating — 386,135 ratings

"Hurston was an Oragean. This complex novel is thoroughly coded with doctrines. The title says--hear wise words in code. It is also shot through with Egyptology from Gerald Massey. "

3.98 avg rating — 1,761 ratings

"An Oragean exercise. The chariot wheels are the enneagram. Gurdjieff appears as the old guardian."

3.60 avg rating — 14,743 ratings

"Barnes was an Oragean but also belonged to a Paris group called The Rope. Gurdjieff appears as the Count. Very negative portrait, as follows from the Oragean affiliation."

4.15 avg rating — 1,432 ratings

"This is 1,000 page esoteric space opera that started the quest for objective literature by modern writers. The Tales is supposed to be coded but no one was given the key.The terms used in other books came from this one--legominism, lawful inexactitude, and so forth. "

3.88 avg rating — 1,141 ratings

"Ousepensky's novel is another trend setter. this is the source of the ideas in T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land and the film Groundhog Day."

3.19 avg rating — 218 ratings

"King was another pioneer of objective writing as popular fiction--in this case the detective story called the locked room genre. Obelist is a word he used to point to the hidden level of his novels. King was an important teacher of The Work and a literary innovator. "

3.87 avg rating — 938 ratings

"Daumal was one of the few direct students of Gurdjieff who wrote compelling fiction. this book incorporates many of the teachings but it is not done in the style of Orage's group, it is not bothering to be coded."

4.09 avg rating — 3,115 ratings

"Daumal really nailed esoteric fiction writing in this tale. He takes a lot from Gurdjieff but in terms of style he makes a breakthrough. "

3.82 avg rating — 11,552 ratings

"Cane was written before Toomer joined with Gurdjieff but was in an avant garde Ouspenskian literary group ("art as vision")in New York. It is fourth dimensional fiction in its ambition. A unique work that still resonates."

3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings

"A fictional depiction of the founding of Orage's school in New York."

4.27 avg rating — 13,401 ratings

"This is another surprising entry. It has a number of strange elements that undercut its performance as leftist protest. Esoteric teachers make cameo appearances."

3.72 avg rating — 253 ratings

"this novel is heavily coded and is not at all what it seems. Bontemps was another member of the south side Writers Group in Chicago who pretended to be a leftist."

4.37 avg rating — 6,979 ratings

"Walker was another false leftist of the south side Writers Group of chicago in the 1930s. this group was not very prolific, except for Yerby, but wrote esoteric fiction into the 1960s. The coding in this novel is not very distinct."

3.98 avg rating — 257 ratings

"Yerby was one of the most hard working writers in the Oragean group. His novel about the New Testament seems to be intended as a replacement for Hurston's unfinished novel Herod the great. It situates Jesus in the Essene context which was an Oragean belief. Yerby provides some interesting clues to the activities of his group."

3.92 avg rating — 201,913 ratings

"ellison's novel is the sine qua non of Oragean fiction. He has been badly misunderstood by his critics. This novel is a real roman a clef--providing portraits of the entire new York Oragean group. Many surprising revelations are made. the coding is very clear and there are also supporting clues. Gurdjieff appears a a red headed man called Brother Jack. since in most of the Oragean novels Gurdjieff is a woman with a yellow complexion, this is an interesting development. Ellison said that the Brotherhood is not the Communist Party: that is because it is the followers of Orage. this is the best work of Oragean fiction in one sense, that of showing that the group did exist and was active in politics. But it can't do everything."

4.10 avg rating — 3,899 ratings

"Brooks was another chicagoan of the false left South Side Writers Group. Maud Martha is not coded like any other novel. she codes like the poet Melvin Tolson. Gurdjieff is a woman called Madame Snow, a name that reads as "mad now." that is a reference to the idea that after Gurdjieff's car accident in 1928 the Orageans decided that he was insane. the most important aspect of this novel is that brooks revels that richard Wright was used as a dupe by the SSWG. He had no idea what the group was really up to. In code she says that Wright was pompous. this demonstrates the sort of morality that these "supermen" operated out of."