A look at Ouspensky's idea of recurrence with insights gleaned from Steiner's comments on Nietzsche, from whom Ouspensky first derived this idea.
For many people, the first contact with Gurdjieff's "Work" is as presented by Ouspensky's "System" - his systematization of the material he gleaned from Gurdjieff during the period reflected in his "In Search of the Miraculous", that is, from 1915-1924.
Aside from the many stylistic differences of approach and understanding that clearly distinguish Ouspensky, the all but maverick pupil, from Gurdjieff, the source, one of the most remarkable elements forming a keystone in Ouspensky's exposition is his elaborate doctrine of eternal recurrence, which he has grafted into the 'system'.
