Movements Traditions

If we, just as an example, want to compare these three lineages, we need criteria for comparison. The following criteria seem relevant.
Criteria for comparison - whether or not Movements are related to the study of Gurdjieff's teaching as a whole:
- the number and type of Movements that are being transmitted;
- the relation between form and content of these Movements;
- to whom they are taught;
- whether or not whole Movements are given, or only fragments of Movements.

Application of these criteria will quickly bring the strengths and weaknesses of the different lines of transmission to the surface.
Both the Foundation and the Ouspensky line teach Movements only to members of their organisations, as an integrated component of the whole teaching they are supplying. The Bennett line experiments with short seminars, open to everybody, where the Movements dominate all other activities.
The repertoire of the Ouspensky line consists only of the 27 older Movements that have been preserved, but not only do they know them in full historical detail, they also transmit them in their totality.
The Bennett line has a mix of some old Movements and several newer exercises. They too teach the whole Movement, however not with the same painstaking care for detail as demonstrated by the Ouspensky line.
The Foundations have a true wealth of newer exercises at their disposal, unequalled by any other existing lineage. However, in Europe many of the older Movements are hardly practised at all and are almost forgotten. Equally unparalleled as their repertoire of newer exercises is their knowledge and experience in exploring the inner content of them. The other side of this coin is that they show a shocking disrespect for the form of Movements by their inclination to teach fragments only. Further, because of their size, they are in danger of creating "specialists" for different areas of Gurdjieff´s teaching, Movements being one of them. To become a "specialist," in whatever part of the Gurdjieff Work, means to suicide oneself for the whole of it.
It is remarkable, and touching as well, to realise that the three entities we selected all reflect, to this day, the historical stage of the Movements at the time when they received them.