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Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World
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His first major work: after Aristotle's Organon and Bacon's Novum Organum, it proposes a 'third canon of thought' that denies the ultimate reality of space and time, explores cosmic consciousness (Bucke, the mystics) and formulates a higher logic in which A is both A and not-A. It was a success in America in the 1920s.
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Authorship note
His own work. The first Russian edition is dated 1912 in Wikipedia (en and ru); some bibliographies give 1911. The English translation by Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Bragdon (1920) was made without the author's involvement.
Editions and translations
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English
P. D. Ouspensky
Tertium Organum
The Conscious LibraryP. D. Ouspensky
Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought
The Conscious LibraryTertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought
Manas Press, Rochester (NY), 1920
Translation: Nicholas Bessaraboff y Claude Bragdon
Primera edición inglesa; facsímil en Internet Archive.
Русский
P. D. Ouspensky
Tertium organum
The Conscious LibraryTertium organum
Andreev i synovʹja, San Petersburgo, 1992
ISBN 9785874520175
Español
Tertium Organum
Editorial Kier, Buenos Aires, 2004
ISBN 9789501703290
Other works by P. D. Ouspensky
- The Fourth Dimension · 1909
- The Symbolism of the Tarot · 1912
- The Inner Circle: On the Superman · 1913
- What Is Yoga? · 1913
- Strange Life of Ivan Osokin · 1915
- Talks with a Devil · 1916
- A New Model of the Universe · 1931
- In Search of the Miraculous · 1949
- The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution · 1950
- The Fourth Way · 1957
- Letters from Russia, 1919 · 1978
- Conscience: The Search for Truth · 1979
- A Further Record · 1986
- The Cosmology of Man's Possible Evolution · 1989
- A Record of Meetings · 1992
- Memory · 1953
Sources
- Ouspensky, P. D. Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought, a Key to the Enigmas of the World. Trad. de Nicholas Bessaraboff y Claude Bragdon. Rochester (NY): Manas Press, 1920.
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