First Appeal to Contemporary Humanity is the first book published by G. I.
The book was published with the help of Charles Stanley Nott a student of Gurdjieff.
In addition to the main body of the text, the book contains the following sections:[2] Gurdjieff refers to The Herald of Coming Good Book as "... this first of my writings intended to head the list of my publications ...".
It is a programmatic essay, describing the author's anthropological world view and his ethical concept of a full realization of mankind with reference to the activities of his organization, the Institute For Man's Harmonious Development.
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