# 382: Theosophy pt. 5 - Gurdjieff and the Shearing of Sheep (Teaser)

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Podcast: [The Empire Never Ended](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-empire-never-ended-1611209)
Published: 2026-06-24T05:14:00+00:00
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## Resource

George Gurdjieff was never formally a theosophist, but his "doctrine" contained a very similar backstory, and many of his followers were former theosophists. Gurdjieff was a practice-oriented despotic cult leader, whose follwers believed him to be one of the Masters of the Great White Brotherhood described by Helena Blavatsky.

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