Fourth Way

The term 'Fourth Way' was further used by his student P. D. Ouspensky in his lectures and writings. After Ouspensky's death, his students published a book entitled The Fourth Way based on his lectures. According to this system, the three traditional schools, or ways, 'are permanent forms which have survived throughout history mostly unchanged, and are based on religion. Where schools of yogis, monks or fakirs exist, they are barely distinguishable from religious schools. The fourth way differs in that 'it is not a permanent way. It has no specific forms or institutions and comes and goes controlled by some particular laws of its own.'