Do-Re of the Work Octave: The First Great Step

The Work Octave starts with evaluation as Do, and application of the ideas to yourself as Re. Certainly this is a big step. Remember that you are the subject of the Work, you yourself.

When this begins your whole memory of everything, of yourself, of other people, of your past tribulations, will begin to alter.

Every moment of consciousness, every moment of insight, through self-observation in the light of the Work, every sudden moment of seeing what a fool one is in different ways, not only alters the future but alters the past.

Maurice Nicoll, “Commentary on Memory" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 592)