Alfred Richard Orage (1873 – 1934) was a British intellectual, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age. 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, or speculate on a variety of different ideas. ... The New Age was a British literary magazine, noted for its wide influence under the editorship from 1907 to 1922 of A. R. Orage. ...

Early life

Born in Dacre, West Riding of Yorkshire into a nonconformist religious family, he became a schoolteacher and joined the Independent Labour Party, writing for their paper on philosophy, including in particular the thought of Plato and Edward Carpenter, Dacre could be Dacre, Cumbria Dacre, North Yorkshire This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... The West Riding as an administrative county prior to its abolition in 1974. ... A nonconformist is an English or Welsh Protestant of any non-Anglican denomination, chiefly advocating religious liberty. ... In education, teachers are those who teach students or pupils, often a course of study or a practical skill. ... The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a former political party in the United Kingdom. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Plato Plato (Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn) (c. ... Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was a socialist poet, anthologist, and an early homosexual activist. ...

By the late 1890s, Orage was disillusioned with conventional socialism and turned for a while to theosophy. After reading Friedrich Nietzsche in 1900, at the suggestion of Holbrook Jackson whom he knew from the Leeds Art Club, he returned to socialist platforms, but now determined to combine Carpenter's socialism with Nietzsche and theosophy. Concentrating on this led to separation from his wife. The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... Socialism is an ideology of a social and economic system in which the means of production are collectively owned and administered by all of society. ... Seal of the Theosophical Society Theosophy is a body of ideas which holds that all religions are attempts by man to ascertain the Divine, and as such each religion has a portion of the truth. ... This article is becoming very long. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... George Holbrook Jackson (1874 - 1948) was a British journalist, writer and publisher. ...

Orage explored his new ideas in several booklets. He saw Nietzsche's Übermensch as a metaphor for the "higher state of consciousness" sought by mystics and sought to define a route to this, insisting this must involve a rejection of civilisation and conventional morality. Instead, he moved through a celebration of Dionysus to declare he was in favour not of an ordered socialism but of an anarchic movement. This page appears to have an unresolved commentary on itself presented as part of the text. ... Mysticism (ancient Greek mysticon = secret) is meditation, prayer, or theology focused on the direct experience of union with divinity, God, or Ultimate Reality, or the belief that such experience is a genuine and important source of knowledge. ... For other uses, see Civilization (disambiguation). ... Morality, in the most strict sense of the word, deals with that which is regarded as right or wrong. ... Dionysus with a panther and satyr, in the Palazzo Altemps (Rome, Italy) Dionysus or Dionysos (Ancient Greek: Διώνυσος or Διόνυσος; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and associated with the Italic Liber), the Thracian god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ...

Editor in London

He resigned his teaching post and moved to London, following Arthur Penty, another Leeds Art Club friend in 1906. Orage attempted to form a league for the restoration of a guild system, much as described by William Morris. The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the capital of the United Kingdom and England. ... Arthur Joseph Penty (1875 –1937) was a British architect, and writer on Guild socialism and distributism. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A guild is an association of people of the same trade or pursuits (with a similar skill or craft), formed to protect mutual interests and maintain standards of morality or conduct. ... This page is about William Morris, the writer, designer and socialist. ...

The failure of this project spurred him in 1907, supported by George Bernard Shaw, to buy the weekly magazine The New Age, in partnership with Holbrook Jackson. He quite soon turned it into his conception of a forum for politics, literature and the arts. Although many contributors were Fabians, he to some extent distanced himself from their politics, and a wide range of political viewpoints were represented. The magazine launched an attack on parliamentary politics, while Orage argued the need for utopianism. He also attacked the trade union leadership, while offering some support to syndicalism, and tried to combine this with the guild system. Combining these two viewpoints resulted in Guild socialism, a political philosophy he began to argue for from about 1910. 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... G. Bernard Shaw (he hated the George, which was his fathers first name, and never used it, either personally or professionally) (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ... The New Age was a British literary magazine, noted for its wide influence under the editorship from 1907 to 1922 of A. R. Orage. ... Politics is a process by which collective decisions are made within groups. ... Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction... A precise definition of the arts can be contentious, but the following areas of activity are usually included: Art / Visual arts Architecture Crafts Dance Drawing Film Literature Music Painting Photography Pottery Sculpture Theater Unlike art, design focuses less on the aesthetics of a thing and more on the functionality of... The Fabian Society is a British socialist intellectual movement, whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Syndicalism refers to a set of ideas, movements and tendencies which share the avowed aim of transforming capitalist society through action by the working class on the industrial front. ... Guild socialism was a British political movement in the 1890s-1920s that wanted to give each local workplace sovereignity. ...

Between 1910 and 1914 The New Age was undoubtedly the premier little magazine in the UK. It was instrumental in pioneering the British avant-garde, from vorticism to imagism. Some of its contributors at this time included T.E. Hulme, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound and many others. Apart from his undoubted genius as an editor, it might be said that Orage's real talent was as a conversationalist and a 'bringer together' of people. The modernists of London were scattered between 1905 and 1910. Between 1910 and 1914, largely thanks to Orage, a sense of a genuine 'movement' was created. In other words, Orage successfully ran a forum which at least assumed (and perhaps created) a commonality between the seemingly unfathomable philosophies and artistic practices then being created. The New Age was a British literary magazine, noted for its wide influence under the editorship from 1907 to 1922 of A. R. Orage. ... A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense — including the short story, poetry and essay — and also literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews, letters and gossip. ... Wyndam Lewis Vorticism was a short lived, British art movement of the early 20th century. ... Ezra Pound, one of the prime movers of Imagism. ... Thomas Ernest Hulme (September 16, 1883 - 28 September 1917) was an English writer, who during his informal tenure from 1909 as critic for The New Age, edited by A. R. Orage, exerted a notable influence on London modernism. ... Wyndam Lewis in 1916 Wyndham Lewis (November 18, 1882 - March 7, 1957) was a British painter and author. ... Ezra Pound in 1913. ...

Orage's politics

Orage's political views were a strange mixture of "right wing" and "left wing": one could make a case for arguing that his views prefigured those of the British New Left. On the other hand one could also make a case for his being a proto-Fascist. The New Left is a term used in political discourse to refer to radical left-wing movements from the 1960s onwards. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ...

One the one hand, Orage followed Sorel in arguing that trade unions should pursue an increasingly aggressive policy as regards issues such as wage deals and working conditions. He approved of the increasing militancy of the unions in the pre-war era, and seems to have shared Sorel's belief in the necessity of a Trade Union-led General Strike, leading to a revolutionary situation. Sorel might refer to: The city Sorel, Quebec Georges Sorel ... A general strike is a strike action by an entire labour force in a city, region or country. ...

On the other hand, Orage was militantly anti-suffragette, and did not agree that women should be allowed the vote. Moreover, in the "classic" period (1910-1914) he permitted numerous anti-semitic opinions to be published in The New Age. It is not clear to what extent Orage shared these prejudices, which were far more freely expressed then than now. Suffragette with banner, Washington DC, 1918 The title of suffragette was given to members of the womens suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

With Gurdjieff

In 1914 Orage met with P. D. Ouspensky, whose ideas left a prominent impression. When Ouspensky moved to London in 1921, Orage began attending his lectures on a "fragmentary" teaching. From this point on Orage became less and less interested in literature and art, instead focussing his attention in the 1910s on spirituality and the occult. He returned to the idea that there were absolute truths and felt these were embodied in the Mahabharata. Peter D. Ouspensky (March 5, 1878, Moscow - October 2, 1947, England), (Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii, also Uspenskii or Uspensky) was a Russian philosopher with an analytic and mystical bent who combined geometry and psychology in his discussion of higher dimensions of existence. ... // Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginings during the second half of the 19th Century. ... Spirituality is, in a narrow sense, a concern with matters of the spirit. ... The word occult comes from Latin occultus (hidden), referring to the knowledge of the secret or knowledge of the hidden and often meaning knowledge of the supernatural, as opposed to knowledge of the visible or knowledge of the measurable, usually referred to as science. ... Absolute truth can be interpreted in different ways based on its usage, just like truth. ... The Mahabharata (Devanagari: महाभारत, phonetically Mahābhārata - see note), sometimes just called Bharata, is one of the two major ancient Sanskrit epics of India, the other being the Ramayana. ...

In February 1922, Ouspensky introduced Orage to Gurdjieff. Selling the New Age, he moved to Paris to study at the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. By 1924, Orage had become one of Gurdjieff's most valued pupils, appointed by the latter to lead study groups in America. George Ivanovich Gurdjieff George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (January 13 / January 14, 1866? - October 29, 1949), the Greek-Armenian mystic and teacher of dancing born in Alexandropol, Armenia (then of the Russian Empire, now Gumri, Armenia), traveled to many parts of the world (i. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man was an esoteric spiritual school founded by G. I. Gurdjieff in 1922 also known as Le Prieuré for the name of the property that he purchased in Fontainebleau-Avon south of Paris in France. ...

New English Weekly

In 1930 Orage returned to England in an attempt to found a new magazine. The New English Weekly began in April 1932; it was subsequently edited by Philip Mairet, Orage's biographer. In its pages, Orage explored politics and was a primary figure in the reviving Social Credit movement. 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Philip (or Philippe) Mairet (1886 – 1975) was a designer, writer and journalist. ... Social Credit is an economic ideology and a social movement which started in the early 1920s. ...

Orage died in November 1934, declaring shortly beforehand that he had obtained no insight as to the "meaning and aim of existence".

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Works

• Friedrich Nietzsche; The Dionysian Spirit of the Age (1906)
• Nietzsche in Outline and Aphorism (1911)
• National Guilds: An inquiry into the wage system and the way out (1914) editor, articles from The New Age
• An alphabet of economics (1918)
• Readers and writers (1917 - 1921) (1922) as RHC
• Psychological Exercises and Essays (1930)
• The Art of Reading (1930)
• On Love. Freely Adapted form the Tibetan (Unicorn Press 1932)
• Selected Essays and Critical Writings (1935) edited by Herbert Read and Denis Saurat
• Political and Economic Writings. From 'The New English Weekly' 1932-34, with a preliminary section from 'The New Age 1912' (1936) edited by Montgomery Butchart, 'with the advice of Maurice Colbourne, T.S. Eliot, Philip Mairet, Will Dyson and others'
• Essays and Aphorisms (1954)
• The Active Mind - Adventures in Awareness (1954)
• Orage as Critic (1974) edited by Wallace Martin
• Consciousness: Animal, Human & Superman (1978)
• A. R. Orage's Commentaries on Gurdjieff's All and Everything, edited by C. S. Nott

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References

• A. R. Orage: A Memoir (1936) Philip Mairet
• Alfred Orage and the Leeds Arts Club (1893-1923) (Scolar Press 1990) Tom Steele
• Gurdjieff and Orage: Brothers in Elysium (2001) Paul Beekman Taylor,