Ashiata Shiemash was a chief character in Gurdjieff’s book “All and Everything” in which he comments on the sacred being-impulses of Faith, Love and Hope:

Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.

Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease.

In “All and Everything” Ashiata Shiemash alsoe stablishes the five “Being-Obligolnian Strivings” which are:

1. 1.to have everything satisfying and really necessary for one's body,
   

2. 2.to have a constant and unflagging instinctive need for self-perfection in the sense of being,
   

3. 3.the conscious striving to know ever more and more concerning the laws of World-creation and World-maintenance,
   

4. 4.to strive from the beginning of one's existence to pay for one's arising and individuality as quickly as possible, in order afterwards to be free to lighten as much as possible the Sorrow of our Common Father.
   

5. 5.the striving always to assist the most rapid perfecting of other beings, both those similar to oneself and those of other forms, up to the degree of self-individuality.
   

Reference: Gurdjieff, G. (2000). All and Everything beelzebub’s tales to his grandson.   Gurdjieff International Review, 1(Winter 1997/1998),

Photo of Gurdjieff on bench.