"The Struggle of the Magicians" a Ballet Scenario by G.I. Gurdjieff

This is a little booklet, about 44 pages, and is one of the earliest texts that Gurdjieff wrote.  Actually, it was his ad in a newspaper in Moscow about staging this ballet that started his first school with students who were Muscovites.

The ballet has several acts, alternating between showing the life of Gafar, the rich prince, who is infatuated with Zainab, a beautiful 20 year old female student of the White Magician.  The White Magician's school is shown and when Gaffar cannot get Zainab with money and fame, he turns to the Black Magician, whose school is also shown, as anti-thesis to the concepts in the White one. 

Eventually the Black Magician casts a spell on Zainab to submit herself to Gafar, but the White Magician breaks the spell, and the ballet ends with Gafar, although initially angry, actually submitting to the White Magician. 

Probably the most important part, for me, was one of the last sentences of the the siget: "Lord Creator, and all you His assistants. help us to be able to remember ourselves at all times in order that we may avoid involuntary actions, as only through them - can evil manifest itself." 

Automatic, mechanical, involuntary actions being the root of evil and by remembering ourselves at all times, we prevent yet another outlet for evil.