Jesus Christ was the "Son of God" for Gurdjieff

G.I. Gurdjieff consistently refers to Jesus Christ—not merely as “Jesus of Nazareth” or “Jesus”—but with the full Messianic title, affirming Him as “the Messiah,” “the Christ,” and “the Anointed One”. Throughout his writings, Christ is portrayed not simply as a historical teacher but as a divine emissary—a being "sent from Above" with a salvific mission of cosmic and anthropological significance.

In In Search of the Miraculous (p. 319), Gurdjieff speculates that Christ may correspond to “Man No. 8”—a level beyond the fully realized human being (“Man No. 7”), which his system designates as the pinnacle of spiritual attainment. In this framework, “Man No. 8” is not just awakened and integrated, but divinized, placing Christ outside and above the scale of normal human evolution.

This implication is made more explicit in Views from the Real World (p. 211), where Gurdjieff states plainly that Jesus Christ"...was God, but on a certain level.” This is not merely a rhetorical flourish. It must be read in light of Gurdjieff’s Trinitarian metaphysics, wherein he distinguishes “God the Father,” “God the Son,” and “God the Holy Spirit”—a deeply Christian metaphysical structure explored in Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way Is Christianity Because It Is Unequivocally Trinitarian.

Moreover, Gurdjieff frames the life and death of Christ within a teleology of divine reconciliation and salvation, and consonant with the patristic understanding of theosis (deification), which Gurdjieff’s system mirrors in both aim and language. As further explored in Gurdjieff on the Mission of Jesus Christ, the path of conscious transformation is presented not merely as self-perfection, but as participation in a redemptive process (salvation) originating from the Divine Logos, revealing "...the power of the All-lovingness and All-forgivingness of our CREATOR..."

Thus, it is evident that for Gurdjieff, Jesus Christ is not merely a symbol, teacher, enlightened man, or genuine messenger, but a real, Divine Being—identified with the incarnate "Son of God", who so entered the world to make possible the salvation and restoration of humanity to its divine origin.