The academic study of G. I. Gurdjieff (c. 1877-1949) and the Work/ Fourth Way is a small but expanding area. The publication of Joseph Azize’s Gurdjieff: Mysticism, Contemplation, Exercises (2020) opened the topic of religious and esoteric transformative experience which formerly reticent Gurdjieff groups were reluctant to share with non-members. It is clear that these exercises are directed toward growing an astral or kesdjan body, and the selection published and discussed by Azize is far from comprehensive. In the twenty-first century Work teachers utilize the internet (blogs, YouTube, and social media platforms, for example) to instruct pupils, and the methods for soul-growing are emerging more clearly (practicing the Movements, reading Gurdjieff’s texts as lectio divina, listening to the music composed with Thomas de Hartmann, and doing the spiritual exercises). My research examines esoteric transformation in the Work from the perspective of aesthetics and ethics, querying the purpose of soul acquisition.