Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

particularly struck by one passage in the manuscript where the followingsupposition was made:'In all probability there exists in the world some law of the reciprocalmaintenance of everything existing." 'Obviously our lives also serve for maintaining something great or smallin the world."The idea expressed in the ancient manuscript so captivated thephilosopher Atarnakh that from then on he devoted himself entirely to thestudy of this one aspect of the question that had interested him."This idea served as the basis for a whole plausible theory which, afterseveral years of investigation and minute experimental verification of hisconclusions, he expounded in his chief work entitled 'Why Do Wars Occur onthe Earth?'"I also became acquainted with this theory of his."It was indeed close to reality."All the hypotheses of this Kurd, Atarnakh, were very similar to theessence of the great fundamental cosmic law, Trogoautoegocrat, existing inour Universe, which I explained to you more or less in detail when I wasspeaking about the Holy Planet Purgatory"It was very definitely proved in this theory of the philosopher Atarnakhthat there must inevitably exist in the world a law of the 'reciprocalmaintenance of everything that exists,' and that this 'reciprocal maintenance' isassisted by certain chemical substances through which the process of thespiritualization of beings, that is to say, 'life,' takes place, and these chemicalsubstances serve the maintenance of all that exists only after the life of abeing ceases, that is, when a being dies."The theory of Atarnakh also fully proved, with the help of many logicalconfrontations, that at certain periods there must infallibly take place on theEarth a specific quantity of deaths, which in their totality must yieldvibrations of a specific 'degree of power.'