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

your contemporary favorites consider as an illness and call 'hemorrhoids. '"Beings with these symptoms were obliged to remain in theseanoroparionikimas during the periods indicated by the beings around them,but they were under no compulsion to do anything, and existed as theypleased In regard to them there was only one purpose, which was that theyshould neither meet nor speak with normal beings of the given locality."They were confined in these buildings because at certain periods of themonth, according to the prevailing ideas, on account of their various 'taints,'their 'emanations' interfered with the quiet and regular existence of beingssurrounding them."Ekh, yes, my dear boy . . ."Beings of the final period of the continent of Atlantis had many excellentcustoms for normal being-existence But as for your contemporary favorites,they can only be pitied because, owing to the second great calamity to theirill-fated planet, that continent and everything on it was engulfed, and with itdisappeared all those good customs which over long centuries had graduallyentered into the process of their ordinary existence."Long after the continent of Atlantis was destroyed, the custom of usingspecial buildings in the process of ordinary existence, similar to those ofwhich I have just told you, was reestablished."The need for these special buildings was again understood and their usewas reestablished by a certain wise Hebrew king named Solomon."The special buildings which this wise Hebrew king decided to constructand which existed long after his time were called 'tak-tschan-nan. '"They somewhat resembled the gynekokhrostinis of the