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

continent of Atlantis, and beings of the female sex were obliged to remain inthem during the whole period of their menstruation."King Solomon lost no time in establishing this custom because, during hiswise reign, he had often observed that in the state of menstruation thecharacter of the beings of the female sex became not only intolerable for thosearound them, especially for their husbands, but even psycho-organicallyharmful as regards their 'inconsistent' behavior toward others He thereforedecided without delay to promulgate a strict law specifying that near everypopulated center special isolated buildings had to be constructed, in which thebeings of the female sex were to be confined for the whole duration of thisstate."I even happened to read the law he promulgated."In this law it was said, among other things, that during their menstruationwomen are 'unclean,' in the sacred sense of the word, and that during theseperiods it is not only a great sin but even a sacrilege for anyone, especiallytheir husbands, to touch them or even to speak with them."If their husbands or any other men approach or speak with them duringthis period, they will be possessed by an 'unclean force' or 'evil spirit,' and inconsequence there will be among men in their everyday relations and affairsonly misunderstandings, quarrels, and enmity."This last statement of the great terrestrial sage, King Solomon, remainstoday an undeniable truth."And indeed, this is also one of the numerous reasons why at the presenttime the ordinary existence of the beings of your planet has becomenonsensical in the extreme."Among contemporary terrestrial beings of the female sex, the specificproperty acquired during recent centuries called 'hysteria' becomes still moremarked during these states, and as long as it lasts, these women reduce thebeings around them, particularly their husbands, to the condition