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

perfecting for the 'highest being-part' which, for various reasons, sometimesarises in certain of these beings also."The chosen fifty righteous souls were precisely those who had alreadybecome worthy to be candidates for returning to the Most Holy Source ofeverything existing."His All-Quarters Maintainer, the Arch-Cherub Helkgematios, thegovernor of the holy planet, not only sanctioned the choice of these fiftyblessed souls but, by his own all-gracious decision, expressed the desire tohelp them in every way in fulfilling their undertaking."And so, my boy, when these fifty candidates for the Sun Absoluteundertook their investigations, it became evident to them, after long andcomplicated research, that the fundamental cause of all the abnormalities inthe psyche of the three-brained beings arising on this planet was a verydefinite concept, now rooted in them, that there exist, as it were, outside theessence of beings, two diametrically opposite factors—the principle of Goodand the principle of Evil— which are the instigators of all their good and badmanifestations."They further established that this universally disseminated and maleficentidea, the data for which are gradually crystallized in each of these beingsduring their formation in preparatory age, already dominates their commonpsyche by the time they reach responsible age, so that on the one hand, itbecomes a means of calming themselves and justifying all theirmanifestations and, on the other, it is the fundamental factor impeding thepossibility arising in certain of them for the perfecting of their highest beingpart."When the righteous inhabitants of the holy planet were convinced of allthis, they began to consider and deliberate among themselves how to find away out of the situation and what they could do on their part."As it was related to me, they began to hold meetings