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

of 'elmooarno' between two terrestrial beings of different sex who had justreached responsible age."Since this couple had a healthy heredity in every respect, and the externalconditions of ordinary being-existence on that continent were still relativelynormal and happened to be specially favorable for this couple, the result ofthis sacred process, that is, this 'son' of theirs later called MakaryKronbernkzion, received in his presence from his very arising and during hisearly childhood almost the same data required for a future responsible beingas every keschapmartnian three-brained being possesses at his arisingeverywhere else on all the other planets of our Great Megalocosmos."And as it happened that his producers or, as is said there, his 'parents,'wished to prepare their result to become a responsible being with a 'scientific'career, and as they happened to find qualified guides for him, when hereached responsible age he became a very good scientist—good of course forthe planet Earth."On account of his scientific achievements he was soon even consideredworthy to become a full member of the learned Society of Akhldanns"During the process of his responsible existence, devoted entirely toscience, he came one day to a clear vision of his own significance andsincerely realized his nullity."From then on, with sore grief, he meditated seriously on this realization,and the result of his meditations was that in every part of his entire presencethe hope began to arise, and finally the conviction was definitely fixed in him,that conscious labor and intentional suffering could transform him from anothing into a 'something.'"So he then began to labor consciously, without mercy toward his denyingpart, intentionally creating conditions to oppose it. Moreover he carried outthese conscious labors and created these intentional conditions particularly inrelation to his manifestations and perceptions in the field of