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

castor oil with a certain tenderness For instance, one of these people, whoamong other things had read up a few books on astronomy, would say that the'world' is a multitude of suns surrounded by planets at colossal distances fromeach other, forming together what we call the 'Milky Way', beyond which, atimmeasurable distances and beyond the limits of space accessible to ourinvestigations, are presumably other constellations and other worlds."Another, interested in contemporary physics, would speak of the 'world'as a systematic evolution of matter, beginning with the atom and going up tothe very largest aggregates such as planets and suns, he would perhaps referto the theory of the similitude of the world of atoms and electrons and theworld of suns and planets, and so on in the same strain."Still another who, for some reason or other, had made a hobby ofphilosophy and read all the mish-mash on that subject, would say that the'world' is only the product of our subjective picturings and imaginings, andthat our earth, for example, with its mountains and seas, its vegetable andanimal kingdoms, is all a world of appearances, an illusory world."A man acquainted with the latest theories of polydimensional spacewould say that the 'world' is usually considered as an infinite threedimensionalsphere, but that in reality a three-dimensional world cannot existas such, and is only an imaginary cross section of another four-dimensionalworld, from which comes everything proceeding around us and into whicheverything returns."A man whose world view is founded on the dogmas of religion wouldstate that the 'world' is everything existing, visible and invisible, created byGod and dependent on His Will. In the visible world our life is brief, but in theinvisible world, where a man receives reward or punishment for all