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

ceeding continuously within the planet, it is transformed into vapor anddistributed to corresponding spheres to serve for new arisings.After the "dividing of the waters," great and small successive processesthat assure the fulfillment of the predetermined destination of each stream,even in the details of their outer movement, also ensue from these samecosmic laws, however, the results ensuing from them are so to say"subjectivized" correspondingly in the two streams, and although theyfunction independently, they mutually assist and sustain each other all thetime.These "subjectivized" second-order results, issuing from fundamentalcosmic laws, sometimes function side by side, sometimes collide or cross,but never blend And the action of these "subjectivized" second-order resultscan sometimes, in certain surrounding conditions, also extend to the separatedrops.For us contemporary people, the chief evil is that, owing to the variousconditions of ordinary existence established by ourselves, especially ourabnormal "education," we reach responsible age having acquired a presencethat corresponds only to that stream of the river of life destined to empty itselfinto the nether regions, and falling into it, are carried along wherever andhowever it wills, and without pondering the consequences we remain passiveand, submitting to the flow, drift on and on.As long as we remain passive, not only shall we have inevitably to servesolely as a means for Nature's "involutionary creation" but for the rest of ourlives we shall have to submit slavishly to the caprice of all sorts of blindevents.As most of the listeners present today have already, as is said, "crossedover" into responsible age and sincerely recognize that until now they havenot acquired their own "I" and, at the same time, according to the substance ofall I