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

"And for this comparison we must take the same standard unit of Timethat Objective Science uses for such calculations."Bear in mind, first of all, that Objective Science has established—according to data about which you will learn later when I have speciallyexplained to you the fundamental laws of world-creation and worldexistence—thatall normal three-brained beings, and among them of coursethose arising on our planet Karatas, sense the sacred 'egokoolnatsnarnian'action, by which they define Time, forty-nine times more slowly than it issensed by the Sacred Individuals dwelling on the Most Holy Sun Absolute."Consequently, the process of the flow of Time is forty-nine times quickerfor the three-brained beings of our Karatas than for the beings on the SunAbsolute, and this is the speed at which it also should flow for those breedingon the planet Earth."Moreover, it is calculated that, during the period of time in which the sunSamos completes its movement of closest approach to the sun Selos—theperiod considered as one 'year' on our Karatas—the planet Earth completes389 krentonalnian revolutions around its sun Ors It follows from this that ouryear, according to the conventionally objective calculation of Time, is 389times longer than the period which your favorites consider a year."You will surely be interested to know that these calculations were givento me in part by the great Arch-Engineer of the Universe, His Measurability,the Archangel Algamatant—may he be perfected unto the Holy Anklad! Heexplained them to me when, on the occasion of the first misfortune to theplanet Earth, he came to the planet Mars as one of the sacred members of thethird Most High Commission And further calculations were given me by thecaptain of the trans-space ship Omnipresent, with whom I had severalfriendly talks on my journey home from exile.