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

"Do you understand now, my boy, that even the Most Great Heropass, thatis, Time, has been compelled to actualize an obvious absurdity in the presenceof those unfortunate three-brained beings who arise and exist on the planetEarth?"In any case, thanks to all I have explained to you, you will be able to putyourself in the position and understand the although merciless yet always, andin everything, just Heropass."Having uttered these words, Beelzebub became silent. When he spoke againto his grandson, it was with a deep sigh:"Ekh . . . my dear boy! Later, when I have told you more about the threebrainedbeings of that ill-fated planet Earth, you will understand it all foryourself and form your own opinion about everything."You will understand very well that although the primary cause of thegeneral chaos reigning on that ill-fated planet Earth was certain'unforeseeingnesses' from Above on the part of various Sacred Individuals,nevertheless the chief cause of all the evils that followed is to be found in theabnormal conditions of ordinary being-existence they themselves graduallyestablished, and continue to establish, down to the present time."In any case, my dear boy, when you learn more about these favorites ofyours, not only will you see how pitiably short the duration of the existence ofthese unfortunates has become compared with the normal duration long sinceestablished as lawful for every kind of three-centered being in our GreatUniverse, but you will also understand that, for the same reasons, any normalbeing-sensations whatsoever in regard to any cosmic phenomena havegradually disappeared and are now quite absent in them."Although, according to the conventionally objective reckoning of Time,the beings of that ill-fated planet had