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

Having said this, Beelzebub continued with a bitter smile:"You, for instance, have the normal presence of a three-brained being and an'oskiano'—or, as they say on the Earth, 'education'—intentionally implanted fromoutside in your presence, and founded upon a morality based solely on thecommandments and indications of the Uni-Being Himself and the Most HolyIndividuals near Him. And so, if you should chance to be among the beings of thatplanet, you would be unable to contain your 'being-parkhitrogool,' or what theycall 'irrepressible inner laughter,' at their astonishment if they should suddenlysense clearly, and understand beyond all doubt, that not only does nothing like'light,' 'heat,' and so on come to their planet from their sun, but that this supposed'source of heat and light' is itself almost always freezing cold, like the hairless dogof our highly esteemed Mullah Nasr Eddin."In reality, the surface of their 'source of heat,' like that of all the ordinary sunsof our Great Universe, is perhaps \ more covered with ice than the surface of whatthey call the 'North Pole.'"Surely this 'glowing hearth' would rather borrow a little 'heat' from someother source of cosmic substances than send part of its own to any planet, leastof all to that one which, because of the splitting off of a whole side, has becomea lopsided monstrosity, and is now a source of 'offensive shame' for thatpoor system Ors."But you yourself, my boy, do you know how and why there are produced inthe atmosphere of certain planets during trogoautoegocratic processes thephenomena of 'kshtatsavakht,' 'kldatsakhti,' 'tainolair,' 'paischakir,' and others,which your favorites call 'daylight,' 'darkness,' 'heat,' 'cold,' and so on? If youdo not understand this clearly, I will tell you a little more about it."Although I promised to explain all the fundamental laws