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

"Concerning the quality of the 'being-impulsakri,' there is one specialcommandment, among the direct commandments of our All-EmbracingEndlessness, which is strictly observed by all normal three-brained beings ofour Great Universe, and is expressed in the words 'Always guard against suchperceptions as may soil the purity of your brains.'"Three-brained beings have the possibility of personal self-perfectingbecause of the localization in their common presence of three centers, or threebrains, upon which, when the Omnipresent Okidanokh undergoes the processof 'djartklom,' the three holy forces of the sacred Triamazikamno aredeposited and acquire the possibility of further, this time independent,actualizations."The point is that beings having this three-brained system can, by theconscious and intentional fulfilling of being-partkdolgduty, utilize for theirown presence the three holy forces liberated from the OmnipresentOkidanokh by the process of 'djartklom,' and so bring their presence to whatis called the 'sakronoolantsaknian' state, that is to say, they can becomeIndividuals who have their own sacred law of Triamazikamno, and therebythe possibility of consciously taking in and coating in their common presencethat 'All-Holy' which, among other things, helps to actualize the functioningin cosmic units of objective or divine Reason."Nevertheless, my boy, Just here lies the great terror The three-brainedbeings of the planet Earth also have, up to the time of their completedestruction, these three independent localizations, or being-brains, throughwhich the three holy forces of the sacred Triamazikamno, which they mightuse for their own self-perfecting, are transformed for further actualizations,yet, because of the abnormal conditions of ordinary being-existenceestablished by them themselves, these possibilities beat their wings in vain"It is interesting to note that in the three-brained beings