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

we reached a summit and suddenly saw on the horizon the outline of a largewater space, bordering the shores of that part of the continent of Ashhark thencalled 'Pearl-land.'"Four days later we arrived at the chief center of existence of the thirdAsiatic group, the city then known as 'Kaiamon.' Having arranged for a placeto stay, Ahoon and I spent the first few days simply strolling about the streetsof the city, observing the specific manifestations of the beings of that thirdgroup in the process of their ordinary existence."It cannot be helped, my dear Hassein! Now that I have told you thehistory of the arising of the second group of beings on the continent ofAshhark, I shall also have to tell you about the arising of the third group"Tell me, tell me, dear beloved Grandfather!" cried Hassein eagerly. Then,with reverence, he lifted his arms and said with great sincerity."May my dear and kind grandfather become worthy of perfecting himselfto the degree of Reason of the sacred Anklad!"Saying nothing to this, Beelzebub only smiled and continued as follows:"The history of this third group begins shortly after that period when thefamilies of the 'pirmaral' hunters had first come from the continent of Atlantisto the shores of the Sea of Beneficence and, having settled there, had foundedthe second group of Asiatic beings. In those remote days— infinitely remotefor your contemporary favorites—that is, not long before the secondtransapalnian perturbation occurred to this ill-fated planet, certainconsequences of the properties of the 'organ kundabuffer' had begun to becrystallized in the presences of the beings of the continent of Atlantis; and thisaroused in them the need, among other needs unbecoming to three-brainedbeings, to adorn them-