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

"After this, by means of various talks with them, Saint Buddha first clarifiedfor himself and then explained to the others how the process of their existenceshould be conducted, and in what order their positive part should consciouslyguide the manifestations of their unconscious parts, so that the crystallizedconsequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer, and also the'inherited predisposition' to them, might gradually disappear from theircommon presence."And indeed, as my detailed research made clear to me, during the periodwhen the inner psyche of the beings on that part of the surface of the Earthwas guided by this genuine Messenger from Above, Saint Buddha, those consequencesso maleficent for them once more began to disappear from thepresences of many of them."But to the sorrow of every Individual with Pure Reason of any gradationwhatever and to the misfortune of the three-brained beings of all succeedinggenerations who arise on that planet, the first descendants of thecontemporaries of this genuine Messenger from Above, Saint Buddha, fellvictim to that evil property of their psyche, namely 'wiseacring'—still one ofthe chief results of the abnormally established conditions of ordinary beingexistencethere— and began to wiseacre about all his indications andcounsels, and this time to 'superwiseacre' so thoroughly that all that reachedthe beings of the third and fourth generations who arise on that planet waswhat our honorable Mullah Nasr Eddin defines by the words:'Only information about its specific smell.'"Little by little they so completely changed these indications and counselsof his that should their saintly author reappear there and for some reason orother wish to learn about them, he would never even suspect that he himselfhad given these indications and counsels.