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of the properties of the organ kundabuffer, transmitted to them by heredity."Among the things he said to them was this:" 'One of the best means of rendering ineffective the predisposition in yournature to crystallize the consequences of the properties of the organkundabuffer is "intentional suffering"; and the greatest "intentional suffering"can be obtained in our presences by compelling ourselves to endure thedispleasing manifestations of others toward ourselves.'"This explanation of Saint Buddha, along with other definite indications ofhis, were circulated among the ordinary beings there through his closestinitiates; and after he had undergone the process of the sacred 'rascooarno,' itbegan to pass from generation to generation."As I have already told you, my boy, from the time of the loss of Atlantisthe property called the 'psycho-organic need to wiseacre' had become fixed inthe psyche of your favorites. And so—to the misfortune of all ordinary threecenteredbeings of that period and. of all succeeding generations up to thepresent—the beings of the second and third generations after Saint Buddhabegan to wiseacre and superwiseacre about this counsel of his. As a result, thevery definite notion became fixed in their presence and also passed fromgeneration to generation that this 'endurance' could be produced only insolitude."Here the strangeness of the psyche of your favorites showed itself, as itstill does today, in their failure to grasp the obvious fact—obvious, that is, toany more or less sane Reason—that in advising them to practice that kind ofendurance, the divine teacher, Saint Buddha, meant of course that they shoulddo so while continuing to exist among beings like themselves. And he advisedthis in order that, by frequently producing this sacred being-actualizationtoward the displeasing manifestations of others, there might be evoked inthem what are called 'trentroodianos' or, as