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

"Well, my dear boy, one day while Gornahoor Harharkh was staying withme as my guest and we were observing together the existence of thosefavorites of yours, we happened to notice a fact, which became the subject ofa very serious exchange of opinions between us about the three-centeredbeings of your peculiar planet."The result of this exchange was that I undertook to descend to the surfaceof that planet and to bring back to the planet Saturn a number of the beingsyour favorites call 'apes,' in order to carry out certain experiments with themand elucidate the fact that had astonished us."At this point in his narrative, Beelzebub was brought a "leitoochanbros,"that is, a sort of metal plate on which is recorded the text of an etherogramreceived from somewhere or other, the addressee having only to hold the plateto his organ of auditory perception to hear everything communicated in it.Having listened to the contents of the leitoochanbros, Beelzebub turned tohis grandson and said:"You see, my boy, what coincidences occur in our Great Universe Thisetherogram refers to your favorites in connection with the 'ape-beings' I justmentioned It was sent to me from Mars and informs me, among other things,that the three-centered beings of the planet Earth are once more troubled bythe 'ape question. '"I must first tell you that on account of their abnormal being-existence,there was long ago crystallized and there is periodically intensified in thepresence of those peculiar three-brained beings arising and existing on theplanet Earth a strange factor, producing from time to time a 'crescendoimpulse,' under the action of which they wish to find out at any cost whetherthey have descended from these apes or the apes have descended from them