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

up until what is called the seventh 'great planetary process of reciprocaldestruction.'"Thanks to this maleficent idea there was fixed in the instincts of most ofthe unfortunates of that period another abnormal so-called 'dictatorial factor,'which began to engender in their common presence the false feeling that theseape-beings were sacred. And this factor, which engendered such a sacrilegiousimpulse, passed by heredity from generation to generation and reached theinstincts of many beings even of the present time."As for the false notion cooked up by that 'pawnshop progeny,' it held itsground for nearly two of their centuries and became an integral part of the'Reason' of most of them. But due to various events growing out of theseventh planetary process of reciprocal destruction, which lasted nearly half acentury, it gradually faded away and completely disappeared from theircommon presence."But when their so-called 'cultured existence' became concentrated on thecontinent of 'Europe,' and when the time again came around for that peculiardisease known as 'wiseacring' to manifest itself with maximum intensity—forthis disease, by the way, had long before become subject to the fundamentalcosmic law of Heptaparaparshinokh, according to which its intensity had tofluctuate with a certain periodicity—then, to the grief of three-brained beingsof the whole Universe, that 'ape question,' or 'who is descended from whom,'once more arose and having become crystallized again became part of theabnormal 'Reason' of your favorites."In this instance also, the 'ape question' arose from the stimulus given by alearned being, of course again a 'great' one, but of an altogether 'newformation,' by the name of Darwin. This 'great' scientist, basing his theory onthat same logic of theirs, set about 'proving' exactly the opposite of whatMenitkel had said, that is, he 'proved' that it was they