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

it necessary to explain this change for the worse, and help you reach anapproximate understanding of it."At that period, the terrestrial three-brained beings of responsible agecalled 'astrologers,' besides making observations and investigations of variousother cosmic concentrations for the purpose of a more detailed study of thebranch of general learning they represented, took upon themselves severalother definite essence-obligations toward their fellow beings."One of their fundamental obligations was to advise, as our 'zirlikners' do,all the conjugal pairs in their 'flock,' according to their types, about the timeand form of the process of the sacred 'elmooarno' for the purpose of a desirableand corresponding conception of their results And when these resultswere actualized or, as they say, 'new-born,' the astrologers had to draw up foreach of them an 'oblekioonerish,' that is, what your favorites call a 'horoscope 'And from then on they or their deputies guided those young beings during thewhole period of their formation up to responsible age, as well as during theirresponsible existence itself, giving them corresponding indications on thebasis of the oblekioonerish and of the cosmic laws, constantly explained bythem, relating to the action of the results of other large cosmic concentrationson the process of being-existence on all planets."These indications and, so to speak, 'warning counsels' of theirs consistedin the following:"As soon as a function became disharmonized in the presence of any being,or was only just beginning to be so, he would apply to the astrologer of hisdistrict, who, on the basis of the oblekioonerish and of the variations expectedaccording to calculation in the atmospheric processes caused by the action ofother planets of their solar system, would indicate just what the disharmonizedbeing should do with