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

his planetary body at certain definite periods of the krentonalnian movementof that planet, as for instance, in what direction to lie down, how to breathe,what movements it was preferable to make, with which types of beings toavoid relations, and many other things of this kind."Besides all this, the astrologers assigned to the beings of their flock in theseventh year of their existence, again on the basis of their oblekioonerish,corresponding mates of the opposite sex for the purpose of fulfilling one ofthe chief being-duties, that is, the continuation of the species or, as yourfavorites would say, they assigned them 'husbands' and 'wives.'"Justice must be done to your favorites of that period as long as theseastrologers existed among them, they followed their counsels very strictly andentered into conjugal unions only according to their indications."Therefore, at that period, in regard to their conjugal unions they alwayscorresponded to each other according to their types, just as they do on allother planets inhabited by keschapmartnian beings Far as they were fromknowing many trogoautoegocratic cosmic truths, the ancient terrestrialastrologers made these matches successfully because they had at least athorough knowledge of the laws governing the influence of the differentplanets of their solar system on the beings breeding on their own planet, thatis, the influence of these planets on a being at the moment of his conception,for further development as well as for his complete attainment of the being ofa responsible being."Thanks to the practical knowledge acquired over many centuries andtransmitted from generation to generation, they knew which types of thepassive sex corresponded to which types of the active sex. Thus the pairschosen according to the indications of the astrologers nearly always turned outto be corresponding, which is the opposite of