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

trying to find a logical explanation for what are called their 'psychicexperiencings.'"And so, one day, while I was carrying on these observations from the planetMars through my teskooano, it flashed upon me that the length of theirexistence was, century by century, and even year by year, becoming shorter,at a very definite and uniform rate; and this served as the starting point for mysubsequent intensive study of the psyche of these three-brained beings whohave taken your fancy."Of course, when I first became aware of this, I immediately took intoaccount not only the chief particularity of their psyche, that is, their periodicreciprocal destruction, but also the innumerable what are called 'diseases'found exclusively on that planet, and most of which, by the way, arose andcontinue to arise owing as always to the abnormal external conditions ofordinary being-existence they themselves have established—conditions thatare greatly to blame for their inability to exist normally until the sacred'rascooarno.'"When I noticed this for the first time, and began to recall my formerimpressions on the subject, this fact flashed upon my essence, and each of theseparate independent spiritualized parts of my whole presence became filledwith the conviction that in the beginning these three-brained beings of yourplanet had actually existed, according to their time calculation, for as many astwelve, and some of them even for fifteen centuries."For you to have a clearer picture of the rate at which the length of theirexistence diminished during this period, it is enough to tell you that when Ileft that solar system forever, the maximum length of their existence haddecreased to no more than seventy to ninety of their years."And in recent times, if one of them were to exist even