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

a month they went about, as is said, 'down in the mouth. '"And when they met one another, they could speak of nothing else, butonly recalled and repeated various passages from his speech."They repeated them so often that certain of Hamolinadir's expressionsspread among the ordinary beings of Babylon and became what are called'household sayings.'"Some of these sayings have even reached contemporary beings of theplanet Earth, and among these is the 'building of the Tower of Babel '"So the beings of today picture to themselves quite clearly that once upona time a certain tower was built in this city of Babylon to enable beings toascend in their planetary bodies to God Himself."And the contemporary beings also say, and are even quite persuaded, thatduring the building of this Babylonian tower a confusion of tongues occurred."In general, there have reached the contemporary beings of the planetEarth a great many such isolated expressions, uttered by various beings withReason of former epochs, both from the time when Babylon was the center ofculture and from other epochs, concerning some details of a wholeunderstanding, and simply on the basis of these 'scraps,' your favorites ofrecent centuries, with their quite nonsensical Reason, have cooked up suchbalderdash as our arch-cunning Lucifer himself might envy."As I already told you, among the many teachings then current in Babylonconcerning the 'question of the beyond,' there were two, having nothing incommon with each other, that had a large number of adherents."And it was precisely these two teachings, passing from generation togeneration of your favorites, which began to confuse their 'sane beingmentation,'already muddled enough without that.