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

someone's uncle is in business in a big way and may one day give him aboost, and so on and so forth." 'But never do men-beings here love with genuine, impartial, and nonegoisticlove." 'Thanks to the kind of love that exists in the contemporary beings here,their hereditary predisposition to the crystallization of the consequences ofthe properties of the organ kundabuffer now proceeds in them withouthindrance, and becomes definitely fixed as a lawful part of their nature.'And as regards the third sacred being-impulse, Essence-Hope, its plight inthe presence of the three-centered beings here is even worse than that of thefirst two." 'Not only has this being-impulse, in its distorted form, finally adapteditself to the whole of their presence but this newly formed, maleficent "hope,"which has taken the place of the being-impulse of sacred Hope, is now theprincipal reason why factors can no longer be acquired in them for thefunctioning of the genuine being-impulses of Faith, Hope, and Love." 'In consequence of this newly formed, abnormal "hope" of theirs, theyalways hope for something, and this constantly paralyzes all the possibilitiesthat appear in them, whether evoked intentionally from without or arising accidentallywithin them—possibilities that could perhaps still destroy in theirpresence their hereditary predisposition to the crystallization of theconsequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer." 'When I returned from Mount Vezniama to the city of Babylon, I continuedmy observations in order to discover whether it would be possible to helpthese unfortunates in some other way." 'And in the course of a year of special observations of all theirmanifestations and perceptions, I made it categor-