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

ically clear to myself that although the factors for engendering in theirpresence the sacred being-impulses of Faith, Love, and Hope have completelydegenerated in the beings of this planet, nevertheless, the factor that shouldengender that being-impulse on which, in general, the whole psyche of beingsof a three-brained system is based, namely, the impulse existing under thename of "Objective Conscience," is not yet atrophied in them, and remains intheir presence almost in its primordial state." 'Thanks to the abnormally established conditions of ordinary externalbeing-existence here, this factor gradually sank into that consciousness oftheirs which they call the "subconscious," and as a result, it takes no partwhatever in the functioning of their ordinary consciousness." 'Well, I then understood beyond all doubt, with all the separateruminating parts making up the whole of my "I," that only if this being-factorstill surviving in their common presence were to participate in the generalfunctioning of the consciousness under whose direction they pass their daily,as they call it, "waking existence"—only then would it be possible to save thecontemporary terrestrial three-brained beings from the consequences of theproperties of that organ which was intentionally implanted in their firstancestors.'My further pondering confirmed that this could be attained only if theirordinary being-existence were to flow for a long time under fully foreseen,corresponding conditions.'When these deliberations had been completely transubstantiated in me,I decided to consecrate the whole of myself from that time forward solely tothe creation of such conditions here that the functioning of sacred Conscience,still surviving in their subconscious, might gradually pass into the functioningof their ordinary consciousness." 'May the blessing of our Almighty, Infinitely Loving