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

called 'all-rights-possessing brethren' of this first Heeshtvori Brotherhood."According to the statutes drawn up by the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash,any one of them could become an 'all-rights-possessing brother' of theHeeshtvori Brotherhood only when, in addition to the attainment of certainother also foreseen objective merits, he could bring himself—in the sense ofthe 'ableness consciously to direct the functioning of his own psyche'—to thestate of knowing how to convince to perfection a hundred other beings, and toprove to them first that the factor for the impulse of Objective Conscienceexists in man, and second how this impulse must be manifested in order thathe may respond to the real sense and aim of his existence, moreover, so toconvince them that each of these others, in his turn, would acquire in himselfthe necessary 'intensity of ableness' to convince no fewer than a hundredothers also."It was those who became worthy to be such 'all-rights-possessingbrethren' of the Heeshtvori Brotherhood who were first given the name of'priest.'"For your better comprehension of the very saintly activities of AshiataShiemash, you must also know that afterward, when all the results of hissaintly labors were destroyed, this word 'priest,' as well as the word 'initiate'about which I have already told you, was used and continues to be used byyour favorites down to the present time in two quite different senses."In one sense the word 'priest' was and still is commonly used—but only incertain places—for unimportant separate groups of those professionalsexisting there whom everybody now calls 'confessors' or 'clergymen.'"And in the other sense, the word 'priest' was used and still is used todesignate those beings who, by their pious existence and by the merits of theirdeeds performed for the