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

"The fact that these data for the divine being-impulse are still crystallizedand that their manifestations continue to participate in the process of theirbeing-existence was further confirmed, apart from the aforesaidinvestigations, by the difficulty I frequently had on account of it during myobservations of them from the planet Mars."The point is that, although I could freely observe the existence proceedingon the surface of the other planets of that solar system through my teskooanoon the planet Mars without any difficulty whatsoever, my observations of theprocess of existence of your favorites was at times a real misery, owing to thespecial coloration of the atmosphere of the planet Earth."And this special coloration occurred, as I later ascertained, because fromtime to time there appear in the presence of this atmosphere large quantities ofthose crystallizations which are frequently radiated from the presence of thesefavorites of yours when they are moved by the particular inner impulse whichthey call 'remorse of conscience. '"And this is because, when they happen to receive and experience somekind of moral shock, the associations proceeding in them from impressionspreviously perceived— associations that consist mainly, as I have already toldyou, of various kinds of rubbish—almost always become changed, calmed,and even for a time entirely cease."In consequence, there automatically takes place in the common presenceof these three-brained beings there a combination of functioning that frees thedata present in their 'subconscious' for the manifestation of the divine impulseof Objective Conscience and temporarily allows it to participate in thefunctioning of their ordinary consciousness, with the result that this 'remorseof conscience' begins to proceed in them And the 'remorse of conscience' thusproduced in your favorites gives rise to those particular crys-