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

told you, and furthermore, when the impulse of sacred Conscience hadentirely ceased to take part in their waking consciousness, these three-brainedbeings arising and existing on the planet Earth, both before and after theperiod of the very saintly activities of Ashiata Shiemash, have always strivento organize their welfare during the process of their ordinary existenceexclusively for them themselves."And as in general there never is, nor can there be on any of the planets ofour Great Universe enough of everything required for the equal externalwelfare of everyone, irrespective of what are called 'objective merits,' theresult is that the prosperity of some is always built on the adversity of others."It is this exclusive regard for their own personal welfare that hasgradually crystallized in their psyche the quite peculiar and unprecedentedproperties I cited such as 'cunning,' 'contempt,' 'hate,' 'servility,' 'lying,''flattery,' and so on, which, on the one hand, are factors for outermanifestations unbecoming to three-brained beings, and on the other arecauses of the gradual destruction of all those inner possibilities, placed inthem by Great Nature, of becoming particles of the whole of the ReasonableWhole."Well then, my boy, when the results of the very saintly labors of theEssence-Loving Ashiata Shiemash had begun to blend with the processes ofboth their inner and outer being-existence, and when thanks to this the datafor the divine impulse of Conscience, surviving in their 'subconscious,'shared more and more in the functioning of their 'waking consciousness,'then their being-existence, both personal and in their relations with others,began to proceed on this planet almost as it does on the other planets of ourGreat Universe on which three-brained beings exist."These favorites of yours then began to behave toward one another as towardthe manifestations, differing only in