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

unfortunate planet of the last results that might have been beneficial for thethree-brained beings of all subsequent epochs, and even of all trace of thememory of the very saintly labors of the Essence-Loving Ashiata Shiemash,but also they were the cause of the utter nonsense that proceeds in the Reasonof your contemporary favorites, and of the complete atrophy in them of that'fundamental being-impulse,' the main lever of objective morality, called'organic shame.'"A closer acquaintance with these large groupings of your favorites andwith the various 'blessings' bequeathed by them to the beings of later epochswill help you to understand how separate independent communities areformed there, and how a given community, having become powerful—with nothanks to the beings themselves—takes advantage of this to begin destroyingeverything attained by other less powerful communities and forces its own'new inventions' upon them, in most cases sincerely imagining that these arejust what the others need."I must warn you, my boy, that my story of the arising of those ancientcommunities called the 'Greek' and the 'Roman,' and of everything laterconnected with them, is not based on my personal investigations, but only onthe information about them that I got from one of the beings of our tribe whochose to remain forever on that planet of yours."In descending to the planet Earth for the sixth and last time, I wasdetermined, at any cost, to elucidate for myself all the genuine reasons whythe psyche of the three-brained beings on that planet, which should be like thepsyche of all the three-brained beings of our Great Universe, had become soexceptionally strange."And having repeatedly confirmed, during my investigations, that thefundamental cause of the various abnormalities in the general psyche ofcontemporary beings was