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

ecome what is called the 'resultant decomposing force,' counterbalancing the'resultant creative force' of Nature."And indeed, my boy, it is only owing to the 'sciences' concocted bycertain beings of contemporary Germany that the other three-brained beingsbelonging to all communities have in their turn acquired the possibility of'inventing ' And almost every day, now here now there, they think up some'new invention' or 'new means' which they employ in the process of theirexistence, and they have brought it about that poor Nature there—alreadyenfeebled without this through no fault other own—is scarcely able toactualize her 'evolutionary' and 'involutionary' processes."In order that you may clearly understand how these contemporary'beneficiaries' have surpassed their 'benefactors,' I must now tell you alsoabout certain 'means,' widely used there at the present time, which owe theirexistence exclusively to these 'Nature-helping' heirs of the ancient Greeks."I will describe certain of these means, now existing and in useeverywhere there which have been invented by the beings of thatcontemporary community of Germany."I should like to point out, by the way, one very odd phenomenon, whichis that these contemporary successors of the ancient Greeks give names totheir maleficent inventions which for some reason or other all end in 'me.'"Let us take for example, among the many particularly harmful inventionsof the German beings, just those five what are called 'chemical substances'now existing under the names of 'satkaine,' 'aniline,' cocaine,' 'atropine,' and'alizarine,' all of which are used there at the present time by the beings of allthe continents and islands on that planet even, as our dear Mullah Nasr Eddinsays, 'without economizing.'"The first of these 'means, specially invented by the German beings,namely 'satkaine,' is nothing other than 'samookoorooazar,' that is, one of theseven 'neutralizing gases' that arise and are always to be found in the commonpresence.