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

through inexactitudes in the law-conformable movements of the participants."Let us suppose, for instance, that the leader of the given ceremony, thepriest or, according to contemporaries, the minister, had to raise his armstoward Heaven."This posture of his infallibly demanded, in accordance with the Law ofSevenfoldness, that his feet should be placed in a certain position, but theseBabylonian learned beings intentionally placed the feet of the leader of theceremony not as they would normally be placed in accordance with this law,but 'otherwise. '"And in general it was just in these 'otherwises' that the learned beings ofthis group, by means of a conventional what is called 'alphabet,' indicated inthe postures of the participants in the given religious ceremony the ideas theyintended to transmit to their remote descendants."On Tuesday, the day of architecture, the learned beings belonging to thesecond group brought various models for buildings and other constructionsdesigned to last a very long time."And they planned these buildings not in exact accordance with thestability ensuing from the Law of Sevenfoldness, nor as the beings there weremechanically accustomed to do, but 'otherwise.'"For instance, according to all the data, the cupola of a certain constructionhad to rest on four columns of a certain thickness and definite strength."But they placed this cupola on only three columns, and they calculatedthe reciprocal thrust—or, as it is also expressed, the 'reciprocal resistance'ensuing from the Law of Sevenfoldness for supporting the surplanetaryweight—not from the columns alone, but also from other unusual combinationsensuing from the same Law of Sevenfoldness, which was known tothe mass of ordinary beings of that