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

integral vibration,' or the 'white ray,' during the process of its transformationsabout which I have just spoken and which was already familiar to the learnedBabylonian painters, each of its 'center-of-gravity vibrations' or one of theseparate colors of the 'white ray' always ensues from another and istransformed into a third, for example, the color orange is obtained from red,and in turn passes into yellow, and so on and so forth."So, whenever these learned painters of Babylon made their pictures, orwove or embroidered with colored threads, they arranged the differenttonalities—whether lengthwise or crosswise or at the points of intersection ofthe lines of color—not in the lawful sequence in which this process normallytakes place in accordance with the Law of Sevenfold-ness, but 'otherwise', andit was in these equally lawful 'otherwises' that they placed the substance ofcertain information and knowledge."On Thursday, namely, the day dedicated to sacred and popular dances, thelearned beings of this group presented with the necessary explanations allpossible forms of religious and popular dances, some already in existencewhich they only modified, and other quite new ones created by them."And in order that you should have a better idea and understanding of theway in which they indicated what they wished in these dances, you must knowthat the learned beings of this time had long been aware that, in accordancewith the Law of Sevenfoldness, every posture or movement of any beingalways consists of seven 'mutually balanced' tensions arising in sevenindependent parts of his whole presence, and that each of these seven parts intheir turn consists of seven different what are called 'lines of movement,' andthat each line has seven what are called 'points of dynamic concentration', andfinally that all this is repeated in the same