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

selves to that profession, namely, to the fulfillment of this high being-dutyvoluntarily taken upon themselves, gradually degenerated like everything elseon that strange planet, and became extremely peculiar."And nowadays, when the functioning of the planetary body of one of yourfavorites becomes impaired in this or that respect, and he can no longer fulfillhis being-obligations, these contemporary 'physicians' are indeed called in tohelp, and, no question about it, these physicians do sometimes come, but howthey help and how their essence is manifested in the discharge of theirobligations, precisely here, as our highly esteemed Mullah Nasr Eddin says,'the dead camel of the merchant Vermassan Zeroonan Alaram is buried.'"You should know first of all that these contemporary professionals are forthe most part those who during the period of their preparation to beresponsible beings succeed in 'stuffing' themselves with quantities ofmiscellaneous information concerning the means for getting rid of everypossible kind of what are called 'illnesses,' means which, on that planet, oldwomen in their dotage have always prescribed and used for this purpose."Among these means for getting rid of their illnesses are various remediesexisting under the name of 'medicines. '"And when one of the young beings becomes a responsible professional,and other beings apply to him for help, he prescribes precisely these remedies."Here it will be very useful for the development of your Reason if a'logicnestarian implantation' is added to your common presence, based oninformation concerning one very peculiar property acquired in the psyche ofthese contemporary professionals of the planet Earth."This peculiar psychic property is acquired by those terrestrialprofessionals as soon as they receive the title of