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

They all arrived with their entire households at this remote place and in ashort time there was formed on the planet Mars a whole colony of "threecenteredbeings" from various planets of the central part of our Great Universe.This population, so foreign to that planet, accommodated itself little bylittle to its new dwelling place, and to shorten the long years of exile, many ofthem found some occupation or other, either on Mars or on neighboringplanets that had been almost entirely neglected because of their remotenessfrom the Center and the poverty of all their formations.As the years rolled by, many of these exiles, either on their own initiativeor in response to needs of a general character, gradually migrated from Marsto other planets, but Beelzebub himself with his close attendants remained onthe planet Mars, where he organized his existence more or less tolerably.One of his chief occupations was the setting up of an "observatory" on theplanet Mars for the observation of remote points of the Universe as well as ofthe conditions of existence of beings on neighboring planets, and this observatoryof his, by the way, later became well known and even famouseverywhere in the Universe.Although the solar system Ors had been neglected because of its remotenessfrom the Center and for many other reasons, the Most Holy CosmicIndividuals surrounding our Common Father Endlessness had sentMessengers from time to time to the planets of this solar system, to regulatemore or less the process of existence of the three-brained beings arising there,and to bring it into accord with the general world harmony.And thus to one of the planets of this solar system, the planet called"Earth," a Messenger was once sent from our Endlessness—a certain AshiataShiemash And as Beelzebub had fulfilled a special task indispensable to hismission, this