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

not used by individual beings, passed automatically, as with us, into thepossession of meritorious beings around them."But later, as I have already said, when most of them began to exist in amanner unbecoming to three-brained beings, Great Nature was constrained tochange their 'fulasmtamnian existence' into an existence according to theprinciple of itoklanotz And from then on, in the presence of most of them,owing to their abnormal being-existence, those definite crystallizationsforeseen by Great Nature which compose the most important part of thesecond being-food and which, when assimilated by beings, are transformedinto substances for the coating and perfecting of their 'kesdjan body,'gradually ceased to be assimilated either consciously or automatically for thispurpose And since these substances, transformed in other cosmicconcentrations, kept on flowing all the time into the atmosphere of theirplanet, there arose in recent centuries among your unfortunate favorites yetanother new 'disease' with a specially harmful action upon them."The point is that, not being used up for their predetermined purpose, thesedefinite cosmic crystallizations, in the course of displacements of theatmosphere, concentrate in certain atmospheric strata and enter into yourfavorites, from time to time, in accordance with external surrounding conditionsas well as with the inner state of their common presence, which by theway depends chiefly on the form of their mutual relationships And so thesecosmic crystallizations enter into them as into apparatuses foreordained byNature for the transformation of cosmic substances needed for serving theaims of the Most Great Common-Cosmic Trogoautoegocrat and, not meetingwith 'substrata' that correspond to the requirements of the lawful process of'djartklom,' and thanks to other accidental factors, these crystallizations,during their subsequent evolutionary or involutionary transformations intonew crystallizations proper