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

preparations of this sort necessary every day and for every separate occasion .. . one could only wish to be spared such a merciless fate!"I personally, at least, would not under any conditions wish to be in theskin of such a terrestrial emperor or tsar, and would wish it neither for myworst enemy nor for the enemies of my closest kin."Soon after this unforgettable 'supreme presentation' of mine I left StPetersburg, and thereafter the chief places of my existence were various citieson the continent of Europe as well as on other continents Later, but for otheraffairs, I often returned to the community of Russia, where during that periodof the flow of time their 'great process of reciprocal destruction' and the'annihilation of everything already attained by them' was taking place—aprocess which this time, as I told you, they called 'Bolshevism. '"You remember, I promised to tell you about the real fundamental causesof this arch-phenomenal process."Well then, as I have already mentioned, this grievous phenomenon arisesthere as a result of two independent factors, the first being the cosmic law ofSolioonensius, and the second, as always, those same abnormal conditions ofordinary being-existence established by them themselves."In order that you should understand better both these factors, I willexplain to you each of them separately, and will begin with the cosmic law ofSolioonensius."First of all you must be told that all the three-brained beings, on whateverplanet they arise and whatever exterior coating they receive, always await themanifestations of the action of this law with impatience and joy, somewhat asyour favorites look forward to their feasts of 'Easter,' 'Bairam,' 'Zadik,''Ramadan,' 'Kaialana,' and others."The only difference is that your favorites look forward to these feasts oftheirs with impatience because on these