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

gories according to the degree of their artfulness And it is precisely theirdivision into categories of this kind that leads to further subdivision insubsequent generations, and the assignment of one another into these famous'castes' of theirs."This relegating of one another to castes of different kinds infalliblycrystallizes in the common presence of each of them toward the beingsbelonging to other castes the being-data for what is called 'hatred,' just thosedata which are never found in any other beings in the whole of our Great Universe,and which in turn invariably engender in the common presence of allyour favorites those impulses 'shameful' for three-brained beings, which theycall 'envy,' 'jealousy,' 'adultery,' and many others of the same sort."And so, my boy, these terrifying processes of reciprocal destruction andof the annihilation of everything they have attained ensue partly from thefollowing cause in certain periods, when the action of the cosmic law ofSolioonensius makes itself felt in their common presence, arousing in themthe mentioned need for 'freedom,' then on the one hand, the intensity of actionof the data already inherent in them for constantly engendering the impulse of'timidity' in front of power-possessors automatically diminishes, while on theother hand, the intensity of action of those strange being-data provoking'hatred' toward beings of other castes increases."That is why I said that this subdivision of your favorites into castes—bringing about in its total result these uniquely strange being-data whichmanifest more and more in their functioning and which flow, as you havedoubtless been convinced by everything I have told you, from the conditionsof their abnormal ordinary being-existence—serves chiefly as the secondfactor for the arising of these terrifying processes.