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

cause of these terrifying planetary processes and only by chance happen tooccupy positions which compel them, on account of the establishedconditions of mutual existence, to manifest themselves in one role or anotherAnd the results of these roles take one form or another, with a rigorousconformity to law entirely independent of them themselves."At the height of this last process of theirs, namely, Russian Bolshevism,beings of other communities were sincerely indignant on learning that thosewho by chance had become as it were 'active' in this distressing process weregiving orders to other ordinary beings to shoot some Tom, Dick, or Harry."To clarify my further explanations about these terrifying processes, I musttell you that this last process is still going on today on a large area of thesurface of this ill-fated planet, and also that during recent times these favoritesof yours have very greatly increased in number Thus if we compare therelative number of three-brained beings destroyed in the last process with thatof earlier processes, the current one will indeed seem 'child's play. '"In order that you may understand this better, and be able to compare thoseformer processes with contemporary Bolshevism, I will now describe to you acouple of little scenes from ancient history, from, let us say, that Egypt I havejust mentioned."In one of the intervals between dynasties of these Egyptian pharaohs orkings, when a process similar to this contemporary Bolshevism was takingplace in Egypt, the governing committee of the revolutionaries announced,among other things, to all the population of that country, that 'elections' wouldsoon be held for the chiefs of large and small centers or, as they say, 'towns'and 'villages,' and that these elections would be carried out according to thefollowing principle."Those would be elected as chiefs of the towns and villages