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

warming, thanks to which the deposits of this 'oily something' could begradually dissolved and eliminated."For this purpose, they then invented those specially equipped rooms thatlater came to be called 'hammams', and they knew so well how to disseminatetheir sense and significance among the beings of the whole continent of Asiathat the need to make use of these rooms for the given procedure wasimplanted in the psyche of all of them."Well, this need of going periodically to the 'hammam' became inherent inthe beings of the continent of Asia and was later transmitted to the beings ofthe community of Russia."As regards this 'oily something' that collects in certain pores of the skin ofyour favorites, I must also tell you the following:"Since the substances composing this 'oily something,' like everything ingeneral existing in our Great Universe, cannot stay long in one and the samestate, they inevitably undergo the processes of evolution and involutionrequired by Great Nature And since during these processes there are given offfrom all 'temporary' or 'transitory' cosmic arisings what are called 'secondaryactive elements,' that is, elements temporarily crystallized by the 'momentumof vibrations' and which, as everyone knows, have the property of beingperceived very 'cacophonously' by the organ of smell of beings, your favoriteson the planet Earth who do not use these 'hammams' always give off aparticular 'rastropoonilo' or, as they themselves say, 'odor,' which even theyconsider 'not altogether pleasant. '"And indeed, my boy, on certain continents there, particularly on thecontinent of Europe, where the custom of going to the 'hammam' is notprevalent, it was very difficult for me as a being with an extremely acute senseof smell to exist among those three-brained beings on account of their'rastropoonilo' or 'specific odor. '