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

forms of manifesting their hasnamussian properties or, as is said there, withnew 'fashions,' which they then spread all over the planet."This hasnamussian practice of 'devising new fashions' existed in formercivilizations also, during the Tikliamishian civilization it nourished under thename of 'adiat,' and in the Babylonian period, under the name of 'haidia.'" 'Adiat,' 'haidia,' or 'fashion' consists in devising new means of beingmanifestationfor ordinary existence, and various methods of changing anddisguising the reality of one's presence.'Adiat,' 'haidia,' or 'fashion' play the same role in their daily beingexistenceas those customs of ours which are established to alleviate theinevitable external conditions independent of beings, customs that graduallyenter into use everywhere as an essential need These contemporary customs or'fashions' of theirs, on the other hand, are first merely temporary and serveonly for the satisfaction of the insignificant personal aims of these present andfuture hasnamusses, which have become utterly abnormal and triviallyegoistic, and second, they are neither more nor less than the results ofautomatic reasoning based on relative notions flowing from the abnormallyestablished conditions of ordinary being-existence there."And so about half a century ago, in this city of Paris, certain candidatesfor hasnamuss invented the fashion for beings of the female sex to wear theirhair short, and this maleficent invention of theirs spread like wildfire by theusual well-proven ways and means."However, as at that period the feelings of 'morality' and 'patriarchality'were still very strong in the beings of the female sex of the community ofFrance, they did not adopt this harmful invention, it was the beings of thefemale sex of England and America who adopted it, and began cutting theirhair.