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

"Moreover, as the beings of the female sex of both these communities thusdeliberately deprived themselves of that part of their presence which isadapted for certain exchanges of cosmic substances, Great Nature did not failto react and began to produce corresponding results, which will assuredly takesuch forms as have already arisen twice on this planet the first time, in thecountry of 'Uneano,' now 'Kafiristan,' where what are called 'Amazons'appeared, and the second time in ancient Greece, where the 'religion of thepoetess Sappho' was founded."Meanwhile, in these two contemporary communities of England andAmerica, the cutting of women's hair has already produced in the first case'suffragettes,' and in the second, what are called 'Christian Scientists' and'theosophists ' Moreover, when this hasnamussian fashion of cutting the hairof female beings became widespread, a proportionate increase was observedeverywhere—as I was informed by the etherogram I received—in what theycall 'women's diseases,' that is, various sorts of inflammation of the sexualorgans, such as 'vaginitis,' 'uteritis,' 'ovaritis,' as well as 'fibrous tumors' and'cancer. '"And so, my boy, although this 'fashion' of cutting the hair of beings of thefemale sex, invented in Paris by beings with hasnamussian properties, did notat first catch on in the community of France, yet, since their capital had becomethe general rendezvous of beings with such properties, who went onspreading this harmful invention, these latter have ultimately succeeded inimplanting it there And so the beings of the female sex in France havelikewise begun to cut their hair, and at the present time this haircutting is infull swing for nearly all of them At the hairdressers in Paris, as I was informedin this etherogram, they have to wait their turn exactly as people did not longago in the community of Russia to receive 'American flour ' And thiscontagious