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

for Religion,' and make use of all their cunning to Juggle with the known factsto justify their own egoistic aims And the second mode of behavior ismanifested by certain ordinary beings there who, owing to the fault of their'producers,' have acquired in their common presence, from their very arisingas well as during their preparation for responsible age, the properties called'psychopathy' and 'parasitism'—properties that prevent them from ever havingin themselves any data for the manifestation of any being-duty whatever Sothese ordinary beings become, as it were, 'authorities' on all the trifling detailsof these new religious teachings, and begin to 'peck like crows on a jackal'scarcass' at that totality—already pecked at from the beginning—of all that hadbeen said and indicated by the genuine Sacred Individuals intentionallyactualized from Above."In short, the result of these two forms of behavior, fixed in the process ofthe ordinary existence of the three-brained beings of this planet—namely, thehasnamussian manifestations of the beings of the ruling class and thepsychopathy of certain ordinary beings—is that soon after a religion isfounded, no matter on what doctrines it is based, your favorites always getsplit up into their famous 'sects ' Consequently, in all epochs, the same thingoccurs with religions as with the countless spoken languages on thiscomparatively small planet, which our highly esteemed Mullah Nasr Eddinreferred to as a 'thousand-tongued hydra', and in the present case he woulddoubtless describe it as a 'flood of titillating titillations. '"During the period of my observations of the process of existence of yourfavorites, the germs of these Sacred Individuals were actualized many times inthe common presence of certain beings and, in almost every case—with theexception of the Most Sacred Ashiata Shiemash and everything connectedwith his holy labors—when they had fulfilled the mission imposed on themfrom Above, no sooner