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

verse—and, for certain of them, have rendered their fantastically haphazardexistence somewhat more tolerable in the objective sense."Namely, I shall describe how there is actually now proceeding the final'dispatch' of two of the five great religions I mentioned, which were founded,though 'from bits here and there,' nevertheless on the teachings of genuineMessengers of our Endlessness Himself the one, on the teaching of SaintJesus, and the other, on the teaching of Saint Muhammad."I repeat that these great religions were founded on bits taken here andthere from the teachings of two genuine Messengers of His Endlessness and,although the three-brained beings of former centuries stripped both theseteachings, as 'the Russian Sidor stripped his goats,' nevertheless it was owingto these teachings that some of them, even down to the present time, believedin something and hoped for something, whereby their desolate existence wasmade a little more bearable."But these contemporary, arch-strange three-brained beings there havetaken it upon themselves to sweep even these last traces off the face of theirplanet."Although this process arising from the strangeness of their psyche,namely, the process of the final destruction of these two great religions, beganafter my departure from their solar system, nevertheless, thanks to anetherogram about the beings of that peculiar planet which I received justbefore our flight from the planet Karatas, I understand what is going on thereand can now say with complete conviction that they will not stop at strippingthem, but without further ado will entirely destroy their last traces."This etherogram, by the way, informed me that on your planet, first, auniversity for Jewish youths was being opened in the city of Jerusalem, andsecond, an order had been promulgated in the community of Turkey closingall the