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

'dervish monasteries' and prohibiting men from wearing the 'fez,' and women,the 'yashmak. '"The first half of the message—about the opening of a university forJewish youths in the city of Jerusalem—made it clear to me that the Christianreligion also had already come to an end."But to understand this, you should know that not so long ago all thecommunities on the continent of Europe, whose inhabitants are for the mostpart followers of this religion, waged their great wars against the followers ofother religions on account of this city of Jerusalem, and they called these warsthe 'Crusades.'"They carried on these 'wars' or 'crusades' for the sole purpose of makingthis city, where the divine teacher Jesus Christ had existed, suffered, and died,exclusively Christian, and during these crusades of theirs nearly half thebeings of male sex of that continent perished."But today in this same city of Jerusalem, they have opened acontemporary university for Jewish youths, almost certainly with the commonconsent of all the European Christian communities."Those people are called 'Jewish' among whom the divine Jesus appearedand existed, and whose beings tortured and crucified him on a cross."Although the present generation of Jews are not outright enemies of JesusChrist, nonetheless each of them now holds the conviction that this Jesus whoappeared among their ancestors and became a sacred personality for all thefollowers of the Christian religion was nothing but an 'impulsive and sickvisionary."Among contemporary beings of the planet Earth, a 'university' is just that'hearth' on which everything acquired by preceding generations during tens ofcenturies is burned, and on this 'hearth' a 'half-day tasty lentil soup' is quicklycooked to take the place of everything attained through cen-