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

tunes of the conscious and unconscious efforts and labors of their unfortunateancestors."This is quite enough to convince me in my whole being of what willeventually become of this Jerusalem, now that they have opened one of theirfamous universities there and, moreover, for Jewish youths."I already see in my mind's eye that, before many of their years havepassed, on the spot where the planetary body of the divine Jesus was buriedthere will be a parking lot for contemporary cars, that is, a place for those'mechanical marvels' which were just what was needed to drive the contemporarybeings insane."Indeed, these sacrilegious beings have not only gradually distorted thedoctrine of this divine teacher for their egoistic and political aims, but they arenow destroying even his memory."But after all, this has long been the style of your favorites."I may say in passing that the whole of contemporary 'civilization' theretends only to increase the speed of this machine they have invented, which isso maleficent for them."In fact, in the last etherogram I received about your favorites I wasinformed among other things that they had already established with one ofthese machines a 'record speed' of 325 miles an hour."Of course, the only result of such a 'record' will be that the already rathermeager size of their ill-fated planet will become completely trifling, even totheir bob-tailed being-picturings of reality."Well, may the Lord Creator be with them, my boy!"Whatever speed they attain with these 'machines' of theirs, all the same, aslong as they remain as they are, neither they themselves nor even their thoughtwill ever go beyond their atmosphere."Now as regards the second great religion which, as I have already toldyou, was founded upon 'bits here and bits