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

of this community began to gain the upper hand everywhere and in everything."Although the former heads of this community and also that being whohad hit upon the secret of 'ksvatznell' perished long ago, subsequentgenerations continued, automatically of course, to employ this 'secret,' andgradually not only took over almost the whole of Pearl-land but alsosubordinated to their influence the very essence of all the beings breeding onthat part of the planet Earth."During the period referred to in my tale concerning the destruction bycontemporary beings of the labors of Saint Lama, despite the passage of twocenturies, everything went on in the same way."The recent heads of that mentioned European community who, thanksonly to the secret of 'ksvatznell,' had had the luck gradually to subordinateeverything to their influence and to take it all into their hands, were proud oftheir success and wanted to lay their 'paws' even on that which until then hadbeen considered unattainable."In other words, they decided to take possession of that neighboringcountry called 'Tibet,' then held to be inaccessible And so, one fine day—'fine' for them, but a 'sorry day' for all the rest of the beings of that planet—they gathered together many beings of their community, and still more fromthe small local communities they had already conquered, and with the help ofevery new invention of contemporary 'European civilization' for the processof reciprocal destruction, they began very quietly moving up toward thiscountry hitherto considered inaccessible."In spite of the help of all these 'new European inventions,' this movementof theirs up the heights of this country was very difficult, and cost themdearly, not only in what they call 'pounds sterling' but also in what they call'casualties. '"While this assemblage of terrestrial three-brained beings