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

of nearly perfected brethren, and in spite of the terror which overwhelmedthem, nothing remained for them but to take the necessary steps for bringinghome the planetary body of their chief."In order that you may clearly represent to yourself the real terror of thesituation experienced by these six brothers who were left without their leader,and also understand all the disastrous consequences of this event, I must firstof all tell you, even though briefly, the history of the rise and existence of thissmall group in Tibet, which for centuries had always consisted of seven threebrainedbeings of your planet."This group was formed and existed long before the appearance on theplanet Earth of the last Sacred Individual, Saint Lama."At the very beginning it was composed of seven beings directly initiatedby Saint Krishnatkharna, who was also a Messenger of our Endlessness,specially sent to the three-centered beings of the planet Earth breeding in thecountry of Pearl-land."When Saint Buddha later appeared in Pearl-land, he ascertained that manyof Saint Krishnatkharna's instructions for the psyche of the beings of thatcountry were not yet obsolete, and that, if absorbed by any of them, these instructionscould help destroy those consequences of the properties of the organkundabuffer—to free themselves from which he too had been sent to helpthem, and he therefore decided to make some of these instructions of SaintKrishnatkharna the basis of his own teaching And after these seven beingswho had been directly initiated by Saint Krishnatkharna were shown the aimand necessity of their existence by Saint Buddha and clearly sensed this, andwere convinced that the instructions of Saint Buddha did not at heartcontradict the instructions of Saint Krishnatkharna, but even complementedthem and corresponded more exactly