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

of these two primordial sacred laws, and He made the greater change in thelaw of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh."This change in the functioning of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokhconsisted in the alteration of what is called the 'subjective action' of three ofits 'stopinders.' In one He lengthened the law-conformable duration, inanother He shortened it, and in a third, disharmonized it."To provide the stopinder between the third and fourth 'points ofdeflection' with the required property of absorbing for its functioning theautomatic inflow of all surrounding forces, He prolonged its duration."And this is the stopinder of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh which is stillcalled the 'mechano-coinciding mdnelin. '"And the stopinder that He shortened is between the last 'point ofdeflection' and the beginning of a new cycle of the completing process of thissacred law By this shortening, in order to facilitate the beginning of a newcycle, He predetermined that the functioning of this stopinder would dependsolely upon the influx through that stopinder of external forces resulting fromthe action of that cosmic concentration itself in which the completing processof this primordial sacred law is flowing."And this stopinder of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh is the one that isstill called the 'intentionally actualized mdnelin. '"As regards the third stopinder which was changed in its subjective actionand which is fifth in the series and called 'harnel-aoot,' its disharmony cameabout by itself, simply as a result of the change of the other two stopinders."This disharmony of its subjective functioning, resulting from its'asymmetry' in relation to the whole process of the sacredHeptaparaparshinokh, consists in the following:"If the completing process of this sacred law flows in conditions in whichit is subject to many 'extraneously'