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

the hope that as soon as the highest part of another two-natured arisingperfects itself to the required degree of Reason and undergoes the finalprocess of the sacred rascooarno, and before the rapid disintegration of itskesdjan body is clearly sensed, this first 'highest being-body' might instantlyenter that other kesdjan body and continue to exist in it for its furtherperfecting, a perfecting which sooner or later must inevitably beaccomplished by every arisen 'highest being-body. '"And that is why, in the sphere to which the higher being-parts rise afterthe first sacred rascooarno, that process takes place called the 'okipakhaleviansubstitution of the external part of the soul,' or 'substitution of a new kesdjanbody for the old one. '"Here it might as well be mentioned that your favorites also have arepresentation somewhat similar, as it were, to the 'okipakhaleviansubstitution ' They have even invented very clever names for it,'metempsychosis' and 'reincarnation,' and in the last century have createdaround this question a branch of their famous 'science' which graduallybecame, and still is, one of those minor maleficent factors which in theirtotality are making their Reason, already strange enough without this, alwaysmore and more 'shooroombooroom,' as our dear Mullah Nasr Eddin wouldsay."According to the fantastic theories of this branch of their 'science,' nowcalled 'spiritualism,' they assume among other things that each of themalready has a 'highest being-part' or, as they call it, a 'soul,' and that this soulis constantly undergoing reincarnation—something like this 'okipakhaleviansubstitution' of which I have just spoken."Of course, if these unfortunates were to take into consideration that,according to the second-order cosmic law called 'tenikdoa,' or 'law of gravity,'this being-part, in the rare cases when it does appear in them, rises from thesurface of their planet immediately after the first rascooarno—or as