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

common presence for transformation are, for them just as for us, a threefoldbeing-food."In other words, those substances which, on the path of their returningevolutionary ascent toward the Most Holy Protocosmos from the sacred'ashagiprotoëhary'—that is, from the last stopinder of the fundamental sacredHeptaparaparshinokh—are converted with the aid of their own planet intohigher corresponding surplanetary formations, enter the three-brained beingsfor further transformation as their 'first being-food,' namely, their ordinary'food' and 'drink. '"The 'second-sourced' substances, arising from the transformations of theirown sun and of all the other planets of their solar system, and which penetratethe atmosphere of their planet through the radiations of the latter, enter intothem for further evolutionary transformation, again just as with us, as the'second being-food,' which is, as they say, the 'air' they breathe, and it is thesesubstances in the air that serve for the coating and maintenance of theexistence of their 'second being-body. '"Finally, the substances of the 'first source' which, for them as well as forus, are a third kind of being-food serve for the coating and perfecting of the'highest being-body' itself."But alas, it was in relation to these sacred cosmic substances that thosesorrowful results occurred and continue to occur among your unfortunatefavorites from all the abnormalities established by them in the ordinaryprocess of their being-existence."Although these sacred substances of the higher being-food have neverceased to enter into them, they enter, particularly in contemporary beings,only spontaneously, without any participation of their conscious intention, andonly in the amount required for the transformations pro-