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

that is, soon after the destruction of the organ kundabuffer in the three-brainedbeings breeding on this planet of yours, they knew about these two higherbeing-foods and made use of them with conscious intention, and certainbeings of the continent of Atlantis, during its final period, even considered theprocess of the absorption of these higher being-foods as the chief aim of theirexistence."The beings of the continent of Atlantis then named the second being-food'amarloos,' which meant 'help for the moon,' and they named the third beingfoodthe sacred 'amarkhoodan,' which signified for them 'help for God.'"As regards the absence in the psyche of your contemporary favorites of aconscious need of absorbing these higher sacred cosmic substances, I wish todraw your attention to one very important consequence, very sorrowful forthem."The fact is that when they ceased to absorb intentionally the cosmicsubstances necessary for the arising and existence of the higher being-parts,the very striving for self-perfection disappeared from their common presence,as well as the capacity for what is called 'intentional contemplation,' which isthe principal factor for the assimilation of those sacred cosmic substances Sofrom then on, in order to make sure that the required quantity of thesesubstances would enter them and be assimilated, Nature gradually had toadapt herself and arrange that, in the course of the whole process of theirexistence, such 'unexpectednesses' should occur to each of them as are not atall proper to occur to any three-brained being of our Great Megalocosmos."And poor Nature had to adapt herself to this abnormality so that, due tothese unexpectednesses, certain intense being-experiencings and activedeliberations might proceed in them automatically, independently of themthemselves, and so that, due to these active deliberations, the required trans-