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

sexes, representing two opposite forces of the sacred Triamazikamno—afusion taking place during the satisfaction of that function of theirs which,thanks to the 'inheritance' from the ancient Romans, has become the chief viceof contemporary three-brained beings."I must remark, my boy, with sadness, that this depraved tendency, alreadyfirmly fixed in their common presence is, particularly for your contemporaryfavorites, a means of automatically destroying to their very root even thoseimpulses that on rare occasions give rise to manifestations worthy of threebrainedbeings, and evoke in them what is called the 'thirst for Being. '"I repeat, my boy, not only have these favorites of yours, particularly thecontemporary ones, ceased to make conscious use of these sacred substances,inevitably formed in them, for the coating and perfecting of their 'higher parts'and for the fulfillment of that being-duty foreseen by Nature which consists inthe continuation of their species, but when this latter does accidentally occur,they regard it as a great misfortune for themselves, because its consequencesmust for a certain time hinder the free gratification of the many and variousvices fixed in their essence"And so in consequence of this, particularly at the present time, they strivewith their whole presence and by every means to prevent the actualization ofthis involuntary and accidental, yet sacred, manifestation foreseen by GreatNature ."In the last few centuries there, a great many of them, in whom data for allkinds of 'hasnamussian properties' were more strongly crystallized than inothers, even became specialists in aiding the destruction of theseunintentionally actualized sacred being-fulfillments, and these specialists arecalled 'makers of angels. '"Yet this 'being-act,' which your favorites have turned