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

"At the present time, very many of these monasteries exist there, and thelarge number of monks who enter them do indeed strictly abstain from theejection, in the habitual way, of the 'being-exioëhary,' or 'sperm,' formed inthem, but of course this abstinence of theirs never gives any sensible resultAnd this is because the thought never enters the heads of these haplesscontemporary 'monks' that, although it is indeed possible to perfectthemselves by means of this substance, this can proceed only if the secondand third being-foods are intentionally absorbed and consciously digested inone's presence, which is possible only for one who has already accustomed allthe parts of his presence to fulfill consciously both 'sacred beingpartkdolgduties,'that is, 'conscious labor' and 'intentional suffering.'"It is, however, unjust to say that no 'sensible result' at all is obtained bythese monks. They have even obtained 'sensible results' of two independentkinds."So that you may understand why the abstinence of these contemporarymonks produces two different kinds of results, I must tell you once more that,in accordance with the fundamental, sacred cosmic law ofHeptaparaparshinokh, if any formation, large or small, existing in ourMegalocosmos fails to receive, in the process of its evolution, correspondinghelp from outside at the time of its passing through both mdnel-ins of thesacred Heptaparaparshinokh, it begins to involve back to the state from whichit began its evolution."It is the same, of course, for the definite cosmic substances formed in thepresences of these terrestrial abstaining monks."And so, my boy, since these terrestrial monks, particularly thecontemporary ones, do not intentionally help the further evolution of thissubstance inevitably formed in them from the constant use of the first beingfood—thatis, they do not actualize being-partkdolgduty in their commonpresences, intentionally or even automatically—and since at the