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

science, to create for his 'oskiano' every kind of inner and outer factor forperceiving corresponding impressions, in order to crystallize in his commonpresence all those data which alone, in their totality, can give to the threebrainedbeing when he reaches responsible age the 'power' to be'svolibroonolnian' or, as your favorites would say, the 'power not to beidentified with and not to be affected by externals through one's inevitablyinherent passions ' And it is solely this being-impulse, engendered in the beingby these data, that can help him to attain a free and impartial observation of alltrue phenomena appearing in the cosmic results around him."Here it is appropriate to remark that on most planets of our Megalocosmoswhere three-brained beings arise and exist, there is an oft-repeated saying,formulated in the following words:" 'Our Common Father Endlessness is only the Creator of a three-centeredbeing But the genuine creator of his essence during the period of hispreparatory existence is his "oskianotsner" '—that is, he whom your favoriteson the planet Earth call 'educator' or 'teacher. '"And so it sometimes happens, even during the last few centuries, that oneof your favorites who has reached responsible age, having been completelyformed and prepared for external perceptions in the way I described, discoversby chance a certain law-conformable particularity in the cosmic results aroundhim and begins to study it in detail and from every aspect, and havingultimately, after long persevering labors, attained to some objective truth, heinitiates similar beings around him into this truth."Now, my boy, listen while I tell you how these peculiar three-brainedbeings first became aware of the fundamental cosmic law of the sacredHeptaparaparshinokh, and how the totality of information concerning thisknowledge possessed by certain beings of ancient times was actualized in allits