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

ments' corning from the transformation of substances of various cosmicconcentrations belonging to other 'solar systems' of our commonMegalocosmos."The surplanetary formation known on your planet by the name of 'poppy'belongs to the class of polormedekhtic arisings, and through it there evolves orinvolves the totality of results of the transformation of all other 'cosmic centerof-gravityconcentrations' penetrating the atmosphere of this planet of yoursthrough the common-cosmic process of what is called the 'universal diffusionof the radiations of all kinds of cosmic concentrations."And so, my boy, after these two great terrestrial learned beings, Choon-Kil-Tess and Choon-Tro-Pel, were more or less settled in their new place ofpermanent existence in that still quite young China, they resumed theintentional fulfillment—interrupted through no fault of theirs—of beingpartkdolgdutyin the professional field chosen for their responsible existence,namely, scientific research in the branch called 'medicine. '"They then undertook a study of the totality of cosmic substances whichyour favorites had long since learned to extract from that polormedekhtic plantand had named 'opium,' a word denoting in the language of the beings of thatgroup, 'dream-maker. '"These two great brothers began to investigate this opium because they, aswell as many other three-brained beings of that time, noticed that onintroducing a certain preparation of this substance into themselves, everypainful sensation temporarily disappeared."First of all, they set out to study the action of all its properties in the hopeof finding one property by means of which to eradicate or at least bring undercontrol the special form of 'psychic illness' which was then very widespreadamong the refugees around them.