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

atively independent' crystallizations of different properties or, according totheir expression, 'active elements,' which compose the 'inner ansapalnianoctave' of their own solar system, however, the contemporary 'learnedchemists' there, who are already 'learned beings of new formation of the firstwater,' call them:1 hydrogen2 fluorine3 chlorine4 bromine5 iodine"They have no names at all for the last two definite crystallizations becausethese names did not reach them from their ancestors, and at the present timethey do not even suspect the existence on their planet of these two cosmicsubstances, which are, nevertheless, the principal factors indispensable fortheir own existence."These last two cosmic substances, which remain quite perceptible andaccessible in all spheres of their planet, were still known only about twocenturies ago to beings who were then called 'alchemists,' but whomcontemporary 'comic scientists' call simply 'charlatan occultists,' consideringthem to be merely 'exploiters of human naïveté ' And these substances werecalled by the alchemists 'hydro-oomiak' and 'piotrkarniak. '"And so, my boy, these great terrestrial learned beings, the twin brothersChoon-Kil-Tess and Choon-Tro-Pel, now saints, were the first, after the lossof Atlantis, to lay anew the foundation of this knowledge They not only laidanew the foundation of this 'totality of special information' but they were alsothe first on Earth to ascertain two of the three