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

"And so, my boy, this astonishing apparatus, alla-attapan, demonstrated thatall three 'transitory results' of cosmic processes I have just been speaking ofnot only are alike in their inner manifestations, but are also made up of thesame factors."By means of this apparatus it was possible to verify and demonstrate thatin each of the three transitory results of common-cosmic processes havingoutwardly nothing in common, exactly the same reciprocal actions take place,ensuing each from the other to constitute one common functioning, and that asregards the evolutionary and involutionary properties of the Law ofHeptaparaparshinokh, the action at any separate intermediate stage in the totalfunctioning of one of these results influences the action at each separateintermediate stage in another, exactly as in its own functioning, andfurthermore that with respect to the properties of the vibrations of which theyare constituted, these transitory cosmic results have complete affinity."This complete affinity in the inner reciprocal relations of these threetransitory results which have outwardly nothing in common was proved in thefollowing way:"For example, a colored ray directed upon an active element of opiumtransformed it into another active element corresponding in its newly acquiredvibrations to those of the colored ray which had acted upon it."And if, instead of the colored ray, corresponding vibrations of sound fromthe strings of the dzendvokh were directed upon this same active element, thesame result was obtained."Further, if any colored ray was made to pass through any active element ofopium, then, in passing through it, this same ray took on another color,namely, that color whose vibrations corresponded to those of this active element,or if any colored ray was made to pass through the