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

'wave of sound vibrations' still resounding at that moment from anycorresponding string of the dzendvokh, then, in passing through this wave, ittook on another color, corresponding to the vibrations produced by the givenstring."Or finally, if a specific colored ray and specific sound vibrations weresimultaneously directed upon any active element of opium from among thosehaving a lower number of vibrations than the sum of the vibrations of thecolored ray and of the sound, then this active element of opium wastransformed into another, the number of whose vibrations correspondedexactly to the sum of the two differently caused vibrations, and so on and soforth."This incomparable experimental apparatus likewise demonstrated that thehigher vibrations of one result always give the direction to the lowervibrations of other 'transitory cosmic results.'"After all you have just been told, my boy, you can now be given thatinformation thanks to which there might be crystallized in your mentationdata for understanding what sort of results proceeded from the tenacious andimpartial conscious labors of these saintly twin brothers, the great terrestrialscientists, and also for understanding the extent to which the being-Reason inthe presence of your unfortunate favorites has progressively deteriorated."And so, for the second time in the course of my observations of theexistence of these three-brained beings who have taken your fancy, therearose in this still quite young China, thanks to the twin brothers, those greatterrestrial scientists, an independent branch of genuine science, that is, the'sum of the information concerning a special question' thoroughly cognized bythe perfected Reason of three-brained beings of earlier epochs, in the givencase, concerning the fundamental cosmic law of the sacredHeptaparaparshinokh, then called the 'Law of Ninefoldness.' And during thefirst two or three centuries after the sacred