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

ascooarno of the great twin brothers, this branch of science was not onlyhanded down almost normally in an unchanged form from generation togeneration, but it was gradually worked out in greater detail thanks to theirfollowers, also genuine learned beings, and became accessible to the perceptionof even ordinary beings."And this happened chiefly because they maintained the practice,established by the learned beings of the continent of Atlantis, of handingdown such information to beings of subsequent generations only throughgenuine initiates."Here, my boy, I cannot fail to remark and declare with conviction thatindeed, if this long-established practice had been maintained, evenautomatically, in the process of existence of these unfortunate three-brainedbeings who have taken your fancy, this sum of true information, already thoroughlyassimilated by the Reason of their still 'relatively normal' ancestors,might have remained intact and might have become the inheritance of yourcontemporary favorites, and moreover, those of them who constantly strivenot to become complete victims of the consequences of the organkundabuffer, accursed for them, might have taken advantage of thisinformation with the aim of easing their now almost impossible inner struggle."But to the regret of all more or less conscious, relatively independentIndividuals of our Great Megalocosmos and to the misfortune of all the threebrainedbeings arising on this ill-fated planet of yours, after two or three oftheir centuries that blessing created for them by their great ancestors, thanks totheir conscious labor and intentional suffering, gradually began to be distortedand was ultimately almost totally destroyed."This followed from two causes."The first was that, owing to the same abnormal conditions of externalbeing-existence they themselves established, certain of them becameresponsible beings with that