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

tively they should be—but on the contrary, under the action of this kind ofconsonance, with a total lack of remorse and even with an impulse ofsatisfaction, they intentionally maintain in themselves the flowing of thoseassociations that arise in their common presence in all their spiritualized partsunder the influence of data crystallized in them from the consequences of theproperties of that accursed organ kundabuffer."After that practical demonstration on the piano, you will have, I am sure,not only an approximate representation of what is called the 'flow of centerof-gravityvibrations issuing one from the other and blending harmoniously,'but you will realize once more with an impulse of astonishment the extent ofthe weakening in the common presence of your favorites of the essentialaction of the being-data which in general should be crystallized in thepresence of all three-brained beings, and which taken as a whole are called'subtlety of instinct.'"And so, my boy, thanks on the one hand to the inevitable deterioration inthe common presence of these three-brained beings who have taken yourfancy of the quality of functioning of all the data crystallized in them for asane being-mentation, and on the other hand to the ever-increasing number ofthose among them who become responsible beings of a new type, that is tosay, 'learned beings of new formation,' the contemporary three-brained beingsinherited nothing of this whole body of detailed information— thoroughlycognized by the Reason of former beings similar to them and almostunprecedented in the Universe, and utilized today for the welfare of ordinarythree-brained beings on all the planets of our Great Megalocosmos with thesole exception of that planet on which it arose—nothing, I say, but what ouralways esteemed Mullah Nasr Eddin expresses in the following words:" 'Glory be to Thee, Lord Creator, for having made the