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

them—for instance, geographical, hereditary, and religious conditions andeven the quality of nourishment and the 'quality of reciprocal influences,' andso on and so forth."Your contemporary favorites, of course, cannot understand that howeverhard these ancient Greeks tried, or so to say 'however conscientious theirattitude toward this matter,' they could not, with all their wish, find in thedivision of the octave of sound into distinct tones either more or less thanthese five whole tones, since the totality of all the inner and outer conditionsnot depending on them gave them no other possibility, during their chanting,than to rely on their five 'restorials of the voice. ''Restorials,' or 'center-of-gravity sounds in the voices of beings,' arethose tones which, during the production of different sounds by theircorresponding organs—in accordance with properties fixed in them as aresult of hereditary and of acquired faculties, and depending on the generalfunctioning of their presence—the beings manifest freely, easily, and for along time, without evoking any tension whatever in their other separatefunctionings In other words, 'restorials' are obtained when the tempo of theresult of this manifestation of theirs fully harmonizes with other functioningsof their common presence, whose tempo is already fixed in them thanks to allthe inner and outer conditions of their ordinary being-existence."Owing to the various conditions of local character, and also to varioushereditary qualities, different 'restorials,' or 'center-of-gravity sounds of thevoice,' are formed in beings of almost every group or geographical region,and hence the division of the octave into whole tones among beings whobreed on different parts of the surface of the planet is quite different."At the present time there, groups exist among your favorites which havethe capacity to produce the 'center-of-gravity sounds' of an octave of soundnot only in five or