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

empty words without an atom of what is called the 'result of an innerbenevolent impulse,' such as generally arises in the presence of all beings onmeeting others like themselves."Nowadays, however much one being may inwardly wish another well, iffor some reason he were to express himself to the other in wordsconventionally regarded as not 'good form,' then all is over between them: inall the separate, spiritualized localizations of the one to whom he spoke, dataare invariably crystallized which by association engender in him theconviction that he who in fact inwardly wishes him well exists only to do himevery possible kind of villainy."So, particularly in recent times, it has become indispensable there to knowall the different forms of verbal address, if one wishes to have friends and notmake enemies for oneself."The abnormal existence of these strange three-brained beings has not onlyspoiled their own psyche but, by repercussion, has also gradually spoiled thepsyche of almost all the terrestrial one-brained and two-brained beings."The data giving rise to the inner being-impulse I mentioned are no longerformed in the presences of those terrestrial one-brained or two-brained beingswith which your favorites have long had and still have frequent contact andrelations."It is true that these being-data still arise in the presences of certainterrestrial one-brained and two-brained beings of different exterior forms, forexample, those they call 'tigers,' 'lions,' 'bears,' 'hyenas,' 'snakes,' 'phalanges,''scorpions,' and so on, whose mode of existence has never brought them intocontact with these biped favorites of yours. Yet, owing to the abnormallyestablished conditions of the ordinary existence of your favorites, one strangeand highly interesting feature has already been formed in the commonpresences of the beings I mentioned, which is, that these tigers, lions,