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

of the organ called 'kundabuffer'—about which, it now seems, I shall have toexplain to you even in great detail— called it 'Kimespai,' which meant 'neverallowing one to sleep in peace. '"The contemporary three-brained beings of this peculiar planet do notknow about this former fragment, chiefly because its comparatively smallsize and its remoteness make it quite invisible to them, and also because no'grandmother' ever told them that once upon a time any such little 'satellite' oftheir planet had been known."And if one of them should by chance catch sight of it through thatexcellent yet childish toy of theirs called a 'telescope,' he would pay noattention to it, simply mistaking it for a big 'aerolite.'"Contemporary beings will probably never see it again, since it has becomeproper to their nature to see only unreality."Let us give them their due, during recent centuries they have indeed most'artistically' mechanized themselves to see nothing real."So, my boy, in due course there began to appear on the planet Earth'similitudes of the Whole' or, as they are also called, 'microcosmoses,' andfrom these micro-cosmoses were formed 'oduristolnian' and 'polormedekhtic'vegetation."Still later, these microcosmoses began to be grouped, as usually occurs,into various forms of what are called 'tetartocosmoses' of all three-brainsystemsAnd among them arose for the first time just those bipedtetartocosmoses whom, a little while ago, you called 'slugs. '"Some other time I will fully explain to you why and how, during thetransition of the fundamental sacred laws into the ilnosoparnian process,similitudes of the Whole arise on planets, and what factors contribute to theformation of