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

for him in the process of his personal existence, but for all the other beingsaround him, there is harvested from this an abundance of just fruits—just,that is, in the objective sense. And that is why I wish to tell you about this inas much detail as possible, and will even try to repeat what he said, word forword."He gave this account not long before our departure from this undergrounddomain, that is, from the place that convinced me that the results attained bythe Reason of former three-brained beings have not been entirely lost even onyour planet Although the subsequent generations of the beings of this peculiarplanet, on account of their abnormal being-existence, have ceased totransmute in themselves the cosmic truths discovered by their ancestors, andalthough these truths have not progressed there as they do everywhere else,nevertheless they are automatically concentrated in that strange undergroundkingdom of your planet, to await further development and perfecting byfuture three-brained beings."Well then, when I asked the venerable Hadji Asvatz Troov about themethods of obtaining the gas and electric lighting in this undergroundkingdom of his, he related the following:" 'These two kinds of lighting have entirely different origins, and each ofthem has its own separate story." 'Gas lighting existed here almost from the very beginning, and wasinstalled on my initiative and that of my old friend, the dervish Kerbalai AzisNooaran." 'As for the electric lighting, it was brought here quite recently, on theinitiative of another friend of mine of European origin, who is still a youngman." 'I think it will be better if I tell you the story of each kind of lightingseparately." 'I will begin with the gas lighting.