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

of vibrations necessary for the means he had discovered to destroy thishuman curse." 'Thereupon, seeing no other way, he resolved to have recourse to thetreatment employed by the representatives of contemporary Europeanmedicine, which according to their conviction can destroy that disease.'In other words, he decided to have recourse to what are called "X-rays. "" 'So the treatment with X-rays was begun.'In the course of the treatment he noticed that, whereas the principal"concentration" or "center of gravity" of the disease in his wife's body wasbecoming as it were atrophied, at the same time a similar "concentration" wasbeginning to form in a different part other body.'After several months of repeated "sessions," as they are called inEurope, a third independent concentration made its appearance, in stillanother place.'And finally the time came when the days of the invalid were numbered.'Faced with this horror, my young friend decided to abandon all thewiseacring of contemporary European medicine and, without considerationfor his own state, he began to elaborate in himself the necessary vibrationsand to saturate the invalid's body with them.'In spite of almost insurmountable difficulties he succeeded inprolonging the existence of his wife for almost two years, nevertheless shefinally died of that terrible human disease.'It must be added that during the last stage of the illness, when he hadalready given up the wiseacring of European medicine, two new independentconcentrations were observed in the body of his wife.'When my young friend had more or less calmed down after that terribleoutcome, he devoted part of his time to his beloved studies and research onthe great world laws,