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

these two chief motors of their existence are already tending towardregression, I think that here also, as generally takes place with everything inthe Megalocosmos, the further movement toward blending again with theInfinite will depend on the direction and intensity of the forces generated bythe initial impetus."In our Great Megalocosmos, it is even considered a law for all beings withReason that one must always and in everything guard against the initialimpetus, because on acquiring momentum, it becomes a force which is thefundamental mover of everything existing in the Universe, leading everythingback to Prime Being. "Just then Beelzebub was handed a "leitoochanbros," and when he had finishedlistening to its contents he turned again to Hassein and said:"I think, my boy, that you will be able to have a clearer representation andunderstanding of the strangeness of the psyche of these three-brained beingswho please you and who arise on the planet Earth, if I explain to you in somewhatgreater detail the causes of the disharmony in both these fundamentalfunctionings in the common presence of these American three-brained beings."For convenience of exposition I shall explain separately the causes of thedisharmony in each of these fundamental functionings, and I shall begin withthe causes of the disharmony in the functioning of the transformation of their'first being-food' or, as they themselves would say, the 'causes of the spoilingof their stomachs.'"The disharmony of this functioning has several specific causes,comprehensible even to the normal Reason of ordinary three-brained beings,but the most important is that from the very beginning of the formation of theircommunity, they gradually got accustomed—owing to all kinds ofsurrounding conditions and influences, proceeding from