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

thanks to various fortuitous circumstances, had become the happy possessorsof large amounts of what have become for the strange psyche of yourcontemporary favorites the objects of their dreams and which everywhere arecalled 'dollars,' then, as is usual for them, in the 'being-picturings' of thebeings of all other continents they acquired what is called 'a sense ofsuperiority', and as a result of this, as is also usual for them, they began towiseacre to achieve that contemporary ideal I spoke of—and they alsowiseacred with all their might with this divine gram from which 'prosphora' ismade."They employed every possible means to, so to say, 'deform' this divinegram in order to give its product a 'beautiful and striking appearance.'"For this purpose they invented all sorts of machines by means of whichthey 'scrape,' 'comb,' 'smooth,' and 'polish' this wheat that has the misfortuneto arise on their continent, until they bring about the complete destruction ofall those 'active elements' concentrated on the surface of the grain justunderneath what is called the 'husk,' and which are precisely what GreatNature designed for renewing in the common presence of three-brained beingswhat they have expended in worthily serving her."Hence it is, my boy, that the prosphora, or bread, made from the wheatthat arises in such abundance on this continent now contains nothing usefulfor the beings who consume it, and from its consumption there is produced intheir presences nothing but noxious gases and what are called there 'intestinalworms.'"However, it must be remarked, in all fairness, that if they get nothing fromthis wheat for serving Great Nature better or more consciously, at least, byproducing these worms in themselves, they unconsciously greatly assist theirplanet in honorable service to the Most Great Common-CosmicTrogoautoegocrat For are not these worms also