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

numerous and varied formations are in general produced in Nature."And how a permanent fusion of the active elements in the interior ofproducts is obtained by boiling or roasting them, you will understand clearly ifyou can represent to yourself the process that occurs during the artificialpreparation of 'prosphora.'"Prosphora, or bread, is generally made everywhere by beings who areaware of its sacred significance Only your contemporary favorites prepare itwithout any consciousness of what they do, merely as a practice automaticallytransmitted to them by inheritance."In this bread the crystallization of cosmic substances proceeds, as always,in accordance with the Law of Triamazikamno, whose three holy forces arerepresented by substances from three relatively independent sources, namelythe Holy Affirming, or active principle, is represented by the totality ofcosmic substances composing what your favorites call 'water', the HolyDenying, or passive principle, by the totality of substances composing whatyour favorites call 'flour,' obtained from the divine wheat grain, and the HolyReconciling, or neutralizing principle, by the substances obtained fromburning, or as your favorites say, from 'fire. '"To clarify the idea I expressed about the significance of a permanentfusion of cosmic substances from diverse sources, let us take as an examplethat relatively independent totality of substances which serves as the activeprinciple in the formation of this 'prosphora,' or 'bread'—namely, the totalitywhich your favorites call 'water.'"This relatively independent totality of cosmic substances called 'water' isin itself, one might say, a 'natural mechanical mixture,' and can be preservedonly provided that it keeps its connection with Nature If the link between this'water' and Nature is cut, that is, if a little of this water is taken out