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

'As regards the measures taken by the Great Moses for eradicating thisevil, these I learned not from the incomparable book Tookha Tess Nalool Pan,but from the contents of a very ancient papyrus." 'The contents of this papyrus made it clear that the Great Moses put intopractice the ideas set down on this question in the book Tookha Tess NaloolPan by creating for his people those two religious rites, one of which wascalled "sikt ner tchorn" and the other "tziel pootz kann. "" 'The sacred "sikt ner tchorn" was specially created for boys and thesacred "tziel pootz kann" for girls, their practice was obligatory." 'The rite of "sikt ner tchorn" for instance, was identical with your"sooniat " It consisted in cutting what is called the "vojiano" or the "frenumpenis" of boys, whereby the connection is severed between the head of thegenital member and the skin covering it, thus permitting the free movement ofthis skin or, as it is called, the "prepuce penis."" 'As proven by the information which has come down to us from ancienttimes, and also according to our own common sense, it is plain that the GreatMoses who, as we learned from another source, was a very great authority onmedicine, wished by this means to make sure that, through all kinds ofaccidental contacts, the totality of substances accumulating in the places Ispoke of would of itself be mechanically eliminated, and thus cease tobecome a factor for the arising of that maleficent itching." 'As regards the vast learning of the Great Moses in the province ofmedicine, many diverse historical sources agree that he acquired his medicalknowledge during his stay in Egypt as a pupil of the high priests, to whomthis knowledge had come down from their ancestors of the continent ofAtlantis, those first and last genuinely learned beings of the Earth, themembers of the Society of Akhldanns.