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

ecome a rare luxury on your planet and inaccessible to most of the beingsthere."The only terrestrial beings there who have the possibility of beingsatisfied to repletion are those called 'important power-possessors', indeed, itis precisely these beings who because of their position could do something toeradicate this evil, or at least to diminish it to a certain extent."But these 'important power-possessing beings,' who have the possibilityof filling themselves to satiety and who could perhaps do something towardthis end, in fact do nothing at all for quite other reasons."And the fundamental reason is that same maleficent means fixed in theprocess of their ordinary being-existence which they call 'education '"This maleficent means is applied there to all the young beings duringtheir preparatory age, but especially to those who later on almost alwaysbecome power-possessors."Well then, since these future power-possessors do not make use of thetime intended by Great Nature for the preparation of data for a worthy andresponsible existence, but only waste it in developing in themselves theproperties resulting from this celebrated education—which as a rule onlydictates to them how best to give oneself up to what is called 'self-calming'—when they become responsible and undertake to fulfill responsibleobligations, they naturally have no data at all for manifesting 'logicalreflection,' and prove to be incapable of any impartial relationship with thoseof their fellow-beings who come under their sway by virtue of surroundingconditions."Owing to this abnormal education of theirs, nothing is deposited in themwhich would enable them to reflect and put anything effective into practice,but, on the contrary, many consequences of the properties of the for them accursedorgan kundabuffer—devised by the great Angel, now