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

with honors and 'decorations', and second, they could try to abolish at leastthat famous branch of their 'hasnamussian sciences,' invented by some'pimpled' beings among them, which airily proves that periodic reciprocaldestruction on the Earth is absolutely indispensable, for without it there wouldbe an intolerable overpopulation, causing such economic turbulence that menbeingswould begin eating one another."If they were to succeed in abolishing the first of these two conceptsalready firmly fixed in the process of their abnormal ordinary being-existence,they would destroy forever the greater part of those 'automatic factors' whichpredispose the psyche of the growing generation always to fall into thatparticular state habitual to them during these processes And as for getting ridof the second, this would help to keep at least one of those innumerableidiotic ideas from reaching the beings of future times—ideas which are constantlyarising there and, transmitted from generation to generation asincontestable 'articles of faith,' in large measure cause the formation in theirpresence of certain properties, not one of which is becoming to three-centeredbeings of our Great Megalocosmos Among these properties is the oneinherent in them alone that even makes them 'doubt the existence of divinity',and chiefly because of this doubt there has almost entirely disappeared fromtheir common presence even the possibility of the precipitation of certain datathat should infallibly be deposited in the presence of all three-brained beings,the totality of which engenders in them the impulse called the 'instinctivesensing' of certain cosmic truths that are always felt even by all one-centeredand two-centered beings everywhere in the whole Universe."But to the misfortune of all the other ordinary beings, these importantpower-possessors assembled from the whole of the planet do not occupythemselves with these questions, considering them beneath their dignity.