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and results. Why? Because our aim is to find an objective definition ofright and wrong and to understand it. And although we have notcome to a full understanding, we can, maybe, begin to understand alittle.I have spoken before about different triads. I said that differentactivities depend on different triads. One kind of activity means onekind of triad, another kind of activity means another kind of triad. Artrequires a certain triad, criminal activity means quite a different triad,etc. In art one must be able to use a certain particular triad or else itwill not be art. In another case, if you use a certain particular triad ofanother kind your work is bound to be criminal.Take two simple examples in order to try and understand this. Inorder to build a house, at every moment effort is needed, every singlebrick must be put into place by effort; no triad passes from one toanother without effort. At last the house is built and furnished. Then,if you want to burn it, you just strike a match and burn it. From theordinary point of view people do not understand that the two activitiesare totally different. In the second case one triad passes to anotherwithout any effort. This kind of triad needs only a very small initialeffort.Neither the one nor the other triad can make a picture. This meansthat in order to paint a good picture one must be able to use a differenttriad; something else is needed.When we understand this, we shall understand what crime means.Crime needs a definite triad, and this triad will always produce crime.There is a very limited number of fundamental triads—six triads(the seventh is incomprehensible for us). These six triads create all thephenomena of our life. If you take phenomena given in diagrams, I saidthat we can study octaves in them. And occasionally we can also seeoctaves in phenomena of human activity. The same applies to triads.There are only six types of triads:1-2-3 1-3-22-1-3 2-3-13-2-1 3-1-2Triads can be divided according to the force by which they begin,and they can also be divided according to the force by which they end.Take the triads that end with 2. It means that the result is lower than