A Record of Meetings held by P.D. Ouspensky - HolyBooks.com

ut it will make the development of higher consciousness an impossibility.There is even a special name for this, for people with pseudodevelopment.I will tell you this some time and explain it. It is a verydifficult word, a combination of two Turkish words, a very beautifuldescription which cannot be translated properly into any otherlanguage.Self-remembering is a thing which can only be based on rightfunction. At the same time you must work on the elimination of falsepersonality. Several lines of work are suggested and explained from thebeginning and all must go together. You cannot just do one thing andnot do another. All are necessary for creating this right combination,but first must come the understanding of and struggle with falsepersonality. Suppose one tries to remember oneself and does not wantto make efforts against it, all features of false personality will comeinto play in one: 'I dislike these people', 'I do not want this', 'I do notwant that.' Then it will be, not work, but quite the opposite. If onedoes some kind of work in this way it can make one stronger than onewas before, but in this case the stronger one becomes the less is thepossibility of development. 'Fixing before development', that is thedanger.MISS P . Could the strength of Hitler and Mussolini be due to thiswrong crystallization?MR. O. They do not concern us. They do not belong to our groups.MISS P . They seem somehow to be extra strong.MR. O. I think that is illusion.MR. F. Can system create false personality in one?MR. O. Certainly system cannot create it. System means all that is saidin the sense it is said. If one corrects it consciously or unconsciously,then it cannot be called system. Then it will be pseudo-system,falsification of system. So your question is wrong. System can becompared (if you remember that conversation) to objective art. Objectiveart differs from ordinary art in this way: a work of art createdobjectively, with all knowledge of methods, triads, octaves, will alwaysproduce the same effect, whereas in ordinary art the results areaccidental, one day one thing, another day another. As with objectiveart, so with the system, but only so long as it remains correct. Themoment it becomes incorrect or something is forgotten or falls out itwill give wrong results at once.