GURDJIEFF, G.I. – Life is real only then, when I am - Integral Book

strength always and in everything, namely that 'Evil-God,' the presenceof which creates ideal conditions, especially in contemporary people,for enjoying a state of 'immutable peace' —speaking shortly, there willbe required all kinds of corresponding, very complicated and difficultpreparations. . . ."At this point, interrupting the reader again, I continued thus:From the contents of the fragment which has just been read, each ofyou should already at least understand that the indispensable conditionwhich is first of all required from a man for his still possible arrival on anew path, namely, the path of "evolutionary movement," is to have atleast some data for the acquisition of his own I.In the case of a man in whom, because of the conditions of hispreparatory age, the time preordained by Nature for the purpose of thenatural crystallization in his common presence of data for possessing inresponsible age his own I has not been made use of, then, if inresponsible age, when in general sane reasoning can sometimes belawfully manifested in man, he accidentally grasps this fact and resolvesto attain the possibility to be such as he ought to be in reality, namely,to have his own individuality conditioned by the unquestionablepossession of his own I, he must for this purpose, first of all, unfailinglyand consciously begin to crystallize in himself seven data—as wasestablished by really wise people of all ancient epochs— speciallyinherent only in man, data which have for the quality of manifestation areciprocal action between themselves in complete accordance with thefundamental law of the World, the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh.Today I shall speak about only three of these seven psychic factorsproper to man alone.In the general psychic functioning of man, in certain auto-