Secret_History

576 The Secret History of the World
immortality; and they all contain indications of the ways to acquire the fourth body,
that is, immortality.” 394
In a general sense, to almost everyone, including yours truly, the very idea of
time traveling, mind marauding, hyperdimensional beings with full powers to
create and maintain a reality of illusion and restriction in which we are confined
like sheep, waiting daily to see which of our number will be “taken” for their
wool, skins, or flesh, is so horrifying a concept that accepting it as a real
possibility, is tantamount to being stripped of all hopes, dreams and comfort.
Like many of you, I began this work full of frustration with teachings that don’t
work or don’t make sense when compared with honest observation of reality and
experience. There was such a labyrinth of contradictions everywhere I searched,
and I knew it was necessary to go beyond everything hitherto known or tried. I did
have the idea that this knowledge had been available in ancient times, judging by
the evidence of the megaliths and other incomprehensible structures all over the
globe, but whether or not it would be possible to rediscover this path was
uncertain.
It was very clear that there was a serious discrepancy between the observable
reality and some “deeper reality” from which, presumably, ours derives something
of its form and structure, but I knew there was something that separated “us” from
“them”. And again, when searching for answers, it always ended in a maze of
insupportable assumptions and irreconcilable facts. Yes, to all of you who have
written to ask me if I have checked “this” source or “that” source, it is very likely I
have, and more. And I repeat, when you read all of them, you find, as Blaise
Pascal said:
“I reject equally the religion of Mahomet, of the Chinese, of the Romans, and of the
Egyptians, for this simple reason that since one has no greater marks of truth than
another, my reason cannot be disposed to receive any one in preference to the rest.”
[Pensees, Chapter XI]
You can add a hundred other “sources” to Pascal’s list on my behalf. They all
end in a maze of assumptions and irreconcilable “facts”.
But when the Cassiopaeans began to communicate, to say things that did explain
the problems I was finding in science, religions and philosophies, and those things
they told us were not part of my expectations, I became furious and railed at such a
bleak picture of our existence.
I had already gone through some of this process in earlier years while reading
Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, but I found that what the Cassiopaeans were saying was
far more dispiriting than I was prepared to receive.
394 Gurdjieff, quoted by Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, op. cit.