Secret_History

Chapter 12: Out of Time 593
“In order to keep us obedient and meek and weak, the predators engaged themselves
in a stupendous maneuver - stupendous, of course, from the point of view of a
fighting strategist. A horrendous maneuver from the point of view of those who
suffer it. They gave us their mind! Do you hear me? The predators give us their
mind, which becomes our mind. The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory,
morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now.” [...]
“Through the mind, which, after all, is their mind, the predators inject into the lives
of human beings whatever is convenient for them.” 403
This, of course, takes us to Gurdjieff’s story of the Evil Magician which we have
already discussed. We should pay particular attention to this remark made by
Gurdjieff:
The evolving part of organic life on earth is humanity. If humanity does not evolve
it means that the evolution of organic life will stop and this, in its turn will cause the
growth of our ray of creation to stop.
At the same time if humanity ceases to evolve it becomes useless from the point of
view of the aims for which it was created and as such it may be destroyed. In this
way the cessation of evolution may mean the destruction of humanity.
In short, based on an objective assessment of the world around us, we are in
deep trouble. In another place, Gurdjieff makes a rather spooky remark:
“There is a definite period”, he said, “for a certain thing to be done. If, by a certain
time, what ought to be done has not been done, the earth may perish without
having attained what it could have attained.”
“Is this period known?”, I asked.
“It is known”, said G. “But it would be no advantage whatever for people to know it. It
would even be worse. Some would believe it, others would not believe it, yet others
would demand proofs. Afterwards they would begin to break one another’s
heads. Everything ends this way with people.”
Gurdjieff gave other hints about this, though I expect that he didn’t fully know
the details since his own work was that of one who prepares the ground and plants
the seeds that are crucial to us now when considering the Cassiopaean “Mission”.
In this passage, Gurdjieff returns again to the subject of evolution which, as he
pointed out, has stopped in humanity.
“Everything I have said till now I have said about the whole of humanity. But
as I pointed out before, the evolution of humanity can proceed only through the
evolution of a certain group, which, in its turn, will influence and lead the rest of
humanity.”
“Are we able to say that such a group exists? Perhaps we can on the basis of certain
signs, but in any event we have to acknowledge that it is a very small group,
403 Castaneda, The Active Side of Infinity, 1998, pp. 213-220.