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G.I. Gurdjieff

ALL AND EVERYTHING

Ten Books in Three Series

FIRST

SERIES

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Three books under the title of “An Objectively ImpartialCriticism of the Life of Man,” or, “Beelzebub’s tales to hisgrandson.”

SECOND

SERIES

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Three books under the common title of “Meetings withRemarkable Men.”

THIRD

SERIES

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Four books under the common title of “Life is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am.’”

All written according to entirely new principles of logical reason-ing and strictly directed towards the solution of the following threecardinal problems:

FIRST

SERIES

: To destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises what-soever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs andviews, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in theworld.

SECOND

SERIES

: To acquaint the reader with the material required fora new creation and to prove the soundness and good quality of it.

THIRD

SERIES

: To assist the arising, in the mentation and in the feel-ings of the reader, of a veritable, non- fantastic representation notof that illusory world which he now perceives, but of the worldexisting in reality.

FIRST BOOK

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“But, as a matter of fact, when I was on that planet forthe last time and, having heard of the said writer, oncewent myself especially to see him, on quite another mat-ter, he was according to my understanding not only likeall the other contemporary writers there, that is to say, ex-tremely limited, and as our dear Mullah Nassr Eddinwould say: ‘able to see no further than his nose,’ but as re-gards any knowledge of the real psyche of the beings of his planet in real conditions, he might safely even becalled ‘totally illiterate.’“I repeat that the story of this writer is a very charac-teristic example showing the extent to which, in the three-brained beings who have taken your fancy, particularlyin the contemporary ones, the realization of ‘being-Partkdolg-duty’ is absent, and how their own subjectivebeing-convictions formed by their own logical delibera-tions are never, as in general it is proper to three-brainedbeings, crystallized in them, but only those are crystallizedwhich depend exclusively only upon what others sayabout the given question.“It was only because they failed to realize ‘being-Partk-dolg-duty,’ which realization alone enables a being to be-come aware of genuine reality, that they saw in the saidwriter some perfection or other which was not there at all.“This strange trait of their general psyche, namely, of being satisfied with just what Smith or Brown says, with-out trying to know more, became rooted in them alreadylong ago, and now they no longer strive at all to know any-thing cognizable by their own active deliberations alone.“Concerning all this it must be said that neither the or-gan Kundabuffer which their ancestors had is to blame,nor its consequences which, owing to a mistake on thepart of certain Sacred Individuals, were crystallized in their an-cestors and later began to pass by heredity fromgeneration to generation.“But they themselves were personally to blame for it,

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ties of the organ Kundabuffer were also destroyed.“It is extremely interesting to notice here one exceed-ingly astonishing and incomprehensible fact.“And that is that during their later revolutions of thiskind, almost all the three-brained beings there or at leastthe overwhelming majority who begin to fall into such a’psychosis,’ always destroy for some reason or other theexistence of just such other beings like themselves, ashave, for some reason or other, chanced to find themselvesmore or less on the track of the means of becoming freefrom the crystallization in themselves of the consequencesof the properties of that maleficent organ Kundabufferwhich unfortunately their ancestors possessed.“So, my boy, while the process of this revolution of theirs was running its course, King Appolis himself ex-isted in one of his suburban palaces of the city of Samlios.“Nobody laid a finger on him, because our beings hadarranged by their propaganda that the whole blame shouldbe placed not upon King Appolis but upon those sur-rounding him, that is, as they are called, his administration.“Moreover, the beings who had fallen into the said psy-chosis even ‘suffered grief and really pitied their king,saying that it was because their ‘poor King’ had been sur-rounded by such unconscionable and ungrateful subordi-nates that these undesirable revolutions had occurred.“And when the revolutionary psychosis had quite dieddown, King Appolis returned to the city of Samlios and againwith the help of our elder beings, gradually beganreplacing our countrymen either by those of his old sub-ordinates who were still alive, or by selecting absolutelynew ones from among his other subjects.“And when the earlier policy of King Appolis towardshis subjects had been re-established, then the citizens of this community resumed filling the treasury with moneyas usual and carrying out the directions of their King, and

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strange special property of their common psyche, whichalso became proper to the three-brained beings of thatplanet alone, and which is called ‘to fantasy.’”Having said these last words, Beelzebub, after a littlewhile, with a bitter smile, continued to talk as follows:“You, for instance, have the normal presence of a three-brained being, and within your presence there is intention-ally ‘implanted’ from without, ‘Oskiano,’ or as they saythere on the Earth, ‘education,’ which is founded on amorality based solely on the commandments and indica-tions of the UNI-BEING HIMSELF and the Most Holy Indi-viduals near to Him. And yet, if you should chance to bethere among them, you would be unable to prevent theprocess in yourself of the ‘being-Nerhitrogool,’ that is, theprocess which, again there on the Earth, is called ‘irrepress-ible inner laughter’; that is to say, you would not be able torestrain yourself from such laughter, if in some way or an-other, they were suddenly clearly to sense and understand,without any doubt whatever, that not only does nothing like’light,’ ‘darkness,’ ‘heat,’ and so on, come to their planetfrom their Sun itself, but that their supposed ‘source of heatand light’ is itself almost always freezing cold like the’hairless-dog’ of our highly esteemed Mullah Nassr Eddin.“In reality, the surface of their ‘Source-of-Heat,’ likethat of all the ordinary suns of our Great Universe, is per-haps more covered with ice than the surface of what theycall their ‘North Pole.’“Surely this ‘hearth-of-heat’ itself would rather borrowheat, if only a little, from some other source of ‘cosmic-substance,’ than send a part of its own heat to any otherplanet, especially to that planet which, though it belongsto its system, yet in consequence of the splitting off fromit of a whole side, became a ‘lopsided monstrosity’ and isnow already a source of ‘offensive-shame’ for that poorsystem ‘Ors.’

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construction, he pointed to it with a particular feather of his right wing and said:“‘This special appliance is the principal part of thewhole of my new invention; and it is just in this that theresults are revealed and shown of almost all the peculiari-ties of the Omnipresent-World-substance-Okidanokh.’“And, pointing to all the other special appliances alsopresent in the ‘Khrh,’ he added:“‘I succeeded in obtaining extremely important eluci-dations concerning the omnipresent and everywhere pen-etrating Okidanokh, because thanks to all these separatespecial appliances of my invention, it became possible,first to obtain all three fundamental parts of the Omni-present-Okidanokh from every kind of sur- and intra-planetary process and then artificially to blend them intoa whole, and secondly, also artificially to disassociate themand elucidate the specific properties of each part sepa-rately in its manifestations.’“Having said this, he again pointed to the Hrha-harhtzaha and added that by means of the elucidating ap-paratus, not only can any ordinary being clearly understandthe details of the properties of the three absolutely inde-pendent parts—which in their manifestations have nothingincommon—of the whole ‘Unique-Active-Element,’theparticularities of which are the chief cause of everything ex-isting in the Universe, but also any ordinary being can be-come categorically convinced that no results of any kindnormally obtained from the processes occurring throughthis Omnipresent World-substance can ever be perceived bybeings or sensed by them; certain being-functions, however,can perceive only those results of the said processes whichproceed for some reason or other abnormally, on accountof causes coming from without and issuing either fromconscious sources or from accidental mechanical results. ”Thepart of Gornahoor Harharkh’s new inventionwhich he himself called the Hrhaharht/aha and regarded

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concerning the evidence of the causes and conditions ow-ing to which there proceeds in the planets themselves thecrystallizing of separate parts of the Okidanokh in theseor the other said definite formations.“‘Evidently first of all from any non-law-conformableDjartklom of the Omnipresent-Okidanokh which is inthe presence of every planet, its separate parts are localizedin the medium of that part of the presence of the planet,that is to say, in that mineral which was at the given mo-ment in the place where the said non-law-conformableDjartklom occurred.‘“And so if what is called the “vibration-of-the-density-of-the-elements-of-the-said-medium” has an “affinity-of-vibration” with the said active part of theOmnipresent-Okidanokh, then according to the World-law called “Symmetrical-entering,” this active part blendswith the presence of the said medium and becomes an in-separable part of it. And from that moment, the givenparts of the Omnipresent-Okidanokh begin, togetherwith the said elements of the said medium, to representthe corresponding densities required in planets, that is tosay, various kinds of metalloids or even metals, as for in-stance, the metal I have placed in this sphere, and inwhich there will proceed artificially at this moment, at mywish, the action of striving-to-reblend-into-a-whole of theparts of the Okidanokh, and which metal, as I have al-ready said, exists under the name of red-copper.“And further, having arisen in the planets in this way,the said various metalloids and metals then begin according tothe common-universal-law called “Reciprocal-feeding-of-everything-existing”—as it is generally proper to aris-ings of every kind in which Okidanokh or any of its activeparts participates—to radiate from their presences the re-sults of their inner “Interchange-of-substances.” And as isproper to radiations of every kind issuing from sur- andintraplanetary formations that have acquired in their vi-

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catastrophe to the Earth, the biped three-brained beingswho had accidentally survived had again multiplied; thatnow, the whole process of their being-existence was con-centrated on another, newly formed, also large continentcalled ‘Ashhark’; that three independent large groups had just been formed on this same large continent ‘Ashhark,’the first of which existed in a locality then called ‘Tik-liamish,’ the second in a place called ‘Maralpleicie,’ andthe third in a still existing locality then called ‘Gemcha-nia’ or ‘Pearl-land’; and that in the general psyche of thebeings belonging to all those three independent groups,certain peculiar ‘Havatvernoni’ had been formed, that is,certain psychic strivings, the totality of the process of which common-cosmic strivings they themselves hadnamed ‘Religion.’“‘Although these Havatvernoni or Religions have noth-ing in common,’ continued His Conformity, ‘yet never-theless in these peculiar religions of theirs there is verywidely spread among the beings of all three groups thesame custom called among them “Sacrificial-Offerings.”“And this custom of theirs is based on the notion,which can be cognized only by their strange Reason alone,that if they destroy the existence of beings of other formsin honor of their gods and idols, then these imaginarygods and idols of theirs would find it very, very agreeable,and always and in everything unfailingly help and assistthem in the actualization of all their fantastic and wildfancies.‘“This custom is at present so widespread there, andthe destruction of the existence of beings of various formsfor this maleficent purpose has reached such dimensions,that there is already a surplus of the “Sacred Askokin” re-quired from the planet Earth for its former parts, thatis to say, a surplus of those vibrations which arise duringthe sacred process of “Rascooarno” of beings of every

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“Although this terrestrial being, who afterwards becamefor me like one of my kinsmen, was not a priest of thehighest rank, yet he was well versed in all the details of the teaching of the religion then dominant in the wholecountry Tikliamish; and he also knew the psyche of the followers of that religion, particularly, of course, thepsyche of the beings belonging to his what is called ‘con-gregation’ for whom he was ‘priest.’“Soon after we were on ‘good terms’ with each other, Idiscovered that in the Being of this priest Abdil—owingto very many external circumstances, among which werealso heredity and the conditions under which he had beenprepared for a responsible being—the function called’conscience’ which ought to be present in every three-centered being, had not yet been quite atrophied in him,so that after he had cognized with his Reason certain cos-mic truths I had explained to him, he immediately ac-quired in his presence towards the beings around him,similar to him, almost that attitude which should be in allnormal three-brained beings of the whole Universe, thatis to say, he became, as it is also said there, ‘compassion-ate,’ and ‘sensitive’ towards the beings surrounding him.“Before telling you more about this priest Abdil, I mustmake clear to your Reason that there on the continent of Ashhark the mentioned terrible custom of Sacrificial-Offerings was at that time, as it is said, at its ‘height,’ andthe destruction of various weak one-brained and two-brained beings proceeded everywhere in incalculablenumbers.“At that period, if anybody had occasion in any houseto appeal to one or another of their imaginary gods or fan-tastic ‘saints,’ they invariably promised that in the event of good fortune, they would destroy in honor of their godsand saints the existence of some being or other, or of sev-eral at once; and if by chance good fortune befell them,then they carried out their promise with the utmost

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veneration, while, if it were otherwise, they increased theirslaughter in order eventually to win the favor of their saidimaginary patron.“With the same aim, these favorites of yours of thatperiod even divided the beings of all other forms into’clean’ and ‘unclean.’“‘Unclean’ they called those forms of being, the de-struction of whose existence was presumably not pleasingto their gods; and ‘clean,’ those beings, the destruction of whose existence was, presumably, extremely agreeable tothose various imaginary idols whom they revered.“These Sacrificial-Offerings were made not only intheir own houses by private beings, but were also made bywhole groups, and sometimes even in public. There eventhen existed special places for slaughterings of this kindwhich were situated mostly near buildings in memory of something or somebody, chiefly of saints—of course, of the saints they themselves had elevated to ‘sainthood.’“Several such special public places, where the destruc-tion of the beings of different exterior form was carriedout, then existed in the country of Tikliamish; and amongthem was one most celebrated, situated on a small moun-tain from whence a certain thaumaturgist Aliman wassupposed once upon a time to have been ‘taken-alive’ upto ‘some-Heaven-or-other.’“In that place, as well as in other similar places, espe-cially at definite times of the year, they destroyed an in-numerable number of beings called ‘oxen,’ ‘sheep,’ ‘doves,’and so on, and even beings similar to them themselves.“In the latter case, the strong usually brought the lessstrong to be sacrificed; as for instance, a father brought hisson, a husband his wife, an elder brother his youngerbrother, and so on. But, for the most part, ‘sacrifices’ wereoffered up of ‘slaves,’ who then as now were usually whatare called ‘captives,’ that is to say, beings of a conquered

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is “intentional-suffering”; and the greatest intentional-suffering can be obtained in your presences if you compelyourselves to be able to endure the “displeasing-manifes-tations-of-others-towards-yourselves.”’“This explanation of Saint Buddha together with otherdefinite indications of His was spread by His nearest ini-tiates among the ordinary beings there; and after theprocess of the sacred Rascooarno had occurred to Him, italso began to pass from generation to generation.“So, my boy, when, as I have already told you, thosethree-centered beings there among the second arid thirdgeneration of the contemporaries of Saint Buddha inwhose psyche, already from the time of the loss of At-lantis, that peculiarity had been fixed, called the ‘organic-psychic need to wiseacre,’ began—unfortunately for theordinary three-centered beings of that period and unfor-tunately also for the beings of all succeeding generationsand even for those of the present time—to wiseacre andsuperwiseacre concerning these counsels of Saint Buddha,then as a result a very definite notion became fixed andalso began to pass from generation to generation, that thissame ‘endurance’ should without fail be produced in com-plete solitude.“Here that strangeness of the psyche of your favoritesthen manifested itself just as it now manifests itself, bytheir not having considered and not considering the obvi-ous fact—obvious, that is, to every more or less saneReason—that the Divine Teacher, Saint Buddha, in advis-ing them to employ that kind of ‘endurance,’ of coursehad in view that they should produce this ‘endurance’while existing among other beings similar to themselves,and so that by frequently producing in their presences thissacred being-actualization toward the manifestations dis-pleasing to them of other beings similar to themselves,there might thereby be evoked in them what are called

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those ‘Trentroodianos,’ or, as they themselves would say,those psychic-chemical-results’ which, in general, in thepresence of every three-centered being, form those sacredbeing-data, which actualize in the common presences of the three-centered beings one of the three holy forces of the sacred being-Triamazikamno; and this holy force inbeings always becomes affirming towards all the denyingproperties already present in them.“So, my boy, from that time when the mentioned def-inite notion had begun to exist, your favorites began leav-ing those already established conditions of being-existenceon account of which the predisposition to the crystalliza-tion of the consequences of the properties of the organKundabuffer had become intense in their presences, andin which conditions, as the Divine Teacher Buddha sup-posed, the said ‘endurance’ towards others’ ‘manifestationsdispleasing to oneself could alone crystallize in theircommon presences that ‘Partkdolg-duty’ which in generalis necessary for all three-centered beings.“And so, for the purpose of this famous ‘suffering’ of theirs, many of the three-centered beings of that planet of yours, either singly or in groups, that is to say, with oth-ers who thought as they did, began from then on to goaway from amongst beings similar to themselves.“They even organized special colonies for this purpose,where, although existing together, they neverthelessarranged everything so as to produce this ‘endurance’ of theirs in solitude.“It was just then that their famous what are called’monasteries’ came into existence, which exist down to thepresent time and in which, as it were, certain of your con-temporary favorites as they say, ‘save their souls.’“When I first visited that Pearl-land, most of the three-brained beings there, as I have already said, were follow-ers of that same religion which was based, as it were, on

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crystallized in the presences of these wild beings that spe-cial function which arose in them, again, owing to the ab-normally established conditions of the being-existence of the three-brained beings there; and about this specialfunction I shall later explain to you in detail.“The places through which our way went this timewere then almost inaccessible to the three-brained beingsof that period, chiefly on account of these wild beings.“In those days it was possible for the three-brained be-ings to pass through these places only, as they say, ‘by day,’that is to say, when in the atmosphere of their planet theprocess of Aieioiuoa’ proceeds in the Active Element Oki-danokh.“And they could pass by day because during this timeof the Krentonalnian position of their planet in relationto the rays of their sun, almost all the wild terrestrial be-ings are in the being-state called ‘sleep,’ that is to say, ina state of automatic elaboration in their presences of thatenergy which is necessary for their ordinary existence,which elaboration of energy proceeds in them during justthis time, whereas in the three-centered beings there, onthe contrary, the same is elaborated only when the said sa-cred property is not proceeding in the atmosphere, that is,during the period of the diurnity which they call ‘night.’“So, my boy, because of this it was possible for your fa-vorites of those times to pass through these places only byday. At night, great vigilance and the use of various artifi-cial shelters was required as a defense against these wildbeings, both for themselves and for their ‘goods.’“During the period of the aforesaid Krentonalnian po-sition of the planet Earth, these wild beings there are wideawake and take their first being-food; and since, by thattime, they had already become accustomed to use for thispurpose almost exclusively the planetary bodies of weakerbeings of other forms arising on their planet, they were

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actualization of Great Nature, this sacred substance arisesin the presences of all beings without distinction of brainsystem and exterior coating, chiefly in order that by itsmeans they might, consciously or automatically, fulfillthat part of their being-duty which consists in the con-tinuation of their species; but in the presences of three-brained beings it arises also in order that it might beconsciously transformed in their common presences forcoating their highest being-bodies for their own Being.“Before the second Transapalnian perturbation there,which period of their planet the contemporary three-brained beings define by the words, ‘Before the loss of thecontinent Atlantis,’ when various consequences of theproperties of the organ Kundabuffer had already begun tobe crystallized in their presences, a being impulse beganto be formed in them which later became predominant.“This impulse is now called ‘pleasure’; and in order to sat-isfy it they had already begun to exist in a way unbecomingto three-centered beings, namely, most of them graduallybegan to remove this same sacred being-substance fromthemselves only for the satisfaction of the said impulse.“Well, then, my boy. Owing to the fact that most of thethree-brained beings of the planet Earth thereafter carriedout the process of the removal from themselves of thissacred substance—which is constantly formed in them—not at certain periods normally established by Great Na-ture for beings in accordance with their organization,simply for the purpose of the continuation of their species,and also owing to the fact that most of them ceased to uti-lize this sacred substance consciously for coating theirhigher being-bodies, the result was obtained that whenthey do not remove it from themselves by ways which hadthen already become mechanical, they naturally mustexperience a sensation called ‘Sirkliniamen,’ or as your

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out and accustom beings of other forms of the given placeto be their ‘partners.’“Well then, it was after these ‘partnerships’ that thosekinds of beings also began to appear in our Great Universewho in themselves are, as our dear Mullah Nassr Eddinwould say, ‘neither one thing nor the other.’“Concerning the possibility of this abnormal blendingof two different kinds of Exioeharies for the conceptionand arising of a new planetary body of a being, it is nec-essary to explain to you also the following.“On the planet Earth, just as on other planets of ourUniverse where Keschapmartnian three-brained beingsbreed and exist, that is to say, those three-brained beingsthe formation of whose Exioehary for the purpose of cre-ating a new being must obligatorily proceed in the pres-ences of two distinct independent sexes, the fundamentaldifference between the sacred Exioeharies formed in thepresences of the distinct and opposite sexes of Keschap-martnian beings, that is to say, in ‘men’ and ‘women,’ isthat in the Exioehary formed in the presences of beings of the male sex the localized sacred ‘affirming’ or ‘positive’force of the sacred Triamazikamno participates; while forthe completed formation of the Exioehary in the presencesof beings of the female sex, there participates the localizedsacred ‘denying’ or ‘negative’ force of the same sacred law.“And owing to the same all-gracious foresight andcommand of our FATHER of Everything Existing in theGreat Universe, and according to the actualizations of Great Mother Nature, then in certain surrounding condi-tions and with the participation of the third separately lo-calized holy force of the sacred Triamazikamno, namely,the holy force called ‘Reconciling,’ the blending of thesetwo Exioeharies arising in two distinct independent dif-ferent beings just gives, owing to the process called ‘theprocess of the sacred Elmooarno’ which proceeds between

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then an eyewitness, was also the result of the attainmentsof the beings, members of the learned society Akhaldan,which was formed on the continent of Atlantis before thesecond great terrestrial catastrophe, I think it will be best,if, before continuing to explain to you further about thementioned observatory and other constructions erectedthere for the welfare of being-existence, I should tell you,even though briefly, about the history of the arising thereof such an indeed great learned society consisting of ordi-nary three-brained beings, as this learned society Akhal-dan then was on the continent of Atlantis.“It is imperatively necessary to inform you of this be-cause in the course of my further explanations concerningthese three-brained beings of the planet Earth who havetaken your fancy I shall in all probability have to refermore than once to that society of learned beings there.“I must also tell you about the history of the arisingand existence of that society there on the continentAtlantis, so that you may also know that if the three-brained beings there on your planet—thanks to their being-Partkdolg-duty, that is to say, thanks to their consciouslabors and intentional sufferings—ever attain anything,then not only do they utilize these for the good of theirown Being, but also a certain part of these attainments istransmitted as with us by inheritance and becomes theproperty of their direct descendants.“You can perceive such a law-conformable result therefrom the fact that although towards the end of the exis-tence of the continent Atlantis abnormal conditions of ordinary being-existence had already begun to be estab-lished and that after the second great catastrophe they de-teriorated at such a rate that they soon finally ‘crushed’all their ableness to manifest the possibilities proper tothe presences of three-brained beings, nevertheless their’attainments of learning’ passed by inheritance, at least

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‘Olooessultratesnokhnian state,’ acquired the possibilityof perceiving also the visibility of all these cosmic unitssituated at the same distance, which arise and have theirfurther existence dependent upon the crystallizations lo-calized directly from the sacred Theomertmalogos, that isto say, from the emanations of our most holy Sun Ab-solute.“And later, when the same constant abnormal condi-tions of ordinary being-existence were finally established,as a consequence of which Great Nature was compelled,for reasons of which I have already once told you, amongother limitations, also to degenerate the functioning of their organ of sight into what is called ‘Koritesnokhnian,’that is to say, into the sight proper to the presences of one-brained and two-brained beings, then thereafter they wereable to perceive the visibility of their great as well as theirsmall concentrations situated beyond them only when thesacred process ‘Aieioiuoa’ proceeded in the OmnipresentActive Element Okidanokh in the atmosphere of theirplanet, or, as they themselves say—according to their un-derstanding and their own perceptions—’on dark nights.’“And the second fact, by virtue of the same degenera-tion of their sight into Koritesnokhnian, is based on thatlaw common to all beings, namely, that the results ob-tained from every manifestation of the Omnipresent Oki-danokh are perceived by the organs of sight only when inimmediate contact with those vibrations which are formedin beings and which actualize the functioning of thebeing-organ for perceiving, at the given moment, the vis-ibility of cosmic concentrations situated beyond them;that is to say, only when the said results of the manifesta-tion of the Omnipresent-Okidanokh proceed up to thelimit beyond which, according to the quality of the givenorgan for perceiving visibility, what is called the ‘momen-tum of the impulse’ dies down, or to put it otherwise, they

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as with their feelings; but how they believe, how they love,and how they hope—ah, it is exactly in this that all thepeculiarity of these three being-properties lies!“‘They also believe, but this sacred impulse in themdoes not function independently, as it does in general inall the three-centered beings existing on the various otherplanets of our Great Universe upon which beings withthe same possibilities breed; but it arises dependent uponsome or other factors, which have been formed in theircommon presences, owing as always to the same conse-quences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer—as or instance, the particular properties arising inthem which they call “vanity,” “self-love,” “pride,” “self-conceit,” and so forth.‘“In consequence of this, the three-brained beings hereare for the most part subject just to the perceptions and fix-ations in their presences of all sorts of “Sinkrpoosarams” or,as it is expressed here, they “believe-any-old-tale.”“‘It is perfectly easy to convince beings of this planet of anything you like, provided only during their perceptionsof these “fictions,” there is evoked in them and there pro-ceeds, either consciously from without, or automaticallyby itself, the functioning of one or another correspondingconsequence of the properties of the organ Kundabuffercrystallized in them from among those that form what iscalled the “subjectivity” of the given being, as for instance:“self-love”, “vanity”, “pride”, “swagger”, “ imagination”,”bragging,” “arrogance,” and so on.“‘From the influence of such actions upon their degen-erated Reason and on the degenerated factors in their lo-calizations, which factors actualize their being-sensations,not only is there crystallized a false conviction concerningthe mentioned fictions, but thereafter in all sincerity andfaith, they will even vehemently prove to those aroundthem that it is just so and can in no way be otherwise.

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have once already told you, one of those three hun-dred and thirteen ‘highest being-bodies’ who are called’Eternal-Hasnamuss-individuals’ and who have the placeof their further existence in the Universe on a small planetexisting under the name of ‘Eternal-Retribution.’“Now, strictly speaking, about this terrestrial three-brained being Lentrohamsanin, I would have to fulfill mypromise and to explain to you in detail about the expres-sion Hasnamuss, but I prefer to do so a little later in theproper place of the sequence in this tale.“The mentioned maleficent ‘invention,’ or as they them-selves, that is, the contemporary terrestrial learned beings,name such an invention of a learned being there of ‘newformation,’ a ‘composition,’ or even a ‘creation,’ was actu-alized, as I have already told you, two or more centuries be-fore the time when, during my fifth sojourn there, I firstreached the city of Babylon, where partly by coercion andijlj partly voluntarily, learned beings had been assembled from’ the surface of almost the whole of the planet.“The maleficent composition of that learned being of former centuries reached the learned beings of the saidBabylonian epoch by means of what is called a ‘Kashireit-leer,’ on which this invention was engrossed by the saidill learned Lentrohamsanin himself.“I find it very necessary to inform you a little more indetail about the history of the arising of this Lentroham-sanin and also how, owing to which accidental circum-stances of his environment, he later became there a greatlearned being and authority for his contemporary beingsof almost the whole surface of your planet.“In addition to this history itself being very characteris-tic, it can also serve as a good elucidatory example of thatpractice which has long ago become firmly establishedin the process of the existence of these three-brainedbeings who have taken your fancy, the result of which is

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principle of ‘tension-or-pressure-of-the-unwinding-spring.’“One system of Djamtesternokhi or mechanical watchcontains a spring exactly calculated and arranged so thatthe length of the duration of its tension from unwindingmay be sufficient for twenty-four hours; another systemhas a spring for a week, a third for a month, and so on.“The Bobbin-kandelnost in the brains of beings exist-ing only according to the principle Itoklanoz correspondsto the spring in mechanical watches of various systems.“Just as the duration of the movement of mechanicalwatches depends upon the spring they contain, so the du-ration of the existence of beings depends exclusively on theBobbin-kandelnosts formed in their brains during theirarising and during the process of their further formation.“Just as the spring of a watch has a winding of a defi-nite duration, so these beings also can associate and expe-rience only as much as the possibilities for experiencingput into them by Nature during the crystallization of those same Bobbin-kandelnosts in their brains.“They can associate and consequently exist just so much,and not a whit more nor less.“As mechanical watches can act as long as the springhas what is called ‘the-tension-of-winding,’ so the beingsin whose brains the said Bobbin-kandelnosts are crystal-lized can experience and consequently exist until theseBobbin-kandelnosts formed in their brains—owing to thementioned seven external conditions—are used up.“And so, my boy, as the results of Partkdolg-duty wereno longer thereafter obtained in the presences of your fa-vorites, and the duration of their existence began to de-pend exclusively on the results of the seven accidentallyarranged external conditions I have just enumerated, thenthanks to all this, the length of their existence, especiallyamong the contemporary beings, has become very varied.“At the present time, the duration of their existence may

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