Gurdjieff

Categoria: BTG XXIX

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    B420 B422 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 421] “A great deal of time has passed since then. The inventors of both those kinds of being-manifestation have already long been destroyed, and their descendants who chanced to become ‘powerful’ have been destroyed also. And now . . . the contemporary three-brained beings of that…

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    B412 <=> B414 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 414] Chapter XXIX The Fruits of Former Civilizations and the Blossoms of the Contemporary DE ACORDO com o fluxo associativo dos meus contos sobre os seres tricerebrais que se reproduzem no planeta Terra e que lhe cativaram, devo agora, meu rapaz, explicar-lhe sem falta um…

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    B413 B415 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 414] “And about these, from the point of view of your contemporary favorites, ‘very-ancient’ communities, I must furthermore not fail to explain to you and possibly in detail, because not only did they then, as I have already said, make a clean sweep from the face…

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    B414 B416 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 415] “And having during my investigations repeatedly constated that a fundamental cause of the various abnormalities of the general psyche of the contemporary beings was what is called ‘civilization’ sown by those two large groups of beings called Greeks and Romans, I was obliged to inquire…

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    B415 B417 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 416] “And the numbers of your favorites on that continent Europe only increased when emigrants from Maralpleicie, wandering from one place to another, finally arrived and settled there. “Towards the close of that period there migrated from Tikliamish to that continent Europe a number of beings…

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    B416 B418 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 417] “It was from that group of Asiatic shepherds that the later famous Romans originated; their name having been taken from the name of their first common place Rimk. “Those Asiatic beings who were engaged in ‘marine occupations,’ namely, in fishing and in gathering sponges, coral,…

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    B417 B419 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 418] “Thus it was that those two communities arose there, which afterwards, as it often happens there, became very solid and powerful for a definite period. And the history of their further maleficent ‘prepared inheritance’ for the beings of subsequent generations is as follows: “According to…

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    B418 B420 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 419] “Well, it was just this same game that became the cause of all that happened later. “It turned out that among those ancient bored fishermen, there were several so ‘bright’ and ‘ingenious’ that they became expert in inventing, according to the principle of that peculiar…

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    B419 B421 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 420] “Being together, they had ‘various talks.’ But when everything had been talked out and they felt bored, then one of them suggested that as a relief they should take up the pastime which they called for the first time ‘cinque-contra-uno’ (five-against-one), an occupation which has…

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    B447 B449 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 448] “Just as the power-possessing beings of the community Russia then tried, by every kind of artifice, to instill into the weak wills of the ordinary beings the necessity of the intensive use of the said ‘Russian vodka,’ so also the power-possessing beings of that community…

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    B421 B423 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 422] “And there already on the continent Asia, they began spreading that maleficent influence of theirs, first among beings populating the western shores of that continent – in whom, as I have already said, being-impulses for a more or less normal being-existence had been implanted during…

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    B422 B424 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 423] “Although every time the place of the center of culture of your favorites, those strange three-brained beings, has been changed, and what is called a new ‘civilization’ has arisen, and each new civilization has brought for the beings of succeeding epochs something both new and…

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    B423 B425 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 424] “This took place, on the one hand, as I have already said, owing to the constant influence of both these communities, and, on the other hand, owing to that peculiarity of their psyche – common to all the three-brained beings of that planet, and already…

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    B424 B426 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 425] “But if nobody sees what they do, then nothing they do – even if in their own consciousness and their own feelings it should be undesirable – engenders any such impulse in them. “The ‘bliss’ prepared there by the ancient Romans has in recent times…

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    B425 B427 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 426] “And indeed, my boy, owing merely to the sciences invented by the beings of the contemporary Germany, other three-brained beings of your planet belonging both to that same community and to other communities have now acquired the possibility of inventing, and now they almost every…

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    B426 B428 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 427] “I should like first to emphasize, by the way, one very odd phenomenon, namely, that these contemporary ‘substitutes’ for the ancient Greeks give names to their said maleficent inventions, names which for some reason or other all end in ‘ine.’ “As examples of the very…

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    B427 B429 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 428] “Having begun their practical researches with this aim in view, one of them soon discovered that if this gas is concentrated in a pure state in such a way that it could be freely liberated in any given space at any given time it could…

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    B428 B430 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 429] “Although thanks to that invention your favorites can now dye any object any color, yet, what the lastingness of the existence of these objects becomes – ah, just there lies their famous Bismarck’s ‘pet cat.’ “Before that maleficent aniline existed, the objects produced by your…

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    B438 B440 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 439] (7) The quality of what are called the being egoplastikoori of the given being himself, that is his being-efforts for the transubstantiation in himself of all the data for obtaining objective reason. “The chief particularity of existence according to this principle Itoklanoz is that in…

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    B430 B432 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 431] “And when this chemical substance, called atropine, is in a certain way introduced into the eyes of beings the pupils become dilated and darker; and, because of this, most of them introduce this atropine into their eyes, in order that their faces may appear good…