Gurdjieff

Categoria: BTG XL

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    B856 B858 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 857] “And so, my boy, thanks on the one hand to the infallibly continuing deterioration in the common presences of these three-brained beings who have taken your fancy, of the quality of the functioning of the data crystallized in them for healthy being-mentation, and on the other hand to…

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    B842 B844 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 843] “By the way, my boy, bear in mind once for all that when I used and will use the expression ‘learned beings of new formation’ I referred and will refer to those of your favorites, the learned beings just mentioned by me, who have this specific inherency. “The…

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    B843 B845 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 844] “Among those unimportant fragments which automatically reached most of the contemporary favorites of yours there are, firstly, several methods of separating from the Polormedekhtian product named opium certain of its independent active elements; secondly, what is called ‘the law of combination of colors’; and thirdly, what is called,…

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    B844 B846 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 845] “Although his classification does not correspond at all to reality yet nevertheless according to these atomic weights of his it is possible approximately to establish that classification which was then made by the great terrestrial learned beings of the future China. “Of the number of nearly four hundred…

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    B845 B847 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 846] “The last time I was on your planet I heard that the contemporary learned beings of the community Germany found, as it were, methods of separating several other independent active elements from opium. “But as I had already become convinced before this that the contemporary ‘scientists’ of that…

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    B846 B848 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 847] “At the present time some information relating to this law still continues to pass down and to become known only to certain of the three-brained beings there who belong to the group of beings there named ‘Persians’ but now that the influence of what is called contemporary ‘European…

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    B847 B849 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 848] “Relating about how such a fragment of ‘practical result’ from the ancient true knowledge survived and automatically reached down to your contemporary favorites, I shall first of all elucidate to you with more accuracy about this same definite law of vibrations which was first formulated by the great…

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    B848 B850 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 849] “One end of each string was fixed to one edge of this frame, and the other to pegs inserted into another edge. “These pegs were inserted in such a way that they could be freely turned in their what are called ‘peg holes’ and the strings fixed on…

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    B849 B851 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 850] “On the Lav-Merz-Nokh, each octave as well as each whole note of the octave had names of their own. “And, namely, the highest octave of the strings was called ‘Arachiaplnish,’ The second highest ‘Erkrordiapan’ The third highest ‘Erordiapan’ The fourth highest ‘Chorortdiapan’ The fifth highest ‘Piandjiapan’ The sixth…

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    B850 B852 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 851] “This merit of theirs was all the greater, because as terrestrial beings they had no true information about this and were able to make their correct suppositions and almost accurate calculations of many objective cosmic truths exclusively only thanks to their own conscious labors and intentional sufferings. “Further,…

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    B851 B853 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 852] “On this Lav-Merz-Nokh between these white, black, and hair strings there were also strung in each octave fourteen strings also from ‘twisted intestines,’ which were painted red and called ‘Keesookesschoor,’ and if contemporary beings of the Earth were to use these strings they would call them ‘quarter notes.’…

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    B852 B854 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 853] “And so, my boy, this apparatus, Lav-Merz-Nokh, and also the detailed theory of this ancient conscientious learned being King-Too-Toz suffered the same fate as the incomparable apparatus Alla-attapan and the whole totality of true information cognized by the brothers. “Owing to the continuing and even increasing formation in…

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    B853 B855 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 854] “In the early years of his responsible existence this Chai-Yoo was destined – thanks to certain of his corresponding subjective merits – for a candidate of what is called ‘first-degree-of-initiate’ and, in consequence, help was given him without his knowledge, as it had long before been established by…

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    B854 B856 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 855] “And so, although the theory ‘wiseacred’ by this Chai-Yoo also did not last very long, yet nevertheless this sound-producing instrument King constructed by him had become generally accessible owing to its simplicity; and in consequence of the fact that the result obtained from it during intentional action turned…

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    B855 B857 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 856] “Moreover, you will soon clearly convince yourself about this, when on returning to our dear Karatas, I will show you, as I have already promised, and explain practically the significance of the tuning on that contemporary sound-producing instrument, the piano, which was taken by me among a number…

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    B841 B843 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 842] “I must not fail, my boy, to remark and acknowledge with conviction that indeed, if such an already long-established practice had continued, though automatically, in the process of the existence of these unfortunate three-brained beings who have taken your fancy, then in the given case just such a…

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    B857 B859 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 858] “’Glory to Thee, LORD CREATOR, for having made the teeth of wolves not like the horns of my dear buffalo, for now I can make several excellent combs for my dear wife.’ “And with particular regard to the ‘Chinese seven-toned subdivision of the octave’ which has reached down…

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    B858 B860 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 859] “In order that you may, so to say, ‘illuminatingly project’ the essence of your contemporary favorites, and in view of the fact that the causes of the arising of various misunderstandings – widely spread among certain of your favorites – in the sphere of this branch of knowledge…

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    B859 B861 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 860] “About this, I by association at the present moment remember with the impulse of regret, because at the period of my last sojourn among them I happened more than once to meet those three-brained beings there who according to their state of, so to say, ‘psychic perfection’ ought…

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    B860 B862 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 861] “And so, only in consequence of the fact that in the presences of your favorites of recent centuries the functioning of every kind of data for ‘being-logical-reflection’ crystallized in them began to proceed almost, as it is said there, ‘topsy-turvy,’ and as both of these entirely differently sourced…