That Greek language, the spirit and essence of which were transmitted to me by HEREDITY, and the language now spoken by contemporary Greeks, are as much alike as, according to the expression of Mullah Nassr Eddin, “a nail is like a requiem”. 58 BTG I

In the entirety of every man, irrespective of his HEREDITY and education, there are formed two independent consciousnesses which in their functioning as well as in their manifestations have almost nothing in common. One consciousness is formed from the perception of all kinds of accidental, or on the part of others intentionally produced, mechanical impressions, among which must also be counted the “consonances” of various words which are indeed as is said empty; and the other consciousness is formed from the so to say, “already previously formed material results” transmitted to him by HEREDITY, which have become blended with the corresponding parts of the entirety of a man, as well as from the data arising from his intentional evoking of the associative confrontations of these “materialized data” already in him. 107 BTG I

The whole totality of the formation as well as the manifestation of this second human consciousness, which is none other than what is called the “subconscious”, and which is formed from the “materialized results” of HEREDITY and the confrontations actualized by one’s own intentions, should in my opinion, formed by many years of my experimental elucidations during exceptionally favorably arranged conditions, predominate in the common presence of a man. 108 BTG I

Tut! Tut! Tut! … I already feel that in your “false” — but according to you “real” — consciousness, there are beginning to be agitated, like “blinded flies”, all the chief data transmitted to you by HEREDITY from your uncle and mother, the totality of which data, always and in everything, at least engenders in you the impulse — nevertheless extremely good — of curiosity, as in the given case, to find out as quickly as possible why I, that is to say, a novice at writing, whose name has not even once been mentioned in the newspapers, have suddenly become so unique. 111 BTG I

As a result of the whole totality of the effects of this happening, at which time my poor “wisdom tooth” became a complete sacrifice, not only did my consciousness begin, from that time on, constantly absorbing, in connection with everything, the very essence of the essence of my deceased grandmother’s behest — God bless her soul — but also in me at that time, because I did not go to a “qualified dentist” to have the cavity of this tooth of mine treated, which as a matter of fact I could not do because our home was too far from any contemporary center of culture, there began to ooze chronically from this cavity a “something” which — as it was only recently explained to me by a very famous meteorologist with whom I chanced to become, as is said, “bosom friends” owing to frequent meetings in the Parisian night restaurants of Montmartre — had the property of arousing an interest in, and a tendency to seek out the causes of the arising of every suspicious “actual fact”; and this property, not transmitted to my entirely by HEREDITY, gradually and automatically led to my ultimately becoming a specialist in the investigation of every suspicious phenomenon which, as it so often happened, came my way. 155 BTG I

At the same time, in the whole region of my spine there began a strong almost unbearable itch, and a colic in the very center of my solar plexus, also unbearable, and all this, that is these dual, mutually stimulating sensations, after the lapse of some time suddenly were replaced by such a peaceful inner condition as I experienced in later life once only, when the ceremony of the great initiation into the Brotherhood of the “Originators of making butter from air” was performed over me; and later when “I”, that is, this “something-unknown” of mine, which in ancient times one crank — called by those around him, as we now also call such persons, a “learned man” — defined as a “relatively transferable arising, depending on the quality of the functioning of thought, feeling, and organic automatism”, and according to the definition of another also ancient and renowned learned man, the Arabian Mal-el-Lel, which definition by the way was in the course of time borrowed and repeated in a different way by a no less renowned and learned Greek, Xenophon, “the compound result of consciousness, subconsciousness, and instinct”; so when this same “I” in this condition turned my dazed attention inside myself, then firstly it very clearly constated that everything, even to each single word, elucidating this quotation that has become an “all-universal life principle” became transformed in me into some special cosmic substance, and merging with the data already crystallized in me long before from the behest of my deceased grandmother, changed these data into a “something” and this “something” flowing everywhere through my entirety settled forever in each atom composing this entirety of mine, and secondly, this my ill-fated “I” there and then definitely felt and, with an impulse of submission, became conscious of this, for me, sad fact, that already from that moment I should willy-nilly have to manifest myself always and in everything without exception, according to this inherency formed in me, not in accordance with the laws of HEREDITY, nor even by the influence of surrounding circumstances, but arising in my entirety under the influence of three external accidental causes, having nothing in common, namely: thanks in the first place to the behest of a person who had become, without the slightest desire on my part, a passing cause of the cause of my arising; secondly, on account of a tooth of mine knocked out by some ragamuffin of a boy, mainly on account of somebody else’s “slobberiness”; and thirdly, thanks to the verbal formulation delivered in a drunken state by a person quite alien to me — some merchant of “Moscovite brand”. 174 BTG I

“Concerning all this it must be said that neither the organ Kundabuffer which their ancestors had is to blame, nor its consequences which, owing to a mistake on the part of certain Sacred Individuals, were crystallized in their ancestors and later began to pass by HEREDITY from generation to generation. 666 BTG XIII

“The exterior forms of their planetary bodies are all made alike, and of course in respect of size and in their other subjective particularities, they are each coated, just as we are, in accordance with the reflection of HEREDITY, with the conditions at the moment of conception and with the other factors that serve in general as the causes for the arising and formation of every being. 681 BTG XIV

“Soon after we were on ‘good terms’ with each other, I discovered that in the Being of this priest Abdil — owing to very many external circumstances among which were also HEREDITY and the conditions under which he had been prepared 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 cosmic truths I had explained to him, he immediately acquired in his presence towards the beings around him, similar to him, almost that attitude which should be in all normal three-brained beings of the whole Universe, that is to say, he became as it is also said there, ‘compassionate’, and ‘sensitive’ towards the beings surrounding him. 1136 BTG XIX

“From our earliest meetings, whenever we chanced to speak about other beings similar to himself, his responsiveness and experiencings about them always touched me deeply. And when my Reason made it quite clear to me that the function of conscience, fundamental for three-centered beings, which had been transmitted to his presence by HEREDITY, had not yet become quite atrophied in him, then there gradually began from that moment to arise in my presence and as a result to be crystallized, a ‘really-functioning-needful-striving’ towards him as towards a kinsman of my own nature. 1148 BTG XIX

“‘Every being according to its nature and to the gradation of its Reason attained by its ancestors and transmitted by HEREDITY, occupies its definite place among beings of other forms. 1217 BTG XIX

“‘By certain all-enlightened and all-justly guiding most sacred final results of the actualization of everything existing in the Universe, my essence has been sent to you to serve as a helping factor in the striving of each of you to free yourselves from the consequences of those abnormal being-properties which in view of highly important common cosmic needs, were implanted in the presences of your ancestors, and, passing by HEREDITY from generation to generation, have reached you also!’ 1477 BTG XXI

“‘And so, it turned out that owing to this predisposition which began to pass by HEREDITY to the succeeding generations, the consequences of many of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer began gradually to be crystallized in their presences. 1483 BTG XXI

“It turned out, indeed, that Saint Buddha Himself had in the course of His explanations to some of His closest initiates initiated by Himself, very definitely expressed Himself concerning the means of the possible destruction in their nature of the mentioned consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer transmitted to them by HEREDITY. 1501 BTG XXI

“Further he continued: “‘Each part of this allegorical figure gives to every member of our society in all the three independently associating parts of his common presence, namely, in the body, in the thoughts, and in the feelings, a shock for corresponding associations for those separate cognizances which in their totality can alone give us the possibility of gradually getting rid of those undesirable factors present in every one of us, both those transmitted to us by HEREDITY as well as those acquired by ourselves personally, which gradually engender within us impulses undesirable for us, and as a consequence of which we are not as we might be. 1867 BTG XXIII

“These being-factors degenerating by HEREDITY from generation to generation has brought it about that instead of a real being-psyche, such as should exist in the presence of every kind of three-brained being, there now already exists in the presences of your contemporary favorites, although a ‘real-psyche’ also, nevertheless one that can be very well defined by one of the wise sayings of our dear Mullah Nassr Eddin, which consists of the following words: ‘There is everything in it except the core or even the kernel’. 1928 BTG XXIV

“This Hamolinadir was one of those learned there in the common presence of whom the factors for the impulses of a three-brained being which had passed to him by HEREDITY were not quite atrophied, and moreover it turned out that during his preparatory age the responsible beings around him had prepared him to be also more or less normally responsible. 1984 BTG XXIV

“‘The different manifestations of the beings I then encountered, which increased my doubts, gradually convinced me that these consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, having passed by HEREDITY through a series of generations over a very long period of time, had ultimately so crystallized in their presences, that they now reached contemporary beings already as a lawful part of their essence, and hence these crystallized consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer are now, as it were, a “second nature” of their common presences. 2122 BTG XXVI

“So, my boy, when, as I have already told you, early in my last descent in person on to the surface of your planet, I first became acquainted in detail with this Legominism which I have just repeated, and had at once become interested in the deductions of this later Most High Very Saintly Common Cosmic Individual Ashiata Shiemash, there existed neither any other Legominisms nor any other sources of information concerning His further Very Saintly Activities among those favorites of yours, so I then decided to investigate in detail and without fail to make clear to myself, which were the measures He took and how He subsequently actualized them, in order to help these unfortunates to deliver themselves from the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer which had passed to them by HEREDITY and were so maleficent for them. 2154 BTG XXVI

“However it might have been, my boy, it then so turned out that almost all of your favorites — those strange three-brained beings — also wished and began to strive with all their spiritualized being-parts to have in their ordinary waking-consciousness the Divine genuine objective conscience, and in consequence, most of the beings of Asia at that time began to work upon themselves under the guidance of initiates and priests of the brotherhood Heechtvori, in order to transfer into their ordinary consciousness the results of the data present in their subconsciousness for engendering the impulse of genuine Divine conscience, and in order to have the possibility, by this means, on the one hand of completely removing from themselves, perhaps forever, the maleficent consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, both those personally acquired and those passed to them by HEREDITY and, on the other hand, of consciously taking part in diminishing the sorrow of OUR COMMON ENDLESS FATHER. 2210 BTG XXVII

“This exclusively particular property was formed in them soon after the second Transapalnian perturbation there, and, gradually undergoing development and becoming strengthened in them, was passed from generation to generation by HEREDITY, until it has now already passed to the contemporary beings as a certain lawful and inseparable part of their general psyche and this particular property of their psyche is called by themselves ‘egoism’. 2216 BTG XXVII

“Nevertheless, there had passed to certain beings of that contemporary Italy, by HEREDITY from their ancestors, one special and very peculiar ‘property’ called ‘giving-pleasure-to-others’. 2512 BTG XXIX

“‘These Russians moreover correspond ideally to this peculiar bird turkey, as the following considerations of mine show: “‘Arising and being formed on the continent Asia, but chiefly owing to a clean HEREDITY, organic as well as psychic, forged in the course of many centuries in conditions of existence obtained on the said continent, they become, in all respects, the possessors of the nature of Asiatic people, and consequently they should also at the present time be crows. But in view of the fact that in recent times they have all been striving hard to become Europeans and have with intent been thoroughly stuffing themselves accordingly, they, thereby, little by little, are ceasing to be crows; and as, according to several undoubtedly lawful data, they cannot turn into real peacocks, they, leaving the ‘crows’ behind and not yet reaching to the ‘peacocks’, are in themselves as I have said, ideally turkeys. 3379 BTG XXXIV

“Justice demands it to be admitted that although in the common presences of the three-brained beings there of the old ruling class the data present in their subconsciousness for the engendering of real being-conscience also did not take part in the functioning of their what is called waking-consciousness, yet, at least, they usually have the habit of ruling, acquired by HEREDITY and improving automatically from generation to generation. 3524 BTG XXXIV

“‘Restorials’ or gravity-center-sounds in the voices of beings are in general and are called those notes which, during the reproductions of different sounds by corresponding organs, the beings manifest according to the properties fixed in them and depending on the general functioning of their presence — which properties in their turn are the result of HEREDITY and of acquired faculties — freely, easily, and for a long time, without evoking any tension whatsoever on the part of other separate functionings of theirs, that is to say, in other words the restorials are obtained when the tempo of the result of such a manifestation of theirs fully harmonizes with other functionings of their common presence, the tempo of which is already fixed in them thanks to all the inner and outer conditions of their common being-existence. 5103 BTG XL

“These candidates for Hasnamusses of the Middle Ages, having been among the chief agents in the destruction of the real meaning of the teaching of the Divine Teacher Jesus Christ, then also devised and introduced into everyday existence, as a regulation, the maleficent invention which they called ‘bon ton’. And this maleficent invention then became so strongly fixed in the psyche of the majority that it became organized for them and began to pass by HEREDITY from generation to generation, so that now your contemporary favorites, who have become completely weak-willed, are unable, however they may try, to overcome such an abnormal psychic fixation as, in the given case, the notion of the indelicacy of talking to their children about the ‘sex question’. 6281 BTG XLII

“Thanks to this abnormal education of theirs, not only is nothing crystallized in them to enable them to reflect and actualize anything effective in practice, but on the contrary, thanks to this abnormal education those many consequences of the properties of the for them accursed organ Kundabuffer devised by the great Angel, now already Archangel Looisos, are gradually formed in them and become organic functions, and, being transmitted by HEREDITY from one generation to another, are in general crystallized in the psyche of these unfortunates. 6391 BTG XLIII

“Owing to the fact that this couple had a healthy HEREDITY in every respect, and that the external conditions of ordinary being-existence in general there were still relatively normal and for this couple happened to be specially favorable, hence the result of this sacred process, that is to say, this same, according to them, ‘son’ of theirs who was later called Makary Kronbernkzion, already received in his presence from the beginning of his arising and during his early existence almost the same data for the Being of a future responsible being as every Keschapmartnian three-brained being should possess at his arising anywhere on any other planet of our Great Megalocosmos, and as a desire happened to arise in his producers, or as it is said there in his ‘parents’ to prepare their ‘result’ to become a responsible being with a ‘scientific career’, and as they also happened to find successful guides for him, then when this result of theirs became a responsible being, he became a very good ‘scientist’ — of course, very good for the planet Earth. 6814 BTG XLIV

According to the investigations of many scientists of past ages and according to the data obtained at the present time by means of the quite exceptionally conducted researches of the Institute-for-the-Harmonious-Development-of-Man according to the system of Mr. Gurdjieff, the whole individuality of every man — according to laws and conditions of the process of life of people which have from the very beginning become established and gradually fixed on the Earth — of whatever HEREDITY he is the result, and whatever be the accidental surrounding conditions in which he arose and developed, must already at the beginning of his responsible life — as a condition of responding in reality to the sense and predestination of his existence as a man and not merely as an animal — indispensably consist of four definite distinct personalities. 7139 BTG XLVIII

The second of the four personalities, functioning in most cases independently of the first, consists of the sum of the results of the data deposited and fixed in the presence of man, like that of all animals, through its six organs called “receivers-of-the-varied-qualified-vibrations”, which organs function in accordance with newly perceived impressions and the sensitiveness of which depends upon transmitted HEREDITY and on the conditions of the preparatory formation of the given individual for responsible existence. 7141 BTG XLVIII

The third independent part of the whole being is the prime functioning of his organism as well as what are called the “motor-reflex-reciprocally-affecting-manifestations-proceeding-in-it”, and the quality of these manifestations also depends on those aforesaid results of HEREDITY and of the circumstances during his preparatory formation. 7142 BTG XLVIII

There are a mass of reasons which may not permit it; and moreover which in most cases depend neither upon us personally nor upon great laws, but only upon the various accidental conditions of our arising and formation, of which the chief are HEREDITY and the conditions under which the process of our “preparatory age” flows. It is just these uncontrollable conditions which may not permit this liberation. 7322 BTG XLVIII

Although this organ was later “removed” also by Great Nature from their common presences, yet owing to a cosmic law expressed by the words “the assimilation of the results of oft-repeated acts” — according to which law, from the frequent repetition of one and the same act there arises in every “world concentration” under certain conditions a predisposition to produce similar results — this law-conformable predisposition which arose in our forefathers was transmitted by HEREDITY from generation to generation, so that when their descendants in the process of their ordinary existence established numerous conditions which proved to be congenial for the said law-conformableness, from that time on the consequences of the various proper ties of this organ arose in them, and being assimilated owing to transmission by HEREDITY from generation to generation, they ultimately acquired almost the same manifestations as those of their ancestors. 7326 BTG XLVIII

All people without exception are slaves of this “Greatness”, and all are compelled willy-nilly to submit, and to fulfill without condition or compromise, what has been predestined for each of us by his transmitted HEREDITY and his acquired Being. 7370 BTG XLVIII