semiconscious

“I then procured some score of the quadruped beings called ‘horses’, ‘mules’, ‘asses’, and ‘Chami-anian’ goats and so on, and hired a number of your biped favorites to look after the said beings and to do the semiconscious work required on the way for this mode of travel. BTG XXII

“In consequence of this, all along this second route of ours, we, and especially our workmen for the semiconscious work, had to be extremely watchful and alert at night in order to guard ourselves, our quadruped beings, and our supplies. BTG XXII

“Before I describe the fate of this American bread I must tell you that this terra firma part of the surface of your planet celled ‘North and South America’ was formed thanks to various accidental combinations ensuing, in the first place, from the second greet ‘cataclysm not according to law’ which occurred to that ill-fated planet, and secondly, from the position that terra firma occupies in relation to the process of the ‘common systematic movement’ having a stratum of what is called ‘soil’ which was and still is suited for the production of that ‘divine grain’ of which this same ‘prosphora’ is made. With conscious knowledge of how to use it, the soil surface of these continents is capable of yielding in a single what is celled ‘good season’, the ‘fullness of a complete process of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh’, or in other words, a ‘forty-nine-fold harvest’, and even by its semiconscious use, as is now the case, the soil there yields of this ‘divine grain’ a considerable abundance in comparison with the other continents. BTG XLII

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