> The reason why we have
> so much difficulty with
> divining THE SECRET DOCTRINE
> or BEELZEBUB'S TALES --- we
> want them to be "Religious"
> or "Scientific" texts on an
> ordinary level. I know I have
> down through the years. In
> response, as long as my
> demanding attitude remained
> THEY WOULD NOT "OPEN".
> R.D.

> I heard it said somewhere
> before, "Every encounter
> can teach us something
> about ourselves."
> A. Zero

For any of our internet
interactions to have any
value must strictly manifest
along the evolutionary line
of divine psychological
warfare . . . not the
ordinary organizational
life-of-itself cause,
crusade or agenda kind
of psychological warfare
that most people are
blindly and mechanically
caught up in for not
wanting to sacrifice
hate, negativity, ill-will,
jealousy, envy, neurotic
impulses, DOOM-and-GLOOM

delusions, and all forms of physical

violence, etc.

The great danger is that if
one is caught up in the exoteric
form of esoteric teaching as well
as tabloid doom-and-gloom "reports"
about comets and comet fragments
hitting the earth, etc., through
lack of self-remembering,
inattention to a higher
obligation if any, and
insufficient assimilation
of right understanding of
sacrifice rooted in higher
purpose, one will merely
activate a lower level
astral form something
like an okidanokh
tsunami reverberating
through outer world wide
web space. 

"And so, my boy, the chief
peculiarity of the Omnipresent-
Okidanokh, in the given case,
is that the process of 'Djartklom'
proceeds in it within the presence
of every being also but not from
being in contact with the
emanations of any large
cosmic concentration; but
the factors for this process
in the presences of beings
are either the results of
the conscious processes of
'Partkdolg-duty' on the
part of the beings themselves--
about which processes I shall
also explain to you in detail
later-- or of that process of
Great Nature Herself which
exists in the Universe under
the name 'Kerkoolnonarnian-
actualization,' which process
means 'THE-OBTAINING-OF-THE-
REQUIRED-TOTALITY-OF-VIBRATIONS-
BY-ADAPTATION.'"
--chapter 17, The Arch Absurd

In other words, everything
will become mechanical 

motions.

> Yes..it is all about our attitude toward
> suffering. I stumble and fall but pick myself
> up humiliated time and time again...this happens
> to get easier to accept as I go along in life..I
> still feel the pain but I know pain will always
> be there. i try to work on moments in life in
> order to work on patterns from the past that
> contribute more to my own self imposed suffering.
> Some things that crystallized in me weren't pretty
> and it took a great big hammer to smash down my
> ego enough to begin to break free from some of
> the patterns and to begin to use the intellectual
> part of the intellectual center in order to deal
> with life without the queen of hearts constantly
> trying to chop off someone else's head because of
> my own shortcomings. Not that I don't have relapses
> but because of a bit of consciousness that has
> finally formed in me these patterns have lessened
> dramatically.
> agent zero of f3 list

Try to observe your feelings
of disappointment, anguish,
frustration, worry, depression
and a variety of other negative
emotions and states such as envy,
etc., and then acting them out in
connection with how you relate to
others, how you behave with them,
etc. All of this can readily be
seen by way of this fourth way

method of reading and writing

by progression how it is that

these same participants behave
in ordinary life where they live,
move and have their "being."

Gurdjieff said that the
chief method of self-study
is self-observation. If
self-observation is not
properly applied, then
there will never be any
understanding the proper
connection and correlation
between the languages manifesting
mechanically in the confusion of
tongues of those that are not
aiming for the middle but are
stuck somewhere on the left
or the right.

There can be

no real self-change

without real remorse. 

And you will feel some

real positive emotion

because of it. And also, what 

is important to understand is 

that by following a method of

some kind, by following it 

continuously, consistently

and persistently, that you 

will have the needed energy,

as Gurdjieff has said, "for 

the possibility of continuing 

to work with the intensity of 

striving and power of action 

upon yourself which alone 

permits the transmutation 

of oneself from this 'nullity' 

into that 'something,' which 

you ought to have been 

according to even your 

own 'good sense'" as can 

only lawfully proceed by 

method.

Pythagoras taught that all 

things are numbers. The 

universe is built on numbers 

as Pythagoras taught. All creation, 

all of our created universe, at 

whatever level, seeks to return 

to its source. According to the 

Law of Three, or 3, or the 

Trinity, it is seen that the 

number ONE is in 3, but 3 

cannot get back into ONE, 

and so on. Divide 3 into
ONE and you will see that 

3 goes into 1 .3 times (that is, 

into 10) and leaves 1 over. 

Again it goes 3 times and 

leaves 1 over. 3 into 1 = .3 

recurring endlessly. The 

Trinity, or 3, is eternally 

seeking to return to its 

source, the Absolute, or 

"Unity," because it always
reproduces itself, or remembers 

itself. This is a mathematical
description of the idea of 

self-remembering.

It was during the earliest

period of the universe that

only the Sun Absolute existed, upon

which resided His Endlessness Above 

together with his Cherubim and 

Seraphim. The Seraphim are

mentioned in Isaiah Chapter 6:

1 In the year that king Uzziah died 

I saw also the Lord sitting upon a 

throne, high and lifted up, and his 

train filled the temple.

2 Above it stood the seraphims: 

each one had six wings; with twain 

he covered his face, and with twain 

he covered his feet, and with twain 

he did fly.

from Isaiah Ch 6

and also in Ezekiel Chapter 1:6

the Cherubim:

"And every one had four faces, 

and every one had four wings."

and:

Ezekiel 1:10 "As for the likeness of 

their faces, they four had the face of 

a man, and the face of a lion, on the 

right side: and they four had the 

face of an ox on the left side; they 

four also had the face of an eagle."

During this earliest period of 

the universe it was noticed by

His Endlessness Above that the

action of the creature called TIME

was directed solely at His World the

Sun Absolute and shows why the Sun 

Absolute had to create another world 

in order to avoid being swallowed by 

the MERCILESS HEROPASS as is

said by Gurdjieff in Beelzebub's

Tales.

His Endlessness Above decided to

isolate "Time" in a way that it would

exist within everything. In this way, it

would be contained within matter instead

of existing apart from, and continually

constituting a threat against the Sun

Absolute Itself.

His Endlessness was forced to alter

the basic laws under which the Sun

Absolute operated. In the beginning

the Sun Absolute required for its

existence only one self-sufficient

independent Force formed of the

two primary laws, Law of Three

and Law of Octaves. Our Creator

Endlessness Above was constrained

to add a third law called Entropy to 

the two main laws so as to equalize

their actions against one another. It

was owing to this third law that the

self-contained cosmos was transformed

into a cosmos depending almost entirely

on externals.

The first of the two primary laws of

world maintenance was the Law of

Three-foldness consisting of the

three sub-laws:

Holy Affirming

Holy Denying

Holy Reconciling

The second primary law which had

formerly maintained the Sun Absolute,

the Law of Octaves, consisted of a 

continual process of involution and

evolution proceeding simultaneously

and can be formulated as "a force 

which constantly deflects according

to law until it ultimately kisses its

own lips".

"There are two processes
which are sometimes called
'INVOLUTIONARY' and
'EVOLUTIONARY.' The
difference between them
is the following:

"An involutionary process
begins consciously in the
Absolute but at the next
step it already becomes
mechanical ... and it becomes
more and more mechanical
as it develops; an 
evolutionary process 
begins half-consciously
but it becomes more and
more conscious as it
develops. 

"But consciousness and
conscious opposition to
the evolutionary process 
can also appear at certain
moments in the involutionary
process."
Gurdjieff, ISO

At the time when the decision was

made to alter the laws to which the

Sun Absolute was subject, His

Endlessness decided to re-direct

the Law of Three and the Law of

Octaves to "emanate outward" from

the Sun Absolute and this is simply

because external matter could not

just come from nowhere-at-all.

Up to the time when the decision

was made the two primary laws

confined themselves with the 

Sun Absolute which created

corresponding reaction when

encountering themselves

reflected from the lowest

formation of cosmic

substance.

The resulting emanations could not

vivify the Holy Reconciling Force, so

Our Endless Creator Above was constrained

to vivify the third force through the force of

concentration of His Own Will, creating 

from the said emanations what are specific

fixated points, which gradually began to

form certain Solar Bodies, and these

Solar Bodies began to automatically

emanate from themselves in a 

similar way but on a second

grade order.

As soon as the continued emanations of 

the Second Grade Concentrations were

thus "guaranteed", it was no long necessary

for His Endlessness to take an active part

in Creation. The lower order Second

Grade Concentrations automatically

continued the process of fragmentation

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