"Meanwhile bear in mind that among these terrestrial three-brained beings who please you, there have always existed and there still exist all kinds of 'religious doctrines' on the basis of which they build up their innumerable 'religions,' and these doctrines usually arise in the following way:

"I have already told you that, owing to the unforeseeingness of certain Most High, Sacred Cosmic Individuals, the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer, which they invented and later removed, began to be crystallized in the common presence of these unfortunates, making it almost impossible for them to be perfected to the degree of Being proper to three-brained beings. Thereupon, our Abundantly Loving Common Father condescended to direct these same Sacred Individuals to actualize more often in the common presence of certain terrestrial beings the germ of a Sacred Individual, so that these beings, having been completely formed up to responsible age and acquiring Reason in the conditions already fixed in the general process of existence of your favorites, would become aware of reality and indicate to the beings similar to them how they, with their Reason, ought to guide the functioning of their separate spiritualized parts in order to decrystallize the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer, and to succeed in destroying in themselves the predisposition to new crystallizations.

"And so, my boy, after these terrestrial three-brained beings in whose presences are actualized the germs of Sacred Individuals undergo the sacred 'rascooarno' or, as they say, 'when they die,' their contemporaries, in order to remember all their indications and explanations and also to transmit them to the beings of subsequent generations, gather them all into 'one whole,' and this 'whole collection of indications' usually serves as the origin of every kind of religious teaching there.

"The strangeness of the psyche of your favorites with respect to religious teachings that arise in this way manifests itself in that, from the very beginning, they understand 'literally' everything that has been said and explained by these genuine Sacred Individuals actualized from Above, and never take into account under what circumstances and for what occasion this or that was said or explained.

"Furthermore, during the transmission from generation to generation of these religious teachings, the meaning of which had been distorted from the outset, these strange three-brained beings continue to adopt in regard to them two modes of behavior which have already become fixed in their general existence.

The first consists in this: those beings who in the given period of the flow of time belong to the caste called the 'ruling class' immediately hook on to these religious teachings the 'maleficent question' formulated on this ill-fated planet as 'Religion for the State or the State for Religion,' and make use of all their cunning to juggle with the known facts to justify their own egoistic aims.

And the second mode of behavior is manifested by certain ordinary beings there who, owing to the fault of their 'producers,' have acquired in their common presence, from their very arising as well as during their preparation for responsible age, the properties called 'psychopathy' and 'parasitism' - properties that prevent them from ever having in themselves any data for the manifestation of any being-duty whatever. So these ordinary beings become, as it were, 'authorities' on all the trifling details of these new religious teachings, and begin to 'peck like crows on a jackal's carcass' at that totality - already pecked at from the beginning - of all that had been said and indicated by the genuine Sacred Individuals intentionally actualized from Above.

"In short, the result of these two forms of behavior, fixed in the process of the ordinary existence of the three-brained beings of this planet - namely, the Hasnamussian manifestations of the beings of the ruling class and the psychopathy of certain ordinary beings - is that soon after a religion is founded, no matter on what doctrines it is based, your favorites always get split up into their famous 'sects.'

Consequently, in all epochs, the same thing occurs with religions as with the countless spoken languages on this comparatively small planet, which our highly esteemed Mullah Nasr Eddin referred to as a 'thousand-tongued hydra', and in the present case he would doubtless describe it as a 'flood of titillating titillations.'

"During the period of my observations of the process of existence of your favorites, the germs of these Sacred Individuals were actualized many times in the common presence of certain beings and, in almost every case—-with the exception of the Most Sacred Ashiata Shiemash and everything connected with his holy labors - when they had fulfilled the mission imposed on them from Above, no sooner had the process of the sacred rascooarno occurred in them than religious teachings began to arise there in the way I described.

That is to say, at first these peculiar beings collected from 'bits here and bits there' the indications and detailed explanations of these Sacred Individuals, and made them into 'one whole' in order to remember it all themselves and also to transmit it to subsequent generations. And later, as this 'whole collection' fell into the hands of those two types of beings I spoke of, they began, as I have expressed it, to 'peck' at all this, and then, dividing themselves up into their famous 'sects,' to produce fantastic new religious teachings thought out by themselves, with the result that on this planet of yours there are as many religions as there are colors in the rainbow, and the 'same old story' starts over again."--Gurdjieff --ch 38, religion --Beelzebub's Tales

By seeing and reading for yourself in Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson what Gurdjieff said on it, about the comet that hit the earth, will help you to formulate it better, that is, more precise, for yourself, and in this way avoid useless "metaphysical" imagination in connection with events concerning the real history of humanity related in the Tales which cannot be found in the nauseating filth of socialist public education which is not oriented in anyway shape or form for the understanding of anything, but public education only instructs how to imitate, that is, learning by memory only, no substance whatsoever.

Gurdjieff said there was a time in the beginning when the beings here on the planet earth had the same normal life as all the three-brained beings arising and existing on all other corresponding planets of our Great Universe and that they also had the same duration of existence as all other three-brained beings and that all the other planets did not suffer a great collision with a comet as happened to the planet earth from which two fragments, or moons, were blown away and that this was a result of the erroneous calculations of a certain Sacred Individual who dealt with matters of world-creation and world-maintenance, and so, owing to this error, the planet Earth and the said comet Kondoor collided, and collided so violently that two large fragments broke off from the earth.

But then Gurdjieff said that the variety of changes in the presence of the three-brained beings of earth began for the most part after the second misfortune had occurred to the planet, during which its chief continent Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the planet and it was from that time on when they created all sorts of conditions of external being-existence that caused the quality of their radiations to go steadily from bad to worse, that is, the planet Earth, to maintain its detached fragments did so by constantly sending them the aforesaid radiations the sacred vibrations called "askokin" which can be formed on planets only when both the fundamental cosmic laws operating in them, the sacred "Heptaparaparshinokh," or Law of Seven, and the sacred "Triamazikamno," or Law of Three, act in the "ilnosoparnian" manner, but because the quality of the sacred radiations became worse and worse owing to the second catastrophe on the earth that happened to Atlantis, Great Nature was thus compelled gradually to transform the common presence of the three-brained beings through various compromises and changes, in order to regulate the quality of the vibrations -askokin - they radiated, which were required chiefly to preserve the being-welfare of the former fragments of their planet, namely, the Moon and Anulios, and it is appearing more and more that this is the real explanation for the odd changes of what can be considered psychopathic imbalanced behavior to the extreme of our present leaders who are now in positions of power in our three branches of government of America which, of course, affects all people of all races, religions and nationalities with their insane lunatic "never-allowing-anyone-to-be-at-peace" across the entire planet irrespective of the exterior forms of their planetary bodies which are all much alike, and of course in respect of size and their other subjective characteristics, each ofthem is coated in accordance with heredity, with the conditions existing at the moment of conception, and with the other factors that serve in general as causes for the arising and formation of every being.

Ashiata Shiemash as an infinitesimal point of light from Above was coated with the planetary body of a three-centered being of the Earth with the aim of helping all other Earth beings to free themselves from the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer which, for reasons necessary and great, "great" meaning on a cosmic scale, was implanted in their ancestors.

Ashiata Shiemash observed that the three-brained beings of Earth at times believe, love, and hope both with their Reason and with their feelings, but HOW they believe, HOW they love, and HOW they hope - in this lies all the peculiarity of their abnormal way of life concerning these three being-properties of theirs owing as always to the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer - as, for instance, those peculiar properties arising in them which they call "vanity," "self-love," "pride," "self-importance," and so forth which had passed to them by heredity and were so maleficent for them. After much pondering with all the separate ruminating parts making up the whole of his "I," Ashiata Shiemash then determined that only if the being-factor called "objective conscience" still surviving in their common presence, that is to say, such sacred conscience is not yet atrophied unlike, unfortunately, the sacred being-impulses of Faith, Love and Hope which have, in fact and without doubt, completely degenerated, were to participate in the general functioning of the consciousness under whose direction they pass their daily "waking existence" - only then would it be possible to save the contemporary terrestrial three-brained beings of Earth from the consequences of the properties of that organ kundabuffer which was intentionally implanted in their first ancestors.

Asked by dear and little Hassein:

"Dear and kind Grandfather, explain to me, please, what is meant by 'Fathers of the Church'?"

"They give the name of 'FATHERS OF THE CHURCH' to those beings there who become PROFESSIONAL dignitaries of the highest rank of any 'RELIGIOUS TEACHING.' After this laconic reply, Beelzebub continued:

"By the way, I should tell you here that the teaching of Jesus Christ was preserved unchanged among a rather small group of terrestrial beings and, passing from generation to generation, has even come down to the present day in its original form.

"This small group of terrestrial beings is called the 'Brotherhood of the Essenes.' The members of this brotherhood first succeeded in introducing the teaching of this divine teacher into their own being-existence, and then in transmitting it to later generations as a very good means of FREEING THEMSELVES from the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer."--Gurdjieff--ch 38, religion

--Beelzebub's Tales