Saturday, September 22, 2012

Inexpressible anguish


"In any case, you must first of all be told that this holy planet, which is called 'Purgatory,' is the heart and place of concentration of all the final results of the pulsation of everything that functions and exists in the whole of our Great Universe.
     "Our Common Father Creator Endlessness appears there so often only because this holy planet is the place of existence of the most unfortunate 'highest being-bodies,' who obtained their coating on various planets of our Great Universe.
     "The 'highest being-bodies' who have become worthy to dwell on this holy planet suffer, as perhaps no one else and nothing else suffers in the whole of our Great Universe.
     "In view of this, our All-Loving, All-Merciful, and Absolutely Just Creator Endlessness, having no other possibility of helping these unfortunate 'highest being-bodies,' often appears there, so that by these appearances of His, He may soothe them, if only a little, in their terrible yet inevitable state of inexpressible anguish."

Excerpt taken from Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff, pub. Viking Arkana 1992,, pp 681-682.

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