Bliss

"I must confess, dear Grandfather, that the fundamental cause of this state in my common presence was the picture, evoked by association in my mentation, of the situation and destiny of those ill-fated higher being-bodies which, owing to various chance happenings, arise and remain half-formed in the common presence of the terrestrial three-brained beings.

"These associative thoughts, accompanied by a growing impulse of sadness, began in the djameechoonatra during the sacred absorption of the second being-food; thoughts about them arose in my mentation by association when I was filled to overflowing with joy from all that took place there.

"And then I remembered those ill-fated three-brained beings about whom you have been giving me so much information lately, and that it is only thanks to the consequences of the properties of that accursed 'something' implanted in the common presence of their ancestors--for reasons not depending in any way on their essence but only on the lack of foresight of certain Most High Sacred Individuals--that not only the higher being-bodies coated in them but also they themselves, as ordinary beings, are deprived forever of the possibility of experiencing that bliss which arises in the presence of all kinds of relatively independent individuals when they take part in the sacred absorption of the second being-food, as we ourselves have just done."

When Hassein finished speaking, Beelzebub looked long and steadily into his eyes, and then, with a smile that revealed a being-impulse of love, he said:

"Now I see that during these last 'dianosks' you did indeed actively ponder a great deal or, as certain of your contemporary favorites would express it, during this time 'you did not inwardly sleep.'

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, G.I. Gurdjieff, Viking Arkana Edition, 1992