Gurdjieff, on the Sorrow of our Common Father Creator
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However it may have been, my boy, it turned out that almost all your favorites, those strange three-brained beings, began to feel the need, with all their spiritualized being-parts, for the divine Objective Conscience, and to strive to acquire it in their ordinary waking consciousness. That is to say, most of the beings of Asia of that time began to work upon themselves under the guidance of initiates and priests of the Heeshtvori Brotherhood, in order to transfer into their ordinary consciousness the results of the data present in their subconscious for engendering the impulse of genuine divine Conscience and thereby, on the one hand, to have the possibility of completely removing from themselves, perhaps forever, the consequences of the properties of the organ kundabuffer, maleficent not only for them personally but also for subsequent generations to whom these properties would pass by heredity and, on the other hand, to have the possibility of consciously taking part in diminishing the sorrow of our Common Endless Father.
An excerpt from Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by G. I. Gurdjieff Penguin Group, 2006, Page 341-342
This became fully evident to me during my last sojourn on the surface of this planet of yours, when I began to be deeply interested in the legomonism concerning the deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash entitled 'The Terror of the Situation.' In the course of my detailed research and investigations relating to his subsequent very saintly activities and their results, the question arose in me of how and why those factors, obtained from the particles of the emanations of the sorrow of our Common Father Creator for the actualizing in their presence of the divine being-impulse of Objective Conscience, was crystallized precisely in their 'subconscious,' and so avoided that final degeneration of all the data placed in them for engendering the being-impulses of Faith, Hope, and Love. And this strange anomaly, by the way, fully justifies one of the numerous wise sayings of our highly esteemed, irreplaceable, and honorable Mulla Nasr Eddin, which states: 'Every real happiness for man can arise exclusively from unhappiness--also real--which he has already experienced.'
Ibid, P. 344
All the beings of that planet then began to work in order to have in their consciousness this divine function of genuine Conscience, and for this purpose, as everywhere in the Universe, they transmuted in themselves what are called the 'being-obligolnian strivings' of which there are five, namely: "The first striving: to have in one's ordinary being-existence everything satisfying and absolutely indispensible for the planetary body. "The second striving: to have a constant and unflagging instinctive need for self-perfecting in the sense of Being. "The third: the conscious striving to know ever more and more about the laws of world-creation and world-maintenance. "The fourth: from the beginning of one's existence the striving to pay as quickly as possible for one's arising and individuality, in order afterward to be free to lighten as much as possible the sorrow of our Common Father. "And the fifth: the striving always to assist the most rapid perfecting of other beings, both those similar to oneself and those of other forms, up to the degree of the sacred 'Martfotai,' that is, up to the degree of self-individuality.
Ibid, P. 352
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