Chief Particularity

"These 'sowers of evil' for
all the three-brained beings
of all succeeding generations
arising on the continent of
Europe—especially the Greeks—-
moved into the interior of the
continent of Asia, progressing
slowly to be sure, yet
effectively.

"But when some time later there
appeared at the head of these
hordes that arch-vainglorious
Greek, the future hasnamuss,
Alexander of Macedonia, there
began the clean sweep of the
last remnants of the results
of the very saintly intentional
labors of our now Common-Cosmic
Most Saintly Ashiata Shiemash—
after which it was again, as
they say, just the 'old, old
story.'

"Although each time the place
of the 'center of culture' of
your favorites has changed, a
new so-called 'civilization'
has arisen, bringing for the
beings of succeeding epochs
some new maleficence,
nevertheless, not one
of these many 'civilizations'
has ever prepared so much evil
for the beings of later epochs,
including of course the present
one, as that famous 'Greco-Roman
civilization.'

"Without mentioning many other
lesser psychic features, unbecoming
to three-brained beings and now
existing in the presence of your
favorites, that civilization is
chiefly to blame for the complete
disappearance, especially from
contemporary beings, of the
possibility of crystallizing
in their presence the data for
'SANE LOGICAL MENTATION' and
for engendering the impulse
of 'being-shame.'"
Gurdjieff
ch 29, fruits
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

CHIEF PARTICULARITY:
THE PERIODIC NEED TO
DESTROY ONE ANOTHER'S
EXISTENCE

Hassein said to his dear
grandfather Beelzebub that
although his explanations of
the whole variety of events
throughout the history of
humanity on the planet Earth
have provided a clear and
satisfactory understanding
of the surprising strangeness
of the psyche of the three-
brained beings there that
even taking this into
account he cannot
understand their
chief particularity
characteristic of them
alone in comparison with
three-brained beings living
normally on all other planets
of the universe where three-
brained beings arise and
exist, that is, such
particularity accorded
to the three-brained
beings of the Earth is
the periodic need to
destroy one another's
existence.

"At the same time,
parallel with this,
reminders of that
particularity proper
to them alone—-that is,
the periodic need to
destroy one another's
existence—-run like a
crimson thread through
all your tales.

"And so, dear Grandfather,
I cannot understand at all
how it happens that in spite
of having existed for such a
long time, they have never
become aware and even now
remain unaware of the
horror of this
property of
theirs.

"Don't they really ever
see that of all the horrors
that could possibly exist in
the whole of the Universe,
these processes are the
most terrible? And don't
they ever ponder on this
matter so that they might
become aware of this horror
and find some means of
eradicating it?

"Please, Grandfather, tell
me why this is so, and which
aspects among all those making
up the strangeness of their
psyche are the causes of
this particularity of
theirs?"

Having said this,
Hassein again looked
at his grandfather
expectantly, with
an intense desire
to know.
--Gurdjieff
--ch 43, war

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