Objective Reason, Part 2

2015-01-24

As we said yesterday, Gurdjieff mentions objective Reason 30 times in Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson. Here are a few more of Beelzebub’s guiding words of wisdom. 

Page 366: Organization by Ashiata Sheimash:
“I must remark by the way, that both of these two terrestrial genuine initiates of that time had already by then ’coated’ in their common presences their higher being-parts to the gradation called ‘completion’ and hence they had time during their further existence to perfect these higher parts of theirs to the required gradation of Sacred Objective Reason, and now their perfected higher being-parts have even ‘become worthy’ to have and already now have the place of their further existence on the holy planet Purgatory.

This process of ‘coating’ and then ‘perfecting’ is a constantly recurring theme in Beelzebub’s Tales.

Page 390: Destruction of  Ashiata Shiemash’s Labors:
“As a result of his inner what is called ‘double-gravitycentered’ existence, the ‘highest being-part’ of the presence of this terrestrial three-brained being was coated and perfected up to the required gradation of Objective Reason, and later this ‘highest being-part’ became, as I have once already told you, one of those three hundred and thirteen ‘highest being-bodies’ who are called ’Eternal-Hasnamuss-individuals’ and who have the place of their further existence in the Universe on a small planet existing under the name of ‘Eternal-Retribution.’

Whoa! What’s this? “…the ‘highest being-part’ of the presence of this terrestrial three-brained being was coated and perfected up to the required gradation of Objective Reason, and later this ‘highest being-part’ became, …one of those … ’Eternal-Hasnamuss-individuals’” (Hasnamuss – Gurdjieff’s term for a really ‘bad’ human being). We need to be aware that a high level of development does not automatically mean an objectively ‘good’ development. From the beginning we need to address any defects in our character to prevent the later misuse of powers, abilities and influence over others that naturally develop from work on oneself. This is a serious issue that any students of contemporary spiritual development will no doubt have seen both in themselves and in others. I’ve many times had to wrestle with my own demons in this regard.

Page 563: Hypnotism:
“As a rule, everywhere on those planets of our Great Universe upon which three-brained beings breed, the perfecting of Objective-Reason can proceed in them only from personal conscious labors and intentional sufferings.

This speaks for itself.

Page 765: The Holy Planet Purgatory:
“Further, when their ‘higher being-bodies’ were finally coated and all the corresponding functions had been acquired in them, and chiefly when it became possible for the data for engendering the sacred function, named ‘objective Reason,’ to become crystallized in them.

Or described in a bit more detail…

Page 770: The Holy Planet Purgatory:
 “The first highest kind of being-Reason is the ‘pure’ or objective Reason which is proper only to the presence of a higher being-body or to the common presences of the bodies themselves of those three-brained beings in whom this higher part has already arisen and perfected itself, and then only when it is the, what is called, ‘center-of-gravityinitiator- of-the-individual-functioning’ of the whole presence of the being.

“The second being-Reason, which is named ‘Okiartaaitokhsa,’ can be in the presences of those three-brained beings, in whom their second-being-body-Kesdjan’ is already completely coated and functions independently.

“As regards the third kind of being-Reason, this is nothing else but only the action of the automatic functioning which proceeds in the common presences of all beings in general and also in the presences of all surplanetary definite formations, thanks to repeated shocks coming from outside, which evoke habitual reactions from the data crystallized in them corresponding to previous accidentally perceived impressions.

It’s said in several places that the “sacred function” of objective Reason is only possible when the higher being body has been formed. Nevertheless, the conscious process of reasoning with ourselves in a progressively more objective and effective way, even at our current level of development, is not only possible, but it leads toward developing objective reason.

Page 815: The Law of Heptaparaparshinokh: 
“…you must first of all know that, in spite of the fact that from the time when all the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer began to be crystallized in them and it became proper to them to have automatic-Reason during their responsible existence, yet, nevertheless, always and up to the present time, at the arising and the beginning of the formation of each one of them, there is always in their presence the germs of all possibilities for the crystallization, during their completing formation into responsible beings, of corresponding being-data, which later during responsible existence could serve for the engendering and functioning of objective- Reason, which should be in the common presences of three-brained beings of all natures and of all external forms, and which, in itself, is nothing else but, so to say, the ‘representative-of-the-Very-Essence-of-Divinity.’

So there is hope for us after all.

Page 817: The Law of Heptaparaparshinokh: 
 “And so this same guide, being aware with the whole of his Being of the important significance of this responsibility taken upon himself in relation to this new being who has, in the said manner, only as yet reached his preparatory age, begins according to conscience impartially to create for his Oskiano every kind of what are called ‘inner-and-outer-factors’ for the perceiving of corresponding impressions in order to crystallize in his common presence all those data, the totality of which alone can give to the three-brained being who has reached responsible age the power to be ‘Svolibroonolnian,’ or, as your favorites there on Earth would say, the ‘potency-not to- be-identified-with-and-not-to-be-affected-by-externals through - one’s - inevitably - inherent - passions’; and this being-impulse, engendered in the being with these data, can alone help him to acquire the possibility of a free and impartial constatation of all true phenomena appearing in the cosmic results around him.

Perhaps we should define our reasoning process as the “free and impartial constatation of all true phenomena”.  It does have a nice ring to it.

And finally…

Page 1069: Beelzebub’s Opinion of War:
“And since especially during recent times only those beings can become famous and important among them in whom the mentioned sacred function, namely ‘beingconscience,’ is entirely absent, then in consequence of the fact that this sacred function in the presences of beings is in general always associated with everything that represents and is Objective Reason, then, of course, those three-brained beings with Objective Reason always have conscience as well, and consequently such a being with conscience, will never be ‘important’ among the other beings.

“That is why the beings with Pure Reason there never have had and never will have the possibility of taking part in the societies of beings who are formed of important and power-possessing beings.

I hope you enjoyed this short sojourn through Beelzebub’s comments on objective reason.