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Gurdjieff - Rare Talk - The Difference Between Animate and Inanimate PDF
Gurdjieff - Rare Talk - The Difference Between Animate and Inanimate PDF
Gurdjieff - Rare Talk - The Difference Between Animate and Inanimate PDF
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action produces round the earth and in it new combi"rtiorls of rnatter, constructed accorditrg to law and supplied
. rtlr corresporlding energy. By their interaction, by means of
r liich they cAn enter into various combinations-now actively,
)\\. passiv ely, in relation to different substances-new classes
, rr(l varieties of matter Are produced. These combinations give
rlr(' to subsequent links of that particular chain, and so or1.By
,ll these processes there Are formed on earth all the varied
,rtrbinations of rnatter-metals, minerals, elements of' our
Irt'nristry, organic and inorganic compounds, solid, liqtrid and
j.rse'olls states of matter, as well as all the fonns and vu.rieties
,t organic lif'e from microorganisms to lnan.
\ll this infinite variety of already existing forms, combina,
'ir)rlS and states of matter react differently
to the llasic infltr,'rrces which reach the earth from the difl'erent links of the
,snric scale, the path of which lies through the earth. Sonte
l rnnS receive matters which reach them independently, others
i,, so through certain transrnitting combinations. The first
.t'r'nr to exist in the closed circle of the law of octaves, sirlce
'lrct'contaiu a cornplete octave in thernselves a.nd are iur ex:)r'('ssionof it. The;r lead a self-sufficient existence, i{'u'e crll}
,'\press it thus, receiving these rnatters rnerely as the necessrlrv
' rt)(l tl.nd nourishment and thus maintaining the larvftrllr. conrirleted process of'metabolisrn and inner life. Thev possess
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the influences reaching it, rvhich rnaintain its lifb and feed it,
in the same way as the process of breathing maintains human
lifb. Through the triangl" of the symbol it is connected with
these influences. Each note of its crystallized essence is in its
turtr a complete closed octave, that is, the srlme svmltol, sultordinate to the first. On the circle ofthe busic svrnbol, the points
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