Sensation and organic prayer, part II

A series of ongoing cosmological ruminations, part 2

"The teaching of the two cosmoses is known from the Cabala and other more ancient systems. But this teaching is incomplete and nothing can be derived from it, nothing can be built on it. Nothing can be derived from it because this teaching is merely a fragment split off from another, much fuller, ancient esoteric teaching about cosmoses or worlds, included one within another and created in the image and the likeness of the greatest of them, including in itself all the others. "As above, so below," is an expression which refers to cosmoses.

G.I. Gurdjieff, as quoted in In Search of the Miraculous, Page 205

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Equally the word “organic” cannot be used in its ordinary sense. What is organic from the perspective of Being is that which becomes a new organ of perception through which Being forms relationships.

When Gurdjieff explained, through his alter-ego character Beelzebub, that it might be necessary for mankind to grow a new organ in order to correct the deficiencies it had developed, he glossed over the fact that man actually needs to grow a whole new body—something he does go over in other parts of the book, referring to it as the “Kesdjan” body. But never mind. The point is that to develop an organic or molecular sensation is the function of what is called the ”second” being-body and is in fact the function of a new and different organ of perception than the ones we already have.