Casa Robino

“I don’t know what is the matter with me, my dear Grandfather, but your talk with the captain of the ship has brought me to some exceedingly melancholy thoughts.
“Things of which I have never before thought are now a thinking in me.
“Thanks to your talk, it has gradually become very clear to my consciousness that in the Universise of our ENDLESSNESS everything has not always been such as I now see and understand.
“Formally, for instance, I should never have allowed such thoughts associatively to proceed in me, as that this ship on which we are now flying has not always been s it is at this moment.
“Only now have I come very clearly to understand that everything we have at the present time and everything we use - in a word, all the contemporary amenities and everything necessary for our comfort and welfare - have not always existed and did not make their appearance so easily.
“It seems that certain beings in the past have during very long periods laboured and suffered very much for this and endured a great deal which perhaps they even need not have endured.
“They laboured and suffered only in order that we might now have all this and use it for our welfare.
“And all this they did, either consciously or unconsciously, just for us, that is to say, for beings quite unknown and entirely indifferent to them.
“And now not only do we not thank them, but we do not even know a thing about them, but take it all as in the natural order, and neither ponder nor trouble ourselves about this question at all.
“I, for instance, have already existed so many years in the Universe, yet the thought has never even entered my head that perhaps there was a time when everything I see and have did not exist, and that everything was not born with me like my nose.
“And so, my dear and kind Grandfather, now that owing to your conversation with the captain, I have gradually, with all my pretence, become aware of all this, there has arisen in me, side by side with this, the need to make clear to my Reason why I personally have all the comforts which I now use, and what obligations I am under for them.
“It is just because of this that at the present moment there proceeds in me a ‘process-of-remorse’”.” - Beelzebub’s Tales To His Grandson by G.I. Gurdjieff