ov lunatics and tramps

NB: lunatics are also humans excessively obsessed with "thinking"
tramps are also humans to whom "all is relative," typically
identified with their childish emotionality

Joseph McElroy for example now belongs to #4.
He's moved downwards since we started speaking to him.

All of his "bleating" about humanity is senseless.
He cannot_ do it. Nor will he ever be able to.

The consideration is such that life occurrs only
once, and that the possibility to lose chance for
conscious development (and development of soul)
is rather real.

When you attempt to destroy another, you first_
and foremost_ destroy yourself.

Merci.

"It is particularly connected with the idea of the Path or Way. You
remember it was said that from the moment one becomes connected with
influence C a staircase begins and only when a man gets to the top of it
is the Path or Way reached? A question was asked about who is able to come
up to this staircase, climb it and reach the Way. Mr Gurdjieff answered by
using a Russian word which can be translated as 'Householder'. In Indian
and Buddhist literature this is a very well-defined type of man and type
of life which can bring one to change of being. 'Snataka' or 'Householder'
simply means a man who leads an ordinary life. Such a man can have doubts
about the value of ordinary things; he can have dreams about possibilities
of development; he can come to a school, either after a long life or at
the beginning of life, and he can work in a school. Only from among such
men come people who are able to climb the staircase and reach the Path.

Other people he divided into two categories: first, 'tramps', and second,
'lunatics'. Tramps do not necessarily mean poor people; they may be rich
and may still be 'tramps' in their attitude to life. And a 'lunatic' does
not mean a man deprived of ordinary mind; he may be a statesman or a
professor.

These two categories are no good for a school and will not be interested
in it; tramps because they are not really interested in anything; lunatics
because they have false values. So if they attempt to climb up the
staircase they only fall down and break their necks.

First it is necessary to understand these three categories from the point
of view of the possibility of changing being, possibility of school-work.
This division means only one thing–that people are not in exactly the
same position in relation to possibilities of work. There are people for
whom the possibility of changing their being exists; there are many people
for whom it is practically impossible, because they brought their being to
such a state that there is no starting-point in them; and there are people
belonging to yet a fourth category who, by different means, have already
destroyed all possibility of changing their being. This division is not
parallel to any other division. Belonging to one of the first three
categories is not permanent and can be changed, but one can come to the
work only from the first category, not from the second or the third; the
fourth category excludes all possibilities. So, though people may be born
with the same rights, so to speak, they lose their rights very easily."