Imastun
- A Confraria
sobrevivente do dilúvio
G.I.Gurdjieff, "Encontros com
Homens Notáveis",
Editora Pensamento, p. 39-40.
There was another legend I had heard from my
father, again about the 'Flood before the Flood',
which after this occurrence also acquired for me a quite
particular significance.
In this legend it was said, also in verse,
that long, long ago, as far back as seventy generations
before the last deluge (and a generation was counted as a
hundred years), when there was dry land where now is water
and water where now is dry land, there existed on earth a
great civilization, the centre of which was the former
island Haninn, which was also the centre of the earth
itself.
As I elucidated from other historical data,
the island of Haninn was approximately where Greece is now
situated.
The sole survivors of the earlier deluge were
certain brethren of the former Imastun
Brotherhood, whose members had constituted a whole caste
spread all over the earth, but whose centre had been on this
island.
These Imastun brethren were learned men and,
among other things, they studied astrology. Just before the
deluge, they were scattered all over the earth for the
purpose of observing celestial phenomena from different
places. But however great the distance between them, they
maintained constant communication with one another and
reported everything to the centre by means of telepathy.
For this, they made use of what are called
pythonesses, who served them, as it were, as receiving
apparatuses. These pythonesses, in a trance, unconsciously
received and recorded all that was transmitted to them from
various places by the Imastuns, writing it down in four
different agreed directions according to the direction from
which the information reached them. That is to say, they
wrote from top to bottom communications coming from
localities lying to the east of the island; from right to
left those from the south; from bottom to top those which
came from the west (from the regions where Atlantis was and
where America is now); and from left to right communications
transmitted from the place now occupied by Europe.
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