Now in ordinary seen life, where people, even religious
people, do not practically work on themselves each day, they
accumulate a substance which cannot lead to unity. For
example, they criticize one another, talk scandal privately,
slander each other secretly and hate each other - in short,
make every kind of internal account against one another.
They are mechanical people, and just because they do not
work they remain mechanical. As a result, there is formed a thick, heavy,
psychological substance which Gurdjieff called by one of his
strange words - something like Tzarvarno. "This
substance," he said, in so many words, "accumulates in life
and makes all right relationship impossible. This substance
has no Holy Spirit in it. It is dead."
He said "Tzarvarno" was due to the unnatural outward
and inward manifestations of people to one another and was
an accumulation of evil actions, thoughts and emotions, of
which people do not understand the consequences. The Work
calls it simply "making internal accounts." Now remember,
the slightest, unworked on "evil" towards another mounts up
and makes this thick, dead substance. Where? In oneself. One
may suspect how often illness is due to this dead substance,
daily formed. Now everything the Work teaches us to
practice, to make effort about, is to prevent this heavy
dead substance from forming itself. A good daily and nightly
incinerator for negative states is necessary.