The five ‘being-obligolnian-strivings’ given to us by the Most Most Saintly Ashiata Shiemash is at the very heart of the organization He created for the welfare of humanity. These are the five strivings as He introduced them with the paragraph at the opening of their enumeration:

All the beings of this planet then began to work in order to have in their consciousness this Divine function of genuine conscience, and for this purpose, as everywhere in the Universe, they transubstantiated in themselves what are called the ‘being-obligolnian-strivings’ which consist of the following five, namely

The first striving: to have in their ordinary being existence everything satisfying and really necessary for their planetary body

The second striving: to have a constant and unflagging instinctive need for self-perfection in the sense of being

The third: the conscious striving to know ever more and more concern the laws of World-creation and World-maintenance.

The fourth: the striving from the beginning of their existence to pay for their arising and their individuality as quickly as possible, in order afterwards to be free to lighten as much as possible the Sorrow of our common father.

And the fifth: the striving always to assist the most rapid perfecting of other beings, both those similar to oneself and those of other forms, up to the degree of the sacred ‘Martfotai,’ that is, up to the degree of self-individuality.

(All and Everything by G.I. Gurdjieff, page 385.)