Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

Messenger, upon his return to the S

CHAPTER 3The cause of a delay in th

ney, but that waiting would take st

"No, dear Ahoon, you shouldn't scol

"There is still another planet in t

the beings of the planet Earth some

CHAPTER 4The law of fallingTHE CAPT

magtistzen were made to pass throug

CHAPTER 5The system of Archangel Ha

that in atmosphereless spaces they

complicated machines did I not see?

CHAPTER 7Becoming aware of genuine

one thing: at your age, it is indis

"It would be very interesting indee

"As competent Sacred Individuals la

mazikamno,' act in the 'ilnosoparni

the various 'systems of being-brain

"You know that by this time what is

maintain the existence of the detac

almost all the planets of this sola

"Who called them that, why, and in

take a bite of your favorite pastry

of was just a 'writer' like all the

according to all the rules, no doub

CHAPTER 13Why in man's Reason fanta

"No, they themselves are to blame f

skin and in the type of hair they h

CHAPTER 15Beelzebub's first descent

"And it was in Samlios that I learn

conversation was a 'wager,' that is

'And I am to blame because I ought

"But after two days it turned out t

"As for our naive, unfortunate coun

"And they determine the duration of

"Again I say, you will only be able

individuals and by all completely f

"Now you should note that you, as a

ody'—or, as they themselves later

their arising several decades ago,

Having said this, Beelzebub continu

laws; and all the results obtained

as a whole in any definite place in

as the beard of the famous English

"Concerning the quality of the 'bei

"It is interesting to note that mos

CHAPTER 18The arch-preposterousBEEL

ained beings of the whole Universe

planetary and intraplanetary proces

arate parts have been artificially

to its usual appearance. Then in hi

with each other at all, chiefly bec

this very important part of his new

suddenly found himself high above h

which all three active parts of Oki

"He pressed another button, and sud

that is to say, in whatever corresp

increasing the force called "cathod

my return from exile, when my first

CHAPTER 19Beelzebub's tale about hi

certain Most High Sacred Individual

Reverence, on that small, unexpecte

great disaster to your planet. This

striving for self-perfection,' whic

destruction of various weak 'one-br

Abdil began to experience 'silnegor

'This is only an invention of men

'Apart from the possibilities given

sters made "in the image of God," w

world! Even if the cat is not stron

number of his admirers kept on grow

Abdil as though he were one of my o

CHAPTER 20The third flight of Beelz

"This kind of hunting presented gre

So they set themselves to observe v

"After lengthy observation he final

were going from bad to worse. The b

prepared with essence of 'poppy' an

"But we men not only fail to pay th

ceremoniously wherever they wanted

"So, my boy, when our Ahoon mischie

CHAPTER 21The first visit of Beelze

we reached a summit and suddenly sa

"For the first few days, these terr

ained beings of your planet destroy

'Beings with a presence in the imag

kundabuffer, and thereby acquired b

"Here I cannot refrain from express

they would say, the 'chemico-physic

the sense and striving of everythin

on our planet Earth I said that a p

"Among other things, Saint Buddha e

CHAPTER 22Beelzebub in Tibet for th

eings there. So all along our route

solitude.' And it was in order to g

thodoxhaidooraki' had established,

tunate fanatic of that maleficent r

places continues to acquire, a mate

eason: soon after returning to Mars

CHAPTER 23The fourth personal sojou

"Well, my dear boy, one day while G

up until what is called the seventh

—as well as that of all events mo

they did not remove it from themsel

owing to the second transapalnian p

tioning and the so-called 'automati

est, as is clearly evident, to send

"Near the place where this river fl

his planetary body at certain defin

the cosmic points seen from their p

as with us, a certain part of these

plation, according to the practice

discreetly, to avoid touching those

studied the presence of their own p

catastrophe had by this time begun

eaching the beings of quite recent

impulse' dies down; or, to put it o

observation of other suns and plane

" 'That this trunk rests on the leg

and so in whatever new conditions t

CHAPTER 24Beelzebub's fifth flight

tioned, several other smallish land

trying to find a logical explanatio

"In those days, the 'incomparably m

"As the reason for their gathering

knowledge during long-past epochs w

"Dear Grandfather, I do not underst

"Before our arrival there, many of

"Although this learned Hamolinadir

"My friend Hamolinadir was among th

there is not one of you here who do

"Although the details of both these

were likely to evoke, as they say,

"The second Babylonian teaching, wh

surface of your planet, this 'cente

is called the 'Sumerian race,' in a

"According to the first meaning it

CHAPTER 26The legomonism concerning

and neither ate nor drank, and ever

" 'In the presence of the beings of

ically clear to myself that althoug

advice and initiative, were set up

to a conscious action from outside,

CHAPTER 27The order of existence cr

the brethren he had already initiat

good of those around them, stand ou

Common Father from the struggle con

gendering the impulse of genuine di

and investigations relating to his

so that these data have escaped the

"The fact that these data for the d

told you, and furthermore, when the

"All these chiefs, directors, and a

and 'priests' could not reach and b

CHAPTER 28The chief culprit in the

find out which aspects of the stran

called there, 'knowledge', neverthe

" 'Let them prove it to us, for ins

"Thereupon began that pernicious re

Nievia became followers of the 'inv

certainly have ended in civil war i

in its original essence consists of

jective responsibilities' flowing f

"One of these four disharmonized pl

CHAPTER 29The fruits of former civi

the so-called 'civilization' spread

"The beings of these newly formed g

"And from then on, as the craze for

"Well then, my boy, later on it see

the Greek and Roman beings alone La

ecome what is called the 'resultant

of three-brained beings nearby, it

lished conditions of ordinary being

"And ever since the beings of this

have inherited from their ancestors

diminished on account of this sport

crystallized in their brains, from

"Nowadays it frequently happens tha

of their feeling center and, by thu

tents of their various bobbinkandel

other things, that although there a

"All right, dear Hassein!"I shall n

this famous contemporary terrestria

'all-rights-possessing initiates ac

king abandoned his craze concerning

happens to rest a little longer tha

" 'For instance, in accordance with

—of various productions, and to t

through inexactitudes in the law-co

purpose of some building or other,

Endlessness—that is, 1, 921, 600

Earth, I noted, at first without an

penultimate 'sevenfold crystallizat

way and in the same sequence, but a

already in existence or newly creat

previous ones, form a totality of d

"Well then, at the beginning, two o

"Three-centered beings can acquire

"Hence there proceeds in their comm

presence of beings and touch the 'k

witness of the events that gave ris

generation to generation, as well a

"In order that you may represent to

engendering in the presence of bein

from outside or the promptings of t

how to write even a little and has

the process of their ordinary being

three-brained beings of all possibi

"You should know that in past epoch

"Your Right Reverence All your expl

part in the process of ordinary bei

"And, as I noticed during my stay t

of that new form established in the

out suspecting the 'well of wisdom'

"In concluding my present tale abou

CHAPTER 31The sixth and last sojour

"Until then I had explained to myse

constantly flitting about in all di

Asia called 'China,' 'India,' 'Tibe

detail why these dissensions occurr

themselves, dwelling on one or anot

arising in them, as in all three-br

"That is why I then became one of t

qualified physician,' and it functi

I had begun making frequent visits

" 'But what about the analysis?' I

to a responsible post he gets "prac

much better than the real one made

down to the beings of Egypt from th

"I instantly ran next door and foun

panied me to the house of a certain

combinations in their psyche arisin

certain of his experiments the real

three-brained beings breed, the per

tion toward their offspring they ca

tional direction of their 'parents'

"Substances required for the blood

to this planet, even before these t

ing out that this young 'novice' on

volumes devoted to this question, m

definitively fixed consequences of

ing them into that psychic state by

to the large community of Russia, w

"What I then devised and earned out

of my common whole of the data that

having dissolved the aforesaid sacr

cumstances soon obliged me to leave

"In the course of our walks togethe

source of initiative for organizing

Eddin, and to have 'exchanges of op

had just said, yet being familiar w

" 'Even when no one is looking he s

festations among the beings of that

'lynx-eyed' representatives of the

"So I went to the official doctor B

posts in the process of ordinary ex

my knowledge and experience might b

"His Noble Excellency himself, with

I must enter, leave, and move, and

even the 'desire' for what is calle

preparations of this sort necessary

"It is interesting that when this s

iefly in what way and in what progr

"These terrible processes usually a

a pair of old slippers who would fe

"If we compare the authentic data a

longs to know why the family names

"In my opinion, it will do no harm

who put into their sacred urns a gr

nth degree, grow sincerely indignan

inheritance to subsequent generatio

influence of the beings of European

"From that time on, among a number

"This unpleasant odor, given off by

asic ingredient of this American ch

eason that they do not exist among

CHAPTER 35A change in the appointed

carry out your desire I do not know

Stumpfsinn, Stumpfsinn, Du meimeLus

CHAPTER 37FranceA LITTLE LATER, Bee

"While I was in that provincial tow

des Capucines, one could see many y

ut after various inquiries it becam

"While we were sitting in one of th

eings are not subject to decomposit

sians,' 'Sikitians,' 'Aravians,' an

eing struck a drinking companion on

Everything is done for cash, and ev

"sleepy-types" say with their feebl

" 'But what am I? . . . I am only a

sponding only to the sum of these f

forms of manifesting their hasnamus

ush of women to the hairdressers to

"For instance, for a trifling fifty

upon religious teachings, which in

for Religion,' and make use of all

precisely on the teaching of Saint

powerful, and had come to an end—

fantastic theories of the Babylonia

verse—and, for certain of them, h

tunes of the conscious and unconsci

"But alas, my boy! . . . The beings

Russian tsar was supplied by his ne

they had to do to free themselves f

took place between beings of that l

of this community began to gain the

uninvited visitors, very calmly and

of nearly perfected brethren, and i

the process of the sacred 'almtznos

kesdjan body is no sooner separated

"It was through these legomonisms t

of them as a support of those inner

view of the imminent violent interr

accurate history of this Sacred Ind

Judas was the basest of all conceiv

twenty centuries from a blessed hea

CHAPTER 39The Holy Planet Purgatory

"Not only is this holy planet the c

of his exterior coating, will ultim

laws, namely the law of Heptaparapa

orHoly God, Holy the Firm, Holy the

caused' vibrations, its functioning

the Sun Absolute began to act at ce

cosmic substances, with their own s

"Specific names were also given to

oth planetary and surplanetary form

tal 'planetary body' and, leaving i

they express it, after the 'death'

ained beings in whom this highest p

kinds of beings, and that is why su

"As for the particularities of the

their 'aimnophnian being-mentation,

some disharmony or other appeared i

common presence for transformation

that is, soon after the destruction

'proportionate force of vivifyingne

the 'duodenum' and is completely tr

sacred Heptaparaparshinokh as it wa

transformed into that definite tota

sexes, representing two opposite fo

"And that is why, dear Grandfather,

quired conditions of existence in t

the possibility of free existence o

struggle against the desires of the

Babylonian dualists were taken dire

ently to understand somehow what mu

same time they do not remove this s

THIRDBOOK

them And suddenly a question arose

less makes a connection with the se

details from generation to generati

taken by Theophany, his friends—o

'self-love'—as is done, particula

ments' corning from the transformat

inner structure and functioning are

properties, of any given whole—fo

fundamental particularities of that

"This famous experimental apparatus

the loosochepana through which the

"Beings of this kind also became vi

'wave of sound vibrations' still re

special 'psycho-organic need' which

"Of the nearly four hundred active

now that the influence of the famou

gravity of the octave.' This specif

strings, but this time colored blac

all those great attainments of Reas

others Choon-Kil-Tess and Choon-Tro

fangs of wolves not like the horns

are in need of knowledge cannot, in

tones, and that for this reason the

seven but even in as many as thirte

all the vibrations issue from one a

part from what are called 'aerial m

CHAPTER 41The Bukharian dervish Had

I had long wished to explore, I at

ceased to exist in the Reason of th

ears, hyenas, snakes, phalanges, sc

Earth, and therefore, throughout ou

'I sat down and thought very seriou

cided from that day on to devote ha

that served to measure the 'degree

one hand, and with the other pointe

corded by a clock mechanism, multip

ward, with great difficulty, as you

with no fewer than a thousand camel

was old and had a benign face, I su

'Today, I can still reconcile mysel

ecause it is indispensable for the

sources, or organs, transform these

tectural," and these are making cle

for him in the process of his perso

'As for the origin of electric ligh

disease whose cure had been one of

and he applied himself particularly

'Although this contemporary Europea

CHAPTER 42Beelzebub in AmericaTwo "

"The chief cause of the gradual dev

central part of the city, and the p

"When a food shortage occurred in h

is occurring with the consumption o

"It must be admitted that this famo

over to one of the many cupboards,

to be taken not for just anybody, b

that if, on following my advice, yo

me a 'simpleton' and a 'hick. ' The

kinds, and went into ecstasies over

could have given many points to thi

degeneration of nations ' There I e

an authority abnormally established

y the time they are ripe they conta

efrain from entering the shop and b

eings, through whom cosmic substanc

Later, when these being-data had de

stipation,' which in its turn also

or, as it is otherwise called, 'rem

"The unfortunate contemporary three

the cans for the preservation of th

of a river and kept separately in s

in taste from fresh fruit and will

help of some of the other brethren

corrigible optimists' but who, on t

diseases are among the beings of th

whereas the young beings who fail t

lowed me to look at everything quit

the continent of Asia, the rulers a

hand not having near them during th

sort of woman was passing by. How I

lygamy" prevail—that is to say, w

have, in addition to their one lega

'And I was "big game" for them not

'It often ran through my mind that

'I do not dress any more cleanly th

some nasty disease, it was solely b

" 'At the root of the doctrine upon

'And as for the causes of the appea

'As regards the measures taken by t

'These two rites were created by th

appearing completely from the ordin

subject."You know what, old dear?"J

where did these Russian "sorry Orth

" 'After the philosopher Veggendiad

years to keep under daily observati

day the members of the Council of K

esurrected almost deliberately, one

from the oldest to the youngest, th

appearance—undesirable, of course

trates the significance of this upb

the inspectress on duty who it was

ecome worthy to understand and carr

"That year on the day of the 'sprin

'I am heart and soul with my dear E

group on the continent of North Ame

"The shock for these associations a

continuation of the development of

'center-of-gravity cause' of almost

mazikamno, and thus is actualized b

ishes among these beings one featur

CHAPTER 43Beelzebub's survey of the

never ponder on this abominable pre

Archangel, Looisos—are gradually

eciprocal destruction, or someone o

'All men are divine, but if a singl

three-brained beings of the planet

"Well then, when these other terres

a senseless task for their miserabl

"What next! How could 'important' m

secret I am referring to is this 'p

somebody else who has 'ferreted out

there is especially strongly develo

automatic associations already pres

Greek syllable as the second half,

as 'emir,' 'count,' 'khan,' 'prince

according to the arm by which they

was a religion only recently formed

increase on the continent of Asia b

"Once at a general meeting of the b

to the ordinary beings, that is, to

'From this it follows that if the n

of 'Baghdad,' the environs of 'Yang

eing-existence especially created f

out the participation of their cons

idea that beings of the male sex ar

your contemporary favorites conside

which our great Mullah Nasr Eddin r

"And so Nature once more had to puf

"Yes, my dear Hassein . . ."Certain

flight to the surface of your plane

"From then on, apart from the execu

Tooilan to reproduce their contents

and conferences everywhere, in all

would perhaps finally realize their

of 'elmooarno' between two terrestr

"For this purpose, seven very exact

the planet Earth I became a profess

various large and small proprietors

spiritualizing and reconciling prin

tell you, unless it was in the fact

have already become, as it were, a

truth, what will interest you the m

notions of your favorites, an extre

egards their 'potency' to perfect t

disposal by the amiable beings of t

told you that Gornahoor Raoorkh too

course the "khraprkhalikhrokhnian"

"They have named the totality and t

CHAPTER 46Beelzebub explains to his

and steadily into his eyes, and the

whole presence during the process o

from the common presence of these t

espected teacher Mullah Nasr Eddin,

"In this connection, by the way, yo

CHAPTER 47The inevitable result of

After the hymn had been sung, the v

As this unusual ceremony was nearin

psychic factors for the power to in

"Meanwhile, if you have a particula

erties that every one of these unfo

to think intensely, and even, as mi

categorically, here and now, that I

G. I. Gurdjieff, have shown that th

that people today mistake for it, o

Although he himself is a country bo

though only a little, think logical

all the separate parts composing th

man to allow them to understand eac

"Suppose that we provisionally acce

"You have plenty of money, luxuriou

temper over the morning's annoyance

"He cannot be what he would like to

order of his usual thinking, and in

time the contemporary man hears or

castor oil with a certain tendernes

"These impressions are perceived in

This possibility also was given him

Or Mr Brown, who has eaten spoiled

participation of any of the subject

properties unbecoming to them which

The second stream continues to flow

ceeding continuously within the pla

In other words, you have to die to

sacred "something" called "conscien

And now, before setting to work on