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

CHAPTER 2Prologue. Why Beelzebub was in oursolar systemIT WAS in the year 223 after the creation of the world by objective timecalculation or, as would be said here on the Earth, in the year 1921 after thebirth of Christ.Through the Universe flew the trans-space communication ship Karnak.Having left the spaces of the "Assooparatsata," that is, the "Milky Way," itwas flying from the planet "Karatas" to the solar system "Pandetznokh," thesun of which is called the "Pole Star. "On this trans-space ship was Beelzebub with his kinsmen and closecompanions.He was on his way to the planet "Revozvradendr," to a conference inwhich he had consented to take part, at the request of friends of long standingOnly the remembrance of these old friendships had induced him to acceptthe invitation, for he was no longer young, and so lengthy a voyage with itsinevitable hardships was by no means an easy task for one of his years.A short time before this voyage Beelzebub had returned home to the planetKaratas, the place of his arising, and far from which, due to circumstancesnot depending on his essence, he had passed many years of his existence inconditions alien to his nature.These long years of an existence unsuited to him, with all the perceptionsand experiences foreign to his essence, had not failed to leave a noticeablemark on his common presence.Time itself had by now inevitably aged him, and these unaccustomedconditions of existence had brought Beelze-