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

ub, that same Beelzebub who had had so exceptionally strong, fiery, andsplendid a youth, to a no less exceptional old age.Long, long before, when Beelzebub was still existing at home on the planetKaratas, he had been taken, owing to his extraordinarily resourcefulintelligence, into service on the "Sun Absolute," where our Lord SovereignEndlessness has the fundamental place of His dwelling, and there Beelzebub,with a number of others like himself, had become an attendant upon HisEndlessness.But then, owing to his youthful and still unformed Reason, as well as to hiscallow and impetuous mentation with its unequally flowing associations, thatis, a mentation based on a limited understanding—which is natural for beingswho have not yet become fully responsible—Beelzebub once saw somethingin the government of the world that seemed to him "illogical" and, havingfound support among his comrades, unformed beings like himself, interferedin what was none of his business.Thanks to the force and impetuosity of Beelzebub's nature, his intervention,supported by his comrades, soon captured all minds and brought the centralkingdom of the Megalocosmos to the brink of revolution.Having learned of this, His Endlessness, notwithstanding His all-lovingnessand all-forgivingness, was constrained to banish Beelzebub and his comradesto one of the remote corners of the Universe, to the solar system "Ors," whoseinhabitants call it simply "the solar system", and He assigned as the place oftheir existence one of the planets of that solar system, namely the planet"Mars," with the privilege of existing on other planets also, but only of thatsolar system.Among these exiles, besides Beelzebub's comrades, were many who hadmerely sympathized with him, as well as the attendants and subordinates ofBeelzebub and his friends.