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Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson |
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G. Gurdjieff
All and Everything
Ten Books, in Three Series,
of which this is the First Series |
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FIRST SERIES: Three books under the title of SECOND SERIES: Three books under the common title of THIRD SERIES: Four books under the common title of |
All written according to entirely new principles of logical reasoning and strictly directed towards the solution of the following three cardinal problems:
FIRST SERIES: To destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world.
SECOND SERIES: To acquaint the reader with the material required for a new creation and to prove the soundness and good quality of it.
THIRD SERIES: To assist the arising, in the mentation and in the feelings of the reader, of a veritable, non-fantastic representation not of that illusory world which he now perceives, but of the world existing in reality.
[Written impromptu by the author on delivering this book, already prepared for publication, to the printer.]
ACCORDING TO the numerous deductions and conclusions made by me during experimental elucidations concerning the productivity of the perception by contemporary people of new impressions from what is heard and read, and also according to the thought of one of the sayings of popular wisdom I have just remembered, handed down to our days from very ancient times, which declares:
“Any prayer may be heard by the Higher Powers and a corresponding answer obtained only if it is uttered thrice:
Firstly—for the welfare or the peace of the souls of one’s parents.
Secondly—for the welfare of one’s neighbor.
And only thirdly—for oneself personally.”
I find it necessary on the first page of this book, quite ready for publication, to give the following advice:
“Read each of my written expositions thrice:
Firstly—at least as you have already become mechanized to read all your contemporary books and newspapers.
Secondly—as if you were reading aloud to another person.
And only thirdly—try and fathom the gist of my writings.”
Only then will you be able to count upon forming your own impartial judgment, proper to yourself alone, on my writings. And only then can my hope be actualized that according to your understanding you will obtain the specific benefit for yourself which I anticipate, and which I wish for you with all my being.
AUTHOR
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Friendly Advice |
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The Arousing of Thought |
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Introduction: Why Beelzebub Was in Our Solar System |
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The Cause of the Delay in the Falling of the Ship Karnak |
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The Law of Falling |
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The System of Archangel Hariton |
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Perpetual Motion |
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Becoming Aware of Genuine Being-Duty |
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The Impudent Brat Hassein, Beelzebub’s Grandson, Dares to Call Men “Slugs” |
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The Cause of the Genesis of the Moon |
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Why “Men” Are Not Men |
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A Piquant Trait of the Peculiar Psyche of Contemporary Man |
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The First “Growl” |
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Why in Man’s Reason Fantasy May Be Perceived as Reality |
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The Beginnings of Perspectives Promising Nothing Very Cheerful |
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The First Descent of Beelzebub upon the Planet Earth |
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The Relative Understanding of Time |
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The Arch-absurd According to the Assertion of Beelzebub, Our Sun Neither Lights nor Heats |
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The Arch-preposterous |
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Beelzebub’s Tales About His Second Descent onto the Planet Earth |
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The Third Flight of Beelzebub to the Planet Earth |
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The First Visit of Beelzebub to India |
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Beelzebub for the First Time in Tibet |
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The Fourth Personal Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth |
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Beelzebub’s Flight to the Planet Earth for the Fifth Time |
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The Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash, Sent from Above to the Earth |
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The Legominism Concerning the Deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash Under the Title of “The Terror-of-the-Situation” |
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The Organization for Man’s Existence Created by the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash |
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The Chief Culprit in the Destruction of All the Very Saintly Labors of Ashiata Shiemash |
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The Fruits of Former Civilizations and the Blossoms of the Contemporary |
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Art |
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The Sixth and Last Sojourn of Beelzebub on the Planet Earth |
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Hypnotism |
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Beelzebub as Professional Hypnotist |
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Russia |
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A Change in the Appointed Course of the Falling of the Transspace Ship Karnak |
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Just a Wee Bit More About the Germans |
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France |
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Religion |
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The Holy Planet “Purgatory” |
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Beelzebub Tells How People Learned and Again Forgot About the Fundamental Cosmic Law of Heptaparaparshinokh |
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The Bokharian Dervish Hadji-Asvatz-Troov |
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Beelzebub in America |
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Beelzebub’s Survey of the Process of the Periodic Reciprocal Destruction of Men, or Beelzebub’s Opinion of War |
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In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Man’s Understanding of Justice Is for Him in the Objective Sense an Accursed Mirage |
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In the Opinion of Beelzebub, Man's Extraction of Electricity from Nature and Its Destruction During Its Use, Is One of the Chief Causes of the Shortening of the Life of Man |
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Beelzebub Explains to His Grandson the Significance of the Form and Sequence Which He Chose for Expounding the Information Concerning Man |
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The Inevitable Result of Impartial Mentation |
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From the Author |
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COPYRIGHT, 1950, BY G. GURDJIEFF All rights reserved, including first edition Original written in Russian and Armenian. |
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