B1084 <=> B1086 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1085]

“The first half, however, of this word was not taken from the ancient Greek as was usually done, but from the what is called ‘Russian language,’ namely, they took the Russian word ‘plut’ – in Russian ‘plut’ means ‘rogue’ – and in this way obtained plutocrat.

“These terrestrial beings then indeed attained their aim as perfectly as possible because at the present time there on your planet both these terrestrial parasites themselves and also all the other beings of the Earth are quire content with this ‘title.’

“These terrestrial monsters are so satisfied with their title that, out of swagger, they go about in top hats, even on weekdays.

“And the other terrestrial beings are also satisfied, since they call these ‘freaks’ by their genuine names, not only without making them angry, but even causing them to strut like ‘turkey cocks.’

“As regards the third of the names I enumerated – namely, theocrats – by this title those ‘intelligentsics’ there were then dignified in whose common presences in the psycho-organic sense there proceeded almost the same ‘perturbation’ as in those who became plutocrats.

“The difference between the plutocrats and the theocrats there is only this, that the first act upon their surroundings for the satisfaction of their Hasnamussian needs through that function which is called among them ‘trust’; while the second act through that function which has gradually replaced in your favorites the sacred function that serves all the three-brained beings as one of the three sacred paths for self-perfecting, and this function they call by the name ‘faith.’

“In order that you should obtain a more complete notion about these theocrats, it will be sufficient, if I relate to you once more one of the sayings of our highly esteemed Mullah Nassr Eddin. Concerning these theocrats there he once uttered something very strange.