B1041 <=> B1043 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 1042]

“Thanks only to the fact that among the three-brained beings breeding on that continent there were only very few of the ‘offspring of the ruling caste’ and that the general mass of beings was in itself a medium in which it was still possible for ‘our brother’ to exist and not be under the influence of those local radiations which are formed owing to surrounding beings and which act harmfully on what are called the ‘subjectively natural inner forces’ of every being – I was therefore able during my stay among them to rest as I desired.

“Now, my boy, that I have spent so much of my time explaining the meaning of all the various innovations and all the renewals of former pernicious customs – which had already many times existed on their planet – among the beings of this big new contemporary grouping, and which have already at the present time become, in the objective sense, harmful not only for them themselves, but also for all the other three-brained beings who have interested you and who breed on quite other continents, it is therefore in my opinion already unavoidably necessary for a, so to say, ‘closing chord’ to initiate you also into those of my thoughts which began in my mentation on the last day of my sojourn among them in the city of New York and which ended on the steamer as it was moving away from that continent toward the East.

“On that day I was sitting in one of the singular cafes there named ‘Childs,’ situated at what is called ‘Columbus Circle,’ awaiting the beings from the continent Europe who had accompanied me to this continent, to go with them to the dock of the outgoing steamer, and I was looking out of the window at the various passing beings from among the inhabitants of that city, who although according to automatized perception were distinguishable on that day in exterior appearance – of course chiefly due to the usage, recently fixed in them more than in any beings of any other continents of becoming ‘slaves’ to always that same maleficent terrestrial invention which they call ‘fashion’ – nevertheless somehow seemed to me, in respect of their inner content, particularly alike.