In the year 223 after the creation of the world or as would be said on Earth, in the year 1921, Beelzebub with his kinsmen and close companions travelled in the trans-space communication ship Karnak from planet “Karatas” to the solar system “Pandetznokh,” the sun of which is called the “Pole Star.” He was on his way to the planet “Revozvradendr,” to a conference, at the request of friends of long standing.

A short time before this voyage Beelzebub had returned home to planet Karatas, the place of his arising, and far from which, due to circumstances not depending on his essence, he had passed many years of his existence in conditions alien to his nature.

Long, long before, when Beelzebub was still existing at home on the planet Karatas, he had been taken, owing to his extraordinarily resourceful intelligence, into service on the “Sun Absolute,” and there he had become an attendant upon His Endlessness.

It was there that he once saw something in the government of the world that seemed to him “illogical” and, owing to his youthful and still unformed Reason, interfered in what was none of his business.

His Endlessness, notwithstanding His all-lovingness and all-forgivingness, was constrained to banish Beelzebub and his comrades to one of the remote corners of the Universe, to the solar system “Ors,” whose inhabitants call it simply “the solar system”; and He assigned as the place of their existence planet “Mars,” with the privilege of existing on other planets also, but only of that solar system.

One of his chief occupations was the setting up of an “observatory” on the planet Mars for the observation of remote points of the Universe as well as the conditions of existence of beings on neighboring planets.

Although the solar system Ors had been neglected because of its remoteness from the Center and for many other reasons, the Most Holy Cosmic Individuals surrounding our Common Father Endlessness had sent Messengers from time to time to the planets of this solar system, to regulate more or less he process of existence of the three-brained beings arising there, and to bring it into accord with the general world harmony.

And thus to one of the planets of this solar system, the planet called “Earth,” a Messenger was once sent from our Endlessness—a certain Ashiata Shiemash. And as Beelzebub had fulfilled a special task indispensable to his mission, this Messenger, upon his return to the Sun Absolute, earnestly besought His Endlessness to pardon the once young and fiery and but now aged Beelzebub.

In view of this request of Ashiata Shiemash, and also of the modest and conscious existence of Beelzebub himself, our Maker Creator pardoned him and gave him permission to return to the place of his arising.

Among the passengers of Karnak one very handsome boy stood out; this was Hassein, the son of Beelzebub’s favorite son, Tooloof. And as the moment happened to coincide with the time when the Reason of young Hassein neede to be developed, Beelzebub took charge of the education of his grandson himself, now having a good deal of free time, and from then on kept Hassein with him wherever he went.

As this narrative begins, Beelzebub, Hassein, and Ahoon, the devoted old servant, were talking among themselves while observing the boundless space.

Beelzebub was speaking about the solar system where he had spent many years. He was describing the peculiarities of the nature of a planet called “Venus.”

During the conversation, word was brought to Beelzebub that the captain of the ship wished to speak with him, and Beelzebub gave his consent.

It was in the year 223 after the creation of the World, by objective time-calculation, or, as it would be said here on the Earth, in the year 1921 after the Birth of Christ.

Through the Universe flew the ship “Karnak” of the “trans-space” communication.

It flew from the spaces ‘Assooparatsata’, that is, from the spaces of the ‘Milky Way’, from the planet ‘Karatas’ to the solar system ‘Pandatznokh’, the sun of which is also called the ‘Pole Star.’

On the said ‘trans-space-ship’ was Beelzebub with his kinsmen and near attendants.

He was on his way to the planet ‘Revozvradendr’ for a certain conference in which he had consented to take part, at the request of his friends of long-standing.

Only the remembrance of these old friendships had constrained him to accept this invitation since he was no longer young, and so long a journey, and the contingencies attached to it presented by no means an easy task for one of his years.

Only a little before this journey, Beelzebub had returned home to the planet ‘Karatas’ where he had received his arising, and far from which, on account of circumstances independent of his essence, he had passed many years of his existence in conditions not proper to his nature.

This many yeared existence, unsuited to him, and the perceptions unusual for his nature, connected with it, and the experiences, inappropriate to his essence, had not failed to leave on his general ‘presence’ a perceptible mark.

In addition, time itself had already aged him, and in the said unusual conditions of existence had brought Beelzebub, just that Beelzebub who had had so exceptionally strong, fiery, and splendid a youth, to an unusual old age also.