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XXXIV. Russia (pgs. B591 – B656)
Chapitre 34 Belzébuth en Russie
Capítulo 34 Rússia.
Beelzebub relates to Hassein about the events that occurred during the last sojourn of his on the surface of the planet Earth. According to his narration, once, walking one morning by the said Pyramids, he met a Russian who was the head of a society in Russia, under the name of “The Trusteeship of people’s Temperance” and whose aim was to help Russians shake off their passion for alcohol.
After their lengthy conversations concerning the pernicious vices of the people, the Russian was convinced that Beelzebub, knew a lot about the people’s psyche and how to create conditions for the struggle against their weaknesses and invited him to go to Russia and help this Trusteeship of theirs abolish alcoholism in his home country. Beelzebub accepted and two weeks later he visited “Saint Petersburg”, which was, at that time, the largest city in Russia.
In order for Hassein to understand better the particularly sharp “duality-of-the beings” of that large community, he repeats to him word for word the opinion about them of Mullah Nassr Eddin which he gave to him personally during their meeting in “Persia” in a locality named “Ispahan”, where he happened to be for his investigations concerning the Most Saintly Activities of Ashiata Shiemash. There, Mullah Nassr Eddin gave him, with the “subtle venom’ which is proper to him, a definition of the whole presence and general essence of the beings of the contemporary community “Persia”; he explained to him that he compared the beings of this same community “Persia”, to the birds, “crows”, while the beings of the large community “Russia” he compares to the birds, turkeys.
As he explains to Hassein, while in Saint Petersburg he met beings of different, as is said, “class” and “position”, in order to study the characteristic peculiarities of their manners and customs, and to make clear for himself the cause of their so-called “organic need” for alcohol, and the manifest consequences also of the result of its effects on their common presences. It became quite evident to him, that the majority of them carried in themselves the germ of that “particular-functioning-of-their-common-presences” which had already long before been habitually arising in the beings of the Planet Earth owning to a certain combination of two independent causes coming from outside, the first of these causes is a common cosmic law which exists under the name of “Solioonensius”, and the second is a sharp deterioration of the conditions of the usual being-existence of the beings on some part or other of the surface of this planet, of the “particular-functioning-of their-common-presences which was this time called there “Bolshevism”.
He relates to Hassein that even before his arrival in this city, he had intended to set up in one or other of their great inhabited spots ‘something’ of the kind of what they call there a ‘chemical laboratory’, in which he intended, by means decided on beforehand to proceed with special experiments on several deeply concealed aspects of their ever the same strange psyche. But as he tried to obtain the relevant permit from the corresponding department, it turned out that although the staff of this department acknowledged that it was their obligation to issue that kind of permit, yet they themselves did not know how it had to be done and after being quite harassed he did not manage to obtain the permit.
He also relates to Hassein that that important Russian laid very great weight on his considerations and remarks on what had already been done by the Trusteeship of People’s Temperance and also concerning the projects of future undertakings, and was always sincerely delighted by the justice of his observations and in the beginning, all his suggestions which he reported at the general meetings of the Trusteeship were always accepted for actualization. But when several participants of this Trusteeship accidentally learned that the initiative for many useful measures had issued from him—some foreign doctor or other, not even a European—then every kind of habitual, as it is called “intrigue” and “protest” arose against the proposals. Since Beelzebub could not actualize his intentions, he decided to remain in Russia no longer, but to depart, in order to seek suitable conditions for his said aim, to some other European community. On the day of his suggested departure, this Trusteeship was preparing to open the big building which, was just designed for the aim of the struggle against alcoholism and which the beings there on the day of its opening called by the name of their czar, “The People’s Building of the Emperor Nicholas II”. Two days later the opening of this building took place, having the previous evening received what is called “an official invitation” Beelzebub betook himself to that ceremony. On the day of the said state solemnity while the ceremony was still proceeding, his first acquaintance the Russian suddenly ran towards him, and in a joyous voice told him that he was to have the “happiness” of being presented to His Majesty the Czar which is considered as a very very great piece of luck.
When the necessary preparations had been done, on the day of his “supreme presentation” he arrived there where the chief of that large community had the place of his residence. As he relates to Hassein, in that hall every movement, every step he made, even to the blinking of his eyelids, were seen in advance, and prompted to him by this important general who had taken on the preparations of this presentation and that in spite of all the absurdity of this procedure, if one takes into account that the perfection of a being depends on the quality and quantity of his inner experiencings, then objective justice demands that due must be given for this to the beings of the Planet Earth that on that day they compelled him of course, unconsciously, to undergo and to feel perhaps more than he had undergone and felt during all the centuries of his personal sojourn there among them.
He urges Hassein to assimilate well the information about the subsequent events which happened to him and which were the results of this famous presentation of his to His Majesty the Emperor, and to acquire the possibility of clearly picturing to himself and well understand how particularly in their what is called “individual significance”, began to be appraised and be built up always exclusively on the basis of the outer ephemeral as they are called “Vietro-yretznel” and ends saying that this gradual acquiring of the habit of judging the merits of beings according to the outer ephemeral appearance in all other beings, developed and continued to develop their imagination, which became strengthened about this, that just in this consists the acquisition of “being-individuality”, and all began subjectively to strive only for this. That is why at the present time, all of them from the very beginning of their arising gradually lose from their common presences even the “taste” and “desire” for what is called “objective-being-Being”. Soon after this unforgettable “supreme presentation” of his, he very soon left St. Petersburg for other parts of the continent of Europe and began to have as the chief places of his existence various cities of the countries in Europe as well as on other continents. But he was again later, but for other affairs, in the same community Russia, where during that period of the flow of time their great process there of reciprocal-destruction took place and the destruction of everything already attained by them, which this time, was called by them “Bolshevism”.
He explains to Hassein that this grievous phenomenon arises there thanks to two independent factors, the first of which is the cosmic law Solioonensius, and the second is always the same abnormal conditions of ordinary being-existence established by them themselves and that the most basic factor is their separation in the castes. He also explains to him that the second Transapalnian perturbation to this ill-starred planet, the action of the cosmic law Solioonensius in the general presences of three-brained beings was actualized at least forty-eight times and mainly in Egypt, where Beelzebub himself had been a witness of such horrifying processes of “destruction-of-everything-within-sight” during the Pharaoh dynasty.
In this answer to Hassein, he mentions that that the “good customs” and “moral habits” that became fixed in Russians in the process of their ordinary existence, from the flow of time alone, finally either disappear or are changed to such a direction that they are transformed of their own accord into “unhappy” ones again due to the abnormal conditions for the ordinary being-existence around them and established by them and results in the arising of a special property in their psyche which became the main cause of their evilness and which is called “suggestibility”.