Gurdjieff

Categoria: BTG XIX

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    B191 B193 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 192] “’But what has the existence of another being, which you destroy, to do with this, and, moreover, one whose existence you destroy in the name of its CREATOR? “’Is not that “life” just the same as yours for the CREATOR Who created you as well as…

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    B205 B207 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 206] “And so, from the sea Kolhidious, I soon ascended on the ship Occasion to the planet Mars, where our beings and several kind Martians, who had already learned of the events which had taken place on the planet Earth, paid due respect to the planetary body…

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    B204 B206 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 205] “But during the day I feared that the same or other unconscionable beings might commit further outrages on my friend’s planetary body, so I decided at least to prevent the possible actualization of what I feared. “I therefore immediately hired several suitable beings for a great…

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    B203 B205 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 204] “And this occurred in the following way: “My friend had no relatives at all in the city Koorkalai, having been born in some distant place. “And as for the hundreds of servants and other ordinary terrestrial nullities who had been around him owing to his former…

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    B202 B204 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 203] “His colleagues began delivering addresses in their temples proving exactly the opposite of all that the priest Abdil had preached. “At last it came to the point that the priesthood began to bribe various beings who had ‘Hasnamuss’ properties to plan and commit every kind of…

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    B201 B203 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 202] “Thereafter fragments from his speech began to be spread among those who had not personally heard it. “It is interesting to notice, that it was the custom then, for priests to exist simply on the offerings of their parishioners, and this priest Abdil had also been…

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    B200 B202 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 201] “’If by his Reason a being is higher than you, you must always bow down before him and try to imitate him in everything; but if he is lower than you, you must be just towards him, because you once occupied the same place according to…

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    B199 B201 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 200] “’It will run after you and cut every sort of caper before you just to please you all the more. “’You can be familiar with it, you can beat it, you can hurt it; it will never turn on you, but will always humiliate itself still…

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    B198 B200 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 199] “’But here on Earth, men have even divided beings of all other forms into the clean and the unclean. “’Tell me what guided them, when they made this division? “’Why, for instance, is a sheep clean, and a lion unclean? Are they both not equally beings?…

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    B197 B199 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 198] “’Then perhaps on the Earth also, would begin to exist the eighteenth personal commandment of our COMMON CREATOR which declared: “Love everything that breathes.” “’This offering to God of sacrifices by destroying the existence of HIS other creations is just as if somebody from the street…

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    B196 B198 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 197] “’For our COMMON CREATOR all beings are only parts of the existence of a whole essence spiritualized by HIMSELF. “’But what do we see here now? “’One form of beings created by HIM, in whose presences HE has placed all HIS hopes and expectations for the…

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    B195 B197 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 196] “’Can you, for instance, carry on those two weak legs of yours as much as that donkey can? “’Certainly not, because your legs are given you only for carrying yourself and the little that is necessary for the normal existence of a three-brained being as foreseen…

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    B194 B196 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 195] “’And therefore, according to law, there is absent from the presence of your donkey the possibility of logical-mentation, and consequently, according to law, he must be what you call “senseless,” or “stupid.” “’Although you were created for the purpose of the common-cosmic existence on planets, and…

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    B193 B195 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 194] “’Also, of course not! Because it has not the corresponding organs for manifestations of this kind. “’It was created for the water and its internal and also external organs are adapted for the manifestations required in the water. It can manifest itself effectively and successfully and…

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    B192 B194 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 193] “’When GOD created you and these beings whose existence you destroy, could our CREATOR then have written on the foreheads of certain of HIS creatures, that they were to be destroyed in HIS honor and glory? “’If anyone, even an idiot from “Albion’s Isles,” were to…

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    B176 <=> B178 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 177] Chapter XIX Beelzebub’s Tales About His Second Descent on to the Planet Earth BELZEBU começou assim: “Desci em seu planeta Terra pela segunda vez, apenas onze dos seus séculos após minha primeira descida lá. “Pouco depois da minha primeira descida à superfície desse planeta, ocorreu…

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    B190 B192 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 191] “Well, then, my boy, no sooner was this clearly constated in my Reason, than the idea occurred to me to actualize through this first terrestrial friend of mine, the task for which this second descent of mine in person had been made. “I therefore intentionally began…

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    B189 B191 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 190] “The custom of ‘pleasing-their-gods’ by destroying the existence of other beings is followed there, on your planet, until now, only not on the scale on which these abominations were practiced by your favorites at that time on the continent Ashhark. “Well, then, my boy, during the…

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    B188 B190 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 189] “With the same aim, these favorites of yours of that period even divided the beings of all other forms into ‘clean’ and ‘unclean.’ “’Unclean,’ they called those forms of being, the destruction of whose existence was presumably not pleasing to their gods; and ‘clean,’ those beings,…

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    B187 B189 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 188] “Soon after we were on ‘good terms’ with each other, I discovered that in the Being of this priest Abdil – owing to very many external circumstances among which were also heredity and the conditions under which he had been prepared for a responsible being –…