Gurdjieff

Categoria: BTG XXIII

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    B306 B308 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 307] “The observatory, I then saw, had five of these hollows. “They began, in relation to the horizon, from different places of the surface of the planet occupied by the observatory, but they all met at a small underground common hollow which was something like a cave.…

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    B294 B296 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 295] “This unexpected constatation shocked him so profoundly that thereafter he devoted the whole of himself exclusively to be able at any cost to unravel this and understand. “First of all he decided to attain without delay such a ‘potency’ as would give him the strength and…

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    B295 B297 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 296] “Further, he then began to make similar sincere observations of the impressions coming from outside as well as those formed within himself, which were perceived by his common presence; and he made them all with the same exhaustive, conscious verifications of how these impressions were perceived…

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    B296 B298 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 297 “Thanks to these inquiries, Belcultassi gradually succeeded in evoking sincerity in his friends and acquaintances, and as a result it turned out that all of them sensed and saw in themselves everything just the same as he did. “Now among these friends and acquaintances of Belcultassi,…

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    B297 B299 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 298] “And this division of theirs into groups occurred for the following reason: “When they had finally become convinced that there was something very undesirable in their presences and they had begun to seek means and possibilities of achieving its removal in order to become such as,…

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    B298 B300 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 299] “The learned members of this first and perhaps last great terrestrial learned society were then divided into seven independent groups, or as it is otherwise said, ‘sections,’ and each of these groups or sections received its definite designation. “The members of the first group of the…

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    B299 B301 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 300] “And as regards the members of the seventh and last group, they were called ‘Akhaldangezpoodjnisovors’; these members of the society Akhaldan devoted themselves to the study of those manifestations in the presences of the three-brained beings of their planet which proceeded in them not in consequence…

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    B300 B302 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 301] “Well then, my boy, when after this catastrophe, a number of the surviving beings, members of that great learned society, gradually came together again, they, no longer having their native country, first settled together with most of the other surviving beings in the center of the…

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    B312 <=> B314 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 314] “Though we had previously decided to carry out the experiments with these apes only on the following year, when they would have become thoroughly acclimatized and orientated to existence under the new conditions, I ascended then to the planet Saturn so soon because at my…

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    B303 B305 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 304] “Although the expectations that I had formed from all that our countrymen had told me concerning the mentioned new observatory there, before I had seen it with my own eyes, were not justified, nevertheless, the observatory itself and also the other constructions of the beings then…

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    B304 B306 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 305] “And later, when the same constant abnormal conditions of ordinary being-existence were finally established, as a consequence of which Great Nature was compelled, for reasons of which I have already once told you, among other limitations, also to degenerate the functioning of their organ of sight…

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    B305 B307 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 306] “But if these results take place beyond the mentioned limit, then this manifestation does not at all extend to those beings in whose presences there are organs for the perception of visibility, formed only by the results of the totality of ‘Itoklanoz.’ “Here it is very…

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    B293 B295 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 294] “And however long a time may have already passed, every three-brained being in whose presence there has been acquired the ability to enter into the being-state called ‘Soorptakalknian contemplation’ can perceive and cognize the texts of these Korkaptilnian thought tapes. “And so, my boy, I myself…

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    B307 B309 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 308] “All these ‘constructions’ of theirs occupied a fairly large open space of that part of the said region, and were enclosed by a special lattice-work made of the plant then called there ‘Zalnakatar.’ “It is extremely interesting to notice here that they erected at the chief…

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    B308 B310 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 309] “This Bull trunk rested on the four legs of another being existing there, also of a definite form, called ‘Lion,’ and to that part of the Bull trunk called its ‘back’ two large wings were attached similar in appearance to those of a strong bird-being breeding…

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    B309 B311 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 310] “’And this emblem of ours is understood by all of us, members of the society Akhaldan in the following way: “’The trunk of this allegorical being, represented by the trunk of a “Bull,” means that the factor crystallized in us and which engender in our presences…

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    B310 B312 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 311] “In order, my boy, that the sense of this latter emblem put into the material called there amber, may become quite comprehensible to you, I must add that amber is one of those seven planetary formations, in the arising of which the Omnipresent Active Element Okidanokh…

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    B311 B313 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 312] “It was just then, that in the general function of my Reason there was also associated among other things the following: “Good! . . . If none of the benefits already formerly attained by the Reason of the beings of the continent Atlantis for ordinary being-existence…

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    B312 B314 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 313] “The point is that when, during the apogee of the development of such a peculiarity – terrifying to every Reason – of the psyche of the three-brained beings, they began to manifest outside of themselves this phenomenal peculiarity of their common presences, that is to say,…

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    B301 B303 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 302] “And the relations of our tribe with that part of your planet and also with the first migration there of the chance surviving former members of the society Akhaldan were as follows: “I told you once that just before the second ‘Transapalnian perturbation’ our Party-Pythoness, while…