Categoria: BTG XXIV
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B329
B328 B330 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 329] “This Persian king-conqueror then took from Egypt all the learned beings present there, both the native and those who had come from other communities; and among their number were then also several called ‘Egyptian priests,’ descendants of just those learned members of the society Akhaldan who…
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B328
B327 B329 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 328] During this last explanation Hassein interrupted Beelzebub with the following words: “Dear Grandfather, I do not understand why the issuing of the required vibrations for the purpose of the actualization of this most great cosmic process should depend on a definite region of the surface of…
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B327
B326 B328 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 327] “His serious thinking first led his Reason to the understanding that, without any doubt, one or other of the learned beings of his community was aware of this ‘secret’ also, but since among beings of that clan, this strict keeping of a ‘professional’ mystery was very…
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B326
B325 B327 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 326] “And as at that period to which my tale relates, this Persian king needed for some or other of his undoubtedly Hasnamussian aims, a great deal of this metal, rare on the surface of the Earth, called ‘gold,’ and as the notion concerning this method that…
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B325
B324 B326 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 325] “Such a ‘king-conqueror’ there usually orders his subjects to take from the conquered all their lands, all the young beings of female sex present in the conquered community, and all the what is called ‘riches’ accumulated by them during centuries. “And so, my boy, when the…
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B324
B323 B325 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 324] “A greater misfortune for them arising from this particular ‘inherency’ in their common presences is that the mentioned sensation due to the possession of the said metal is strengthened by the beings around the possessor and also by beings who learn about it only by what…
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B323
B322 B324 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 323] “But from the time of what is called the Tikliamish-civilization until now, those beings, especially the contemporary ones, chiefly became learned who ‘learned-by-rote’ as much as possible about every kind of vacuous information, such as old women love to relate about what was presumably said in…
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B322
B321 B323 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 322] “It is absolutely necessary to relate to you in as great detail as possible what occurred during that period in Babylon, as all this information may be valuable material for you for a better elucidation and transubstantiation in your Reason of all the causes which together…
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B321
B320 B322 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 321] “This time our ship Occasion alighted on what is called the ‘Persian Gulf’ because we had ascertained through the Teskooano before our flight that for our further traveling, that is to reach the town of Babylon, and also for the mooring of our ship Occasion itself,…
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B320
B319 B321 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 320] “To be able more or less clearly to represent to yourself the rate at which the length of their existence declined during this time, it is enough for you to know that when I left this solar system for ever, the maximum length of their existence…
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B319
B318 B320 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 319] “And I must confess, my boy, that when I happened to be quite free, I sometimes during whole ‘Sinonoums’ or, as your favorites there approximately define the corresponding flow of time, ‘hours,’ followed with great interest the movements of the said three-brained beings there under observation,…
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B318
B317 B319 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 318] “As for the beings populating the country Maralpleicie one part wandered eastward, while the rest, the major part, went towards the west. “Having crossed the eastern heights, those who went east settled down on the shores of the large Saliakooriapnian spaces, and this country was later…