Gurdjieff

Categoria: BTG XLIII

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    B1066 B1068 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1067] “Such societies of power-possessing beings usually arise there at the beginning of the end of the great processes of reciprocal destruction. And almost each time they arise in the following way: “A number of them, namely, from among those power-possessors, personally suffered during their last…

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    B1067 B1069 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1068] “In this manner all such societies formed there usually begin. “These beings might, perhaps, somehow or other achieve good results, but the evil lies in this, that, as a rule, other of these terrestrial important and power-possessing beings very soon enter such societies and begin…

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    B1068 B1070 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1069] “In the course of observations during my last sojourn there I cleared up, among other things, that the beings with objective Reason do not happen to be in these societies for the following reasons: “The point is that in order to participate in any society…

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    B1109 B1111 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1110] “With this aim in view, they tried to have no active experiencings during their monthly states, and in order that thoughts flowing by association should not hinder them from concentrating, everything was arranged so that their thoughts should be directed the whole time to wishing…

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    B1110 B1112 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1111] (2) If a being began to prove to others anything about which he himself knew nothing whatsoever, or was not sure of (3) If a being failed to keep his word of honor, or took his oath in vain (4) And finally, if there appeared…

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    B1111 B1113 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1112] “The need for these special buildings was again understood and they were actualized by a very sensible Hebrew king named Solomon. “And that special building which this sensible Hebrew king decided first of all to construct and which still continued long afterwards among his subjects,…

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    B1112 B1114 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1113] “An unclean force or evil spirit will enter into those husbands or into men in general who touch or even speak with them during this period; in consequence of which there would be among men in their everyday relations and affairs only misunderstandings, quarrels, and…

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    B1113 B1115 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1114] “That is why this good custom was not only not spread further, but gradually, also owing to their other characteristic properties, which I have already sufficiently explained to you, that is to say, owing to the fact that this Hebrew people had themselves fallen under…

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    B1114 B1116 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1115] “’Oh, you unfortunate creature! Your mother must have sung an Armenian ballad while you were being born.’ “Even the interpreter of Russian wisdom, Kusma Proutkoff, has good sayings for such a case: “’The unluckiest among us is the fir cone, because every Makkar stumbles over…

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    B1115 B1117 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1116] “I noticed in the cities Petrograd and Tiflis situated in the large community Russia, of which community more beings perished than of any other during that World War of theirs, that that kind of quadruped being which as a rule never appeared there, namely, the…

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    B1116 B1118 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1117] Having said this, Beelzebub became silent and began to look expectantly at his grandson who, as if talking to himself, very sadly, in a tone full of despair, said: “How will it all end? Is there really no way out at all? “Must these unfortunate…

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    B1117 B1119 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1118] “Yes, my dear Hassein. . . “Certainly there is something not quite right here. “But if nothing could be done for the beings of that planet by that Being who now already has the Reason of the sacred ‘Podkoolad’ and is one of the first…

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    B1085 B1087 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1086] “Namely, he said: ‘Isn’t it all one to the poor flies how they are killed? By a kick of the hooves of horned devils, or by a stroke of the beautiful wings of divine angels?’ “And concerning those types there whom all others called democrats,…

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    B1070 B1072 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1071] “Knowing their, so to say, ‘ways,’ I am quite sure that they will not occupy themselves with those questions which are within the reach of their understanding. “They would like to do and really do everything in such a direction that these processes of reciprocal…

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    B1071 B1073 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1072] “If they would attain the abolition of these two practices which have already become firmly fixed in the process of their abnormal ordinary being-existence, then, thanks to the abolition of the first, they would eradicate forever the greater part of those ‘automatic factors’ which make…

  • B1073

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    B1072 B1074 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1073] “But the misfortune for all the other ordinary favorites of yours is that these power-possessing and important beings assembled from the whole of the planet do not begin to occupy themselves with these questions, considering them to be beneath their dignity. “What next! Such ‘important’…

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    B1073 B1075 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1074] “He then said, among other things, that if for some reason or other you happen to exist there on the planet Earth, and to mix with these strange three-brained beings, then you must always be very careful with those contemporary types there who are called…

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    B1074 B1076 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1075] “I wish to point out to you one great ‘secret’ of their psyche, namely, I wish to point out to you only one particularity of theirs which, if you know how to profit by it, might create in each one of them the same effect…

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    B1075 B1077 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1076] “It has already become customary there at the present time that all your favorites always teach others like themselves even things the notion of which they have not even dreamed of, and the joke of it is that if these others do not learn from…

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    B1076 B1078 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1077] “I might as well here remark that thanks to this property of your favorites always to grow indignant at the defects of others around them, they make their existence, already wretched and abnormal without this, objectively unbearable. “Thanks to this constant indignation, the ordinary being-existence…