Gurdjieff

Categoria: BTG XLIII

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    B1077 B1079 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1078] “And indeed, it is just such a terrestrial being under somebody’s thumb who, as a rule, is more indignant than anyone else at other beings of their planet, as for instance at some King, who for some reason or other is unable to keep in…

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    B1078 B1080 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1079] “And these walking anatomical museums there invariably instruct others with great authority how to get rid of this cold and it is precisely they alone who write various books and manuals concerning all kinds of other diseases there and expound in minute detail how to…

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    B1079 B1081 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1080] “Yes, my boy, when you will exist among them and will be a witness of these incongruous being-manifestations, then, even in spite of the fact that you know the cause of these incongruities, you will be unable, as they express it, not to ‘laugh’ inwardly…

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    B1080 B1082 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1081] “Such beings, no doubt, are also still met with there on your planet as approximately answer to this sense of the word, but only among those contemporary beings of the planet Earth who are considered, according to the understanding of most of the beings there,…

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    B1081 B1083 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1082] “But never do their outer manifestations in general nor those inner-being-impulses of theirs, which ought to be under the directive of their being-’I,’ proceed according to their own wish resulting from the whole of their entire presence. “I must here tell you further that certain…

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    B1082 B1084 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1083] “And as regards the beings of the second of the enumerated states, that is, those who also after a certain transformation of their psyche are called by other beings plutocrats, then to the beings thus called, those of the intelligentsics there are promoted who previously,…

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    B1083 B1085 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1084] “Although these types already existed in ancient Greece, also, yet they were then called there ‘plusiocrats.’ “Several centuries ago, however, when many of these ‘types’ were developed there and when it became clear that the other beings of the Earth had somehow to dignify them…

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    B1084 B1086 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1085] “The first half, however, of this word was not taken from the ancient Greek as was usually done, but from the what is called ‘Russian language,’ namely, they took the Russian word ‘plut’ – in Russian ‘plut’ means ‘rogue’ – and in this way obtained…

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    B1069 B1071 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1070] “And regarding the same question it happens there just as our dear Mullah Nassr Eddin has already once said, namely: ‘This is the highest punishment: pull at the tail the mane gets stuck, pull at the mane and the tail gets stuck.’ “Whatever might have…

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    B1086 B1088 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1087] “Now, my boy, from the various intelligentsics enumerated by me it remains for me to tell you about those terrestrial types whom the other beings call zevrocrats and aristocrats, who are distinguished by the cognomens given to them, such as ‘emir,’ ‘count,’ ‘khan,’ ‘prince,’ ‘melik,’…

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    B1087 B1089 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1088] “Such a question was evoked in me by the beings there who belong to the caste of the bureaucrats, yet nevertheless as regards them one might still explain this to you, at least ‘more or less.’ Although the series of experiencings in them is also…

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    B1088 B1090 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1089] “I must tell you that your favorites there for some reason or other delight in sometimes arranging what are called ‘puppet shows.’ “For some reason or other it also pleases them that these same zevrocrats or aristocrats should also take part in these ‘puppet plays’…

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    B1089 B1091 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1090] “’The kazi are the same everywhere, only their names are different. In Persia they are called Persian, in Turkey, Turkish. “’And that is just as it is everywhere on Earth; donkeys are alike, they are only differently called. “’For instance, the species of donkey breeding…

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    B1090 B1092 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1091] “The said society of terrestrial beings-men arose, as I have already told you, six or seven centuries ago on the continent Asia in a town then existing under the name of Mosulopolis. “And it arose from the following cause: “Just at that period, the processes…

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    B1091 B1093 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1092] “And so, when on their continent Asia, these terrible processes of reciprocal destruction there became already too frequent, certain brothers of the said fraternity, with the most venerable Brother Olmantaboor at their head, just decided for the first time to try whether it would not…

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    B1092 B1094 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1093] “And thirdly, there entered into the fundamental program of this society finally to bring about the organization in the center of Asia, namely, in the city Margelan, the capital of what was called the ‘Ferghanian Khanate,’ of a chief and basic government for all the…

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    B1093 B1095 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1094] “And everything subsequent came about through the influence of a then very famous philosopher, Atarnakh, and his theory expounded by him in a treatise under the title: ‘Why do Wars Occur on the Earth?’ “When this philosopher made his appearance among the members of this…

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    B1094 B1096 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1095] “’Obviously our lives serve also for maintaining something great or small in the World.’ “This idea expressed in the ancient manuscript so captivated the philosopher Atarnakh that thereafter he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the study of only this aspect of the question which had interested…

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    B1095 B1097 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1096] “They were so struck with this theory of his, that at first, as is said there, a ‘sepulchral silence’ prevailed among them for quite a time, and, plunged into stupor, none of them could even stir, and only after the lapse of rather a long…

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    B1096 B1098 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1097] “In consequence of this, from that very same day, as they gradually became familiar with the details of this astonishing theory, they began to get into the state of typical beings of the Earth, that is to say, they began to forget the extraordinary hypothesis…