IX. The Cause of the Genesis of the Moon (pgs. B81 – B86)
Chapitre 9 Cause de la genèse de la Lune
Capítulo 9 A causa da gênese da Lua.
Beelzebub relates to Hassein the events that took place on planet Earth while he and his relatives gradually begun to settle down on planet Mars. According to Beelzebub’s account, as a result of the erroneous calculations of a certain Sacred Individual who dealt with matters of world-creation and world-maintenance, the planet Earth and the comet Kondoor collided and two large fragments broke off from the planet Earth and flew into space. The larger of these two fragments was named ‘Loonderperzo’—and has come to be called ‘Moon’—and the smaller was called ‘Anulios’.
As soon as our Endlessness was informed of this general cosmic misfortune a full commission of angels and archangels, under the direction of the Great Archangel Sakaki, was dispatched to the solar system Ors. The Most High Commission came to our planet Mars and having considered al the available facts, came to the conclusion that, although the fragments of the planet Earth might maintain themselves for the time being in their existing positions, yet in view of certain ‘tastartoonarnian displacements’ envisaged by the commission, they might some day stray from their positions and bring about many irreparable calamities, both for the system Ors and for neighboring solar systems. So, the Most High Commission resolved that the best solution would be for the fundamental mass, that is, the planet Earth, to maintain its detached fragments by constantly sending them the sacred vibrations called ‘askokin’.
When these Sacred Individuals had obtained the sanction of His Endlessness, the ilnosoparnian process was actualized on the planet Earth, still under the direction of the Great Archangel Sakaki. And so from that time on, on that planet, as on many others, there began to arise everything corresponding to the ‘ilnosoparno’, thanks to which the detached fragments exist until now without constituting a threat of catastrophe on a universal scale.
In due course there began to appear on the planet Earth ‘similitudes of the Whole’ or, as they are also called, ‘microcosmoses,’ and from these microcosmoses were formed ‘oduristolnian’ and ‘polormedekhtic’ vegetation and still later various forms of ‘tetartocosmoses’ of all three-brain-systems.
And among them arose for the first time those biped tetartocosmoses who had the same possibilities of perfecting the functions needed to acquire being-Reason as have all other forms of ‘tetartocosmoses’ throughout the whole Universe.
But later, just during the period when they were gradually beginning to be spiritualized by what is called ‘being-instinct’—as also takes place on similar planets of our Great Universe-there befell that misfortune, unforeseen from Above, which was so grievous for them.