X. Why “Men” Are Not Men (pgs. B87 – B93)
Chapitre 10 Pourquoi les « hommes » ne sont pas des hommes
Capítulo 10 Porque “homens” não são homens.
Beelzebub tells Hassein the facts that are related to the reasons why men perceive reality ‘upside down’. According to his account the Most High Commission came to Earth for the second time because, in spite of the measures they had taken, they were not fully assured of the impossibility of undesirable surprises in the future. The sacred members of the Most High Commission then reasoned that if the mechanical instinct in the biped three-brained beings of that planet were to develop toward the attainment of Objective Reason, it might possibly happen that they would prematurely comprehend the real reason for their presence on that planet, and they would refuse to continue this existence of theirs and on principle destroy themselves.
So, the Most High Commission decided to implant provisionally in the common presence of the three-brained beings there a special organ with properties that, first, would make them perceive reality ‘upside down’ and, second, would cause every repeated impression from the outside to crystallize in them data that engender factors for evoking sensations of ‘pleasure’ and ‘enjoyment’. With the help of the Universal Arch-Chemist-Physicist, the Angel Looisos, a member of this Most High Commission, they made a ‘something’ grow at the root of their tail, which they called the ‘organ kundabuffer.’
The Most High Commission came to that planet for the third time three years later, according to the objective time-calculation, on this occasion under the direction of the Most Great Arch-Seraph Sevohtaftra; and after satisfying themselves that the precautionary measures they had taken were no longer needed, they destroyed in the presence of three-brained beings there the ‘organ kundabuffer’ with all its astonishing properties.
This story takes place at the time when, Beelzebub’s first ‘teskooano’ had been set up in the observatory he had constructed there, and he was devoting himself entirely to the organization and development of this observatory. Often, planet Earth particularly engaged his attention and he observed that although the process of existence on this planet was gradually established, and to all appearances was taking place just as on all other planets, by close observation it could be seen that the number of these three-brained beings was increasing and that from time to time, they would suddenly, without rhyme or reason, begin destroying one another’s existence.
Beelzebub mentions that during the period he is speaking of, he visited most of the planets of that solar system, and that he liked best of all the three-centered beings dwelling on the planet ‘Saturn’, whose outer form resembles that of the bird-being, raven. He adds that they exist strictly according to the ninth commandment of our Creator: ‘Consider everything belonging to another as if it were your own, and so treat it’ and he promises Hassein to tell him in more detail about those three-brained beings who arise and exist on the planet Saturn and his friend, a being of that planet, who had the exterior coating of a raven and whose name was Harharkh.