XII. The First “Growl” (pgs. B98 – B102)
Chapitre 12 Premiers grondements
Capítulo 12 Primeiros rugidos.
Beelzebub, in order to provide useful material for understanding the strangeness of the psyche of the three brained beings of the planet Earth, tells Hassein the story of a being that was by profession a ‘writer.’ According to his account, one day, a book called ‘The Gospels’ fell into the writer’s hand and he decided to write a much better gospel for his contemporaries, as he believed.
At the time the ‘gospel’ of that writer appeared there were certain financial problems in the great community in which he existed and the ‘power-possessing beings’ kept on making inordinate demands from the ordinary beings of his community, so these beings at last awakened from their usual ‘torpor’ began to ‘sit up.’ Seeing this, the ‘power possessing beings’ became alarmed and took appropriate measures; among these measures was the total and immediate destruction of anything new that appeared in their native land that could possibly keep the ordinary beings of their community from falling back into their torpor. In the contents of this new ‘gospel’, some of them, found certain things which, in their understanding, might keep the ordinary beings from hibernating again; and so they immediately decided to get rid of both the writer and his ‘gospel.’ But the result of the fact that the writer and his ‘gospel’ were publicly anathematized was ‘just roses, roses’ for him. Because, when the ordinary beings of that community saw what a fuss was made over this writer by the power-possessing beings, they became greatly interested in him, and bought and read avidly not only this new ‘gospel’ of his but also all the books he had written before.
So, owing to the strangeness of their psyche, it has gradually come about that even today, when this ‘gospel’ has long since been forgotten, the name of this author is known almost everywhere as that of an excellent writer.