XIV. The Beginnings of Perspectives Promising Nothing Very Cheerful (pgs. B106 – B108)
Chapitre 14 Où l’on entrevoit une perspective qui ne promet rien de très gai
Capítulo 14 As origens de perspectivas prometendo nenhum grande contentamento.
Beelzebub continues his narration about the beings the planet Earth saying that in the beginning they had the same presences as those of all the ‘keschapmartnian’ three-brained beings arising on all the corresponding planets of the whole of our Great Universe, and that they also had the same duration of existence as all other three-brained beings.
But after the second misfortune had occurred to this ill-fated planet, during which its chief continent, existing under the name of ‘Atlantis’, entered within the planet, they begun to create all sorts of conditions of external being-existence that caused the quality of their radiations to go steadily from bad to worse. And Great Nature was thus compelled gradually to transform their common presence through various compromises and changes, in order to regulate the quality of the vibrations they radiated, which were required chiefly to preserve the being-welfare of the former fragments of their planet.
He says that as far as their psyche is concerned, its fundamental traits have precisely the same peculiarities in all of them, no matter where they arise. And among these is that special property thanks to which only on that strange planet in the whole of the Universe does there occur the horrible ‘process of the destruction of each other’s existence’ or ‘war.’
As he explains to Hassein, besides this chief particularity in their common psyche, certain properties in each of them are completely crystallized and become an integral part of their common presence, properties that exist under the names of ‘egoism,’ ‘self-love,’ ‘vanity,’ ‘pride,’ ‘conceit,’ ‘credulity,’ and ‘suggestibility’ which he considers to be the most terrible one for them.
He ends his narration by mentioning for the first time, in this chapter, the fact that he personally visited the surface of the planet Earth six times, and that each of these visits was brought about by a different set of circumstances.