XVIII. The Arch-preposterous (pgs. B149 – B176)
Chapitre 18 Archi-fantastique
Capítulo 18 O arqui-prepóstero.
Beelzebub tells Hassein about his first meeting with Gornahoor Harharkh on the planet Saturn, during his exile in the solar system Ors, where he witnessed those novel experiments elucidating the Omnipresent Okidanokh. This meeting took place after the mediation of ‘kharakhrakhrookhry’, that is, the sole chief of all other beings on that planet, who was very friendly towards Beelzebub because he had undergone the sacred action of ‘vznooshlitzval’ in regard to his person. Certain essence-friends of Beelzebub had carried out this sacred process which exists in the Universe under the name of the sacred ‘vznooshlitzval’, that is to say, they implanted in the presence of certain corresponding three-centered beings, by means of another sacred process called ‘askalnooazar’, the impulse that Objective Science describes as ‘trusting another as oneself.’
Beelzebub says that owing entirely to Gornahoor Harharkh’s knowledge, who afterward became his essence-friend, he was later able to install in his observatory on the planet Mars that ‘teskooano’ which enhanced the power of his sight and increased the visibility of remote cosmic concentrations 7,000,285 times.
Gornahoor Harharkh had also invented a special appliance, which he called ‘khrkhakharkhtsakha’, and other special appliances that had enabled him to obtain certain extremely important clarifications about the omnipresent and everywhere-penetrating Okidanokh. During their first meeting in Gornahoor Harharkh’s laboratory Beelzebub had observed his scientific experiments and had participated in one as well.
As he confesses to Hassein in all sincerity, it was the first time in his whole life that his essence had allowed to creep into his being and develop there, side by side with the strange sensations he felt in Gornahoor Harharkh’s appliance, a criminally egoistic anxiety for the safety of his personal existence.
He continues by telling Hassein that just after his return from exile, when his first duty was to present himself to our All-Quarters Maintainer, the Arch-Cherub Peshtvogner, he was asked, among other things, whether he had brought back with him all the being-inventions that had interested him and that he had collected from various planets of that solar system where he had existed during his exile. When he replied that he had brought back almost everything except those cumbersome apparatuses that his friend Gornahoor Harharkh had constructed for him on the planet Mars, the Arch-Cherub Peshtvogner at once promised to give orders that everything Beelzebub indicated should be put on board the space ship Omnipresent on its next trip. So he hopes that everything necessary will have been brought to their planet Karatas and that when they return there, Hassein will be able to see the experiments with his own eyes and he shall be able to explain everything in detail.
He promises Hassein to tell him all about his descents to his planet and the reasons for his appearances there in detail.