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B354
B353 B355 [BTG XXVI “The-terror-of-the-situation,” p. 354] “’At this period of my “self-preparation,” I had the intention upon reaching responsible age, of carrying out the task laid upon me, through one or other of the said three sacred being-impulses also. “’But when during this period of my “self-preparation” I chanced to meet many beings of…
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B1222
B1221 B1223 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1222] If he seriously ponders and is really able to enter deeply into this and to cognize his own death, what could be more terrifying? In ordinary life, particularly in recent times, over and above the depressing fact of the inevitability of death which must infallibly occur…
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B1229
B1228 B1230 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1229] For the drops, there is not a separate predetermination of their personal fate – a predetermined fate is for the whole river only. At the beginning of the flow of the river, the lives of drops are here one moment, there the next moment, and a…
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B782
B781 B783 [BTG XXXIX The holy planet “Purgatory,” p. 782] “When the abnormal conditions of ordinary being-existence were finally fixed there – in consequence of which there disappeared from their essence both the instinctive and the intentional striving for perfecting – there not only disappeared in them the need of conscious absorption of cosmic substances,…
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B793
B792 B794 [BTG XXXIX The holy planet “Purgatory,” p. 793] “Just this same totality of substances which inevitably always arises as the final sum in the presences of all beings from their first being-food, became one of the chief causes of the fact that later, when they ceased to actualize ‘being-Partkdolg-duty’ in their common presences,…
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B800
B799 B801 [BTG XXXIX The holy planet “Purgatory,” p. 800] “This grievous phenomenon of these Sacred Individuals put them indeed in a helpless position, because, although having no possibility on account of those mentioned ‘sins’ in their presences of uniting with the Bosom of the Prime-Source of the Whole, they at the same time, having…
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B801
B800 B802 [BTG XXXIX The holy planet “Purgatory,” p. 801] “In the common presences of these unfortunate higher being-bodies now existing on this holy planet, perfected in Reason to the highest limit attainable by ordinary higher cosmic Individuals, there is only this single datum, which sometimes engenders in them the impulse of hope, and that…
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B806
B805 B807 [BTG XXXIX The holy planet “Purgatory,” p. 806] “After the loss of the continent Atlantis, certain knowledge concerning the origin and significance of this same ‘being-Exioëry’ also survived, and this knowledge also began to pass from generation to generation. “And so, about thirty or thirty-five of their centuries ago, when after a big…
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B822
B821 B823 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 822] “Do you remember, I already told you that on the continent of Asia there was a country Maralpleicie and that a King existed there by name Konuzion, a descendant of that learned member of the Society of Akhaldans, who had gone there from Atlantis for the observation of…
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B953
B952 B954 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 953] “’Astonishingly smart fellows, these Americans; even their bread is something extraordinary; so “superb,” so “white” and simply charming – really the splendor of splendors of contemporary civilization.’ “But that from this deformity of wheat, their bread results in being ‘worthless’ and, furthermore, constitutes another of the…
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B10
B9 B11 The Russian language, it cannot be denied, is very good. I even like it, but . . . only for swapping anecdotes and for use in referring to someone’s parentage. The Russian language is like the English, which language is also very good, but only for discussing in “smoking rooms,” while sitting on…
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B295
B294 B296 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 295] “This unexpected constatation shocked him so profoundly that thereafter he devoted the whole of himself exclusively to be able at any cost to unravel this and understand. “First of all he decided to attain without delay such a ‘potency’ as would give him the strength and…
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B296
B295 B297 [BTG XXIII Beelzebub’s fourth sojourn, p. 296] “Further, he then began to make similar sincere observations of the impressions coming from outside as well as those formed within himself, which were perceived by his common presence; and he made them all with the same exhaustive, conscious verifications of how these impressions were perceived…
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B1192
B1191 B1193 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1192] A man as a whole with all his separately concentrated and functioning localizations, that is to say, his formed and independently educated “personalities,” is almost exactly comparable to that organization for conveying a passenger, which consists of a carriage, a horse, and a coachman. It must…
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B1207
B1206 B1208 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1207] “You go to the phone and the girl connects you with the wrong number. “You ring again, and get the same number. Some man informs you that you are bothering him, you tell him it is not your fault, and what with one word and another,…
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B1209
B1208 B1210 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1209] To possess the right to the name of “man,” one must be one. And to be such, one must first of all, with an indefatigable persistence and an unquenchable impulse of desire, issuing from all the separate independent parts constituting one’s entire common presence, that is…
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B1210
B1209 B1211 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1210] And as regards this possibility of correctly conducting self-observation and conducting it without the risk of incurring the maleficent consequences which have more than once been observed from people’s attempts to do this without proper knowledge, it is necessary that the warning must be given –…
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B1211
B1210 B1212 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1211] Thanks to correctly conducted self-observation, a man will from the first days clearly grasp and indubitably establish his complete powerlessness and helplessness in the face of literally everything around him. With the whole of his being he will be convinced that everything governs him, everything directs…
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B435
B434 B436 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 435] “The beings of that contemporary community Italy exists at the present time very quietly and peacefully, doing nothing more than unostentatiously inventing ever new forms of their harmless and very innocent what is called ‘macaroni.’ “Nevertheless, there had passed to certain beings of that contemporary…
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B453
B452 B454 [BTG XXX Art, p. 453] “This interested me very much, and I thought at once whether it would not be possible for me to make use of this newly opened club for my practice in the Hellenic speech. “I then inquired of certain beings who were going in or coming out of that…