Tag: Auto…
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B721
B720 B722 [BTG XXXVIII Religion, p. 721] “And they learned about it only when that mob was already up. “When the beings of this high country learned of this unusual event, they immediately became alarmed and agitated, because they had grown accustomed to the notion during many centuries that the place of their existence was…
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B948
B947 B949 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 948] “The beings of this continent do sometimes consume fresh fruit; but as for these fruits of theirs – they cannot be said to be fruits, but simply and solely as our dear teacher would say, ‘freaks.’ “By means of the trees, existing in abundance on this…
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B1125
B1124 B1126 [BTG XLIV Understanding of justice, p. 1125] “The more these indignant righteous ‘souls’ shared their impressions with others, the greater their number gradually increased, so that everywhere in the ‘Zarooaries’ on the holy planet they thought and deliberated among themselves only about this. “The result of it all was that all of the…
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B537
B536 B538 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 537] “But meanwhile, by this time, as it proved, there had already been almost atrophied in them every kind of data for the arising in their presences of the being-impulse called ‘sincerity.’ And it was atrophied to such a degree that they no longer had the…
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B538
B537 B539 [BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 538] “Consequently, in their presences there arise more and more frequently the causes for the manifestation of the said being- impulse of Remorse of Conscience. And as the sensations thereby induced, which are similar to those which arise from ‘being-Partkdolg-duty,’ infallibly lead to the suppression and…
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B1177
B1176 B1178 [BTG XLVII Result impartial mentation, p. 1177] When the whole of this unusual ceremony neared its end and before all those assembled had had time to recover their self-possession from their earlier joyful agitation, there suddenly and unexpectedly appeared on the horns of Beelzebub quite independently a fifth fork of a special form…
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B1185
B1184 B1186 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1185] While I was reading that first chapter, which I wrote only six years ago, but which seems to me by my present sensing to have been written long long ago, a sensing which is now in my common presence obviously because during that time I had…
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B406
B405 B407 [BTG XXVIII Destruction of Ashiata’s labors, p. 406] (1) Every kind of depravity, conscious as well as unconscious (2) The feeling of self-satisfaction from leading others astray (3) The irresistible inclination to destroy the existence of other breathing creatures (4) The urge to become free from the necessity of actualizing the being-efforts demanded…
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B410
B409 B411 [BTG XXVIII Destruction of Ashiata’s labors, p. 410] “One of these four disharmonized planets called ‘Eternal-Retribution’ is specially prepared for the ‘Eternal-Hasnamuss-individuals’ and the other three for those ‘Higher being-bodies’ of Hasnamusses in whose common presences there is still the possibility of ‘at some time or other’ eliminating from themselves the mentioned maleficent…
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B472
B471 B473 [BTG XXX Art, p. 472] “Deteriorating century by century, the ‘sensibility-of-perception’ of that organ also – namely, the organ by means of which there chiefly proceeds for the presences of the three-brained beings what is called the ‘automatic-satiation-of-externals’ which is the basis for the possibility of natural self-perfecting – had reached such a…
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B474
B473 B475 [BTG XXX Art, p. 474] “But what is most interesting in respect of this progressive deterioration of that most important part of their common presence is the sorry farce that results, namely, that those contemporary three-brained beings there who can still manage to distinguish the mentioned miserable fraction of the total number of…
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B769
B768 B770 [BTG XXXIX The holy planet “Purgatory,” p. 769] “It is necessary to tell you that concerning the determination of the degree of individuality, our cherubim and seraphim also then at the very beginning established that still now existing sacred ‘Determinator-of-Reason’ which is applied for the determination of the gradations of Reason or, more…
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B423
B422 B424 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 423] “Although every time the place of the center of culture of your favorites, those strange three-brained beings, has been changed, and what is called a new ‘civilization’ has arisen, and each new civilization has brought for the beings of succeeding epochs something both new and…
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B424
B423 B425 [BTG XXIX Fruits of former civilizations, p. 424] “This took place, on the one hand, as I have already said, owing to the constant influence of both these communities, and, on the other hand, owing to that peculiarity of their psyche – common to all the three-brained beings of that planet, and already…
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B39
B38 B40 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 39] If before my acquaintance with this “all-universal principle of living” I had actualized all manifestations differently from other biped animals similar to me, arising and vegetating with me on one and the same planet, then I did so automatically, and sometimes only half consciously, but…
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B256
B255 B257 [BTG XXII Beelzebub’s first time Tibet, p. 256] “The particular strangeness of this peculiarity of theirs consists in this, that those who belong to any such sect never call themselves ‘sectarians,’ the name being considered offensive; they are named ‘sectarians’ only by those beings who do not belong to their sect. “And the…
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B258
B257 B259 [BTG XXII Beelzebub’s first time Tibet, p. 258] “In their agreement it was included that they should exist in a certain way until their final planetary destruction or, as they say, until their death, in order by this special form of existence to purify their, as they said, ‘soul’ of all the alien…
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B261
B260 B262 [BTG XXII Beelzebub’s first time Tibet, p. 261] “Your immured favorites did indeed exist in the said monastery sepulchres until their existence, so full of deprivations, half-starved and motionless, came quite to an end. “When the companions of the immured learned of the cessation of the existence of any one of them, his…
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B1141
B1140 B1142 [BTG XLIV Understanding of justice, p. 1141] “And indeed at the present time there, your favorites have already based all questions without exception, questions concerning ordinary being-existence as well as questions about self-perfecting and also about various ‘philosophies’ and every kind of ‘science’ existing there, and of course also about their innumerable ‘religious…
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B1144
B1143 B1145 [BTG XLIV Understanding of justice, p. 1144] “In short, to the imagination of these three-brained freaks of our Megalocosmos, a Devil is that invisible ‘somebody’ existing, as it were, among them, who on the command of our CREATOR ALL-MAINTAINER dwells on their planet for certain of HIS ALL-MAINTAINER’S aims. “These Devils, as it…