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Waldberg (Gurdjieff) – Relatos de Belzebu segundo Charles Duits
A linguagem de Relatos de Belzebu a seu neto quase não foi tratada, ou mal tratada, até agora. O estudo ainda não publicado de Charles Duits, que não é um estudo exaustivo, mas sim reflexões que podem ser confiadas, sem preocupação com a literatura, ao seu diário ou a um amigo, parece-me digno de ser…
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B1026
B1025 B1027 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 1026] “From the said explosion of the lice, a hearer sometimes has the impression that somewhere not far off, firing is going on from several dozen of their what are called machine guns. “Well then, after these ‘worthy gypsies’ have shaken their no less worthy clothing, they…
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B224
B223 B225 [BTG XX Beelzebub’s third flight, p. 224] “And at times if the offended one had greater physical strength, and an important power-possessing being with whom he was not on very good terms was not watching him, he would simply maul the offender as the Russian Sidor once mauled his favorite goat. “Very well…
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B1101
B1100 B1102 [BTG XLIII Beelzebub’s opinion of war, p. 1101] “And on that same day, the name of that society was changed. “Some days later, the members of that society now under the new motto, ‘The-Earth-Only-for-Men,’ dispersed from the city Mosulopolis to their native countries where, under the general instructions issuing from the philosopher Atarnakh,…
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B199
B198 B200 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 199] “’But here on Earth, men have even divided beings of all other forms into the clean and the unclean. “’Tell me what guided them, when they made this division? “’Why, for instance, is a sheep clean, and a lion unclean? Are they both not equally beings?…
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B195
B194 B196 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 195] “’And therefore, according to law, there is absent from the presence of your donkey the possibility of logical-mentation, and consequently, according to law, he must be what you call “senseless,” or “stupid.” “’Although you were created for the purpose of the common-cosmic existence on planets, and…
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B191
B190 B192 [BTG XIX Beelzebub’s second descent, p. 191] “Well, then, my boy, no sooner was this clearly constated in my Reason, than the idea occurred to me to actualize through this first terrestrial friend of mine, the task for which this second descent of mine in person had been made. “I therefore intentionally began…
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B109
B108 <=> B110 [BTG XV First descent upon Earth, p. 109] Chapter XV The First Descent of Beelzebub upon the Planet Earth Naquele planeta Terra”, começou a contar Belzebu, “desci pela primeira vez por causa de um jovem de nossa tribo que tivera a infelicidade de se envolver profundamente com um ser tricerebral de aí,…
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B43
B42 B44 [BTG I The arousing of thought, p. 43] It is not for nothing that our renowned and incomparable teacher, Mullah Nassr Eddin, frequently says: “Without greasing the palm not only is it impossible to live anywhere tolerably but even to breathe.” And another also terrestrial sage, who has become such, thanks to the…
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B516
B515 B517 [BTG XXX Art, p. 516] “And the means of tickling which infallibly act on the psyche of these unfortunate favorites of yours are as I noticed during my stay there, the following: “Suppose that the face of one of these representatives of art resembles the face of a crocodile, then be sure to…
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B1024
B1023 B1025 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 1024] “The disease which the Great Moses devoted half his existence to eradicating from among children, a host of your contemporary favorites of responsible age have, almost deliberately, resurrected again and spread not only among children and the general mass of adults but also even among the…
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Sacrificial-Offerings
“Before telling you more about this priest Abdil, I must make clear to your Reason, that there on the continent of Ashhark, the mentioned terrible custom of Sacrificial-Offerings was at that time, as it is said, at its ‘height’, and the destruction of various weak one-brained and two-brained beings proceeded everywhere in incalculable numbers. BTG…
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B632
B631 B633 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 632] “These terrifying processes proceeded on this same Egypt so often, in consequence of the fact that this part of the surface of your planet, during the course of long periods of time, found itself in relation to the common-cosmic Harmonious-Movement in the position of what is called the…
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Faith
“‘These meditations of mine made it categorically clear to me, that all the genuine functions proper to men-beings, as they are proper to all the three-centered beings of our Great Universe, had already degenerated in their remote ancestors into other functions, namely, into functions included among the properties of the organ Kundabuffer which were very…
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B361
B360 B362 [BTG XXVI “The-terror-of-the-situation,” p. 361] “And as regards that ‘marble tablet’ which has by chance survived since the time of the Very Saintly Activities of the Great Ashiata Shiemash, and is now there the principal sacred relic of the brotherhood of the initiated beings called the Brotherhood-Olbogmek, I happened to see and read…
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ablution
“The second custom I mentioned, namely, abdest, which by the way is called differently by the beings of different groups on the continent Asia, is nothing else than the obligatory ablution of the sex organs after every visit to what is called the ‘toilet’. BTG XLII Having said this, Beelzebub became thoughtful, and after a…
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Abdil
in the Being of this priest the function called conscience had not yet been quite atrophied in him B187 ff; and B190 Beelzebub explained to his friend frankly the utter stupidity and absurdity of the custom of Sacrificial-Offerings B191 ff. instead of delivering the usual sermon he began speaking about Sacrificial-Offerings B201 ff. Beelzebub gave…
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B682
B681 B683 [BTG XXXVII France, p. 682] “’These “sleepy-types” have very weak voices and look half-consumptive because they are usually very tired and don’t get enough sleep; and this is probably explained by the fact that many of these types work hard somewhere at night, besides working for “Book and Son,” in order to get,…
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B683
B682 B684 [BTG XXXVII France, p. 683] “’That firm not only fills its pockets through the stupidities of its compatriots, but into the bargain it unfortunately adds much of its own “meanness.” “’And they concoct this “melange” in the following way: the branch of the firm here, advertising itself well by American methods, is already…
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two-brained
“And it is according to the second principle of being-existence that all one-brained and two-brained beings in general exist wherever they may arise… 845 BTG XVI “And the sense and aim of the existence of these beings, also, consist in this, that there are transmuted through them the cosmic substances required not for purposes of…