Tag: mentação
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B322
B321 B323 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 322] “It is absolutely necessary to relate to you in as great detail as possible what occurred during that period in Babylon, as all this information may be valuable material for you for a better elucidation and transubstantiation in your Reason of all the causes which together…
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Nature
Common Mother: walking at sunset over the hills and dales, and willy-nilly perceiving the exterior visibility of those enchanting parts of the bosom of Great Nature, the Common Mother, and involuntarily inhaling a pure air uncontaminated by the usual exhalations of industrial towns, our Kurd quite naturally suddenly felt a wish to gratify himself with…
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B630
B629 B631 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 630] “’I never yet met that idiot who, accustomed to shuffle in a pair of old shoes, would feel comfortable in smart new ones.’ “And really, my boy, when, each time on the planet Earth, the action of Solioonensius ceases, and their ‘relatively normal’ existence, already somehow established, again…
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B631
B630 B632 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 631] “Their confrontative argument on the subject of similar processes which had taken place many times in the past on their planet may serve as a very good example for the illustration and characterization of the phenomenal dullness and bluntness of that being-rumination which they have. “According to the…
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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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B634
B633 B635 [BTG XXXIV Russia, p. 634] “Further if one continues to insist on an answer, then this same being who up to now knew and was sure with all his being that there were twenty-four dynasties among the ancient Egyptians, he at best – of course on the condition if one helps him to…
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Partkdolg-duty
“And as regards the third kind of Hasnamuss-individual, namely, when the highest being-body of a three-brained being becomes such, and when this certain something participates in his coating in such a quality that he never loses the possibility of freeing himself from it, the matter is still more terrible, chiefly because he-as a higher cosmic…
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B336
B335 B337 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 336] “At this point in the speech of this sympathetic terrestrial three-brained being, an attendant offered him a bowl of water, and after he had eagerly drunk the water, he continued to speak, but now more calmly. “He said further: “’Take myself as an example: I am…
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B339
B338 B340 [BTG XXIV Beelzebub’s fifth flight, p. 339] “And it was precisely these two teachings which began to pass from generation to generation, and to confuse their ‘being-sane-mentation’ which had already been confused enough without them. “Although, in the course of their transmission from generation to generation the details of both these teachings underwent…
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Zernofookalnian-friction
“Well then, my boy, in order that the mentioned Zernofookalnian-friction should be obtained in beings, and that at the same time the crystallization of the new perceptions should proceed for the Reason-of-understanding, I — already knowing very well what are called the ‘laws-of-the-fixing-and-unfixing-of-ideas-in-localizations’, the details of which laws, to mention it, by the way, I…
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B1213
B1212 B1214 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1213] For any man who has become aware of this to some degree, and has learned more or less how to observe, this “tragicomic feast of sound” is particularly sharply constated and made evident when others join the conversation of two contemporary people. Each of them puts…
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B1221
B1220 B1222 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1221] An approximate understanding of the manifestations in ourselves of these consequences may be derived from a further fact, perfectly intelligible to our Reason and beyond any doubt whatever. All of us, people, are mortal and every man may die at any moment. Now the question arises,…
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B1223
B1222 B1224 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1223] As, for instance, suppose that the solution of the question of our inability really to sense various possible genuine terrors, in particular the terror of one’s own death, should become, so to say, a “burning question of the day” – which occurs with certain questions in…
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B1224
B1223 B1225 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1224] What is so terrifying in this? It is only an ordinary house mouse, the most harmless and inoffensive of beasts. Now I ask you, how can all that has been said be explained by that will, which is presumed to be in every man? How is…
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B1234
B1233 B1235 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1234] In the average man the results of his mentation and feelings often lead to this, that, as it might be expressed, “a fly becomes an elephant and an elephant a fly.” The manifestations in the common presences of the said people of this maleficent property is…
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B1235
B1234 B1236 [BTG XLVIII From the Author, p. 1235] After all I have said I consider it necessary to say and even to emphasize further that all the historical data which have reached contemporary people and which have chanced to become known also to me, namely, the historical data concerning what really did occur in…
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B777
B776 B778 [BTG XXXIX The holy planet “Purgatory,” p. 777] “And afterwards, in their transmission from generation to generation by inheritance, they gradually began to be crystallized into such monstrous ‘logicnestarian-materials,’ with the result that in the psyche of the contemporary three-brained beings there, there began to proceed such an already exceptionally distorted being-Aimnophnian-mentation. “And…
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B783
B782 B784 [BTG XXXIX The holy planet “Purgatory,” p. 783] “It is interesting, however, to notice that in the beginning, namely, soon after the destruction of the functioning of the organ Kundabuffer in the three-brained beings breeding on this planet of yours, they also became aware of these two higher being-foods, and then began to…
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B807
B806 B808 [BTG XXXIX The holy planet “Purgatory,” p. 807] “However hard these same beings of your planet who were first interested in this question strove to get clear about this, they arrived at nothing, and it was only the second generation of them who ultimately, after long conscious observations and intensive active mentations, categorically…
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B813
B812 <=> B814 [BTG XL Heptaparaparshinokh, p. 813] Chapter XL Beelzebub Tells How People Learned and Again Forgot About the Fundamental Cosmic Law of Heptaparaparshinokh DEPOIS que Belzebu ouviu o que foi comunicado no “Leitoochanbros” que lhe foi entregue, seu neto Hassein se voltou novamente para ele e disse: “Meu querido e amável avô! Por…