Tag: mente

  • B897

    B896 B898 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 897] “’My dear friend! In the name of our friendship pardon me, an old man, that I have forgotten to put an end to the pain caused you from the evil-carrying vibrations of the grand piano.’ “Having said this, he sat down at the grand piano and…

  • B899

    B898 B900 [BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 899] “’To this day I cannot recall without a shudder that moment when our physicians told me that my mother could not live more than one day. “’Then in that terrible state of mind, the first question that arose in me was: How shall I go on…

  • B932

    B931 B933 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 932] “So, having felt the inconvenience, I made up my mind to learn this peculiar ‘conversational English’ of theirs also. “On the third day after my arrival there, as I was on my way to my newly acquainted Mister specially ask him to recommend me a teacher…

  • B935

    B934 B936 [BTG XLII Beelzebub in America, p. 935] “’All you have to do is just to bear in mind the said hot potato and . . . no more “boloney” about it. “’I guarantee this secret, and I can safely say that if, on exactly following my advice, your “language” here does not prove…

  • B122

    B121 <=> B123 [BTG XVI Relative understanding time, p. 122] A cem desses seus “anos”, os seres da Terra chamam de “século”. “E eles dividem esse seu ‘ano’ em doze partes e cada parte eles chamam de ‘mês’. “Para a definição da duração desse seu ‘mês’, eles consideram o tempo do período completo durante o…

  • B127

    B126 <=> B128 [BTG XVI Relative understanding time, p. 127] “The same drop of water which we have taken as an example can serve for a clearer understanding of this thought of mine. “Although in the sense of general Universal Objectivity, the whole period of the process of the flow of Time in that same…

  • B138

    B137 <=> B139 [BTG XVII The Arch-absurd, p. 138] “Tenha em mente, aqui, que é exatamente por isso que a mencionada Ciência Objetiva diz que ‘tudo, sem exceção, no Universo é material’. “Você também deve saber que apenas uma cristalização cósmica, existente sob o nome de ‘Okidanokh-Onipresente’, obtém sua origem primordial — embora também seja…

  • B154

    B153 B155 [BTG XVIII The Arch-preposterous, p. 154] “The part of Gornahoor Harharkh’s new invention which he himself called the Hrhaharhtzaha and regarded as the most important, was in appearance very much like the ‘Tirzikiano’ or, as your favorites would say, a ‘huge-electric-lamp.’ “The interior of this special structure was rather like a smallish room…

  • B576

    B575 B577 [BTG XXXII Hypnotism, p. 576] “And from then on, such a means of curing was called by them ‘hypnotic cure,’ and those beings who were occupied with this means of curing, ‘physician-hypnotists.’ “The question as to what this state of theirs is and why it obtains in them, remains an open one for…

  • labors

    “His further saintly labors showed that although in principle this was in general possible, yet it was impossible fully to employ for this purpose this ‘Law of Falling’ discovered by him. And it would be impossible owing solely to the atmospheres around most of the cosmic concentrations, which atmospheres would hinder the straight falling of…

  • Gurdjieff Relatos de Belzebu a seu Neto

    Excertos de THUS SPAKE BEELZEBUB A primeira aproximação às ideias de Gurdjieff, como expressas em sua inicial (e monumental) série de escritos: uma visão apocalíptica, terrível, da destinação do homem em relação ao Universo, das persistentes e profundas ilusões do homem, da crescente perda de controle do homem, da propensão delirante do homem para o…

  • BTG XII The First “Growl”

    BTG XI <=> BTG XIII XII. The First “Growl” (pgs. B98 – B102) Chapitre 12 Premiers grondements Capítulo 12 Primeiros rugidos. A LITTLE later, Beelzebub began to speak as follows: ”A story I have just recalled, connected with these ‘anathemas’ I have mentioned, may provide very useful material for beginning to comprehend the strangeness of…

  • BTG XXVII

    BTG XXVI BTG XXVIII XXVII. The Organization for Man’s Existence Created by the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash (pgs. B366 – B389) Chapitre 27 De l’ordre d’existence que créa pour les hommes le Très Saint Ashyata Sheyimash Capítulo 27 A organização da existência do homem criada pelo Mui Santíssimo Ashyata Shiemash. Continuing his recount about the…

  • BTG XXXVII

    BTG XXXVI BTG XXXVIII XXXVII. France (pgs. B663 – B693) Chapitre 37 La France Capítulo 37 França. Beelzebub, continuing his narration about the countries he visited during his sixth sojourn on the Planet Earth, he tells Hassein that after Germany, he went to Italy and then he settled in France, among the beings of the…

  • self-calming

    just what has now become their inner Evil-God 105 624 782 1059-60 1144 that Evil-God who became their Ideal, to-attain-to-a-complete-absence-of-the-need-for-being-effort-and-for-every-essence-anxiety-of-what-ever-kind-it-may-be 688 which has been and still is for them almost the chief evil engendering and evoking all the abnormalities of their psyche as well as of their ordinary being-existence 954 the same inner overlord, maleficent…

  • self-initiated manifestations

    While speaking of the will of man and of the various aspects of its supposedly self-initiated manifestations, which for contemporary what are called “enquiring minds” – but according to our reasoning, “naïve minds” – are matters for wiseacring and self-adulation, it will do no harm to quote what was said by Mr. Gurdjieff in another…

  • self-love

    “At that time, our dear Ahoon, bearing in mind their numerous weaknesses, such as their self-love, pride, vanity, and still many others, indicated to you in which cases just which of these specific properties of theirs it was necessary, as he expressed it, to ‘tickle’. BTG XLIII

  • essence-word

    “And this essence-word I had given myself, when beginning my sixth descent, was to exist there among your favorites until such time as I should finally have made clear to my mind all the facts which were the causes of the gradual formation of the mentioned exclusively strange being-psyche of their common presence. BTG XXXIII…

  • perception

    In the entirety of every man, irrespective of his heredity and education, there are formed two independent consciousnesses which in their functioning as well as in their manifestations have almost nothing in common. One consciousness is formed from the perception of all kinds of accidental, or on the part of others intentionally produced, mechanical impressions,…

  • perceptions

    As a result of this conviction of mine which as yet doubtlessly seems to you the fruit of the fantasies of an afflicted mind, I cannot now, as you yourself see, disregard this second consciousness and, compelled by my essence, am obliged to construct the general exposition even of this first chapter of my writings,…